<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body dir="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;">On Tue, 26-05-2020 11h 10min, Erik Bais <ebais@a2b-internet.com> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"="">2) Having a job at the NCC and stating in the bio, that it is considered a leave of absence for the employer RIPE NCC, is not something that I would expect. If someone is taking the role for the RIPE Chair and that is a paid position, I would expect that he/she would quit the job and yes, it would require a leap of faith to start in a new role. But stating upfront that there is a backdoor into the current role / management position .. that is not how I see that this works. It is not smart to have a direct financial relation to the RIPE NCC for the RIPE Chair position. <br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"="">This should be a major concern. There should be no such dependency between the RIPE Chair and RIPE NCC. The whole structure has been setup in such a way to ensure leverage between the RIPE NCC and the RIPE Chair is minimised, introducing this would bring back leverage in full force.</div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"=""><br></div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"="">So I would like to see a statement from the nomcom if they perceive this to be a potential issue.</div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"=""><br></div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"="">Also, are both the chair and the vice-chair paid positions? If not, could a RIPE NCC employee become RIPE Vice-Chair and still get paid (and work) for RIPE NCC?</div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"=""><br></div><div style="font-family: " source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-size:="" 10pt;"=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">-- </span><div style="font-size: 13.3333px;">IDGARA | Alex de Joode | alex@idgara.nl | +31651108221 | Skype:adejoode</div></div></body></html>