Status
Version 1.0 – approved unanimously on 14 May 2025
Date/Time/Place
The meeting was held on 13 May 2025 at the RIPE90 venue.
The chair called the meeting to order at 12:32 Lisbon time.
Present
Voting:
Dmytro Kohmanyuk, Jean-Daniel PAUGET, Kurt Kayser, Rinse Kloek, Sandoche Balakrichenan, Simon Leinen, Tobias Fiebig, Vasja Križmančič , Wolfgang Tremmel, Wolfgang Zenker
Non voting:
Daniel Karrenberg, János Zsakó, Jan Žorž, Kevin Meynell, Sander Steffann (only first 10 minutes, board mtg. conflict)
Preliminaries & Agenda Setting
Jan welcomed all present and noted that a quorum was present.
Jan pointed out the draft agenda contained in version 0.31 of the minutes as circulated and available on the collab server. He asked whether there were any suggestions for changes to the agenda. There were none.
1. Resignation & New Member
On 4 May Randy Bush withdrew from the NomCom because he is running for a seat on the RIPE NCC executive board. On 6 May the NomCom passed the following resolution unanimously by electronic vote:
“Considering that Randy Bush has resigned from the committee and that Vasja Križmančič is the first person on the reserve list, the committee resolves to add Vasja Križmančič as a voting member to the committee effective immediately. We thank Randy for his contributions.”
The committee expressed their appreciation for Randy’s contributions by applauding.
The committee welcomed Vasja to the meeting.
2. Declaration of Conflicts of Interest
Jan asked everyone to declare any conflicts of Interest to the committee so that they become known to everyone. He reminded the committee that the intention of this is to make conflicts transparent and come to consensus on how to deal with them as a committee. This is in addition to any consequences each committee member can take themselves, like not participating in specific discussions or votes.
Daniel started by saying that he works for the RIPE NCC and has not experienced any attempt by the NCC to influence his work as the previous NomCom chair and in his role on the current committee. The RIPE NCC gives him sufficient time to provide clerical support to the NomCom.
Sander and Jan mentioned that they had worked closely with Olena in the Keep Ukraine Connected initiative.
Kevin mentioned that he decided to run for a seat on the RIPE NCC board after he had been appointed as a liaison.
Two members of the committee disclosed conflicts of a personal nature.
The committee briefly discussed and agreed that the potential conflicts, now that they are declared, do not pose obstacles to the proper functioning of the committee.
3. Call for Nominations and Nominees
Jan reported that he had made call for nominations on both the RIPE discussion list and the NomCom blog on February 17th with a reminder to the list on March 12th. After the deadline had passed on March 30th he had contacted all nominees and confirmed that they agreed to have their names published. On April 16th he had announced the list of nominees, again on both the RIPE discussion list and the blog:
Ferghas McKay, Mirjam Kühne, Olena Kushnir, Anna Wilson and Rob Evans.
4. Structured Questions for Nominees
Daniel reported that according to suggestions from the committee and subsequent mail/chat discussions he had prepared a form for nominees on the collab server. Jan had asked all nominees to complete the form as they wished. All nominees did so and the results are visible on the collaboration server. They are confidential to the committee.
5. Presentation of Nominees on the Blog
Jan notified all nominees that they have the opportunity to post a statement on the NomCom blog. Anna, Mirjam and Rob have taken advantage of this so far and their statements were published.
6. Review of Time Line and Next Actions
Jan said that we are on target with the time line and asked if there were remarks. The committee discussed how to interact with the nominees. Jan said he had invited those who approached him to the office hours mentioning the possibility of more private appointments on request and he would inform all of nominees. There was consensus that fairness towards all nominees is important and that any ‘difficult’ questions should be asked of all candidates. After discussion the committee was not convinced that formal interviews are necessary. The committee decided to consider more feedback this week before considering to actively invite nominees.
The committee decided to meet again at 12:30 on Thursday 15 May at the NomCom office with the goal to agree on inviting nominees and fix a schedule for meetings in the following weeks.
7. Feedback to Committee and Chair
Jan asked how everything went so far. Kurt said the the list of candidates was hard to find on the meeting web site. Daniel said he had requested a pointer to the NomCom web site and the office hours should be there in a prominent place. Jan said he would make the request again.
Closing
The chair closed the meeting at 13:14 Lisbon time.