[RZERC] Decisions/Action Items Regarding Chair Selection - 23 January 2017 Teleconference

[Peter Koch]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:19:13PM +0000, Wessels, Duane wrote:

> > Finally, to Peter???s point about 1 year term for the chair. What do people think? My thought is that one year is too short, but will defer this to the committee.
> 
> I agree that one year seems too short.

could you elaborate?  I did not mean it as a one year limit for serving.

> I think what Peter is getting at is the potentially awkward situation where the RZERC chair doesn't get reappointed to RZERC during the middle of the chair's term.  How do other committees handle this?

Well, that would be another reason; my main point was that I'd like new
members of the committee to be able to vote "soon" and thus keep the
term in sync with the lowest term duration of the members.

-Peter