Mihail Fedorov wrote on 27/05/2024 13:17:
I’m not sure about other members. But from my perspective - members funded org structure means you should have report on every single cent spent, no exclusions possible. How many servers put and what for and what are traffic amounts on each switch port. This is how governance works normally. You don’t have to read all reports, but they should exist. Mihail, you're confusing policy governance and operational micromanagement. These two things are fundamentally different.
No doubt there's a bunch of people working in the RIPE NCC who have visibility into per-port switch traffic counters, and exactly what model of servers are used, and in which rack location and what style of PSU they're connected up to, and maybe even whether a port should use a grey cable or a black cable. I'm also sure the CFO has proper oversight into material expenditure - for sure his presentation at the GM a couple of days ago suggested that there were appropriate fiscal controls in place in the organisation. But what you're asking for has nothing whatever to do with functional corporate governance. I can see why it might be of passing interest from the point of view of idle curiosity, but that's about it. No-one is going to benefit from turning the RIPE NCC from a working organisation into a paper mill where every unit of activity needs to be turned into 10 units of reports. Nick