Hi,


Thanks for the meeting minutes, they’re always interesting to read.

I’ve been wondering about the redistribution for years, but I guess never really voiced my thoughts about them.

Referring to items and discussion under section 3 and section 6, why do we nowadays (and seemingly want to continue to) redistribute part of the precious year’s membership fee back to members? As a transaction it’s like lending money at zero interest and then possibly (optionality) having the excess, which wasn’t used for operations, netted against the membership fee the following year. Should there be an excess and should the GM vote in favor of it, I mean.

I realize an extra-extra buffer improves working capital but to me it would seem like RIPE has ample amounts of cash at hand as well as in reserves so that seems like an unlikely reason.




Kaj

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From: Hans Petter Holen <hph+announce@ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 2:52:22 PM
To: ncc-announce@ripe.net <ncc-announce@ripe.net>
Subject: [ncc-announce] [news] 177th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes
 
Dear RIPE NCC members,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 177th meeting from 18 - 20 September 2024. The minutes are now available:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2024/177th-executive-board-meeting-minutes/ 

The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent to the membership it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes.

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Main Items
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- I presented the Draft Activity Plan and Budget for 2025, outlining costs, key strategic areas and a request for additional budget in Information Security and Technology as an investment in the organisation's future stability.

- Each main section of the Draft Activity Plan and Budget (Registry, Information Services, Community and Engagement, and Organisational Sustainability) was presented by the relevant owner who shared the current status, risks and plans for 2025. Chief Information Security Officer Eleonora Petridou also presented the Information Security, Risk & Compliance section.

- Chief Community Officer, Hisham Ibrahim, provided a Q3 2024 update on Community and Engagement, including a successful summer school campaign, community engagement efforts, translated YouTube training materials, along with a joint RIPE-RIPE NCC presentation to encourage participation.

- Chief Technology Officer, Felipe Victolla Silveira, provided a status update where he covered the modernisation of RIPE Atlas infrastructure and the reduction of data centre costs and issues that have been experienced related to that.

- Chief Financial Officer, Simon-Jan Haytink, provided a financial status update and presented budget proposals for 2025.
 
- Chief Legal Officer, Athina Fragkouli, gave a presentation on the work to update “Criteria for Establishment of New Regional Internet Registries” (ICP-2). She outlined the plan and said that the ASO AC (NRO NC) is carrying out work to review the ICP-2 document.
 
- Athina also presented the amendments made to the closure procedure and the legacy services legal framework, as well as amendments to the transfer procedure and revised transfer requirements for Ukraine.

- RIPE Chair Mirjam Kühne provided an update on RIPE community developments, including planning for RIPE 89. She gave an update on RIPE Working Groups, strengthening relationships with LEAs and Europol, and RIPE outreach activities.

- Jan ˇor˛ was appointed by the Executive Board Chair to lead the RIPE Nominations Committee as it worked to appoint the next RIPE Chair. The Board fully supported this appointment and expressed its good wishes to Jan.

Other topics:
- GM Agenda
- Staff Pulse Check survey
- Executive Board Travel Policy Update
- Charging Scheme Task Force
- Aligning RIPE NCC's Strategic Objectives with Funding
- Harnessing Community Power
- AFRINIC
- Meeting with the Works Council
- Board Remuneration

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Resolutions Adopted
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Resolution EB#177-R-01
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the minutes of EB#176.

Resolution EB#177-R-02
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2025 as amended.

Resolution EB#177-R-03
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the draft agenda for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2024 as amended.

Resolution EB#177-R-04
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the amendments to the RIPE NCC procedural document “Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Internet Resources” as well as to the RIPE NCC legal documents “RIPE NCC Services for Legacy Internet Resources of RIPE NCC Members Terms and Conditions” and “RIPE NCC Services for Legacy Internet Resources Agreement (Legacy Agreement)”.

Resolution EB#177-R-05
The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the amendments to the RIPE NCC procedural document “Transfer of Internet Number Resources and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name”.

Resolution EB#177-R-06
The RIPE NCC Executive Board resolves to lift the restriction imposed by the resolution EB#163-R-02, according to which all transfer requests from Ukraine would be only permitted if accompanied by notarised supporting documents. As a result, notarisation of documents will only be required in accordance with the RIPE NCC procedural document “Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data”.

Kind regards,

Hans Petter Holen
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
RIPE NCC