Good note, But system is big and bureaucratic. I never see that board try to ask members if they are agree or not agree with something. Or what decision they would like to follow. Have you ever seen at polls in LIR portal for key questions? For training? For budget questions? I don't feel any feedback from that. Of course board would decide by them-self. But they should hear the voice and real stats of the community. RIPE NCC gets more and more funds from members, but service is still not good but suitable. It takes months and years to even fix bugs in LIR portal as example. If we have, lets say, same services. RIPE NCC get more members - then membership service fees should become lower! Otherwise that tells everybody that management from RIPE NCC is not efficient. RIPE NCC should work for members interests, but not as a commercial monopoly structure. Juri On 12.04.2018 15:35, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Juri wrote:
Fiscal expenses must be justified and agreed with the members.
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to support this level of micromanagement - too many cooks spoil the broth.
The RIPE NCC board publishes reports and budgets and the RIPE NCC membership votes on whether or not to support the spending plans at RIPE NCC general meetings. This is how membership based organisations usually work.
As members, we elect a board to do the job of deciding whether or not the spending requests from the RIPE NCC look reasonable. If members have a problem with how the board is handling this, they can put themselves up for election to the board to fix the problems that they've identified.
Nick