From a governance perspective, it's good that the board provided a vote recommendation as well as explained the rationale to the membership [to make their own decision]. The issue was material, and the members needed context. I think this was achieved and the
communication from Ondrej explained pretty well the available options and their background.
From a transparency perspective, it would have been even better if each of the board members had disclosed how they (their org really, if any) would vote, as the recommendation was made on behalf of the whole RIPE NCC EB.
FWIW, I also tend to just write RIPE instead of "RIPE NCC whatever" as most of the time it is obvious which entity is being referred to.
From: brandon@bogons.net <brandon@bogons.net> on behalf of Brandon Butterworth <hostmaster@bogons.net>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2026 20:13
To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>; members-discuss@ripe.net <members-discuss@ripe.net>
Cc: Ilke Ilhan <iilhan@ripe.net>; Andy Davidson <Andy.Davidson@ask4.com>
Subject: [members-discuss] Re: Analysis on May 2026 GM
On 19/06/2026 17:39:16, "Gert Doering" <gert@space.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 10:34:55AM +0000, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
>> I read that as RIPE wanted B, that it is just the board saying it
>> does not mark it any less an organisational desire. Perhaps in these
>> matter all of RIPE should be neutral, after all the budget is the
>> same so it is purely a members choice no advocacy needed.
>
>Please be very precise with your terminology here. *RIPE* has no say
>whatsoever in financial matters. There is the RIPE NCC, the RIPE NCC
>executive board, and the RIPE NCC members.
That confusion was my entire point.
It appeared to be those offering a model choice preferred B,
it was offered to vote by NCC and promoted by the board and
the timing of the advocacy easily led one to read it as both
were promoting it, where it should only be the membership that
has an opinion on which is best.
brandon
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