Hi, On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Harry Cross wrote:
The NCC made a lot of noise at RIPE81 about trying to attract new members and new "blood" into the NCC and community. Locked doors and locked away decisions and suggestion making won't help with this - but this is just an opinion.
You are squarely mixing "RIPE community" and "RIPE NCC". The RIPE NCC is a formal organization which has an executive board, flowing money, and paying members. And members *vote* on what the EB should do, and how their money should be spent. And yes, this excludes all non-members from the final decision. The RIPE *community* is "all of us", and this is the primary focus of the RIPE meeting (of which the RIPE *member* AGM on wednesday evening is not a part, it just happens to happen in the same week to reduce travelling). RIPE is open, and the RIPE WGs solicit "fresh blood" to bring new impulses to the community. The RIPE NCC is not open in the sense of "anyone can come and influence RIPE NCC business". Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279