Dear all, In June this year, the RIPE NCC Executive Board passed a resolution to temporarily place the members-discuss mailing list under moderation following the posting of inappropriate mails to the list. At its recent meeting on 4-5 September, the Board passed a further resolution to keep moderation on the list permanently. The Board took this decision because moderation has been activated for the list periodically when discussions become heated. The Board intends that this will bring a stable situation and ensure discussions are always carried out in a respectful and productive manner. The relevant section of the minutes from the recent Board meeting are available at: https://www.ripe.net/s/188th-executive-board-meeting-minutes/116/ The Board also decided to amend the process by which moderation takes place in order to streamline the process and ensure mails are processed as quickly as possible. Rather than having a RIPE NCC staff member and an Executive Board member jointly moderate the list, now the list will be jointly moderated by a member of the RIPE NCC’s Legal and Communications Departments. With this new process, emails will continue to be moderated in accordance with the RIPE Code of Conduct and the purpose of the mailing list. Members who feel their mails have not been moderated correctly can appeal by sending a mail to the Board at: exec-board@ripe.net. If the Board agrees that a mail has not been moderated correctly, they will instruct the RIPE NCC to process the mail through to the list. Additionally, all mails sent to members-discuss, whether moderated or not, are visible on the Unmoderated Members Discussion List for three months should you wish to check how mails are processed: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/members-discuss-unmoderated@ripe.net/ The Board and RIPE NCC staff thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to seeing good discussions in the coming weeks and months on the Draft RIPE NCC Strategy, the Draft Activity Plan and Budget and proposals around the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme. Kind regards, Fergal Cunningham Head of Membership Engagement RIPE NCC