Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 140th Meeting via teleconference on 11 December 2020. The draft minutes of the meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2020/minutes-140th-exe... The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent for the membership that it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes. - The RIPE NCC Executive Board resolved to permanently moderate members-discuss emails that are not in accordance with the purpose of the mailing list and the principles of the RIPE Code of Conduct. All emails, moderated or otherwise, will be archived on the RIPE NCC website. - The following documents were approved: * RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2021 * Code of Conduct for Candidates for the Executive Board * Management Regulations of the RIPE NCC - The potential impact of Brexit on the RIPE NCC was discussed. The RIPE NCC is confident that this can easily be managed. - Charging Scheme options were discussed in light of falling membership growth. The board asked that the recommendations from the Charging Scheme Task Force (in 2012) be taken into account. - The RIPE NCC presented an update on its RPKI resilience work and explained the issue of an invalid RPKI certificate that was published on 9 December. - The RIPE NCC gave an update on the voting issue in the October General Meeting. The board also decided to more explicitly ask for additional topics to be discussed when the GM agenda was sent to members and at the end of the Chair's presentation. - The Board discussed the implementation of amendments to the Articles of Association (AoA) that were approved by the last GM (applying the RIPE Code of Conduct to RIPE NCC Executive Board elections). - The RIPE Chair Team mentioned that they were reviewing the policy appeals procedure after it was recently used for the first time. Kind regards Hans Petter Holen RIPE NCC Managing Director