Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 115th meeting on 14 December 2017. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2017/minutes-115th-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 Board approved the RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2018: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-693 - The Board approved the amended RIPE NCC procedural document “RIPE NCC Audit Activity”: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/audit - The Board approved amendments to the RIPE NCC procedural document "Transfer of Internet Number Resources and Change of a Member’s Official Legal Name (ripe-689)”: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-689/ - The Board discussed the resiliency of K-root and asked the RIPE NCC to prepare a revised proposal for the fortification of K-root for discussion and decision on the RIPE NCC Executive Board mailing list. - The Board asked the RIPE NCC to thank Pierre Baume for his work on the Arbiters Panel. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC