Dear members, The RIPE NCC General Meeting takes place this Wednesday, 18 May and we are asking the members to exercise their voting rights on the resolutions and in the election for two Executive Board seats. The three resolutions are: 1. "The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Financial Report 2021." 2. "The General Meeting discharges the Executive Board with regard to its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2021 and Financial Report 2021." 3. "The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2023." The Executive Board recommends that the membership vote to approve all three resolutions. The first resolution asks members to adopt the financial reporting for 2021. The second asks members to confirm that the Executive Board has discharged its duties as described in the Annual and Financial reports. The third resolution asks members to adopt the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2023, which includes an increase of EUR 150 to the annual fee. The Board believes this increase will ensure the stability of the RIPE NCC in a year where we expect fewer paying LIR accounts and rising costs due to inflation. We also believe this increase is reasonable given there has been no change in fees since 2015. The supporting documentation for these resolutions are available and we encourage you to read them: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2022/documentation... There are three candidates in the Executive Board elections: - Julius Cicenas - Ondřej Filip - Remco van Mook The two elected candidates will represent you on the board for a three year team. You can read the biographies and motivations of each candidate on the GM webpages, and they will also speak at the GM. All the election information is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2022/eb-elections Most importantly, I ask that you take two minutes to register to vote this week. We would like to see a large turnout so that the results broadly reflect the wishes of our members. https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2022/register The RIPE NCC has also prepared a very short video that shows you how to register through the LIR Portal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2f0mDV5fkA Kind regards, Christian Kaufmann Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board