Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 160th Meeting on 26 September 2022, and the minutes from the meeting are now available. Minutes of the 160th Meeting: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2022/minutes-160th-exe... The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent to the membership that it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meetings. Further details are available in the minutes. ----------------------- Main Items ----------------------- - I reported on executive team developments and leadership training, the RIPE NCC Days Tashkent meeting, objectives and developing OKRs, Integrated Risk Management and the RIPE NCC Status Page - The Draft Activity Plan and Budget 2023 was reviewed and approved by the Board ahead of the meeting - Fergal Cunningham shared the draft agenda for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2022. The Board approved the draft Agenda for publication - Fergal Cunningham continued to report on the outcome of looking into other electronic voting vendors. The Board agreed to move forward with a new system and noted that some changes will need to be implemented so the new voting system meets the requirements of the RIPE NCC - Athina Fragkouli explained the proposed amendments to the Articles of Association. The Board discussed the amendments and agreed to propose the three sets of amendments for adoption by the General Meeting - Athina shared a legal analysis of introducing requirements for submitting notarised documents and apostilles, explaining the benefits and challenges. Athina agreed to do a full analysis of which documents would need notarisation and apostilles - Athina then recommended amendments following a review of the Standard Service Agreement and LIR Account Agreement by the legal team. The Board agreed with the suggestions and asked Athina to finalise the work - RIPE Chair, Mirjam Kühne shared her report on the latest developments in the RIPE community, including moderation of the ripe-list, the RIPE NCC’s impact analysis for the open policy proposal in the RIPE Database Working Group, an update on the Code of Conduct Task Force and preparations for the upcoming RIPE 85 meeting - Razvan Oprea presented the costs, conditions and consequences of moving different services to the cloud. Storage on premise was also discussed to make a comparison of the costs. The Board also discussed the storage of historical data for RIS and RIPE Atlas - Felipe Victolla Silveira presented on a new service being developed called Publish in Parent, which allows RIPE NCC members and End Users who run Delegated CA to publish their RPKI-signed objects in the RIPE NCC infrastructure ---------------------------- Resolutions Adopted ---------------------------- The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the minutes of EB#159. The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the Draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2023. The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the draft agenda for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2022. The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the proposed amendments to the RIPE NCC Articles of Association and instructs the Managing Director to prepare the relevant resolutions for the adoption of the proposed amendment by the next General Meeting. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC