Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 123rd Meeting on 21 June 2019. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2019/minutes-123rd-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 agreed on the functions of board members as required by the RIPE NCC Articles of Association (AoA), as follows: Chairman: Christian Kaufmann Treasurer: Remco van Mook Secretary: Piotr Strzyżewski - On receiving a report on the current status of the draft RIPE Chair selection procedure, the RIPE NCC Executive Board noted its willingness to take on the role of appointing the Nomination Committee (NomCom) chair and confirming the selections made by the NomCom. Should the RIPE Chair selection procedure be adopted by the community, the RIPE NCC Executive Board will pass a formal resolution to accept their role in the process. - The Executive Board received a report from the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC, Axel Pawlik, including an update on the outcomes from the recent meeting with European Commission (EC) and Europol representatives in Brussels in response to concerns about inclusivity of the RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP). - The RIPE NCC Executive Board agreed to re-evaluate the option of offering paper ballots at RIPE NCC General Meetings. Kind regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC