[Apologies for duplicates] Dear RIPE NCC member, The RIPE NCC Executive Board is pleased to invite you to the RIPE NCC General Meeting (GM). We send invitations for General Meetings by e-mail only. However, if your organisation wishes to receive this and future invitations for General Meetings by regular post, please let us know by return mail. The meeting will be held at the Krasnapolsky Hotel on Wednesday, 24 October 2007 adjacent to the RIPE 55 meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from 17:45 - 19:00. More information about the GM is available at: http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2007/index.html REGISTRATION ------------ The GM is open only to RIPE NCC members. Registration for the RIPE Meeting does not include registration for the GM. You must register separately. You can attend the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session held during RIPE 55 and the GM without being registered for RIPE 55. You can register for the GM at: https://lirportal.ripe.net/lirportal/meeting/registration-general/meeting.ht... Please complete the online registration form before 10 October 2007. In the event that your organisation is to be represented by a director or an employee, e.g. admin/tech contact, the registration form should state the name(s) of the employee(s) or director(s). If more than one authorised person is to attend the GM, please specify who is allowed to exercise the voting rights. If your organisation is to be represented by a third party, not being an authorised employee or director, please fill out the proxy form and send it to us before 10 October 2007. Any proxy sent to us after this date will not be valid. The proxy form is available to download here: http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2007/proxy.html Report from the RIPE NCC ------------------------ The report from the RIPE NCC will be presented during the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session during RIPE 55. GM attendees who have not registered for the RIPE Meeting are welcome to participate in this working group session. This takes place on Wednesday, 24 October 2007 from 16:00 - 17:30, immediately before the GM. The RIPE NCC reports will not be repeated in the General Meeting. Voting and Resolutions ---------------------- Candidate members are welcome to attend the GM but are not permitted to vote according to article 16.7 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. Members who are not able to attend the GM but still want to vote can do so by means of proxy voting as per article 16. Please also note that the GM can only pass resolutions that have been submitted and published according to article 15 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. The RIPE NCC Articles of Association can be found at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html If you have any questions about the GM please e-mail us at <agm@ripe.net>. Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates 26 September 2007 GM registration opens 26 September 2007 Agenda and proposed resolutions online 10 October 2007 Submission deadline for proposed resolutions 10 October 2007 GM and proxy vote registration encouraged by this date 26 October 2007 RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2007