Dear colleagues, As an initial response to concerns raised by members at our Moscow RIPE NCC Day back in April Axel Pawlik, our Managing Director has published an article on RIPE Labs that explores some of the challenges we are facing as an IP address registry in today's environment: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/axelpawlik/accountability-and-trust-as-a-membe... We will also be presenting on closures and due diligence in the RIPE NCC Services Working Group at RIPE 78: https://ripe78.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/services-wg/ Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE NCC