Privacy is a basic human right. If you're employed in a country which mandates salary disclosure for certain positions within an organisation and you don't want your salary disclosed? Easy, don't work for the company. It's a personal choice.
To be honest, I could not care less what they are being paid, so long as they are following the ethics of the org, aren't extorting members, and are performing the roles and functions in which the community expects them to. I recall we had this discussion on
LinkedIn a few months ago regarding the salaries of senior executives at ARIN, and my same remarks apply - if you want to attract the knowledgeable and skilful talent to the non-profit sector, you need to remunerate accordingly. If you want to only pay bananas,
you're only going to get monkeys...
I stand with Ondrej in the sense that we vote for the board members of our respective RIRs, and they're the ones who approve the salaries of the executive leadership teams for their respective registries. Don't like the salaries being paid? Don't vote for the
people who set them. Although they are all doing excellent work and I have the utmost trust in what they do.
Regards,
Christopher Hawker
From: Roderick Beck <roderick.beck@networksourcing.net>
Sent: Friday, 7 November 2025 12:30 AM
To: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
Cc: ripe-list@ripe.net <ripe-list@ripe.net>
Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles
It is not illegal. Privacy is not an absolute right. The annual salary of Orange's CEO is 2.67 million Euros. Most countries require that publicly traded companies disclose the salaries of senior management. They are accountable to their investors
and the general public. Just as RIPE senior management should be accountable to the ISPs for which they work. You can't have accountability when the people in charge only disclose the aggregate figure in order to shield from scrutiny.
It’s also illegal in EU as far as I can tell. Individuals can disclose their salaries, but it can’t be mandated by the employer.
Personally, I can’t see any good outcome of that and I care about the good job that the RIPE/RIPE NCC does and I trust the people in charge to make rational decisions about the salaries.
Ondrej
That's not a good argument. Disclosure of individual salaries is de facto the global standard for transparency.
Regards,
Roderick.
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Roderick Beck wrote:
> In the US all non-profits must disclose the individual salaries of senior
> management. RIPE does not even though it functions effectively as a
> nonprofit. I think more transparency is due in this respect given that RIPE
> is also a monopoly and has a budget of $40 million versus $33 million for
> ARIN and twice as many employees and contractors as ARIN.
We are not in the US...
Gert Doering
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