A compromise option in a scenario like this is to disclose the salary bands of senior managers rather than the exact salaries of individuals. If the objective is to have transparency and to avoid any suggestion of excessive compensation, disclosing the number of execs in a number of salary bands ought to be sufficient. Andrew From: Roderick Beck <roderick.beck@networksourcing.net> Sent: 06 November 2025 08:16 To: chris@thesysadmin.au Cc: ripe-list@ripe.net Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles Disclosure of senior management salaries helps reduce excessive compensation, which is a very common problem due to the often cozy relationship between the supervisory board and senior management. Human nature is guided by self interest and there have been plenty of non-profit scandals over the years. If you are a running a company or organization in the public interest, you sure as hell should be willing to disclose your compensation. The only real motive for not dosing so is embarassment as how much money you are making. Good ideas are good ideas whether Europe practices them or not, Gert. And let me add that given the scandals in European cooperates and at the EU Parliament, European transparency standards are low and inadequate. Privacy is used as a cover for inadequate disclosure and bad deeds. Regards, Roderick. On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM Christopher Hawker <chris@thesysadmin.au<mailto:chris@thesysadmin.au>> wrote: And what makes it the global de facto standard? Because one country does something, doesn't mean others need to follow. Regards, Christopher Hawker ________________________________ From: Roderick Beck <roderick.beck@networksourcing.net<mailto:roderick.beck@networksourcing.net>> Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2025 11:34 PM To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net<mailto:gert@space.net>> Cc: ripe-list@ripe.net<mailto:ripe-list@ripe.net> <ripe-list@ripe.net<mailto:ripe-list@ripe.net>> Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles That's not a good argument. Disclosure of individual salaries is de facto the global standard for transparency. Regards, Roderick. On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM Gert Doering <gert@space.net<mailto:gert@space.net>> wrote: 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 -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279 -- Roderick Beck Network Capacity Sourcing - Broker Mobile: 00-36-70-605-5144. Email: roderick.beck@networksourcing.net<mailto:roderick.beck@networksourcing.net> Articles: https://subseacables.blogspot.com/ Telegram: @RoderickBeck Tallinn & Budapest. -- Roderick Beck Network Capacity Sourcing - Broker Mobile: 00-36-70-605-5144. Email: roderick.beck@networksourcing.net<mailto:roderick.beck@networksourcing.net> Articles: https://subseacables.blogspot.com/ Telegram: @RoderickBeck Tallinn & Budapest.