No it isn’t. The US tax authorities mandate that the top X employees’ salaries be disclosed in the form 990. That’s a tax thing not a transparency thing. It’s none or your business or mine’s how much any employee of RIPE NCC earns. -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ https://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072<tel:+353599183072> Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090<tel:+353599183090> Personal blog: https://michele.blog/ Some thoughts: https://ceo.hosting/ ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 I have sent this email at a time that is convenient for me. I do not expect you to respond to it outside of your usual working hours. From: Roderick Beck <roderick.beck@networksourcing.net> Date: Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 07:40 To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Cc: ripe-list@ripe.net <ripe-list@ripe.net> Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Please use caution when opening attachments from unrecognised sources. 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.
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