89th Executive Board Meeting - Summary and Minutes

The draft minutes from the Executive Board meeting are now available, as are the minutes of all Executive Board meetings.

The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the RIPE NCC membership and the RIPE community will be up to date with the Board's thinking and ideas on all RIPE NCC-related matters.

As requested by the membership, and to provide more transparency on the discussions and decision-making processes in the Executive Board, a summary of the meetings will be announced to the membership from now on.

The following is a summary of the main items from the 89th Executive Board meeting. Further detail is available in the minutes.

• The RIPE NCC will publish a Transparency Report that outlines all
  requests and subsequent actions from law enforcement agencies received
  in 2012. This will be published annually from now on.
• Review of the RIPE NCC financial reserve levels, and decisions
  regarding those reserves, will take place and be made known to the
  membership as soon as discussion with the Dutch tax authorities has
  concluded.
• The Board agreed that an increase to a maximum of seven RIPE NCC
  Executive Board positions would be appropriate. The Board will propose a
  resolution to change the Articles of Association to allow for this
  increase at the upcoming RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2013.
• The Board agreed with the RIPE NCC Senior Management's proposed
  augmentation of the Activity Plan and Budget 2014 to include labelling
  activities as "New Activity", "Expanding Activity", "Ongoing Activity",
  "Scaling Down Activity" and "Planned Ending Activity". The Board hopes
  these labels will add clarity and transparency regarding RIPE NCC
  activities.
• The Board unanimously approved a proposal for additional resources to
  be used in 2013. These are for the expansion of RIPE NCC regional
  representation and for addressing the issues associated with internal
  legacy systems.
• The Board determined that organisations in Russia that wish to move
  address space away from ROSNIIROS should be able to do so outside of
  RIPE transfer policies.
• The Board approved a change so that one Board member, in conjunction
  with the CFO and CEO, can authorise a transfer from deposits. The Board
  approved an update to the Treasury Statute in accordance with this decision.
• The Board agreed to reduce RIPE Meeting fees to EUR 350 and RIPE
  Meeting Dinner ticket fees to EUR 50.

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