ICANN - Membership Advisory Committee

>Subject: ICANN - Membership Advisory Committee

  Looking at: http://www.icann.org/macbios.html
  
  Titled: ICANN Membership Advisory Committee
  
there's the following section (snippet from the web page):

Mr. Langenbach (either individually or through CSL), is a member of
Riseaux IP Europiens (RIPE) and the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE),
and a participant in the Internet Engineering Task Forced the Domain Name
Supporting Organization (DNSO) application process.

  Can anyone advise me on what it takes to become a member of RIPE, 
  either individually or by way of my employer?
  
  TIA,
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