[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2010 - Registration Open

Dear RIPE NCC member,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board is pleased to invite you to the RIPE NCC 
General Meeting (GM). The GM will be held on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 from 
16:00-19:00. The GM will be held adjacent to the RIPE 60 Meeting, which 
takes place from 3-7 May 2010 at the Prague Marriot Hotel in the Czech 
Republic.

The GM will consist of two parts:
* The RIPE NCC Services Working Group session will begin at 16:00 and 
will include the presentation of the report from the RIPE NCC. This part 
of the GM is open to everyone.

* The second part of the GM follows immediately after the RIPE NCC 
Services Working Group session and is only open to RIPE NCC members who 
have registered for the GM. This part of the meeting is the forum in 
which RIPE NCC members can discuss the operations and activities of the 
RIPE NCC and exercise their voting rights.

More information about the GM is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/

Registration
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You must register for the GM separately from the RIPE 60 Meeting. As a 
member, you can attend both the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session 
and the members-only section of the GM without being registered for RIPE 
60. See below for further information on the RIPE NCC Services Working 
Group session.

You can register for the GM online at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/registration

Please complete the online registration form by 21 April 2010.

If more than one authorised person from your organisation is to attend 
the GM, each person will need to register separately. Voting rights will 
be assigned to the person who registers first.

If your organisation is to be represented by a third party, not being an 
authorised employee or director, please fill out the proxy form and send 
it to us by 21 April 2010. Any proxy sent to us after this date will not 
be valid.

The proxy form is available to download here:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/proxy.html

Draft Agenda
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The draft agenda for the GM is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/agenda.html

Report from the RIPE NCC
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The Report from the RIPE NCC presentation will be given during the RIPE 
NCC Services Working Group session during RIPE 60, which constitutes the 
first part of the GM. GM attendees who have not registered for the RIPE 
Meeting are welcome to participate in this working group session. This 
takes place on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 from 16:00-17:30, immediately 
before the members-only section of the GM. The report from the RIPE NCC 
presentation will not be repeated in the members-only section of the GM.

Executive Board Elections
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Voting for the appointment of two RIPE NCC Executive Board members will 
take place at the GM. The vacant seats are for two three-year terms.

In compliance with the RIPE NCC Articles of Association, the RIPE NCC is 
calling for nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board.

The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, 14 April 2010.

Details on the RIPE NCC Executive Board election process, including how 
to nominate candidates, are available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/elections/index.html

Voting and Resolutions
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Candidate members are welcome to attend the GM but are not permitted to 
vote according to article 16.7 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association.

Full members who are not able to attend the GM but still want to vote 
can do so by means of proxy voting as per article 16.

For the first time, electronic voting for the RIPE NCC Executive Board 
elections is possible for those participating remotely. Invitations to 
register for electronic voting will be sent to the registered contact 
persons for all members. If you wish to vote electronically in the 
Executive Board elections, please carefully follow the instructions in 
the invitation email you receive.

Please also note that the GM can only pass resolutions that have been 
submitted and published according to article 15 of the RIPE NCC Articles 
of Association.

The RIPE NCC Articles of Association can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html

We send invitations for General Meetings by email only. However, if your 
organisation wishes to receive this and future invitations for General 
Meetings by regular post, please let us know by emailing us at 
<agm at ripe.net>.

If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at <agm at ripe.net>.

Regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC

Important dates

18 March 2010 Call for nominations for RIPE NCC Executive Board
25 March 2010 GM registration opens
25 March 2010 Draft agenda and proposed resolutions posted online
14 April 2010 Deadline for nominations to Executive Board*
21 April 2010 Submission deadline for proposed resolutions
21 April 2010 Online registration for GM closes
21 April 2010 Deadline for registration for electronic voting
21 April 2010 Proxy forms must be received by the RIPE NCC
5 May 2010 RIPE NCC General Meeting

* If there are less than three nominations by 14 April, the RIPE NCC 
Executive Board will nominate sufficient candidates to ensure there is 
an election.
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