[members-discuss] amendment proposal for the Article of association

On 27 mar 2012, at 20:07, sergey myasoedov wrote:

>     Currently at least 2% of members should vote for adding items into Agenda.
> Respective to the total number of members this means that _160_ LIRs should ask the EB to
> discuss something that is not included in the Agenda.
> 
>      From my opinion that is too much. No more than 250-300 members are usually attending
> GM, even with the electronic voting. And 2% threshold means ~50% of active members, so
> there is no possibility to raise any question to the GM level.
> 
>      And this is the reason for my proposal: to change the threshold in the section 15.6
> of AoA to 0.3% or to 30 or 40 members.
> 
>      Any suggestions?

I actually prefer to keep it the way it is. The 2% is referring to the total number of eligible votes, not to the number of people attending the AGM. 2% is actually a very low threashold, and lowering the bar further risks launching a DDoS on the AGM, which we don't need. The primary means of influencing the direction of the association as a member is through the elections to the RIPE NCC board. Not through launching agenda items on to the AGM agenda. 

Keep as is!

Best regards,

- kurtis -

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