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

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 08:07:09 PM sergey myasoedov wrote:
> Dear members of the RIPE NCC,
> 
> as you probably know, there are more than 8.000 members in the RIPE NCC
> association. There are a lot of us.
> 
>       Members of the association can discuss things regarding the activity
> of association on General Meetings two times yearly. According to the
> Article of Association (AoA), the Agenda of GM has been performed by
> executive board.
> 
>       There are some obligative things to be included in the Agenda
> (elections, budget, charging scheme etc), and some things can be discussed
> upon proposal of the EB. Another possiblity to put some things into Agenda
> is the request of association members.
> 
>       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.

given your problem statement, i'd like to ask how often agenda items are 
dropped because they do not reach the limit of 2%? and how many of them do 
reach 0.3%?

basically i'd like to know how big the problem is now, and how much smaller it 
would become, if your proposal would be implemented.

thanks
kind regards

Thilo

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Thilo Bangert	
parknet.dk