[members-discuss] Questions to RIPE NCC in light of last GM

Mihail Fedorov wrote on 27/05/2024 13:17:
> I’m not sure about other members. But from my perspective - members
> funded org structure means you should have report on every single
> cent spent, no exclusions possible. How many servers put and what for
> and what are traffic amounts on each switch port. This is how
> governance works normally. You don’t have to read all reports, but
> they should exist.
Mihail, you're confusing policy governance and operational 
micromanagement. These two things are fundamentally different.

No doubt there's a bunch of people working in the RIPE NCC who have 
visibility into per-port switch traffic counters, and exactly what model 
of servers are used, and in which rack location and what style of PSU 
they're connected up to, and maybe even whether a port should use a grey 
cable or a black cable. I'm also sure the CFO has proper oversight into 
material expenditure - for sure his presentation at the GM a couple of 
days ago suggested that there were appropriate fiscal controls in place 
in the organisation.

But what you're asking for has nothing whatever to do with functional 
corporate governance. I can see why it might be of passing interest from 
the point of view of idle curiosity, but that's about it. No-one is 
going to benefit from turning the RIPE NCC from a working organisation 
into a paper mill where every unit of activity needs to be turned into 
10 units of reports.

Nick