[ncc-announce] RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2009 - Registration Open

Dear RIPE NCC member,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board is pleased to invite you to the RIPE NCC  
Autumn General Meeting (GM) 2009. The GM will be held on Wednesday, 7  
October 2009 from 16:00 - 20:00. It will be held adjacent to the RIPE  
59 Meeting, which takes place from 5-9 October 2009 at the Corinthia  
Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.

The GM will consist of two parts:

- The RIPE NCC Services Working Group 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 and is only open  
to RIPE NCC members who have registered for the GM. This part of the  
meeting is the forum where 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:
https://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2009/

REGISTRATION
------------
You must register for the GM separately from the RIPE 59 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 59. See below for further information on the RIPE NCC Services  
Working Group session.

You can register for the GM online at:
https://portal.ripe.net/web/gm-oct09/registration

Please complete the online registration form by 2 October 2009.

In the event that your organisation is to be represented by a director  
or an authorised employee, the registration form should state the  
name(s) of the employee(s) or director(s). If more than one authorised  
person is to attend the GM, please specify on the registration form  
who is allowed to exercise the voting rights.

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 23 September 2009. Any proxy sent to us after this  
date will not be valid. The proxy form is available to download here:
https://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2009/proxy.html

Report from the RIPE NCC
------------------------
The Report from the RIPE NCC presentation will be given during the  
RIPE NCC Services Working Group session during RIPE 59, 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, 7 October 2009  
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.

Voting and Resolutions
----------------------
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.

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 responding to  
the email.

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

13 August 2009     GM registration opens
9 September 2009   Draft agenda and proposed resolutions posted online
23 September 2009  Submission deadline for proposed resolutions
23 September 2009  Proxy forms must be received by the RIPE NCC
2 October 2009     Online registration for GM closes
7 October 2009     RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2009