[ncc-announce] [news] 104th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting Summary Notes and Minutes

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 104th meeting on 10 December 2015.
The draft minutes of this meeting are now available:
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2015/minutes-104th-executive-board-meeting

The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the
workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent for the
membership that it represents.

The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further
details are available in the minutes:

- The Board decided to retain a 150 kEUR margin in redistribution of the
surplus to ensure the RIPE NCC remains within the acceptable limit set
by the tax authorities.

- The Board asked the RIPE NCC to move forward in joining the SEED
Alliance while keeping the RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)
initiative separate from it.

- The Board tasked the RIPE NCC with preparing substantive data and
possible procedural changes for dealing with multiple LIRs per member.
This is to be discussed with the membership in preparation for the May
2016 General Meeting.

- The Board approved the draft RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2016
including the proposed changes.

- Based on discussions at RIPE 71, the Board agreed to wait for further
information from the IETF on details of the planned financial structure
of the IETF endowment fund before moving ahead on any proposals to make
a donation to the fund.

- The RIPE NCC Board offered a tribute to the outstanding work of Rob
Blokzijl, RIPE Chair Emeritus, and acknowledged his enormous
contribution to both RIPE and the RIPE NCC since their inception.

You can give feedback on the minutes by emailing the Executive Board
directly at <exec-board at ripe.net>. RIPE NCC members can also discuss
matters among the entire membership by emailing <members-discuss at ripe.net>.

Kind regards

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC