[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

>> What organizations have had the same low turn-out for AGMs and
>> interest in the agendas of the AGMs? Even if you could not attend the
>> AGM, did you bring up the issues on the mailinglists? Remember that
>> RIPE NCC is not there by it self. It is there for the reasons, and in
>> the way we have choose to have it. It has changed the ways we have
>> voted (or abstained from voted) it to change. We might not like the
>> outcome, but the better that we are now discussing this and that we
>> had the KPMG survey to act as a starting point to move on.
>
> And why is personal attendence at an AGM required to propose and vote 
> on
> ongoing use of members funds ?

Personal attendance is a problem and is one of the issues that came out 
of the survey. From what I understand easier proxy voting is being 
worked on as well as on-line voting. Someone from RIPE NCC board or the 
RIPE NCC can probably give you more details.

Are you also saying that having to have the AGM vote is a problem? In 
that case how would you else want to do it? Voting anytime through out 
the year if enough people called for a vote? That would make it more or 
less impossible to make or follow a budget in any reasonable way.

> I am amazed that no one has proposed any sort of online system.

For voting? Have you read the lir-wg list from this spring and the 
results of the KPMG survey as well as the presentations made by Axel of 
suggested improvements? Did you bring this up when you became a RIPE 
NCC member?

I personally think we should have gone for on-line voting earlier and 
that holding the AGM with the RIPE meetings would have been better. But 
I haven't blamed the men in black for this, as I have never proposed 
something else myself.

> Or would
> that remove too much power from the professional bureaucrats that live 
> off
> RIPE ?

Have anyone opposed this? Or are you just assuming that the world is a 
conspiracy against you?

RIPE and the RIPE NCC is only as good as what you help it make with 
suggestions and constructive comments.

- kurtis -