Executive Board meeting summary notes and minutes

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board had its 89th meeting on 25 June 2013.

The draft minutes are available at:

http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2013/minutes-89-executive-board-meeting

The minutes of all Board meetings are public, but we would like to
announce the draft minutes of our latest meeting so you will be up to
date with the Board’s thinking and ideas on all RIPE NCC-related matters.

As requested by the membership, we are planning to provide more
transparency on the discussions and decision-making processes in the
Executive Board, so we will announce a summary of the meetings to the
member mailing list from now on.

If you would like to give us your feedback directly, you can mail us at
<exec-board at ripe.net>. You can also discuss matters among the whole
membership at<members-discuss at ripe.net>.

With this in mind, I’d like to summarise the main items from the latest
Executive Board meeting. Please see the draft minutes for further
details on all these items.

- The RIPE NCC will publish a Transparency Report that outlines all
requests and subsequent actions from law enforcement agencies received
in 2012. This will be published annually from now on.

- Review of the RIPE NCC financial reserve levels, and decisions
regarding those reserves, will take place and be made known to the
membership as soon as discussion with the Dutch tax authorities has
concluded.

- The Board agreed that an increase to a maximum of seven RIPE NCC
Executive Board positions would be appropriate. The Board will propose a
resolution to change the Articles of Association to allow for this
increase at the upcoming RIPE NCC General Meeting in October 2013.

- The Board agreed with the RIPE NCC Senior Management’s proposed
augmentation of the Activity Plan and Budget 2014 to include labelling
activities as "New Activity", "Expanding Activity", "Ongoing Activity",
"Scaling Down Activity" and "Planned Ending Activity". The Board hopes
these labels will add clarity and transparency regarding RIPE NCC
activities.

- The Board unanimously approved a proposal for additional resources to
be used in 2013. These are for the expansion of RIPE NCC regional
representation and for addressing the issues associated with internal
legacy systems.

- The Board determined that organisations in Russia that wish to move
address space away from ROSNIIROS should be able to do so outside of
RIPE transfer policies.

- The Board approved a change so that one Board member, in conjunction
with the CFO and CEO, can authorise a transfer from deposits. The Board
approved an update to the Treasury Statute in accordance with this decision.

- The Board agreed to reduce RIPE Meeting fees to EUR 350 and RIPE
Meeting Dinner ticket fees to EUR 50.

Kind regards,

Nigel Titley
Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board