<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>Dear colleagues,<br><br>As the RIPE Programme Committee, we have done some house-keeping recently and updated our charter. <br><br>The most prominent parts of the update are for the reflection of a previous change in the size of the membership of the Committee (from 8 to 12 seats) and for the documentation of the possibility of removal of a PC member based on unanimous vote, following Committee's decision at RIPE 67. <br><br>Further updates were for wording improvements towards better readability. <br><br>The updated draft document is at: <div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); "><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-600">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-600</a></span></div></div><div><br></div><div>and is to replace:</div><div><div><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-531">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-531</a><br><br><br></div><div>We will ask the RIPE NCC to publish the updated draft document as a final RIPE Document on 5 February 2014. <br>Until then, please let us know if you have any comments. <br><br>Kind regards<br>Filiz Yilmaz, Shane Kerr & Benno Overeinder<br>PC Chair and Vice Chairs</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>