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[news] 172nd RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes
by Hans Petter Holen 29 Dec '23

29 Dec '23

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 172nd Meeting on 13-14 December 2023. The minutes are now available. Minutes of the 172nd Meeting: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2023/minutes-172nd-ex… The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent to the membership it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes. ------------------------------- Main Items ------------------------------- - Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, presented on the Community and Engagement activities undertaken in 2023. He asked the Board to reconsider adding a budget to supplement national engagement efforts based on feedback heard from members at the General Meeting and at RIPE 87. The Board agreed to continue supporting these efforts and the Activity Plan and Budget 2024 was amended accordingly following a Board resolution. - James Kennedy, Chief Registry Officer, reported on the Registry service levels in 2023 and the sanctions compliance efforts. A community consultation will be held in 2024 to establish a general consensus on the RIPE NCC’s role in relation to the IPv4 market. - There were discussions on the budget, presented by Simon-Jan Haytink, Chief Financial Officer, including high-level estimates for the years 2025-27. - A discussion on the country code status for Kosovo was continued, and the RIPE NCC recommended maintaining the status quo and to continue to follow the ISO 3166-1 list for officially assigned country codes.The ISO 3166-1 Maintenance Agency only assigns codes after the UN recognition. Any interested party can engage with their national diplomatic services in order to establish a formal status for Kosovo in the UN. - The Board selected three new committee members for the selection committee of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, Sami Salih and Nuno Garcia, and thanked the outgoing members for volunteering their time. - Eleonora Petridou, Chief Information Security Officer, shared the new Risk Appetite Statements based on the redesigned Risk Management Framework. Rather than having a single risk appetite that would apply to the entire RIPE NCC, a more fine-grained solution with risk appetites applied for different areas such as financial, legal and organisational risk is proposed. - For Technology, the 2023 update and 2024 objectives were shared. This includes having a solid cloud strategy (offer on-premise and cloud solutions), modernising the Hadoop cluster by building a tiered storage solution, ensuring uptime of critical services, replacing SSO of the LIR Portal (KeyCloak), keeping costs within budget and increasing employee engagement. Some of the other topics under discussion included: - The HR status and benchmarking report for 2023 and plans for 2024 - A consultation with the Works Council (Ondernemingsraad) of the RIPE NCC - A review of the General Meeting November 2023 - An update from the RIPE Chair and a discussion on RIPE Meetings - Support for the Rob Blokzijl Foundation - The latest developments in AFRINIC - The joint board meeting between APNIC and the RIPE NCC ------------------------------- Resolutions Adopted ------------------------------- - The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the minutes of EB#168, EB#169, EB#170 and EB#171. - The RIPE NCC Executive Board appoints Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, Sami Salih and Nuno Garcia to the available seats on the Community Projects Fund Selection Committee to serve a minimum term of one year and a maximum of three years. - The Board agrees to donate 50 kEUR to the Rob Blokzijl Foundation for the foundation to support its mission. - The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the risk appetite statements as presented during EB#172. - The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024, with the addition of 200 kEUR budget in External Engagement and Community. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024 Published
by Hans Petter Holen 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024 is now available. This document has been approved by the RIPE NCC Executive Board with input from our membership. It outlines the work we will undertake in the coming year and the associated costs for each activity. The document is available at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-814/ The top five areas for cost savings compared to the 2023 budget are: - 1.9 M EUR (36%) Consultancy - 0.8 M EUR (18%) Information Technology - 0.2 M EUR (6%) Outreach & Public Relations - 0.3 M EUR (20%) Contributions - 0.2 M EUR (21%) Travel Key points in the 2024 Activity Plan and Budget: - 1.8M EUR decrease compared to the 2023 Budget - We expect to start 2024 with 21,500 LIR accounts - The Membership fee remains unchanged in 2024 at EUR 1,550 - Cost per LIR expected to be EUR 1,777 (1% increase) A section at the end of the document notes changes since the draft was published in October. During its December meeting, the Executive Board decided to allocate an additional 200 kEUR to fund national outreach efforts after hearing feedback from members during the RIPE Meeting and at the November 2023 General Meeting on the negative impact removing this funding could have on the community. All budget figures have been updated accordingly. Other changes include minor editorial changes, minor rounding changes and additional information on the following topics: - Decommissioning of the IPv4 Transfer Listing Service - Planned consultation on retiring the Secondary DNS service to LIRs - RIPEstat UI - Planned consultation on establishing a Mastodon instance - Clarified our share of the NRO ICANN contribution for IANA number functions Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Billing Procedure 2024 Published
by Simon-Jan Haytink 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Dear RIPE NCC members, We are currently preparing our invoices for next year and expect to send them to all members towards the end of January 2024. If you want to see how your annual contribution will be calculated or find payment information, please refer to the RIPE NCC Billing Procedure 2024, which is now published: https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/payment/ripe-ncc-billing-pr… Kind regards Simon-Jan Haytink Chief Financial Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] RIPE NCC Member Update: December 2023
by Boris Duval 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Dear RIPE NCC members, The December 2023 Member Update is now available on our website. You can access it at: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/member-update-december-2023 Best regards, Boris Duval Communications Officer RIPE NCC

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[news] The RIPE NCC General Meeting November 2023
by Hans Petter Holen 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC General Meeting November 2023 took place from 29 November - 1 December 2023. A total of 1,204 votes were cast. The following resolutions were approved at the General Meeting: Resolution 1 “The General Meeting approves the redistribution of the excess contribution/deficit paid in 2023 by redistributing the RIPE NCC 2023 surplus/deficit to the membership in 2024.” Resolution 2* "The General Meeting, in accordance with Article 21 of the Articles of Association, adopts the amendments to the Articles of Association as proposed and announced by the Executive Board on 1 November 2023. Furthermore, the General Meeting instructs and authorises the Executive Board to perform or to have performed all that is required to have the amendments executed before a Dutch civil law notary." The voting report is available at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/november-2023/voting-… My appreciation to everyone who took the time to vote and contributed to the important discussions at the GM. *There was a typo in resolution 2. The resolution text contained an incorrect reference to Articles 10 and 11.5 which should not have been included. An email was sent to all voters on the morning of 30 November to inform them. Kind regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer RIPE NCC

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