Dear RIPE NCC members, The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 130th Meeting on 12 December 2019. The draft minutes of this meeting are now available: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2019/minutes-130th-rip... 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 Executive Board introduced a new action for the drafting of a document that will define and describe how the RIPE NCC Executive Board functions, engages and works among itself. - In support of the ongoing development of a transparent conflict of interest policy that applies to RIPE NCC staff and RIPE NCC Executive Board members, the Executive Board agreed that all Internet and industry related activities will be published in the biographies of RIPE NCC Executive Board members on the RIPE NCC's website. - The RIPE NCC Legal team will take on the task of producing a new proposal regarding Meeting Presenter Terms and Conditions. The proposal will be produced in coordination with the RIPE Working Group Chairs and the RIPE Programme Committee and will be presented for the review of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. - The RIPE Chair continues work on a draft procedure describing funding for RIPE Working Group Chairs. The procedure will provide clear terms and conditions for applications for funding. The draft procedure will be presented to the RIPE Working Group Chairs mailing list for discussion. - The Executive Board received reports from the RIPE NCC Management Team, the HR Director and the Chief Financial Officer. Kind regards RIPE NCC Management Team Felipe Victolla Silveira, Gwen van Berne and Kaveh Ranjbar