Dear RIPE NCC member,
The RIPE NCC Executive Board is
pleased to invite you to the RIPE NCC General
Meeting (GM). The GM will be held on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 from
16:00-19:00.
The GM will be held adjacent to the RIPE 60 Meeting, which takes place
from 3-7
May 2010 at the Prague Marriot Hotel in the Czech Republic.
The GM
will consist of two parts:
* The RIPE NCC Services Working Group session will begin at 16:00 and
will
include the presentation of the report from the RIPE NCC. This part of
the GM
is open to everyone.
* The second part of the
GM follows
immediately after the RIPE NCC Services Working Group session and is
only open
to RIPE NCC members who have registered for the GM. This part of the
meeting is
the forum in which RIPE NCC members can discuss the operations and
activities
of the RIPE NCC and exercise their voting rights.
More information
about the GM is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/
Registration
----------------
You must register for the
GM separately
from the RIPE 60 Meeting. As a member, you can attend both the RIPE NCC
Services Working Group session and the members-only section of the GM
without
being registered for RIPE 60. See below for further information on the
RIPE NCC
Services Working Group session.
You can register
for the GM online at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/registration
Please complete
the online registration form by 21 April 2010.
If
more than one
authorised person from your organisation is to attend the GM, each
person will
need to register separately. Voting rights will be assigned to the
person who
registers first.
If your organisation is to
be represented
by a third party, not being an authorised employee or director, please
fill out
the proxy form and send it to us by 21 April 2010. Any proxy sent to us
after this
date will not be valid.
The proxy form
is available to download here:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/proxy.html
Draft Agenda
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The draft agenda
for the GM is available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/agenda.html
Report from the RIPE NCC
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The Report from the RIPE NCC
presentation will be given during the
RIPE NCC Services Working Group session during RIPE 60, which
constitutes the
first part of the GM. GM attendees who have not registered for the RIPE
Meeting
are welcome to participate in this working group session. This takes
place on
Wednesday, 5 May 2010 from 16:00-17:30, immediately before the
members-only
section of the GM. The report from the RIPE NCC presentation will not
be
repeated in the members-only section of the GM.
Executive Board Elections
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Voting for the appointment of two RIPE NCC
Executive Board
members will take place at the GM. The vacant seats are for two
three-year
terms.
In compliance with the RIPE NCC Articles of
Association, the RIPE NCC is
calling for nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board.
The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, 14
April 2010.
Details on the RIPE NCC Executive Board
election process,
including how to nominate candidates, are available at:
http://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-may2010/elections/index.html
Voting and Resolutions
-------------------------------
Candidate members are welcome to
attend the GM but are not permitted
to vote according to article 16.7 of the RIPE NCC Articles of
Association.
Full members who are not able to
attend the GM but still want to vote
can do so by means of proxy voting as per article 16.
For the first time, electronic
voting for the RIPE NCC Executive Board
elections is possible for those participating remotely. Invitations to
register
for electronic voting will be sent to the registered contact persons
for all
members. If you wish to vote electronically in the Executive Board
elections,
please carefully follow the instructions in the invitation email you
receive.
Please also note that the
GM can only pass resolutions that have been submitted
and published according to article 15 of the RIPE NCC Articles of
Association.
The RIPE NCC
Articles of Association can be found at:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html
We send invitations for
General Meetings by email only. However, if
your organisation wishes to receive this and future invitations for
General
Meetings by regular post, please let us know by emailing us at <agm@ripe.net>.
If you have any
questions about the GM, please email us at <agm@ripe.net>.
Regards,
Axel Pawlik
Managing
Director
RIPE NCC