Dear colleagues, In its final report [1], the 2020 RIPE Nominating Committee recommended to document a consensus on the relationship between RIPE and the RIPE NCC and, in particular, how RIPE NCC staff can participate in RIPE. In this new draft document, we focus on the second part of this recommendation: how RIPE NCC staff can and should participate in the RIPE community and how the RIPE community welcomes participation by RIPE NCC staff: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-n... Please review this document. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, please send them to this list or to me directly before 31 May 2023. Kind regards, Mirjam Kühne RIPE Chair [1] RIPE Nominating Committee 2020 https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-762