Dear RIPE NCC Contributors, As you are aware we are well under way preparing for the establishment of the new legal organisation for RIPE NCC which is currently dubbed RNA (RIPE NCC Association). RNA has been discussed for the last few months and is described in ripe-161. An important body within this organisation is the Executive Board (EB). The EB governs the RIPE NCC and is responsible to the members. It consists of 3-5 people. Anyone can serve on the EB except employees of RNA. We are now at a stage where we need to find the constituting EB. Normally the EB will be elected by the RNA members. Since there are no RNA members yet, the appropriate group to bootstrap this process is the RIPE NCC Contributors Committee. Therefore members for the constituting EB will be elected at the upcoming meeting of the Contributors Committee on September 23rd. There remains the problem to find a number of high quality candidates for the EB. *YOU* are one of those who have to help with this. Given that time is short the "three man group" who is tasked to help establishing RNA will drive this process. They are: Paul Ridley <Paul.Ridley@ripe.net> Karel Vietsch <Vietsch@terena.nl> Wim Vink <Wim.Vink@eu.net> The task of these people is to *collect* nominations and it is *not* to *select* them. They will publish all nominations received. If you would like to suggest or nominate someone suitable to serve on the EB, please send your nomination to <eb-nominations@ripe.net>. You may also direct any questions you may have to this address. Besides Paul Ridley, Karel Vietsch and Wim Vink also the following three persons are available to act as contact points for anyone with questions related to the EB elections: Rob Blokzijl <Rob.Blokzijl@nikhef.nl> Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net> Kees Neggers <Kees.Neggers@surfnet.nl>. On Mondays 8th, 15th and 22nd of September the committee will publish on the Contributors Committee mailing list a complete list of nominations received so far. We hope that the list will then be used for discussion such that the meeting will be well prepared for the election and the opinions of those not able to attend the meeting itself can have an influence. We stress that while this is going on, e-mail discussion within the Contributors Committee is encouraged. Anyone not comfortable with the procedure above is completely free to use the list itself to nominate people. The purpose of the procedure is to ensure that the contributors committee can select from a sufficient number of high quality nominations on September 23rd, three weeks from now. Please help us with this Paul Ridley Karel Vietsch Wim Vink ---- In order for the contributors committee to have comparable information about nominees we suggest to provide information in a format similar to the one below:

Name: N.E.T. Worker Affiliation: WIE (Worker Internet Enterprises) Function: Owner and Technical Director

History of involvement with European Internet and RIPE NCC:

Founded ISP (WIE) in 1995 serving worktown and vicinity. Member of contributors committee since 1996 when WIE became a local IR. Active in RIPE database working group since 1996.

Position and goals w.r.t. the RIPE NCC:

The RIPE NCC should maintain its neutral position as an organisation providing high quality services and credible industry self regulation. It should not get involved in activities that do not require neutrality. ....