Minutes of the 18th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting

Date: 17 March Time: 13:00hrs RIPE NCC, Amsterdam

Draft Minutes
Version: 1.1  

Present: 

Frode Greisen,     (FG)
Kees Neggers,      (KN)
Mike Norris        (MN)
Nigel Titley       (NT)
Axel Pawlik        (AP)
Rob Blokzijl       (RB)(invited guest for Agenda item 6)   

Apologies:
Wim Vink           (WV)

KN chaired the meeting. 
The agenda was agreed as follows:

Agenda 
======

12:00   Lunch

13:00   1.1 Agenda/Comments
        1.2 Approval of previous minutes - #17, 991221
        1.3 Date of next meeting

        2. Outstanding Actions

        3. Financial Report 1999

        4. Financial Update

        5. Report on Activities since December

        6. ICANN

        7. Membership Category "Supernational"

        8. Annual Report 1999

        9. Personnel Fund

        10. AOB


1.1 Agenda/Comments
Essential documents for  Board meetings should reach the Board members
at least  2 weeks  prior to the meeting. Electronic delivery can be
used where practical.


1.2 Approval of previous minutes - #17, 991221

The minutes of the 17th Board Meeting were approved.

1.3 Date of next meeting
Next meeting will take place on 6th September 2000 at the RIPE NCC's
offices in Amsterdam from 13.00hrs to 16.00hrs

2. Outstanding Actions
All actions were completed.

3. Financial Report 1999
The Financial Report was not ready due to unforeseen circumstances.
It will be sent to the Board members within two weeks.

4. Financial Update
The financial update could not be presented due to unforeseen circumstances.
It will be sent to the Board members within two weeks.

5. Report on Activities since December
AP gave a detailed  report on RIPE NCC's internal and
external activities since December 1999.

 6. ICANN
RB  gave an update on the ICANN Cairo March 7 meeting and on the
latest developments concerning ICANN.

7. Membership Category "Supernational"
There were a  number of problems in principle and practice with the
Supernational membership category. so it was decided that new
members will not  be accepted into the Supernational Registry
Category. Attempts will be made to persuade the three existing members
of this category to change to multiple Large registries.

8. Annual Report 1999
The Draft of the Annual Report was submitted to the Board during the
meeting time. Preliminary comments were given and a second draft will
be sent to the Board for comments.

9. Personnel Fund
The Trustees of the Personnel Fund have asked the Board if the due date for
the annual payment to the fund may be moved from 31st December to 30th April.
The Board was willing to accept a move to 30th June, but felt that 30th April
was too early in the financial cycle.
 
10. AOB
-The use of external lobbying firms was discussed. It was decided to further
investigate the possibility of using such firms, but with an emphasis that one
of the RIPE NCC's most valuable assets is its impartiality. This must not be
jeopardised.

-With the introduction of new services outside of the "RIPE NCC
Standard Service Agreement" (f.i. the planned Test Traffic service)
a means of integrating these services into the RIPE NCC framework
has to be found. (TC 39)
 
Action List
 TC 39    17/03/2000  AP  Proposal on the integrations of new 
                          services  into RIPE NCC framework"        OPEN

Results since last meeting:

TC 38   21/12/1999   WV   WV to sign the documents for the Chamber 
                          of  Commerce  when ready.                 DONE


                                                             
TC 36  21/12/1999    AP   Board material to be submitted  at least  DONE
                          two weeks before the next Board  meeting
           
TC 37  21/12/1999    AP   To produce a paper on the raison d'etre for
                          changing and a recommendation on  the     DONE
                          "Supranational" Registries