Minutes of the 44th RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting
Author: Paul Rendek
Date: 23 September 2004
Revision No.: 1.1
Attendees:
Frode Greisen, ICANN Liaison
Manfredo Miserocchi, Member
Kees Neggers, Chairman
Nigel Titley, Secretary
János Zsakó, Treasurer
Axel Pawlik, Managing Director, RIPE NCC
Sabine Mader, Executive Assistant, RIPE NCC
Paul Rendek, Head of Member Services & Comms., RIPE NCC
AGENDA
- Agenda / Comments
1.1. Apologies, New Agenda Points
1.2. Approval of Previous Minutes, #43
1.3. Date of Next Meetings - Outstanding Actions
- Report from the RIPE NCC
- Preparations General Meeting
4.1. Board Presentation
4.2. Review presentations / documents - AOB
Kees Neggers, RIPE NCC Executive Board Chair opened the meeting at 17:45.
1. Agenda / Comments
1.1. Apologies, New Agenda Points
The Board agreed to discuss the following topics in this meeting:
a. WSIS – RIPE NCC’s commitment to the WSIS – Working Group on Internet Governance;
b. ICANN – Remaining payments to ICANN and the outstanding IANA Service Agreement.
1.2. Approval of Previous Minutes, #43
The Executive Board approved the minutes of the 43rd RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting.
1.3. Date of Next Meetings
EB# 45, Thursday, 18 November at 13:00.
[editorial change as agreed after the meeting:
17 November 09:00- 12:00, 12:00-13:00 light lunch]
The meeting will take place at the RIPE NCC offices in Amsterdam.
2. Outstanding Actions
The status of outstanding actions and new action items are attached at the end of this document.
3. Report from the RIPE NCC
Axel Pawlik provided a report from the RIPE NCC to the Executive Board.
Questions:
The Board asked for a progress report for the signing of the new RIPE NCC Service Agreement. Axel explained that this was being done in batches and that the first set of service agreements were mailed in early September.
The Board discussed the planned signing of the ICANN ASO MoU scheduled to take place in October 2004. The Board approved the signing of the new ASO MoU. Axel was authorised to sign the new ASO MoU on behalf of the RIPE NCC.
The incorporation of the NRO as a legal entity was briefly discussed. The Board agreed to discuss this issue in more detail at a later meeting.
The meeting discussed RIPE NCC’s commitment to support the WSIS – Working Group on Internet Governance.
The meeting discussed the outstanding payments due to ICANN in relation to the expected IANA service agreement with the RIRs. It was confirmed that final remittance of outstanding payments will only be made upon receipt of the awaited IANA service agreement.
4. Preparations General Meeting
Axel Pawlik confirmed that the General Meeting (GM)was organised in accordance with the RIPE NCC Articles of Association. He added that meeting preparations were complete and the RIPE NCC was ready to welcome members to the GM – September 2004.
The Board was presented with an update of the amount of registrations and proxy votes received to date for the GM – September 2004. It was confirmed that the Board would receive the final figures prior to the start of the meeting.
The Board discussed general participation at the GM now that it is co-located with the RIPE Meeting. It was stated that participation in the GM meeting has increased but that Friday afternoon may not be the optimum time slot for this meeting. The Board agreed to take this up with the RIPE Chair and propose a time slot early in the week possibly adjacent to the RIPE NCC Services Working Group so that presentation