[ncc-announce] RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2009 - Registration Open

Dear RIPE NCC member,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board is pleased to invite you to the RIPE NCC 
Autumn General Meeting (GM) 2009. The GM will be held on Wednesday, 7 
October 2009 from 16:00-19:00. It will be held adjacent to the RIPE 59 
Meeting, which takes place from 5-9 October 2009 at the Corinthia Hotel 
in Lisbon, Portugal.

The GM will consist of two parts:

- The RIPE NCC Services Working Group 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 and is only open 
to RIPE NCC members who have registered for the GM. This part of the 
meeting is the forum where 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:
https://www.ripe.net/membership/gm/gm-october2009/

Registration
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You must register for the GM separately from the RIPE 59 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 the 
RIPE 59 Meeting. See below for further information on the RIPE NCC 
Services Working Group session.

You can register for the GM online at:
https://portal.ripe.net/web/gm-oct09/registration

Please complete the online registration form by 2 October 2009.

In the event that your organisation is to be represented by a director 
or an authorised employee, the registration form should state the 
name(s) of the employee(s) or director(s). If more than one authorised 
person is to attend the GM, the person who registers first will be 
assigned the voting rights.

Proxy Voting
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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 23 September 2009. 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-october2009/proxy.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 59, 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, 7 October 2009 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.

Voting and Resolutions
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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.

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 <agm at ripe.net>.

If you have any questions about the GM, please email us at <agm at ripe.net>.

Regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC

Important Dates
13 August 2009  GM registration opens
9 September 2009  Draft agenda and proposed resolutions posted online
23 September 2009  Submission deadline for proposed resolutions
23 September 2009  Proxy forms must be received by the RIPE NCC
2 October 2009  Online registration for GM closes
7 October 2009  RIPE NCC General Meeting October 2009