[ncc-announce] [news] 172nd RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting - Summary Notes

Dear RIPE NCC members,

The RIPE NCC Executive Board held its 172nd Meeting on 13-14 December 2023. The minutes are now available.

Minutes of the 172nd Meeting: 
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/executive-board/minutes/2023/minutes-172nd-executive-board-meeting

The Executive Board publishes the minutes of its meetings so that the workings of the Board and the decisions it makes are transparent to the membership it represents. The following is a summary of the main items from the meeting. Further details are available in the minutes.

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Main Items
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- Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, presented on the Community and Engagement activities undertaken in 2023. He asked the Board to reconsider adding a budget to supplement national engagement efforts based on feedback heard from members at the General Meeting and at RIPE 87. The Board agreed to continue supporting these efforts and the Activity Plan and Budget 2024 was amended accordingly following a Board resolution.

- James Kennedy, Chief Registry Officer, reported on the Registry service levels in 2023 and the sanctions compliance efforts. A community consultation will be held in 2024 to establish a general consensus on the RIPE NCC’s role in relation to the IPv4 market.

- There were discussions on the budget, presented by Simon-Jan Haytink, Chief Financial Officer, including high-level estimates for the years 2025-27. 

- A discussion on the country code status for Kosovo was continued, and the RIPE NCC recommended maintaining the status quo and to continue to follow the ISO 3166-1 list for officially assigned country codes.The ISO 3166-1 Maintenance Agency only assigns codes after the UN recognition. Any interested party can engage with their national diplomatic services in order to establish a formal status for Kosovo in the UN.

- The Board selected three new committee members for the selection committee of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund - Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, Sami Salih and Nuno Garcia, and thanked the outgoing members for volunteering their time.

- Eleonora Petridou, Chief Information Security Officer, shared the new Risk Appetite Statements based on the redesigned Risk Management Framework. Rather than having a single risk appetite that would apply to the entire RIPE NCC, a more fine-grained
solution with risk appetites applied for different areas such as financial, legal and organisational risk is proposed.

- For Technology, the 2023 update and 2024 objectives were shared. This includes having a solid cloud strategy (offer on-premise and cloud solutions), modernising the Hadoop cluster by building a tiered storage solution, ensuring uptime of critical services, replacing SSO of the LIR Portal (KeyCloak), keeping costs within budget and increasing employee engagement. 


Some of the other topics under discussion included:
- The HR status and benchmarking report for 2023 and plans for 2024
- A consultation with the Works Council (Ondernemingsraad) of the RIPE NCC
- A review of the General Meeting November 2023
- An update from the RIPE Chair and a discussion on RIPE Meetings
- Support for the Rob Blokzijl Foundation
- The latest developments in AFRINIC
- The joint board meeting between APNIC and the RIPE NCC

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Resolutions Adopted
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- The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the minutes of EB#168, EB#169, EB#170 and EB#171.

- The RIPE NCC Executive Board appoints Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, Sami Salih and Nuno Garcia to the available seats on the Community Projects Fund Selection Committee to serve a minimum term of one year and a maximum of three years.

- The Board agrees to donate 50 kEUR to the Rob Blokzijl Foundation for the foundation to support its mission.
 
- The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the risk appetite statements as presented during EB#172.

- The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the publication of the RIPE NCC Activity Plan and Budget 2024, with the addition of 200 kEUR budget in External Engagement and Community.


Kind regards,

Hans Petter Holen
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
RIPE NCC