[ncc-services-wg] RIPE tasks

At 03:09 PM 20-08-03 -0400, Bovio at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 20/08/03 17:34:19 W. Europe Daylight Time, 
>kurtis at kurtis.pp.se writes:
>Personal attendance is a problem and is one of the issues that came out
>of the survey. From what I understand easier proxy voting is being
>worked on as well as on-line voting. Someone from RIPE NCC board or the
>RIPE NCC can probably give you more details.
>
>Folks,
>Indeed the board has been exploring how to allow as many members as 
>possible to vote. I am afraid our legal counsel advised us that electronic 
>voting is not legal in the Netherlands, and the current proxy mechanism is 
>the only viable form.

Well that more or less seals our fate since e-voting is out and proxy 
voting is limited to 2% of membership.  From:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/articles-association.html

Article 16, paragraph 4:
"A proxy may not cast more than two percent (2%) of the total number of 
possible votes of all members of the association whether or not present or 
represented at the meeting."

If i understand this correctly, if there are say 4000 LIR members (a wild 
guess, no idea); and say 50 attend the GM (wild guess - no idea how many 
generally attend); then you can only accept 80 proxy votes for a total of 
130 voting members.  To me this does not seem like true representation.

How does the Executive Board intend to recify this?  or not?

-Hank

>
>Cheers
>
>Daniele