A compromise option in a scenario like this is to disclose the salary bands of 
senior managers rather than the exact salaries of individuals.  If the 
objective is to have transparency and to avoid any suggestion of excessive 
compensation, disclosing the number of execs in a number of salary bands ought 
to be sufficient.


Andrew

From: Roderick Beck <[email protected]>
Sent: 06 November 2025 08:16
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles

Disclosure of senior management salaries helps reduce excessive compensation, 
which is a very common problem due to the often cozy relationship between the 
supervisory board and senior management. Human nature is guided by self 
interest and there have been plenty of non-profit scandals over the years. If 
you are a running a company or organization in the public interest, you sure as 
hell should be willing to disclose your compensation. The only real motive for 
not dosing so is embarassment as how much money you are making.

Good ideas are good ideas whether Europe practices them or not, Gert. And let 
me add that given the scandals in European cooperates and at the EU Parliament, 
European transparency standards are low and inadequate. Privacy is used as a 
cover for inadequate disclosure and bad deeds.



Regards,

Roderick.








On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM Christopher Hawker 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
And what makes it the global de facto standard?

Because one country does something, doesn't mean others need to follow.

Regards,
Christopher Hawker
________________________________
From: Roderick Beck 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2025 11:34 PM
To: Gert Doering <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [ripe-list] Re: Good Governance Principles

That's not a good argument. Disclosure of individual salaries is de facto the 
global standard for transparency.

Regards,

Roderick.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM Gert Doering 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 07:31:27PM +0100, Roderick Beck wrote:
> In the US all non-profits must disclose the individual salaries of senior
> management. RIPE does not even though it functions effectively as a
> nonprofit. I think more transparency is due in this respect given that RIPE
> is also a monopoly and has a budget of $40 million versus $33 million for
> ARIN and twice as many employees and contractors as ARIN.

We are not in the US...

Gert Doering
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