Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE, 75

2017-10-21 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 20/10/2017 14:11, Malcolm Hutty wrote: > However, when the taskforce asked NCC staff to look into this, they > discovered (to their own surprise) that the NCC has no formal document > of any nature that sets out a normative expectation that the RIPE NCC > will so much as take community policy

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE, 75

2017-10-21 Thread Nigel Titley
Malcolm On 20/10/2017 11:11, Malcolm Hutty wrote: I don't think anyone would seriously suggest that the NCC ought to be bound to implement absolutely anything that comes out of the RIPE community without limitation. You are rather tilting at a straw man of your own creation here. Well, whereas

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE, 75

2017-10-20 Thread Malcolm Hutty
On 19/10/2017 12:28, ripe-list-requ...@ripe.net wrote: > What Jim and I were both trying to say, and obviously something got lost > in translation, is that ever since the PDP's inception the NCC has > carried out the policies as formulated by the RIPE Community, without > exception, even when th

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Schaa, Tahar
: ripe-list [mailto:ripe-list-boun...@ripe.net] Im Auftrag von Daniel Karrenberg Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2017 12:46 An: Betreff: Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75 On 19/10/2017 12:21, Nigel Titley wrote: > I'm generally against additional comp

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
> On 19 Oct 2017, at 09:24, Jim Reid wrote: > > >> On 18 Oct 2017, at 23:53, William Sylvester >> wrote: >> >> 1. Do you think the "public benefit" or "the greater good" is a core >> aspirational factor in decisions made by the RIPE community? Alternatively, >> are RIPE community members m

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Nigel Titley
Dear Alexander On 19/10/2017 12:10, Alexander Isavnin wrote: Dear Nigel! Thank you for the answers (in both capacities). Because we are in "RIPE Accountability" thread i do not think, that such answers are sufficient. Yes, it's very unusual combination of Dutch nonprofit, community, some int

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 19/10/2017 00:53, William Sylvester wrote: > 1. Do you think the "public benefit" or "the greater good" is a core > aspirational factor in decisions made by the RIPE community? Alternatively, > are RIPE community members merely working/cooperating for their own benefit? > (If the community

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Alexander Isavnin
Dear Nigel! Thank you for the answers (in both capacities). Because we are in "RIPE Accountability" thread i do not think, that such answers are sufficient. Yes, it's very unusual combination of Dutch nonprofit, community, some international relations, shared resources etc. I feel you feel skep

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 19/10/2017 12:21, Nigel Titley wrote: > I'm generally against additional complication, especially where past > practice doesn't give cause to worry, but as I say it doesn't really > bother me. For what the opinion of one of the initial architects of this is worth: Complication and over-speci

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Nigel Titley
On 19/10/2017 10:27, Carsten Schiefner wrote: Hi Nigel, On 19.10.2017 10:36, Nigel Titley wrote: The NCC Board does of course take account of policies, and also comments on them as part of the evaluation process that the NCC does during policy development. In all cases up until now we have in

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
Alexander Isavnin wrote: > Dear Nigel! > > May i clarify some things? > > Did i get right, that "RIPE NCC is secretariat for community" is a > fairy tale, told to RIPE Meetings newcomers? Legally, the RIPE NCC is answerable only to its members. This is a requirement under Dutch law, and there i

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Nigel Titley
On 19/10/2017 10:56, Alexander Isavnin wrote: Dear Nigel! May i clarify some things? Did i get right, that "RIPE NCC is secretariat for community" is a fairy tale, told to RIPE Meetings newcomers? No, RIPE NCC is a membership association which carries out Network coordination activities on

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Alexander Isavnin
Dear Nigel! May i clarify some things? Did i get right, that "RIPE NCC is secretariat for community" is a fairy tale, told to RIPE Meetings newcomers? And relations of RIPE NCC to RIPE Community are just 4 letters E I P R in the name? And Number Resources allocation in this region happens not

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Carsten Schiefner
Hi Nigel, On 19.10.2017 10:36, Nigel Titley wrote: > The NCC Board does of course take account of policies, and also comments > on them as part of the evaluation process that the NCC does during > policy development. In all cases up until now we have instructed the NCC > to follow policy. However,

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Nigel Titley
On 19/10/17 09:24, Jim Reid wrote: > >> On 18 Oct 2017, at 23:53, William Sylvester >> wrote: > >> 2. There is no explicit obligation anywhere that the RIPE NCC will adhere to >> policies developed by the RIPE community. Strictly speaking, the RIPE NCC is >> accountable to its membership o

Re: [ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-19 Thread Jim Reid
> On 18 Oct 2017, at 23:53, William Sylvester > wrote: > > 1. Do you think the "public benefit" or "the greater good" is a core > aspirational factor in decisions made by the RIPE community? Alternatively, > are RIPE community members merely working/cooperating for their own benefit? > (If t

[ripe-list] RIPE Accountability Task Force Update at RIPE 75

2017-10-18 Thread William Sylvester
Dear colleagues, Over the past year, our task force has been reviewing the structures, documentation, and processes of RIPE to identify our accountability as an organization. At the last RIPE meeting, we finalized our mission and scope which we continue to work against. We will be giving an up