[governance] Re: Openess at ApNic

[Fearghas McKay]

On 23 Jan 2010, at 23:30, Eric Dierker wrote:

> Thanks, I am studying and learning much about this and RiP e .

You should be aware that there is a difference between RIPE and the  
RIPE NCC.

RIPE is the community.

RIPE NCC - RIPE Network Coordination Centre, is the executive  
organisation that implements the policies that are set by the RIPE  
community. It is a membership organisation, and sets the fees for the  
implemented policies on a cost recovery basis. It does not set policy.  
It provides the organisation for the RIPE meetings.

Anyone can participate in the RIPE and the policy making process, it  
is open to all. The decision making process is done via mailing lists,  
not at face to face meetings, although meetings are used to enable  
discussion. The meetings are webcast, with scribes to feedback  
external questions. I would say it is a fine example of a bottom up  
organisation, but I might be biased as a WG Chair :-)

All the other RIRs have a similar split between policy making and NCC/ 
NIC/operations organisation, however I think that only RIPE has the  
separate naming convention for the two groups.

HTH

	f


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