[members-discuss] [ncc-announce] [news] The RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2021

Dear Hans Petter,

Thank you for announcing the voting report and results.

I would like to repeat my question from the GM:

> In order to provide more transparency, could the RIPE NCC publish
> anonymised but raw voting data.  Many people still don't understand
> how the instant run-off is voting or how to recommend people to
> support them with the most impact.  For example, I don't know whether
> voting for only candidate or voting for how or the two most preferred
> candidates differs.  So someone might want to reproduce a voting
> result by counting the votes themselves.  Publishing only voting ID
> will not allow such counting, but publishing raw data or voting
> without their ID will help to be more transparent.  The votes could be
> shuffled to ensure privacy

Fergal replied:
> Sergey, on the question of publishing all votes for retabulation. The
> problem is that some people represent several members and therefore
> get a weighting for more votes. Publishing such information could
> compromise anonymity, which is very important.

I don't see any problem to help to ensure that the correctness of
vote counting algorithm. A single vote with weight N for candidates
E,D,C,B,A can be represented as N votes for candidates E,D,C,B,A. Vote
receipt code can be easily removed and anyone can run the algorithm
again without compromising anonymity.



-- 
Kind regards,
Sergey Myasoedov

You wrote Friday, May 21, 2021, 2:05:36 PM:


> Dear colleagues,

> The RIPE NCC General Meeting May 2021 took place virtually from 19–21 May 2021.

> A total of 1,469 members cast their votes on three resolutions and
> in the Executive Board election. Not all members cast votes in all ballots.

> The following resolutions were approved by the General Meeting:

> Resolution 1:
> “The General Meeting adopts the RIPE NCC Financial Report 2020.”

> Resolution 2:
> "The General Meeting discharges the Executive Board with regard to
> its actions as they appear from the Annual Report 2020 and Financial Report 2020."

> Resolution 3:
> "The General Meeting approves the adoption of the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2022."

> Executive Board Elections:
> The following two candidates were elected to the RIPE NCC Executive Board:
> - Job Snijders
> - Piotr Strzyżewski

> A full voting report is available at:
> https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/gm/meetings/may-2021/voting-report

> Congratulations to Job and Piotr on their election to the RIPE NCC
> Executive Board. I look forward to working with them and the rest of
> the Board. And I would like to thank Falk von Bornstaedt for his
> significant contribution to the work of the Executive Board and the
> RIPE NCC over the past three years.

> My appreciation to everyone who contributed to the important discussions and voted at the GM.

> Kind regards,

> Hans Petter Holen
> Managing Director
> RIPE NCC