Summary

  • The RIPE NCC opened nominations for two Executive Board seats, each for a three-year term, filling the seats held by Ondřej Filip and Remco van Mook, whose terms expired in May 2025.
  • Under Article 9.1 of the Articles of Association, a nomination required written support from at least five members and had to be submitted no later than three weeks before the General Meeting — a deadline of 23 April 2025 at 23:59 UTC.
  • The published nominee list showed four nominees with verified nominations: Atılgan Barış YÖRÜK (1), Ondřej Filip (10), Randy Bush (11) and Kevin Meynell (7) — 29 verified nominations in total.
  • Only three candidates ultimately stood; on 16 May 2025 the registry announced that Ondřej Filip and Randy Bush were elected, with 1,039 ballots cast of 1,207 registered members under instant-run-off voting.
  • The captured record contains no per-candidate tallies and does not document the verification basis for nominations — gaps that limit what this election can prove about membership engagement.

The RIPE NCC's own announcement set the terms of the contest plainly: nominations were open for two Executive Board seats at the General Meeting on 14 May 2025, each for a three-year term, filling the seats held by Ondřej Filip and Remco van Mook [1].

The mechanism is fixed by Article 9.1 of the RIPE NCC Articles of Association, quoted verbatim in the announcement: board members "shall be appointed by the General Meeting from a list of nominees to be drawn up by the Members," and each nomination "shall need the written support of at least five Members and shall be submitted no later than three weeks before the General Meeting" [1]. In practice, that meant 23 April 2025 at 23:59 UTC.

Article 9.1 also required, no later than two weeks before the meeting, a certified copy of official identification, signed statements covering the Code of Conduct and absence of fraud or financial misconduct, a declaration of non-affiliation with conflicting parties, and a declaration of employment, shareholding and partnership ties [1].

The legal-requirements page adds the conflict rules that shape who can stand at all. Candidates cannot be board members of another regional internet registry (ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC), ICANN, ISOC or the ASO Address Council [2]. If two or more candidates are employees of the same organisation, only one may be elected [2]. Critically for incumbents, the paragraph (c)(1)–(5) affiliation restrictions do not apply to board members whose terms expire at the meeting in which the election is held — which is how a sitting board member could stand for re-election despite the shared-employer bar [2].

The Code of Conduct binds candidates from the moment they become candidates until the deadline for objections to the draft meeting minutes has passed [2].

The verified nomination record shows where support concentrated. The published list recorded Atılgan Barış YÖRÜK with 1 nomination, Ondřej Filip with 10, Randy Bush with 11 and Kevin Meynell with 7 — 29 verified nominations across four nominees [3]. The page notes that only verified nominations appear, and that not all nominations are listed until each is verified [3]. The funnel then narrowed again: the meeting minutes record three candidates — Filip, Bush and Meynell — introducing themselves in a pre-recorded video; Yörük did not progress to candidacy [6].

The vote closed the process. The voting report records 1,207 members registered to vote and 1,039 ballots cast — roughly 86 percent turnout by that measure — across ten items: nine resolutions and the board election [4]. The election used instant-run-off voting with a more-than-50-percent threshold; where no candidate crossed it, the lowest-placed candidate was eliminated and preferences transferred [4]. The results announcement, issued on Friday 16 May 2025, named Ondřej Filip and Randy Bush as the two elected candidates [5].

The minutes confirm the meeting closed shortly after the results were announced at approximately 10:33 UTC+1 that day [6].

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