Shaping the RIPE NCC’s Strategic Direction

This BoF will be an interactive session with the community to get their thoughts and ideas about where the RIPE NCC needs to go in the next 5-6 years. This is the last RIPE Meeting before we will arrive at a final five-year strategy, so getting clear input now on what the community wants to see from its Secretariat is crucially important so we can set the direction that will serve the needs of our community. The RIPE NCC will carry out consultations with its members and community in the run-up to the RIPE Meeting, and the output from these consultations will serve as the starting point for the conversation we want to have with the community about our strategic direction.

Ahead of the RIPE Meeting, we will have published our draft strategy featuring our vision of where we want to be in 2031 and the strategic focus points that will help us get there. By that time, we will have conducted a survey that will ask members where they want to see the RIPE NCC focus in the coming years, and where they want the RIPE NCC to change in order to better serve their needs.

At the BoF, Hans Petter Holen will present:
- An overview of the draft strategy
- Preliminary results from the survey
- Specific questions that the RIPE community can give guidance to us on
- An interactive Q&A where we discuss the future of the RIPE NCC and what the community wants to see from it

The focus will be on hearing from our community, so we expect the presentation to last approx. 15 minutes with the majority of the session focused on what the community wants from its Secretariat.