[cooperation-wg] IP Interconnection – expertise wanted - providing information to the European Institutions

In message <9C407555-733C-4A43-B0A7-FCD6482708EA at gmail.com>, at 10:02:07 
on Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com> writes
>So your thought is that you and maybe a few more should go to Brussels 
>as representatives of the WG? 
>
>What would you say? On behalf of the WG rather than as an individual 
>that is.
>
>On the other hand you may like to talk to Maria and Patrik about their 
>efforts to bring Brussels and other government people to WG meetings 
>and how that worked out

There are two parallel processes in the RIPE community.

I'm very sure that the one most likely to produce the results you seek 
are getting a speaking slot at a Roundtable, the next of which happens 
to be in Brussels:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/roundtable/february-2014

There are many structural reasons why the Roundtables are a better 
channels for this particular activity[1] than RIPE CoOP-WG meetings, so 
I strongly recommend that this subject is put on that agenda, and even 
more so that any such agenda is promoted sufficiently ahead of the 
meeting that potential attendees can out it in their diaries.

Currently, the attendee list is just three "insiders"... Not to 
undervalue the worth of their participation, but with the Xmas season so 
close, and event bookings pretty much in suspense until Mid-January 
(especially in the absence of a confirmed agenda) it would be good to 
see more external attendees registering by now.

[1] The CoOp-WG's strengths lie elsewhere.
-- 
Roland Perry