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

Hi all, thanks for your useful input!


And yes a presentation at the RIPE NCC Roundtable in Brussels (19 Feb) is
definitely a good idea; I will check straight away with RIPE NCC to see
whether they can give us a slot on the agenda.


Next to the RIPE NCC Roundtable, there might also be value to actually go
and talk to the officials in Brussels who prepare the legislative texts.
>From experience I would argue that those are NOT necessarily the same
people as those who attend the RIPE NCC Roundtable meetings.


I think Gordon is right that it is very hard to get them to join us at the
RIPE meeting in Warsaw. So maybe we have to reach out in a different way?


So what if a small group of technical experts would actually prepare a
technical presentation (e.g. on IP interconnection, IXP’s,...- subject to
the needs of our audience) and go to Brussels and actually provide an
overview to the officials in the units dealing with drafting those
legislative texts?  This seems perfectly in line with the ‘Proposed
Workplan for the coop-wg’  (see mail of Maria on 30 Nov).


What do you think?



Alain


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Patrik Fältström <paf at frobbit.se> wrote:

> On 9 dec 2013, at 13:21, Alain Van Gaever <avangaev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I believe it is worthwhile to engage with the European Institutions to
> provide expertise on IP Interconnection. (see also background below).  Who
> would be the technical experts available to explain to a non-tech audience
> the technical & business model of Internet Exchange Points, including on
> how the European model differs from the US one?
>
> There is a larger issue here, and that is that we have three categories of
> people:
>
> - The ones that understand how Internet works, and based the world view on
> it
>
> - The ones that do not understand how the Internet work, and continue to
> apply traditional connection oriented thinking on packet based networks
>
> - The ones that understand how Internet works, and [because of this]
> continue to apply traditional connection oriented thinking on packet based
> networks
>
> > Also there seems to be a concern that the lack of “assured service
> quality” on IP interconnections might actually prevent the introduction of
> pan-European health services and video-conferencing.
>
> See above.
>
>    Patrik
>
>
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