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

In message 
<CANeNdN+yL6MQyJw-totvNVf4pMV1ivLy9DXyYRZE8b9=hcDvWw at mail.gmail.com>, at 
21:45:53 on Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Alain Van Gaever <avangaev at gmail.com> 
writes
>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

That's right, the Roundtables are more for invitation-only  "Heads of 
Department", who are also the people who can more easily arrange to 
spend a day out of the office 'on expenses'[1].

I never organised a Roundtable in Brussels, but it would make sense to 
me that it should be slightly more of an 'open house' for local 
officials.

Perhaps the date for the Roundtable has been chosen as the day after an 
EIF meeting, so there might be more industry folks in town that day too.

[1] The difficulty of which is often much underestimated, and is a major
     reason for poor attendance at a 2hr RIPE-WG session in an 'exotic'
     location.
-- 
Roland Perry