[cooperation-wg] RIPE NCC Roundtable Meetings - Some Background

In message 
<CANeNdNJKkT8W-xDhknfpfHygSrMVeh1_rgcxmYNz9d2HEOM20A at mail.gmail.com>, at 
00:22:39 on Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Alain Van Gaever <avangaev at gmail.com> 
writes

>our aim should be to (1) reach as broad an audience as possible, and 
>(2) create "institutional memory" that will allow RIPE and others to 
>disseminate good information beyond one meeting, workshop, etc. Our aim 
>as RIPE NCC and the Coop WG should be to become a lasting resource -- 
>the go to community for clear, unbiased information on the technical 
>components impacting specific policy areas.

There is a precedent for this in RIPE-206 which discussed best practice 
in the area of UBE (since replaced by RIPE-409). As secretariat for 
LINX's regulatory activities it was my task to support the [LINX] WG 
meetings from which this (and similar) documents emerged.

LINX then went on to author a best practice/institutional memory for 
privacy and law enforcement liaison[1] issues.

https://www.linx.net/good/bcp/privacy-bcp-v1_0.html

Both were invaluable for discussions with governments and regulators in 
subsequent years.

With a slightly different hat of mine on (not just secretariat this 
time, but also main editor and contributor) another briefing document 
was very helpful in discussions with the authorities about data 
retention, and was widely accepted as technically unbiassed:

http://www.internetcrimeforum.org.uk/principal_current_data_types.pdf

As was this multi-stakeholder document about the child-protection risks 
of Chatlines:

http://www.internetcrimeforum.org.uk/chatwise_streetwise.pdf

But don't underestimate the amount of work involved, or the number of 
issues to which this approach could be applied.

[1]RIPE NCC's CCWP was working on similar issues, but I'm not aware of
    whether they have a public deliverable which could be used by
    the CoOp WG.
-- 
Roland Perry