[cooperation-wg] LEA participaton in RIPE meetings

> On 29 Mar 2018, at 17:06, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Law enforcement, regulators and so on are members of the RIPE community.
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> So they should come to RIPE meetings?

Of course. Assuming they see the value in that, just like anyone else who might show up.

> NCC has been good in reaching out to various communities. But I would have hoped the result would have been that these communities would have seen the benefit in then coming to participate in RIPE meetings.

Law enforcement and government officials have been to RIPE meetings in the past. I even drank beer (and single malt) with some of them.

Whether they see benefit from continuing participation or not depends on a lot of unknowns: content, budget, other commitments/priorities. [You’ll appreciate some of these issues Gordon from your time at the Commisssion and the management hoops you had to jump through to attend a RIPE meeting.] Or perhaps Law enforcement and government officials get enough from these workshop type things and roundtables that a full RIPE meeting doesn’t matter so much.