[cooperation-wg] LEA participaton in RIPE meetings

Morning,

I kept meaning to follow up on this, then didn't, so just in time before 76...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cooperation-wg <cooperation-wg-bounces at ripe.net> On Behalf Of
> Jim Reid
> Sent: Thursday 29 March 2018 18:29
> To: Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Cooperation WG RIPE <cooperation-wg at ripe.net>
> Subject: [cooperation-wg] LEA participaton in RIPE meetings
> 
> 
> 
> > On 29 Mar 2018, at 17:06, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Law enforcement, regulators and so on are members of the RIPE
> community.
> >
> > So they should come to RIPE meetings?
> 
> Of course. Assuming they see the value in that, just like anyone else who
> might show up.

Absolutely.

> > 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.

And they continue to come. Europol and others have been, and continue to be, active members of the community. 2017-02 comes directly from their involvement. 

> 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.

We’re on the right side of this right now, but it ebbs and flows with priorities and, as you say, budgets and other issues. But part of the work of the Anti-Abuse WG has been to show the LEA community the usefulness of engaging with the rest of the RIPE community for the benefit of all.

Thanks,

Brian
(With a little bit of his AA-WG Co-Chair hat on)

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