[lir-wg] Name of the LIR WG

I think I'm a little concerned that we're in danger of falling into the 
'Consignia' trap. For those who aren't in the UK, the Post Office here decided 
that the way forward was to change it's name to Consignia, which it did at 
huge expense only to realise that it made no difference to what the public 
thought of it and it's services. I believe it has since changed it's name back.

My point I think is that we can change to name to something fantastic but if 
people don't know what they can discuss then we'll never get new people to 
join.

Maybe we need a 'Mailing Lists' link on the RIPE website. Currently you have 
to dig under Working Groups, which I think puts a lot of people off joining. 
Promoting the working groups as being open and 'hey, come join us' is, in my 
view, a better use of effort than name changing.

All the best

Matthew

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:06:35PM +0000, Matthew Robinson wrote:
> > 	I'm not convinced that changing the wg name will achieve the desired effect. 
> > Perhaps the effort should be put more into education of new (and current) 
> > LIR's as to what they can talk about on the lists?
> 
> what about the non-LIRs though?
> 
> Regards
> Denesh
>