Dear colleagues, The sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, next week, running from 27-30 September. The RIPE NCC, participating with the other Regional Internet Registries as the Number Resource Organization (NRO), will be organising two workshops in the IGF schedule. Workshop 166. Enhancing Understanding: Facilitating Internet Governance Through Openness and Transparency Wednesday, 28 September, 11:00 -12:30 (UTC+3) Following on from an NRO workshop at last year's IGF entitled "Enhancing Transparency", this workshop will consider some of the issues raised in that discussion and look at strategies for improving understanding between different Internet stakeholder groups. Workshop 165. Understanding IPv6 Deployment and Transition Thursday, 29 September, 9:00-10:30 (UTC+3) This workshop will focus on IPv6 capacity building, remaining obstacles to IPv6 adoption and strategies that have proved successful in encouraging IPv6 adoption. For those not attending the IGF in person, remote participation is available in both of these workshops (and all other IGF sessions). Increased opportunities for remote participation is something that the NRO has argued for in discussions about the future of the IGF, and we would very much welcome remote contributions to the discussion. More information on how to access the remote participation can be found at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/remote-participation-2011 More information on the two NRO-organised workshops is available at: http://www.nro.net/news/internet-governance-forum-2011-in-nairobi-kenya Best regards, Chris Buckridge External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC