Hello Nick, Thanks very much for your suggestion. While we will submit the text, we plan to speak further to it during the WTPF and will highlight the role of regional peering groups. There is a reason that we did not provide a more detailed response to Opinion 1. An initial response on this opinion was given by ISOC and I believe they intend to submit a more thorough response to this particular opinion. I suggest you speak further with ISOC regarding their planned text submission on Opinion 1. Please contact Sally Wentworth @ ISOC about this. She can be reached at <wentworth@isoc.org> and I have CC'd her in this message. I look forward to seeing you in Dublin. Cheers, Paul On 4/23/13 6:09 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
Paul,
The various IXP associations may be interested in working with the NROs on a statement on Option 1: "Promoting Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) as a long term solution to advance connectivity".
As it stands, the RIR_WTPF13_2 document suggests that the NRO gives the ITU blanket support for their position: "The RIRs support this Opinion."
There are pre-existing structures in place for fostering IXP growth, and the ITU's involvement in creating new structures would probably be quite unhelpful.
Nick
On 23/04/2013 09:34, Paul Rendek wrote:
[Apologies for duplicates]
Dear colleagues,
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will hold the Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (WTPF) in Geneva this May. This event is being convened specifically to look at Internet-related public policy matters.
The primary input document to this meeting is a report by the ITU Secretary General, including six Opinions agreed to by an Informal Experts Group (IEG) that met three times over the past year. These Opinions touch on issues including management of Internet number resources, encouraging IPv6 adoption, support for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), multi-stakeholder governance and Enhanced Cooperation.
The five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) have drafted responses to the five Opinions that relate directly to the RIRs' areas of expertise and coordination. A document containing these responses has been published at: http://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/RIR_WTPF13_2.pdf
The full Secretary General's report (including the six Opinions) is available at: http://www.itu.int/md/S13-WTPF13-C-0003/en
I invite you to post any questions or comments regarding this document to the RIPE Cooperation Working Group mailing list (cooperation-wg@ripe.net).
Best regards,
Paul Rendek Director of External Relations, RIPE NCC