I think the idea of starting with a presentation at the Roundtable is a very good one. Gordon On 10 Dec, 2013, at 15:33, Roland Perry <roland@internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
In message <9C407555-733C-4A43-B0A7-FCD6482708EA@gmail.com>, at 10:02:07 on Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com> writes
So your thought is that you and maybe a few more should go to Brussels as representatives of the WG?
What would you say? On behalf of the WG rather than as an individual that is.
On the other hand you may like to talk to Maria and Patrik about their efforts to bring Brussels and other government people to WG meetings and how that worked out
There are two parallel processes in the RIPE community.
I'm very sure that the one most likely to produce the results you seek are getting a speaking slot at a Roundtable, the next of which happens to be in Brussels:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/roundtable/february-2014
There are many structural reasons why the Roundtables are a better channels for this particular activity[1] than RIPE CoOP-WG meetings, so I strongly recommend that this subject is put on that agenda, and even more so that any such agenda is promoted sufficiently ahead of the meeting that potential attendees can out it in their diaries.
Currently, the attendee list is just three "insiders"... Not to undervalue the worth of their participation, but with the Xmas season so close, and event bookings pretty much in suspense until Mid-January (especially in the absence of a confirmed agenda) it would be good to see more external attendees registering by now.
[1] The CoOp-WG's strengths lie elsewhere. -- Roland Perry