Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de> writes: Daniel - no - not *you* personally but the NCC.....that was also Wilfried's suggestion as I understood it.
The NCC cannot *consult* for them because there would be a clear conflict of interest were we to accept work and money from the comission.
Hmm, I see now what you mean. Well at least point them to someone who is competent instead of having them end up with some twit of a Brussels consultant who as Wilfried pointed out will probably produce the predictable results.
Of course we can (and will) provide them with information once we know enough about the purpose of this to convince me that I can defend this towards the contributors.
Ok - fine. Perhaps you need to have a new RIPE work item called "Reeducating the Commission" :-). It would after all be part of the lobbying/training function discussed already by the contributors.
Are we communicating?
Yep. Cheers, Dave
DAniel
Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de> writes:
Ok - fine. Perhaps you need to have a new RIPE work item called "Reeducating the Commission" :-). It would after all be part of the lobbying/training function discussed already by the contributors.
If you mean a "RIPE NCC" work item I was under the impression that this was exactly what the contributors meeting told me to be very careful with. There was certainly no consensus that the NCC should be doing this and there was consensus that if RIPE wanted to do lobbying and industry representation per se it should not be done by the NCC but seperately in order not to interfere with the NCC's neutrality. Hence I have removed activity N.4 in all its generality from the activity plan. On the other hand the contributors gave the NCC a mandate to speak to issues directly concerning our activities. Domain names are somewhat at the fringes there. Now I certainly sound less pragmatic than at other times. And it worries me my self to some extent. Where is "go for it not matter what" Daniel? ;-) But these issues are certainly very political and not important enough to rush into action. Daniel
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