Dear colleagues, At the last RIPE meeting in Amsterdam all the working group chairs - as far as they had already arrived in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening (22/02/00) - met each other to discuss some issues regarding the working groups. We called it the 'Chairman BoF'. I would like to give a short report from this meeting. The agenda was: 1. Welcome 2. Additional agenda points 3. Future of the working groups 4. Schedule of the working groups 5. Chairs and back-up chairs 6. Agenda's for the working groups 7. AOB Here are some bullet points to summarise what we have discussed * more flexibility regarding times and slots for the agenda 1) provide time-slots of different length in order to better accommodate longer/shorter wg-sessions. 2) ask how much time the working group chairs think they really need. * create a task force within the working groups 1) encourage more input 2) support the working group chairs 3) provide back-up chairs who can organise the wg-session if necessary. * make the contact between the chairs and the RIPE NCC more 1) pro-active 2) a RIPE NCC staff member will make minutes of each wg-session, these minutes will be published on the web. The chair is free to appoint another scribe. 3) collection of the agenda's: The chair is asked to provide a preliminary agenda for the next wg-session in his report for the plenary session. * make a handbook for the working group chairs and other interested people containing information on how to run a RIPE working group. * have these kind of meeting more often ;-) Regards, Bettina Schroder RIPE NCC ............................................................................... Bettina Schroder Email: bschroder@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW : http://www.ripe.net Singel 258 Phone: +31 20 535 44 34 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax : +31 20 535 44 45 The Netherlands Mobile: +31 6 290 289 83 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------