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 <[email protected]> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, at 10:02:07 on > Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Gordon Lennox <[email protected]> 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 >
