Hi Collin! I very much appreciate people who “talk” on the list.
So thank you, Gordon > On 05 May 2016, at 20:29, Collin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Cooperation WG community – > > I'm Collin Anderson, an independent network researcher based out of > Washington, D.C. I had reached out to Meredith about the possibility of more > active participation previously but had suspected this introduction would > arise in Copenhagen, so I apologize then for not reaching out through the > list first to make a case for myself. > > I have attended the last four RIPE Meetings, presented at two of those > meetings in the Coop WG [1][2], been a supportive resource in the planning of > three of those sessions, and have an earlier history of interacting with the > RIPE Atlas platform in pursuit of public interest issues [3]. Those > presentations and papers are representative of my background and involvements > (cda.io <http://cda.io/>) – the nexus of the Internet, its architecture and > public policy, with an interest in accessibility and security. A substantial > portion of my time is dedicated to Measurement Lab, however, I also > collaborate with a broader range of NGOs and academic institutions on > producing research on these issues in Europe and the United States. Hence > Coop WG is interesting to me because it is where all of the issues that RIPE > maintains expertise in comes into more uncertain questions of external > application (from my perspective at least). > > Outside of this, the question of how I would make an informative and > generative resource for the RIPE community is particularly relevant. I'm > specifically interested in the Coop WG being a mechanism of inclusion for > local communities – by the virtue of the rotation of the meetings across the > region there is an opportunity to bring in representatives of the NGO and > public sector that wouldn't otherwise have the means or awareness to come to > RIPE. So more local presence outside of generous sponsorships of much needed > coffee baristas. My research has always attempted to support the pairing of > technical expertise with local impact and local communities that wouldn't > otherwise have access to those resources, and I believe that this principle > would be a mechanism for Coop WG to fulfill its mission. > > So, my ambition would be to support conversations like the eID thread that > seems to be the most active discussion on Coop-WG in a year, but also to > bring in people that wouldn't otherwise have access to this community – but > who should interact and will be novel to form connections with. I would be a > generative resource because I happen to have some of these relationships by > virtue of my mode of operation professionally, but also because I am > personally motivated toward that objective. > > I would be happy to answer any questions here (on-thread or off-thread) or in > Denmark in a couple of weeks, and my apologies again for the misstep. > > Cordially, > Collin Anderson > > [1] https://ripe69.ripe.net/archives/video/10079/ > <https://ripe69.ripe.net/archives/video/10079/> > [2] https://ripe71.ripe.net/archives/video/1176/ > <https://ripe71.ripe.net/archives/video/1176/> > [3] > https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci14/workshop-program/presentation/anderson > > <https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci14/workshop-program/presentation/anderson>
