> On 29 Mar 2018, at 17:06, Gordon Lennox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Law enforcement, regulators and so on are members of the RIPE community. > > So they should come to RIPE meetings?
Of course. Assuming they see the value in that, just like anyone else who might show up. > NCC has been good in reaching out to various communities. But I would have > hoped the result would have been that these communities would have seen the > benefit in then coming to participate in RIPE meetings. Law enforcement and government officials have been to RIPE meetings in the past. I even drank beer (and single malt) with some of them. Whether they see benefit from continuing participation or not depends on a lot of unknowns: content, budget, other commitments/priorities. [You’ll appreciate some of these issues Gordon from your time at the Commisssion and the management hoops you had to jump through to attend a RIPE meeting.] Or perhaps Law enforcement and government officials get enough from these workshop type things and roundtables that a full RIPE meeting doesn’t matter so much.
