Dear colleagues and members We have received a lot of interest from the community regarding our January open call to form a Small Task Team. The STT will work on a Coop WG community response to then pending EC consultation on the future of digital infrastructure in Europe. The European Commission consultation has been published last week: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-com... <https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-communications-sector-and-its-infrastructure> While this it is in no way a small task, we would like to thank the following RIPE community volunteers for stepping forward: Carsten Schiefner Alex de Joode Patrik Fältström Frode Sørensen Thomas Lohninger Konstantinos Komaitis Christian de Larrinaga Bastiaan Goslings, from RIPE NCC, will be providing necessary staff support for the Small Task Team work to be organised. We plan to share our draft response prior to its submission and we hope to have time allocated at the RIPE86 meeting Coop WG to discuss it further. Please send any suggestions of comments you may have to this list. Desiree, Julf and Achilleas — RIPE Coop WG Co-Chairs