On 05/25/2016 10:40 PM, Sander Steffann wrote:
As requested by Nigel Titley at the NCC Services working group session, I would like to express my support for the RIPE NCC to participate in the long-term funding to the IETF.
To be clear, Nigel asked for the members to speak up to give the board guidance on this subject, he wasn't the one asking for the funding :)
Was wondering about that ... ;-)
So members: please look at the slides and the video, and let the board know your thoughts on this!
Here are my views on it: - RIPE is in a unique position due to its steadily growing member base and therefor member fees to support IETF together with ISOC - While RIPE members are mostly active in the in the Internets daily business, acting as ISPs and a community actively developing policies for this, I see ISOC (and also IETF meetings) in a more fundamental position. - Both positions combined will bring benefits to both communities - I would like to see (over the last years I've seen more involvement from people usually going to RIPE meetings, which is gret) more RIPE and IETF folks exchange knowledge and ideas - With this wish there's also an opportunity to attract a more diverse group, especially from keen but underrepresented humans - The RIPE and IETF communities have unique ways to meet up in person and stay in contact after these personal meetings, which is a very beneficial behaviour for everyone in those communities I think there's still a lot more to explore and to get people into those discussions. TL;DR I express my support for the RIPE NCCs participation in the long-term funding of the IETF -dominik -- rrbone UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) - Ruhrallee 9 - 44139 Dortmund HR B 23168 Amtsgericht Dortmund - Geschaeftsfuehrer: Dominik Bay