Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NC is holding a Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators on Wednesday, 30 March 2005 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The purpose of the meeting is to educate and improve relations between the RIPE NCC and officials from within our service region through open discussion. Invitees include ITU Member States (ministers and regulators), members of the ICANN GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee), WGIG (Working Group on Internet Governance) and other related parties. The focus of the discussions will be on Internet governance and management, with particular emphasis on issues of relevance to governments and regulators such as: - How to participate in and influence IP address management policy-making; - The industry self-regulatory open structures and processes used by the RIPE NCC and the global Internet community; - IPv4 / IPv6 address space; - Root name server operations and who is involved; - Internet Numbers and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Process. More information, including a draft agenda, is available at: http://www.ripe.net/meetings/roundtable/march2005/index.html If you know of anyone who you feel should be invited, have any questions or would like more information, please send an email to: <roundtable@ripe.net>. Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC