Dear IETF & friends, if there are some of you on this list that are active in RIPE, I'd like to ask for your help in setting up a RIPE Task Force / Working Group on the subjects of environmental sustainability, Green Tech and Climate Justice. According to procedures / tradition, we need someone to suggest this, and a group of volunteers, and goals / charter. * https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/how-to-participate/ripe-task-forces-ex... First steps could be taken this week: - if you are at RIPE86: speak up at Community Session (Thursday) or Plenary on Friday morning and express your interest - send a support/suggestion message to RIPE list: ripe-list@ripe.net Any volunteers? Thank you!! Vesna (more below) My suggestion for possible goals: Task Force: * provide space at RIPE for discussing sustainable tech topics * write one BCOP document * work towards creation of Working Group Working Group: * raise awareness of sustainable tech topics at RIPE * provide space at RIPE for discussing sustainable tech topics * serve as a place for other communities to express themselves / join RIPE (on topics of sustainable tech) * contribute to existing documents & write new documents (on topics of sustainable tech) (etc) Prior Interest: * we already had a BoF in 2020 https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/#mon14 * there were quite some presentations on this topic, e.g. https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/751/ https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/877/ & labs articles: https://labs.ripe.net/search/tag/sustainability/ Admin: * general: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/how-to-participate * this is how we can do interim (online) sessions: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/guidelines-for-ripe-working-group-i... * WG chair Volunteers would (eventually) need to fulfill these roles: https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-692.pdf -- Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/