-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Piet, At 12:28 +0200 14/10/97, Piet Beertema wrote:
This is an open meeting organized by EuroCERT with the intention ^^^^ of gathering European Computer Incident Response Teams and other interested parties together. ... This year the meeting is aligned with FIRST sponsored Technical Colloquium and the meeting of the FIRST Steering Committees so it will be opportunity to meet some of well established FIRST members from teams worldwide.
Note: Unfortunately non-FIRST members are not permitted to participate in the Technical Colloquium
How comes? Are non-FIRST members considered technically incompetent? Is their input not considered worthwhile? Are non-FIRST members considered untrusted, and hence to be kept away from 'sensitive' information? Or is it because of the sponsoring, or to put it another way: money prevailing over valuable technical input from non-members? I wouldn't call that an "open" meeting...
In invitation is stated than EuroCERT's meeting is open and it is aligned with FIRST events in order to make possible that FIRST and non-FIRST teams meet each other. I can not answer on your question why FIRST do not allow non-FIRST members on Technical Colloquium, please ask that question on first-sc@first.org (steering committee) and first-sec@first.org (secretariat). I am sure that you will get official answer to that question. Cheers, Damir Rajnovic -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNENPRsAFeq0PniW5AQFisQQAsDMdg6q20jW/9mIAfW3NYliVvC7ONamz +Eh2tMcIq+KwxoIesZxieugCnhsgDIkqNHKpyDl3e/2lxsWwRBqOvDVHUxUCaZbE gXRC3mvoKsH3UPS8fgV2upme89SU7Q3CIYvnmX7b2uCQiSxn+yRWoWrdozO0yCHD Wjb1k2+aeGE= =M1eA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------ EuroCERT tel: (+44 1235) 822 382 c/o UKERNA, Atlas Centre fax: (+44 1235) 822 398 Chilton, Didcot Oxon OX11 0QS http://www.eurocert.net UK mailto:Damir.Rajnovic@eurocert.net ------------------------------------------------------------------