Clearly what is missing there is something ensuring the “wide” participation from all the RIPE region countries, disallowing locations that will be of great trouble for people to attend, not restricting access to any specific country, allowing freedom of speech and freedom of Internet access. Meeting in a country that do any kind of Internet filtering should discard that location. I suggest, instead of working in something new, looking at the IETF documents, as they may be a starting point. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteri... Actual work is under a new WG: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mtgvenue/about/ Regarding technical requirements: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-palet-ietf-meeting-network-requirements-01 Regards, Jordi -----Mensaje original----- De: ripe-list <ripe-list-bounces@ripe.net> en nombre de Hans Petter Holen <hph@oslo.net> Responder a: <hph@oslo.net> Fecha: miércoles, 5 de julio de 2017, 14:54 Para: Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> CC: <ripe-list@ripe.net>, <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> Asunto: Re: [ripe-list] choosing locations for RIPE meetings On 5 July 2017 at 14:11, Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> wrote: > On 5 Jul 2017, at 12:30, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> wrote: > > I’m fine with an overall decision of the “general principles for a meeting location”, but is not that going to have almost the same difficulty for reaching consensus? Has this been decided already? There is a document about that? I don’t believe so. IIRC there have been discussions from time to time about producing such a document and they never went anywhere. The location of RIPE meetings are chosen according to the process described at: https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/ripe-meetings/ripe-meeting-locatio... The page links to a document describing the requirements. Improvement suggestions are as always welcome. As to the particular requirements for the upcoming meeting in Dubai, UAE, the requirements were not know to us, nor the local host at the time the decision was made. It would definitely been taken into consideration had it been known. -- Sincerely, Hans Petter Holen - RIPE Chair - hph@oslo.net - +47 4506605 ********************************************** IPv4 is over Are you ready for the new Internet ? http://www.consulintel.es The IPv6 Company This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited.