Re: [ispcp] RIR meetings for ISPCP Outreach

["Anthony Harris" <harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a truly excellent idea!

I can do the LACNIC meeting.

We could ask South Africa ISPA to
help with Khartoum, perhaps.

Best

Tony Harris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MAEMURA Akinori" <maem@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ispcp@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:42 AM
Subject: [ispcp] RIR meetings for ISPCP Outreach


> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I will write the idea I mentioned yesterday's call for the clarity.
>
> I suggested to use RIR meetings for ISPCP Outreach.
>
> In terms of targeting, they have the perfect match.
> RIRs' members are ISPs or carriers who obtain IP numbers from RIRs.
>
> In terms of logistics, a timeslot for the presentation is easy to obtain.
> RIR meetings usually have a session containing the reports from other 
> RIRs, NRO and IANA.  I don't find any big difficulty to have a 10 minutes 
> slot for us to introducing ISPCP, while it is subject to the RIR's 
> desicion.
> I had a brief chat with APNIC people and had a positive response.  If we 
> agree, I will try APNIC to let us have it in the forthcoming meeting 
> APNIC34 at Phnom Penh, in the last week of August.
> fyi, the forthcoming RIR meetings are:
>
> Aug 27-31: APNIC34 @ Phnom Penh
> Sept 24-28: RIPE65 @ Amsterdam
> Oct 24-26: ARIN30 @ Dallas
> Oct 29 - Nov 2: LACNIC18 @ Montevideo
> Nov 26-30: AfriNIC17 @ Khartoum, North Sudan
>
>
> I have been long involved in the RIR arena for more than a decade and I 
> suppose there are not many people who will get interested in gTLD policies 
> and will have problems to understand GNSO process and what happens in 
> ICANN arena.
> However RIR community apparently meet the criteria to participate in 
> ISPCP, thus the very place for ISPCP to do some outreach activities.
> If ICANN needs to have more people with the ISPs' stake, it will be good 
> way to go.
>
> With those said, I might have missed some points which might have already 
> been dicussed here before.  Let me know if you find any.
>
> Thank you,
> Akinori
>
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> MAEMURA Akinori   General Manager, Internet Development Dept.
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