Proposed new working group: Collaboration

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From: "Roland Perry" <roland at ripe.net>
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Cc: "Patrik Fältström" <patrik at frobbit.se>; "Marin Boyle"
<martin.boyle at nominet.org.uk>; "Maria Häll" <maria.hall at enterprise.ministry.se>;
"tp" <ripe at dial.pipex.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed new working group: Collaboration


>
> Multistakeholder discussions often get off to a bad start if too much
> time is spent defining rigid boxes to put the stakeholders in.
>
> I would encourage those who wish to see this WG succeed, to think about
> ways of expressing the idea that a major objective is demonstrating
> outreach from the "traditional RIPE Community" to "everyone else", but
> particularly Governments, Regulators and NGOs, who we are trying to
> bring into our community.

Right.  That to me is a much clearer, and likely to be more fruitful, expression
of what this proposed working group is about than the term 'Public sector'.

I see quite a lot of this kind of activity and often see it designated
'outreach' which might be a name for it here.

Tom Petch

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> Roland Perry
> Public Affairs Officer, RIPE NCC