[93572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exotic meeting locations in North America
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Tue Dec 5 08:17:39 2006
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:04:41 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <OF9A37B643.83E62299-ON8025723B.003D5C0C-8025723B.0041CAB1@btradianz.com>
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, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com writes
>The idea of regional meetings is mainly to have a scaled down NANOG to
>reach a much wider audience that does not have a large conference travel
>budget. This is rather similar to RIPE's meetings in Qatar, Moscow,
>Bahrain, Nairobi and Tallinn.
I am just back from very successful Regional Meetings in Moscow and
Bahrain, where it's true that the focus is local members, and where
regional meetings of any kind are often a rarity.
But Tallinn is the venue for RIPE 54, in the same vein as Istanbul (RIPE
52) and Stockholm (RIPE 50).
--
Roland Perry
Public Affairs Officer, RIPE NCC
