Dear colleagues BEREC published its preliminary assessment of the DNA proposal -- see here: https://www.berec.europa.eu/en/news/press-releases/berec-provides-early-assessment-of-the-digital-networks-act-welcoming-ambition-while-highlighting-areas-for-improvement?language_content_entity=en
BEREC will work on a deeper assessment, which should be published around June. This could be a good timing to organise a second Open House on the topic. All best, Romain On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 at 07:39, Hisham Ibrahim <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Tahar et al., and thanks Desiree for bringing this to the list. > > While what I will say is well understood by many in the community, it's > still helpful to keep in mind the dual role the RIPE NCC plays, and the > boundaries that are necessary for those roles to function effectively. > > The RIPE NCC has a responsibility to support and defend Internet > technical coordination: to explain how the Internet’s core works > technically, why open standards and neutral coordination and registration > of Internet Number Resources matter, and why global interoperability is a > prerequisite for innovation, competition, and sustainable development. This > includes engagement with IGOs, governments, and regulators across our > service, as well as institutions at EU and national level, and contributing > technical expertise and operational reality to policy discussions. > > For those who are interested, the positions and submissions the RIPE NCC > has made to UN, EU, and broader Internet governance processes are publicly > available on the RIPE NCC website. > > > https://www.ripe.net/community/internet-governance/multi-stakeholder-engagement/ripe-ncc-contributions-to-external-consultations/ > > At the same time, the RIPE NCC also serves as the secretariat to the RIPE > community. In that role, it does not act as a political actor or lobby on > behalf of the community. Instead, it enables bottom-up, community-led > processes, provides factual and technical input, and supports the outcomes > that the community itself develops through its Working Groups. > > On “Fair Share” specifically, we’ve seen a strong example of this > community-led approach already: this Working Group convened a small task > team (through an open call) that produced a substantive response to the > European Commission’s consultation (May 2023). That piece of work came > directly out of the WG, drawing on community expertise, and the RIPE NCC > supported the process in its secretariat role. > > > https://www.ripe.net/media/documents/RIPE_Cooperation_Working_Group_Small_Task_Team_response_to_the_European_Commis_V5kMzDp.pdf > > This is why I agree with Julf's point: this Working Group is precisely the > right place for the community to come together, assess policy developments > like “Fair Share”, and articulate shared concerns or principles grounded in > technical and operational realities. When the community develops a common > position, the RIPE NCC can fully support that work in its role as > secretariat including by helping ensure those perspectives are understood > in relevant policy forums. > > The RIPE NCC can also offer the co-chairs the option to organize open > houses or similar online sessions on these topics as an extension to the > discussion on the mailing list and at the RIPE meetings, should that be > useful for broadening participation and engagement across the community. > > https://www.ripe.net/meetings/open-house/ > > > Regards > > Hisham Ibrahim > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 at 12:47, Johan Helsingius via cooperation-wg < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 23/01/2026 10:11 pm, Tahar Schaa wrote: >> > I am firmly convinced that the RIPE NCC as an organization and the RIPE >> > community must finally become significantly more politically active and >> > engage in more lobbying, because the mechanisms are what they are. >> > >> > If you only concern yourself with IPv6 address allocation schemes, >> > routing policies, and open-source repositories with cool code (which I >> > much prefer), then you shouldn't be surprised when the EU Commission >> > ignores you as an organization and regularly makes terrible decisions. >> > >> > Someone has to go to those canapé receptions... >> >> Seems RIPE NCC needs to get better at promoting their work on >> interaction with the EU. They do go to some of those canapé >> receptions, and even organize some of their own, such as the >> annual Government Roundtable in Brussels, where the chairs >> of this WG also try to attend. >> >> But yes, this is very much what this WG is all about. >> >> Julf >> >> ----- >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription >> options, please visit: >> https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/cooperation-wg.ripe.net/ >> As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with >> the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. >> More details at: >> https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/ > > ----- > To unsubscribe from this mailing list or change your subscription options, > please visit: > https://mailman.ripe.net/mailman3/lists/cooperation-wg.ripe.net/ > As we have migrated to Mailman 3, you will need to create an account with > the email matching your subscription before you can change your settings. > More details at: https://www.ripe.net/membership/mail/mailman-3-migration/
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