Will RIPE be preparing a submission on the IP community's take on the Commission's policy approach?
Given RIPE NCC covers a larger geographical and political and technical community than the EU Commission. ? Romain Bosc <[email protected]> writes: > 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/ > > ----- > 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/ -- Christian de Larrinaga ----- 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. 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