St. Louis REP Forum Meeting ???

Pete .....


We had a major planning meeting last night for the STL REP project.
As you already know, the STL project has several components
technology, relevant relationships ( enterprise, government and University )
and a business model to attract public connection. With
the relationship and business model being by far the most important
component to the success of the STL REP.

To cut a long story short, we would like to offer
St. Louis as a site for a REP Forum meeting.

We feel that all the normal REP Forum functions could be preformed
in St. Louis ( I think ) BUT we could offer something that would
not be available elsewhere. We could include a forum panel discussion
including government, enterprises and Universities as a
mechanism to help develop the business aspects and marketing
strategies for REP's.

Since we have spent the last year working with the regional STL business
interests
the business component of this REP forum panel would already be educated
and could provide valuable insight and relationship development
strategy to REP forum members.


Regards.....

Dave

www.stlrepstudy.org



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Kruckenberg" <[email protected]>
To: "Jere Retzer" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:00 AM
Subject: NANOG presentation


> I would like to submit a proposal for a talk at the next
> (June) NANOG. Topic would be overview of (North American)
> regional exchanges, the problems they face, how they are
> overcoming those problems, advantages of regional/local
> peering, and data on cost/bandwidth savings and performance
> metrics. I'm looking for other areas that might be
> interesting to address.
>
> I would be very interested in collaborating with you (and
> possibly other regional exchange operators) to put this
> together. The first step is to assemble an abstract and
> submit it to Merit. I will be working on this over the next
> couple of weeks.
>
> I would be happy to present, but wouldn't mind if someone
> else were more inclined to present. I think this should be
> presented on behalf of the REPforum with credit to the REPs
> who contribute to the presentation (and a cookie for the
> presenter).
>
> I'd also like to consider doing a regional peering BOF, as a
> follow-up to the talk (and where we'd give the talk if it
> doesn't get approved for the agenda). This might be a great
> opportunity to engage the NANOG community in a discussion.
>
> Let me know if you're interested in working with me on this.
>
> Pete.
>
>