Re: St. Louis REP Forum Meeting ???

This is really great, Dave. Thanks for offering to host a
REPforum meeting.

There are a few people interested in meeting at or after
NANOG in June, because they are already planning to attend
NANOG.

Would St. Louis be a better place to meet instead of NANOG,
or might St. Louis be a good place to meet sometime after
June? Maybe St. Louis could host the fall NANOG, and we
could combine REPforum with that ;)

Do REP operators have budget to allocate to attending
REPforum meetings?

Pete.

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, NetLabs wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
>