Re: Re: St. Louis REP Forum Meeting ???

Pete .....


What is the date for the fall NANOG ??

If we had the fall NANOG in St. Louis then we could
do the "enhanced " REP Forum meeting here too.

Regards....

Dave

www.stlrepstudy.org



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Kruckenberg" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:26 PM
Subject: [REPforum] 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.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> 
>