Public Policy and the RIPE Community

At the RIPE-52 meeting in Istanbul, Maria Häll and myself presented what we think Public Policy is and why governments should participate more in the RIPE Process. We also gave a Swedish perspective by listing some issues currently discussed in Sweden, and some statements made by the State Secretary last week of April. The statements included the following:

This vision of the user’s ubiquitous access requires convergence when looking at services, equipment and networks. The impression, though, is that this convergence process is slow, and is hindered by traditional business models.