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April 25, 2005
Invitation to Blog: "Peripheral Visionaries' IP-Based Communications Policy Summit" in DC on May 4
Fellow members of the Blogsphere:
I wanted to encourage some of you to come to the "Peripheral Visionaries' IP-Based Communications Policy Summit" in DC on May 4. I'm growing increasingly more concerned that decisions about the future of the Internet and IP-based communications (that is to say, our collective future) are being made by policymakers without enough insight about what is going on outside the Beltway. We, however, will have no one to blame but ourselves if we do not step up and make every effort to participate in the policy debate. For this reason, I'm hosting the "Peripheral Visionaries' Policy Summit". The Summit is an effort to bring some outside-the-sandbox thinking to the inside-the-Beltway policy debate and to allow the technologists and policymakers to share their distinct perspectives. It is essential that the policymakers get a glimpse of the potential that IP technology has to transform the ways in which we communicate, well beyond simply the voice application that rides on an IP network. Frankly, it is also essential for all of us to get a better education on the ways of government and policy development.
We'll have representatives from all the major DC-based trade associations involved on all sides of the communications and Internet policy debates (so the inside-the-beltway policy makers and advocates will be well represented). We need a few more outside-the-Beltway technologists, innovators, thinkers and visionaries like you all to lend your voices at the Summit.
We've tried to bring the policymakers to us, but not enough leave the Beltway. So, we are coming to them.
The policymakers hold their Summits and not enough of us attend. We hold our Summits and not enough of them attend. I fear we're all, on both sides, just a bunch of trees falling in the forest with only ourselves to hear it. They need to hear from us, and, equally, we need to hear from them. Please consider joining us on May 4. It should be mutually edifying and, frankly, a lot of fun.
If you would like to blog the event, please drop me a line.
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Posted by jeff on April 25, 2005 09:39 AM | Permalink
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Comments
Jeff, this is a nice idea, and I'd love to take you up on it but unfortnately this event conflicts with Networld+Interop where I'm teaching a SIP workshop that day.
Best of luck with the event, I'm looking forward to a future opportunity to meet up with you.
Posted by: Irwin Lazar at April 25, 2005 11:54 AM