<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Euro-IX is one obvious place to ask your main question.<div><br></div><div>Anyway while I too believe that it would be worthwhile to engage with European institutions I much less clear on whether they want to engage with the WG. </div><div><br></div><div>Who do you and the other co-chairs plan to invite to Warsaw?</div><div><br></div><div>Your point about "assured service quality"? Oh dear... Some folk are indeed getting desperate.</div><div><br></div><div>Gordon<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 9 Dec, 2013, at 13:21, Alain Van Gaever <<a href="mailto:avangaev@gmail.com">avangaev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I believe it is worthwhile to engage with the European
Institutions to provide expertise on IP Interconnection. (see also background below). Who would be the technical experts available to explain to a
non-tech audience the technical & business model of Internet Exchange
Points, including on how the European model differs from the US one?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also there seems to be a concern that the lack of �assured
service quality� on IP interconnections might actually prevent the introduction
of pan-European health services and video-conferencing. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u>Background:</u><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The European Commission has proposed a new regulation for
the European Telecoms market. This proposal is of interest to those dealing
with IP Interconnection, as an article is proposed regarding IP Interconnection
with Assured Service Quality (ASQ)).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Following this proposal the ITRE committee in the European
Parliament dealing with this proposed new regulation has issued a draft report
in which it proposes to delete this article regarding IP interconnection AND mentions
<i>�Regarding
the proposals on wholesale access products and ASQs, after carefully
considering stakeholder views, the Rapporteur addresses these issues by
requiring the Commission to conduct a comprehensive consultation and present
proposals in the review of the entire framework. � </i></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Draft report (MEP Del Castillo) on the Single Market
Regulation can be found on: <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/draft-reports.html#menuzone">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/draft-reports.html#menuzone</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Note also tthat today (9 Dec) in Strassbourg the ITRE
Committee in the European Parliament is discussing the Single Market /
Connected Continent regulation. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Alain</p></div>
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