<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear colleagues and members</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have received a lot of interest from the community regarding our January open call to form a Small Task Team.</div><div class="">The STT will work on a Coop WG community response to then pending EC consultation on the future of digital infrastructure in Europe.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The European Commission consultation has been published last week:</div></div><div class=""><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-communications-sector-and-its-infrastructure" class="">https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-communications-sector-and-its-infrastructure</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While this it is in no way a small task, we would like to thank the following RIPE community volunteers for stepping forward: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Carsten Schiefner</div><div class="">Alex de Joode</div><div class="">Patrik Fältström</div><div class="">Frode Sørensen</div><div class="">Thomas Lohninger</div><div class="">Konstantinos Komaitis </div><div class="">Christian de Larrinaga</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bastiaan Goslings, from RIPE NCC, will be providing necessary staff support for the Small Task Team work to be organised.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We plan to share our draft response prior to its submission and we hope to have time allocated at the RIPE86 meeting Coop WG to discuss it further.</div><div class="">Please send any suggestions of comments you may have to this list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Desiree, Julf and Achilleas</div><div class="">—</div><div class="">RIPE Coop WG Co-Chairs</div></body></html>