[menog] MENOG directory???

[MarcoH - lists]

Hi Steve, Arash,

Not to be seen as an official RIPE NCC statement, but let me clarify to what happened here.

The Persian IGF is just starting up as another regional IGF. It is similar to ArabIGF, but it aims to include the wider Farsi speaking community. While there might be some geographical overlap, there is a distinct difference.

As with all IGFs it is an open initiative to which participation is not restricted/limited, but at the same time to main goal of these regional and local fora is to bring together people from a specific region to increase participation, discuss what is going on on both naional, regional and global level, making sure that this voice is relayed towards the global discussions where necessary.

The PersianIGF like others has its owm maiing list, website and discussion fora and as a they are starting up need to do some outreach. MENOG includes Iran and as such there might be people from the technical community on this list that take interest in this initiative and would like to follow up.

And that is what happened here, there is no list merger or anything else, just an announcement of some initiative taking place that might be of interest to some of the member of the MENOG community. It is in the nature of lists like this that these announcements get send, in the past other initiatives and organisations have taken the same route to get some attention for what they were planning for.

And personally I see this as conforming that MENOG is indeed the place to get to if you want to reach the operational community in the Middle East and as such does what it was setup to do. It might not be relevant to everybody on this list, but hardly any topic will always ever be as interesting to individual members. Just as not everybody has an equal interest in DNS and routing topics. 

Marco
(disclaimer: my views alone)

On 22 Apr 2014, at 12:58, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>  I had this also. 
> 
> Could someone clarify what the affiliation to MENOG and RIPE is and what the function is? I assume there is some difference from Arab IGF needing a separate Persian IGF? (The website suggests the focus only covers Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
> 
> thanks
> Steve
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> On 22 April 2014 07:47, Arash Naderpour <arash_mpc at parsun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Got below email from “IGF Secretariat” asking me to contact Menog directory for more clarification (I requested them to unsubscribe me from their list as I have no interest on it).
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> Not sure what is it all about, but I enjoy following the MENOG mailing list but I’m not interested in other lists at the moment. Does anyone knows if we can manage it?
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> Thanks,
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> Arash
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> From: IGF Secretariat [mailto:secretariat at persianigf.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 5:22 PM
> To: 'Arash Naderpour'
> Subject: RE: [menog] اعلامیه: MAG پارسی زبانان آغاز بررسی اولیه و ارسال پروپوزال (گروه های ذینفع – دولتها)/Announcement: Persian MAG Initial Screening and Application Submission
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> Dear Mr. Naderpour,
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> Good morning,
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> The Persian IGF secretariat is sending the email announcements to the mailing list of Menog, your email address is found in the Menog mailing List.
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> If you wish to unsubscribe or you need more clarifications please contact the Menog directory.
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> Sorry for the inconvenient.
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> Best Regards,
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