nanog is a separable game. it is currently very confused between form and substance, making committees for everything. like the bcop thing. two organizations, nanog and isoc, forming organizational structures to create a document store. the ops' doc store is ripe's because the ripe wgs produced work and someone realized they needed a place to stash it. so now nanog and isoc need to flag-plant. the up-side is that it's a great b-ark, keeps them from doing damage.
And I would welcome discussion of how ARIN (and nanog) can be more like RIPE
i purposefully phrased it a bit differently, how can arin engage, get real participation from, and serve its community, the operators. i was stealing examples from ripe. but, for concrete action, how about a half day session at the next nanog meeting on, for example, arin database services, whois and irr. not to try to reach hard conclusions or plans. but to open a dialog to explore what the community gets and wants from these services and how they are provided. or pick another key service. randy