Running it here would solve the problem of having a biased forum administration, but we would need a posting-restricted subforum only for designated delegates, and/or some very active mod work to keep it from turning into a (pardon me, Ballotonia) Free4All. I could imagine it mushrooming very quickly into a fully functional interregional body that would need either an off-site forum or a permanent home here where it wouldn't take over the whole of the Gameplay forum. We're not talking just about a summit, after all, but about the appeals, investigation, and enforcement aspect that would follow. We'd need a charter or constitution, a place to hear appeals, a military cooperation center, and an Intel division... the last two of which could almost certainly not be hosted here.
I think a first summit could be run on the shiny new forum, and then have subsequent meetings in another forum as the adminstration becomes more defined?
I'm not prepared to anoint defenders as amateur moderators. Which is why we're having this discussion about the motivation of defenders. There's no role for defenders if all they want to do is be mods.
There must be a gap between what the game allows and what defenders consider "right." If there isn't, everyone in the game is either a defender or a griefer. There would be no way to conduct any kind of invasion that might interest a defender, except to break the game rules, in which case you risk having your account deleted. And there would be no real need for defenders to do anything even then, because mods could handle it more effectively anyway.
I don't see anyway forward if the only acceptable solution for defenders is to outlaw invasions.
The reason why I suggested that such a summit would need mod/code support is because of the possible changes that could come out of the meeting. However I think the concept of the summit has changed which the progress of the forums (or I read it wrong at 3o' clock in the morning or when ever ). This would be an offical summit that the rules for raiding/ defending, liberating, hawking - whatever, could be established concretely to give meaning again to defenders - because isn't that one of the main points to this essay, that defenders have lost their meaning with the advent of regional influence.
With defenders moralized and ready to go, the see-saw momentum between defenders and raiders should be put back into motion. No mod enforced would be needed.