Well this thread is a party.
Yes, I am here on this forum as a mostly official Keysight rep. My day-to-day job isn't this, but it does fall into the larger role that I've built for myself. It was not a corporate "initiative" or anything like that, but it's something that I recognize as important. I've had the very unique opportunity to essentially define my day job at Keysight, and things like my presence here and the Keysight Labs YouTube channel have gotten folded into that. I have full support and can make official statements here, but also try to cut the corporate nonsense and give unofficial advice as needed.
That being said.
There are areas I'm not going to touch and will stick to the official statements that the powers-that-be have given me. I do this because I like my job and want to be able to keep this up. A lot of people have reached out to me through this forum and we've been able to help them out when they'd otherwise have been stuck or had a situation being handled in a way that I would consider not HPAK-level support. Those types of cases are somewhat inevitable in a business this large, and I want to help catch things that fall through the cracks. I say this not because I want to brag, but because I want to keep this thing going.
other comments: I am US based but my role and scope is global, believe me when I say that...uh... I hear all sorts of things from all over the place.
Regarding the Europe/VAT ID/non-business concerns, that's an area that I unfortunately can't help or circumvent/shortcut around the official channels/statements. If I could I would 100% have done it already.