Nominees

The decision as to who will fill one seat on the NRO NC will be made at RIPE 85, which takes place from 24-28 October 2022.

Name of nominee:
James Kennedy

Nominee's country of residence:
The Netherlands

Nominee's organisation or employer:
Amazon Web Services

Nominee's email address:
jameskennedy001 [at] gmail [dot] com

Name of nominating individual:
Hervé Clément

Biography
James has been active in the RIPE community since 2009. His participation in the RIPE policy-making process has included authoring the published RIPE address policy 2015-02, regular contributions on the Address Policy mailing list, and he was a member of the RIPE Database Requirements Task Force. James holds a deep understanding of, and appreciation for, the RIR community-driven, consensus-based, decision making model. Currently James co-chairs the Address Policy Working Group, and sits on the NRO NC/ASO AC.

Internet number resource management has been the primary focus of James’ professional life for over 13 years while working for the RIPE NCC, Liberty Global, and AWS.

Motivation
Over the past 1.5 years, I have really enjoyed being a member of the NRO NC/ASO AC. It would be my pleasure to carry out a full term from January 2023.

• From my experience with the NRO NC/ASO AC, I have learned a great deal about what is required to be a valuable member of the council.
• I possess a strong understanding of RIR policy issues on a global and regional level, and I have connections with a wide range of technical and policy experts in the community.
• Additionally, I offer thorough knowledge of the RIR system, and the ICANN organization and community.
• I am part of a task force that is currently busy reviewing the ASO AC Operating Procedures. I would love to help the council complete this, and other, important and challenging tasks to the best of my ability.
• I can commit to attend all upcoming RIPE meetings, and meet all NRO NC/ASO AC duties including attending select ICANN meetings in-person. You can approach me to talk about any topic, or indeed online by email. I am very open and transparent. 

Name of nominee:
El'ad

Nominee's country of residence:
Israel

Nominee's organisation or employer:
Netstyle A. Ltd

Nominee's email address:
[email protected]

Motivation for nomination:
Coming up with new ideas in the platform of NRO, that will serve the RIR's, RIR's members and the end-users.

Name of nominating individual:
El'ad (self nomination)

Nominator's organisation or employer:
Netstyle A. Ltd

Biography
I like anything technical in the Internet, from programming web crawlers to reverse engineer encrypted codes. I have extensive experience in programming and software design in different programming languages since 1998 when I started with HTML. I would love to participate and to contribute from my technical experience (I love to dive into anything technical in the Internet) to any governing Internet authority.

Motivation
Personally, I didn't like the letter sent by NRO to the government of Mauritius and if I will be elected I will be against such actions. In general I support the Internet being apolitical, not being influenced by any country, secured and private, in the limits of acceptable statutory law. Besides it, I also support creating a global Internet privacy-standard (based on EU GDPR) that any company in the world (including: Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) will have to comply with (instead of aggregating users data and selling it). I also support creating a mechanism with sanctions (if needed) against tech giants (such as: Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc) that by law need to comply with GDPR requests and are not doing so.

I hope to have your vote, thank you. 

Feel free to email to me at: [email protected]