<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>To be very clear --<i> this is not an election</i>. While it's great to see the open and vocal support and we will certainly weigh this in decision-making, I want to make that clear. Discussion and providing rationale for your support for a given candidate (or otherwise) would be appreciated. </div><div><br></div><div>To clarify as well -- we are also looking for more than one additional co-chair. Three is the number that seems healthy and productive to me, but I'm open to suggestions from the community. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Meredith </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Schaa, Tahar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tahar.schaa@cassini.de" target="_blank">tahar.schaa@cassini.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">+1 Achilleas Kemos<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> cooperation-wg [mailto:<a href="mailto:cooperation-wg-bounces@ripe.net" target="_blank">cooperation-wg-bounces@ripe.net</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Meredith Whittaker<span class=""><br> <b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2016 11:48<br> </span><b>An:</b> Gordon Lennox <<a href="mailto:gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com</a>>; Collin Anderson <<a href="mailto:collina@gmail.com" target="_blank">collina@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:Achilleas.KEMOS@ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">Achilleas.KEMOS@ec.europa.eu</a>; Analia Aspis <<a href="mailto:analia.aspis@gmail.com" target="_blank">analia.aspis@gmail.com</a>>; Johan Helsingius <<a href="mailto:julf@julf.com" target="_blank">julf@julf.com</a>><br> <b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:cooperation-wg@ripe.net" target="_blank">cooperation-wg@ripe.net</a><br> <b>Betreff:</b> Re: [cooperation-wg] Chairs of this wg<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">Hello again, dear friends, <u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">First, thank you so much for the lively discussion during today's Coop-WG. I genuinely appreciate your enthusiasm and care for this important process. <u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">I have CCed all of the current candidates for co-chair here (I realize they are all also on the list, but as I hope many of you appreciate, I'm a fan of redundancy). To refresh your memory, these are: <u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"> <b>Achilleas Kemos</b> -- from the European Commission's DGConnect. He was present today and gave an overview of his work and his interest during the working group. <u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"> <b>Collin Anderson</b> -- Network Researcher and Internet Policy enthusist. He was also present today, and provided an overview. <u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> <b>Analina Aspis</b> -- Lawyer and Researcher at the <span style="font-size:9.5pt">Law Research Institute Ambrosio Gioja, specializing in ICT law. She was not present today, but you can read her overview posted in a previous Coop-WG thread </span><u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal"> <b><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Johan Helsingius</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> -- (tentative nominee, as above). I'm not sure of his background or interest, but I invite him to disclose this in an email here. </span><u></u><u></u></li></ul> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I invite those on this list to suggest other nominees, to ask questions and make comments to the current nominees, and to continue the lively discussion. </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">As I mentioned, <b>I will be receptive to suggestions and will work to distill the decisions of the community in a week's time</b>, disclosing such in an email to this list. If there are those here who feel strongly that we should extend the process beyond a week, please speak up here. I am sensitive to the need for discussion, and don't want to rush anything. That said, before the next meeting I need a co-chair. This is the responsible move on my part, to ensure I'm not a single point of failure in the case that I change jobs, have the flu during a meeting, etc.. </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Best, </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Meredith </span><u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Gordon Lennox <<a href="mailto:gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com" target="_blank">gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p> <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">The outreach bit has proved problematic in the past. I remember a group trying to talk to a MEP. The relationships that are not obvious to outsiders are not always obvious to insiders either!<u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand I appreciated the work of NCC in drafting a formal response, effectively on behalf of the WG, to a Commission proposal.<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">We need to talk more about this.The potential is there.<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:#888888">Gordon</span></span><u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">On 25 May 2016 at 17:05, Nick Hilliard <<a href="mailto:nick@inex.ie" target="_blank">nick@inex.ie</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p> <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br> there may be room for both here. The co-op WG has a mandate for outeach<br> outside the existing community, but the chair function needs to<br> understand what ripe/ripe ncc is and how it serves its community. This<br> is not always obvious to outsiders (e.g. "ripe ncc is not the police", etc).<u></u><u></u></p> </blockquote> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><br> <br clear="all"> <u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p> <div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Meredith Whittaker<br> Open Research Lead <br> Google NYC<br> <br> <br> <br> <u></u><u></u></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Meredith Whittaker<br>Open Research Lead <br>Google NYC<br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div> </div>