[iot-wg] Constanze Dietrich for co-chair

I worked with Constanze on the Rotterdam IoT Hackathon. This was 
productive.

Support from my side!


cheers
  matthias


On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Constanze Dietrich wrote:

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> Hi everyone!
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> It’s nice to see the support for Peter as I think he’s a well eligible candidate and I
> agree with his approach on many levels. That said, I’d like to provide another option by
> venturing to nominate myself!
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> TL;DR: [Jump to the last paragraph!    -->]
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> Now mostly remembered for my comics, I was introduced to the RIPE community at RIPE 74 as
> part of the RACI program and spoke about my master studies on human factors as security
> risks in IT operations. Later that year, I was invited to talk at the first RIPE IoT
> Roundtable Meeting in Leeds where I got to discuss the implications of my studies for the
> IoT, as well as the implications of rapidly and diversely spreading IoT technologies for
> the RIPE NCC – the latter of which shortly after has been moved to its own working group!
> :)
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> Meanwhile, I work for an IT management consultancy and have not seen a single strategy
> paper without IoT as a focus topic. Having a considerable number of clients in the energy
> sector, all of them urged onto the trail of “smart everything”, I’m well and truly
> concerned about the various approaches they take as, one or two steps further, the
> security impact on critical infrastructures even beyond the Internet could be disastrous.
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> We do indeed need best practices and standards, which is why such endeavours will, by all
> means, get my full support. Thereby though, we should not forget that, despite existing
> standards, the IoT is still a huge playground and will continue to be for the foreseeable
> future. “Internet all the things!”, whether or not there’s a quality seal attached.
> Hence, to date and from my point of view as someone who studies more service contracts
> than she’d like, I also see a very high value in creating governance concepts for IoT
> networks. The role of ISPs in this, e.g. as a kill switch, has been discussed before, and
> we should develop a position on responsibilities and liability within (and outside) those
> infrastructures.
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> [-->]       My specific fields of interests aside, my main goal as a co-chair is to
> enable the members of the working group to get into an active exchange – be it by
> co-organising another IoT hackathon and presenting the results in the IoT session which
> has been (a lot of work but also) a huge pleasure for me before and during RIPE 79, by
> documenting and communicating topics of the WG (with or without comics), or by providing
> the enterprise perspective and a link to a variety of industries that employ IoT
> technologies. We’re a comparatively new and still somewhat inactive working group and I’d
> like to change that.
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> Cheers from Berlin!
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> ~ Constanze
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-- 
Matthias Waehlisch
.  Freie Universitaet Berlin, Computer Science
.. http://www.cs.fu-berlin.de/~waehl