[iot-wg] Peter Steinhaeuser for co-chair

Peter,

I think you'd make a great chair!

Eliot

On 22.04.20 13:02, Peter Steinhäuser wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am resending my application since I - shame on me - did not follow
> the recommendation of Jim to start a new e-mail thread with my
> application - as stated below I’m still learning but I’m eager to ;) 
>
> First of all I want to thank Jim for his great work for this working
> group and his years commitment as a working group chair!
>
> For the designation of a new working group co-chair I put my hat
> (again) into the ring.
>
> I'm seriously concerned about the impact malicious IoT devices will
> have on the internet's infrastructure. My goal in the working group is
> defining best practices and standards about how can be best dealt with
> IoT devices pro-actively to keep the attacks that are already onging
> and will come to happen under control. Besides that I want to work on
> providing players from the IoT industry with better practices and - if
> possible - technical solutions while working with regulators to create
> better standards that help providing security and privacy.
>
> Coming from a home gateway/personal router/CPE background (DD-WRT /
> OpenWRT) such devices are for me potential gatekeepers that can play
> an important role in securing millions home small networks. Also ISP's
> should be brought on board, it's in their sole interest as well. To
> have an effect we need to try to gain a maximum traction in the industry.
>
> There are already activities (SPIN / IETF home gateway WG, etc.) in
> this field. As a working group chair I would focus working on
> connecting the ongoing activities to form technical standards and
> reference implementations for easy adoption by the industry. I would
> also work on advocating those to industry players (i.e. via Broadband
> Forum & prpl Foundation) to get broader support for these activities
> as well. In my role as project manager for the open source projects in
> the prpl Foundation I also work on selecting security related
> technologies for adoption / funding by the prpl Foundation and it's
> members.
>
> Being a RIPE member since years and becoming more and more familiar
> with the works of standardization organizations I am eager to learn
> more about the proceedings and how to better support the
> RIPE-community and other standardization organizations.
>
> It would be my pleasure to work closer with all of you for the better
> of the internet.
>
> Sincerly,
> Peter Steinhaeuser
> *Peter Steinhäuser, CEO*
> embeDD GmbH · Alter Postplatz 2 · 6370 Stans · Switzerland
> Phone: +41 (41) 784 95 85 · Fax: +41 (41) 784 95 64
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