[iot-wg] Peter Steinhaeuser for co-chair

Hi,

I support Peter's candidacy for working group co-chair.

With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,

Ad Bresser


On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 13:02, Peter Steinhäuser <ps at embedd.com> 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*
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