[iot-wg] [iPeter Steinhaeuser] for co-chair

Dear collegues,

first of all I want to thank Sandoch for his great work as a co-chair for this working group! It’s been a pleasure working with  Sandoche in the recent years and I also greatly appreachiate his work also in the team creating the RIPE IoT BCOP document helping it towards pubication..

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 compromised IoT devices will have on the internet's infrastructure. On of my goals 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. The RIPE-IoT BCOP document is a first result of the  activities of vary talented members of this WG I had the pleasure to work together very closely.

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.

With the upcoming support of IP for IoT connectivity - i.e. the thread protcol - I think this WG can work more closely with the other RIPE WGs as well.

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 & Telcom Infrastructure Project - TIP) 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 as well as in the TIP project where we contribute technology and solutions to the open coverge wireless WG.

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 and would appreaciate you supporting me as a co-chait for this working group.

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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