[iot-wg] Candidate David Schweizer

Dear colleagues,

As a candidate in the upcoming IoT working group co-chair election, I 
would like to introduce myself to the subscribers of this mailing list.

After gaining some experience with the challenges of deploying and 
maintaining connected devices from a variety of vendors at a previous 
employer's logistics warehouses, I kept an interest in all sorts of IoT 
appliances and the risks they pose to both the privacy and security of 
their users.

My current day to day job at an open source software company has given 
me a lot of insight in how a majority of hardware vendors treat their 
products firmware upgrade path after its initial release and how 
collected user data is used and sold to brokers on a growing global market.

Not having missed a meeting since getting involved in the RIPE community 
in 2020, I decided to step up and volunteer for the position of working 
group co-chair. I believe that my technical know how and implicit 
distrust in commercially available products can be of service to this 
community when applied in a position of IoT working group co-chair.

If elected, I promise to try my best to advocate for stringent 
regulations to be put on manufacturers and importers of this class of 
products to uphold device security, personal data protection and rights 
to privacy of end users inside of networks in the RIPE region.

Please consider giving me your vote in tomorrow's election. If you have 
any questions you would like me to answer do not hesitate to contact me 
on this mailing list or to talk to me in person in the hallways of the 
meeting venue.

Kind regards,

David Schweizer

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