<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear MAT WG,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the time has come to make my “Chair” vacant and bring some fresh blood into the MAT WG:-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you might remember I am one of original three MAT WG CoChairs since the MAT was rechartered out of the original Test Traffic WG at RIPE60 in Prague. Originally I was chairing together with Ian Meikle and Richard Barnes which left over the years and where eventually succeeded by Nina Bargisen.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">(Job description for interested Candidates:-))</div><div class="">I have done the job now for 7,5 years prepared the session, chaired the session, answered emails, welcomed new attendees at RIPE Meetings, represented the WG at ENOG and sometimes other conferences, had countless conversation with Daniel, Robert, Kaveh and of course Vesna about RIPE Atlas and the Anchors and about further and future collaboration. Attended RIPE Hackathons.</div></div><div class="">Participated in the PDP review and in the WG collective as your representative, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These are all tasks a MAT WG CoChair does do to one or the other degree,</div><div class="">and which you should be interested in if you apply for it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the last years we came up with an election process which was approved by you and used when we elected Nina and which I want to use now for replacing me.</div><div class="">We will go through the process as described below and ideally present the new WG CoChair at the next WG Session in Dubai.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After the Dubai Meeting I will then officially step down.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The process:</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">1. A call for interested parties is made on the WG mailing list at three yearly intervals, or as needed<br class="">2. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known via the mailing list<br class="">3. The MAT-WG chairs issue a call for discussion as per normal. WG members express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates.<br class="">4. After two weeks the chairs declare consensus as they would do for a policy proposal<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="">As a remainder our Charter and Website can be found at:<br class=""><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/mat" class="">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/mat</a><br class=""><br class="">and the official Job description at:<br class=""><a href="https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-542" class="">https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-542</a><br class=""><br class="">Please feel free to nominate yourself if you are interested or shanghai others ( with their approval:-)) till the 11th September.<br class=""><br class="">Thx a lot and it was a pleasure to serve you.<br class=""><br class="">Christian Kaufmann<br class="">MAT WG Co-Chair</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS: I want to thank the RIPE NCC for their support over all the years, without them there would be no MAT WG, especially Mark Dranse who inspired me to start this journey, Daniel for starting RIPE Atlas and his vision, Rob B. for his wisdom as RIPE Chair, Robert and Kaveh for their never ending support and input, Vesna for her spirit and energy and for bringing so many people together, Amanda for the minutes and Hans Petter for doing an excellent job as a WG Chair Dompteur. </div><div class="">And last but not least Nina for continuing the WG and her support in the last years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>