Daniel Karrenberg Elected as Chair of ISOC's Board of Trustees

Dear Colleagues,

The RIPE NCC is pleased to announce that its Chief Scientist, Daniel 
Karrenberg, has been elected as the new Chair of the Internet Society’s 
(ISOC’s) Board of Trustees. Daniel was elected during ISOC’s Annual 
General Meeting (AGM) which was held recently in Marrakesh, Morocco.

"The Internet Society has much to contribute to the continued success of 
the Internet," said Daniel. "The diligent work of my predecessors, the 
Trustees and the staff has put the society in a very sound position. 
Building on this foundation we will intensify our work in the areas of 
public policy and education. We will ensure that the IETF has the 
administrative support it needs to continue its exemplary 
standardisation work. We will continue to build a healthy network of 
chapters for local activities close to the Internet users. All this will 
help us to realise our motto 'The Internet is for Everyone'".

Daniel is a pioneer member of ISOC and has been actively involved with 
the development of many of the society’s educational initiatives. He 
taught tutorials at early INET conferences, supported networking 
workshops and has written ISOC member briefings about Internet 
operations and coordination. In 2001 he was awarded the Jon Postel 
service award in recognition of two decades of extraordinary dedication 
to the development of networking in Europe and around the world. A 
regular IETF participant since 1992, Daniel has co-authored several RFCs.

We hope you will join the RIPE NCC in congratulating Daniel on his 
election and wishing him continued success with the important 
contributions he makes to ISOC’s work for the Internet community.

Regards,

Axel Pawlik
Managing Director
RIPE NCC