I really regret I couldn't be physically present this morning, but it appears there was a fair bit of good discussion. On 26-05-16 11:47, Meredith Whittaker wrote:
* *Johan Helsingius* -- (tentative nominee, as above). I'm not sure of his background or interest, but I invite him to disclose this in an email here.
"Sic transit gloria mundi"... :) I guess there is poetic justice that having at one point (when IP packets were still conveyed by pterodactyls) been the largest provider of anonymity on the net (some of you might remember me as julf@anon.penet.fi), I have now managed to achieve anonymity among the younger generation of the RIPE community. As for my background, I started out, as so many of the pillars of our community, as part of the "EUnet Mafia", running the email/usenet backbone for Finland in the 80's, dealing with the regulatory issues around the ITU model and telecom monopolies. My pro-privacy and pro-free-speech projects got me the EFF Pioneer Award, but also got my picture on the front page of The Observer, with the lovely caption "The Peddlars of Child Porn on the Internet". As you can imagine, that led to a fairly strong involvement in content regulation policy issues, and also my involvement as an early board member in Bits of Freedom. As one of the original cypherpunks, I also did my own small part in the Crypto Wars. I do confess to having had a role in getting the Soviet Union connected to the Net, but you will have to pry me with copious amounts of vodka if you want to hear any juicy details. On the downside, I have spent far too much of my life in the corporate world - after having been part of putting together the first pan-European ISP, I ended up as CTO and EVP of the ill-fated carrier and IP services operator KPNQwest. Having realized I am not very compatible with corporate structure and hierarchy, I have since been involved with smaller technology companies. I spent a number of years as the chairman of the board of IoT device manufacturer Viola Systems (now part of ABB), and having been a board member for a long time, I just got appointed chairman of the board for IoT services provider BaseN. I am currently the Nomcom appointee in the Non-Contracted Parties House of the ICANN GNSO Council. Oh, and just for completeness, I am a Swedish-speaking Finn (*not* from the Åland Islands), but I have been living in Amsterdam since 1997. As to my view of the role of a co-chair for this WG, I think RIPE-542, as posted by Hans Petter, sums it up pretty well. Will try to participate in the discussion and answer any questions, but will be on the road with sporadic connectivity until Monday evening. Julf