Colleagues, We have two people who have put themselves forward as potential Chairs of the WG: Tobias Knecht Alireza Vaziri I have attached relevant documents. Alireza (CV attached) says: " On 2003 I stepped in the internet industry as a technical support of an ISP. It was around 2006 that I found my interest in networking and system engineering, so I went after a couple of vendor-specific certifications. I have worked with different ISPs and organizations as System/Network Administrator till 2016 that I went after information security. Back in those days, I found many ISPs in the middle east region are facing internet abuses, so botnets and DDoS caught my attention. I have talked on several conferences including RIPE and MENOG regarding the reduction of abuses in their network and currently helping LIRs to reduce their network abuses and protect themselves. Unfortunately, ISPs in my region are not aware of the problems that are making for others. I believe with the help of the community we could dramatically decrease the number of abuses by helping small LIRs to protect themselves." Tobias says: "Tobias Knecht is known globally within network abuse circles as an expert in developing rational and effective processes and tools designed to reduce with the goal to eliminate network abuse. In 2003, Tobias joined Schlund+Partner to establish United Internet's, also known as 1&1, first worldwide, multi-brand Abuse Department. From this experience, including building the team, processes, policy and technology Tobias got his start. Later at Habeas, Tobias continued to develop his understanding of eMail Policy and Abuse Handling from the different perspectives of each company he worked with. In 2008, with a passion to help others solve their network abuse issues, Tobias co-founded the Global Reporting Project, an effort to directly share abuse data between industry stakeholders. His work within this Project led to the founding of Abusix in 2009. Toby's excitement about how the world can become safer, and how to eliminate network abuse is contagious. He shares his enthusiasm about "clean networks" both in his role as the Founder & CEO of Abusix and Co-Chair of the maawg AbuseDesk Working Group. As a Co-Chair of the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Tobias worked on connecting different industry groups and exchanging ideas. I'm happy to keep being this important connection and help facilitating ideas between different communities if the RIPE community wishes me to." Please have a think about how you, as a WG, would like to proceed and we will discuss this at our session on Thursday (which is open to remote participation). If the WG cannot reach consensus at that point, then we will proceed to a vote. Thanks, Brian Brian Nisbet Network Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet@heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270