Colleagues, After the events of RIPE 61 I announced that it was my intention to have a new co-chair in place at or by RIPE 62 in Amsterdam this coming May. After the comments at that meeting and the emails I sent out in the interim, one person has put themselves forward. I believe this person to be eminently suitable for the position and so I would like to present him to the working group for your consideration. As there is one position and one candidate it is a matter of simple consensus. My intention is to give a period of two weeks on the list for any comments to be sent (either to the list or to me personally) and then to devote a short amount of time to this at our WG session in Amsterdam. However assuming there is no notable objection on the mailing list this should be a very small amount of time indeed. Anyway, that's a lot of preamble, the candidate to take up the position of Co-Chair of the RIPE Anti-Abuse WG is Tobias Knecht from Abusix. Many of you will already know Tobias and I believe that his knowledge of and connections to the anti-abuse community will be extremely useful in progressing the work of the AA-WG. If you have any questions for Tobias (or for me, obviously) then, as I said, please email them either directly to us or to the list. Thanks, Brian. Chair, RIPE Anti-Abuse WG