Hi, folks As announced by Fearghas yesterday, there is a co-chair vacancy within the working group created by Mike standing down in Dubai. I would like to stand for this role and am looking for your support in tomorrow's election. Address ------- I work with LONAP, an established and successful not-for-profit internet exchange in London, and I am involved in seeding community peering projects within other regions of the UK. I support knowledge-sharing between IXPs worldwide, at forums like RIPE and Euro-IX, and believe that open discussion at such forums helps to create stable internet exchanges and therefore a reliable experience for our users. I am also a peering@ coordinator for around 20 networks, which gives me a broad insight into the operations of a number of different exchanges, and ability to understand and discuss their important technical and commercial issues. As a big supporter of RIPE core principles of co-operation and bottom- up policy making, I have been a keen follower of and contributor to policy development for several years. As the working group chairs now have a role in the PDP, they must remain in touch with current policy issues. As I already participate in policy making discussions, this doesn't impose any additional workload on me as part of being a working group chair. Andy