Dear all, since it seems to be the fashionable thing to do I'm hereby nominating myself for the position of co-chair of the EIX working group. Statement and Bio below. Kind regards, Remco van Mook After attending about RIPE meetings and giving dozens presentations during those RIPE meetings, particularly at EIX, I'd like my involvement with the RIPE community a step further. I think EIX is one of the key attractions at RIPE meetings and has a vital function as a neutral platform where both IXes and their customers participate. It's not just about the mad rush of IXP update presentations, it's also about the technical challenges that the IXes face, the switch wish list, for users of IXes to stay informed and so on. Keeping all this organized requires actual work to be done. Working group chairs also have a responsibility in policy development that is time-consuming to do right. I'm willing to commit time to that and work with the other chairs to move EIX forward. And keep us away from bad timeslots at the meetings. Short bio Remco van Mook studied Business Information Technology at the University of Twente and started work for its University Computing Center as a networks and systems developer in the late 1990s. During that period, he was also member of the University Council, chairman of the university ISP and architect for then the fastest consumer Internet access network in the world, CampusNET 2. In 1999, he was the co-author of 2 business plans; NDIX and Virtu. Remco was CTO of NDIX (Nederlands Duitse Internet Exchange), responsible for architecture and technical strategy from 2000 until 2009. NDIX was the first Internet Exchange spanning across an international border, with the intention to draw more networks to the area promoting regional development. NDIX has evolved into an exchange platform connecting a great diversity of companies across a multitude of cities in the East of the Netherlands and the states of Nordrhein/ Westfalen and Niedersachsen in Germany. Remco was founder and co-MD of Virtu, a datacenter company in the Netherlands. After being taken over by Equinix in 2008, Remco was country manager for the Netherlands during 2008 and now works on European business development for Equinix, with a focus on peering and networks. Remco is an active contributor to the European Association of Internet Exchanges, EURO-IX, involving himself mostly with network design challenges, the European datacenter market and regulatory affairs. He is co-author of RFC 5452, to upgrade the security of current DNS (non- DNSSEC) implementations against Kaminsky-style attacks. Remco is also co-author of the widely used prank-RFC 2322, likes to design and build large open-air networks (among which were HAL2001 and the Lowlands Festival) and is a co-author of the Linux Advanced Routing Howto. Other past sins include SMB2WWW, a web front-end for SMB-based networks and HIP Radio, probably the worlds first MP3 network streaming software, late 1996. Remco is a regular speaker at conferences and RIPE meetings and advisor to various government organizations on Internet related affairs.