Dear Christian,

> On 28. Aug 2017, at 12:37, ckaufman <ck@akamai.com> wrote:
>
> the time has come to make my “Chair” vacant and bring some fresh blood into
> the MAT WG:-) As you might remember I am one of original three MAT WG CoChairs
> since the MAT was rechartered out of the original Test Traffic WG at RIPE60 in
> Prague. Originally I was chairing together with Ian Meikle and Richard Barnes
> which left over the years and where eventually succeeded by Nina Bargisen.
> (Job description for interested Candidates:-)) I have done the job now for 7,5
> years prepared the session, chaired the session, answered emails, welcomed new
> attendees at RIPE Meetings, represented the WG at ENOG and sometimes other
> conferences, had countless conversation with Daniel, Robert, Kaveh and of
> course Vesna about RIPE Atlas and the Anchors and about further and future
> collaboration. Attended RIPE Hackathons.  Participated in the PDP review and
> in the WG collective as your representative, etc.  These are all tasks a MAT
> WG CoChair does do to one or the other degree, and which you should be
> interested in if you apply for it.  In the last years we came up with an
> election process which was approved by you and used when we elected Nina and
> which I want to use now for replacing me.  We will go through the process as
> described below and ideally present the new WG CoChair at the next WG Session
> in Dubai.  After the Dubai Meeting I will then officially step down.

Thank you so much for your service for so many years and for
personally being an incredible mentor at RIPE events.

-- Vaibhav

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Vaibhav Bajpai
www.vaibhavbajpai.com

Postdoctoral Researcher
TU Munich, Germany
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