* Sorry to take anyone's valuable time, but I think this is necessary. Hello Elad, Please read my email carefully I would be very happy if you can answer my questions, this way it would be much clear for everyone in the list to understand, what you are trying to achieve. 1) VERY Important, I am not attacking you. I am going to ask questions to learn more about your idea and yourself. 2) I don't support any candidate so I am not voting for anyone else or you. So; don't tell me that I will support someone else, thus I am asking you questions. 3) I don't have a hidden agenda about IP V4 or V6, and I personally don't sell them. Let's start with questions; I will share your answers with my friends who work in the network field. We have a small group of 40 people and our total experince in routing is 650 years. - You have an idea, OK. 1) Did you make any research about to implement your idea, in regards to economics, and adaptation rates around the globe? 2) Do you personally or worked with a team of people who designed the chips on the routers or the software runs on them, I want to learn this very much, maybe you have designed a software which we don't know, that is running currently and you want to improve it. 3) Do you personally own or work with a team of people who have patents for the current protocols including the ones you mention and try to improve? 4) Do you have a team to implement your idea work together, if yes please share their names with details on a website, so we could understand how good you structure your team to make your ideas true? 5) Do you or your "maybe" existing team know how routers work, if you wish we can choose cisco, juniper, extreme, brocade anything you wish, I want to learn did you studied about their current working software setup dealing with BGP and how they manage the traffic and do you have a blueprint of the changes that you want to be implemented in regards to packet processing and cam/fib tables? 6) Did you contact any vendor about your idea before implementing your changes to their equipment via hardware or software solution? 7) If you contacted them what kind of replies did you get? ( You tell us nobody understands your idea, maybe they understand, so I want to learn) or did they attack you also? 8) Did you ever worked in a network ecosystem with more than 5+ BGP peers and also 100G + network traffic before, if yes could you please explain me how does your idea fit with the ack of the source in this amount of traffic, you can calculate the number of packets per seconds yourself if you know. 9) How do you plan to run the backend do you have any kind of blueprint, design or project about that, let us see that also? It can be just your notes, can you give an URL that we can read about it? 10) Do you have a working model of this "idea" in any kind of test lab you have or rented that works on software-based routing devices? Virtual Routers? What are the results you get there? Any information on this? I am asking all these questions to you to learn more about you and your project. My notes for you; - You don't need to be a ripe chair if you want to change the world in regards to networking to a better place, you don't need titles Elad, you just need really good ideas that people respect and which you could provide with more detailed information. - Also please don't tell everyone is attacking you, if you think they are, why you are saying this" they are attacking me because of"; instead fight with your ideas, bright thoughts, what you bring on the table? But also please don't forget that, as a leader or a chair, whatever you call, you must; - Respect people, if they agree or disagree with you; - Listen and understand why they are reacting to you that way; - Always try to be co-operative, and you may answer them like this, "I respect your answer but we don't agree on this topic." This is better than writing "They are attacking me 100x times" If you want to be successful in your campaign, you must not do it over member's forum, you can lunch a website, do it over twitter, create a blog, or what you think fits you; fill it with content, and share as much as possible information. Please let us know you and your ideas more. If we have questions about it we could ask it over there, don't take people's valuable time with these arguments. Respecting your community must be your rule number one if you plan to lead them. Don't worry, If people have an interest in your ideas they will contact you. As I told you while starting this email, I am not attacking you, just trying to know more about yourself and your idea. IF; You answer this email with; 1) You are attacking me. 2) I don't have to provide any detailed information about my idea. 3) I don't have to respect anyone and will just answer like before. 4) I don't need to explain anything you will see how I achive them when I am the chair of RIPE. Sorry, but as lots of people do I will choose not to answer you back again. Please think 2-3 times and then answer. Show us that why we must vote for you because of your intelligence, personality, interpersonal skills, leadership and also way you communicate with your community? Regards, Ali.