Dear colleagues, Some of you may have missed Falk's message (below), sent just after Easter. It would be great to have a few more suggestions or nominations for the Award Committee for the 2023 Rob Blokzijl Award. As Falk explained, the plan is to announce the Award Committee at RIPE 86, and that this committee will then seek nominees for the award itself, and afterwards select the awardee. If you have someone in mind who you think would do a good job on the Award Committee, please mail board@rob-blokzijl-foundation.org, preferably by Wednesday week, 10 May. Thanks in anticipation, Niall O'Reilly RIPE Vice-Chair and board-member of Rob Blokzijl Foundation On 12 Apr 2023, at 18:10, fbornstaedt@benocs.com wrote:

The next Rob Blokzijl Award will be presented at RIPE 87 between November 27th and December 1st of 2023. Like last time the process will be organised by an Award Committee, which will be appointed in time to be annouced by the board of the foundation at RIPE86 in Rotterdam. The committee will then make a call for nominations and select the next awardee.

We are looking for suggestions for the composition of the Award Committee. Would you like to suggest someone specific or give us some general advice on the Award Committee? Please let us know at board@rob-blokzijl-foundation.org until May 10th, 2023.

Falk von Bornstaedt