[eix-wg] EIX Co-chair address

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
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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