[eix-wg] Self-nomination for co-chair of EIX

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.