[iot-wg] Peter Steinhaeuser for Co-Chair

Dear Collegues, Dear Jim,

as already done last year - I put my hat in the ring for working group co-chair again.

I'm seriously concerned about the impact malicious IoT devices will have on the internet's infrastructure. My goal in the working group is defining best practices and standards about how can be dealt with IoT devices pro-actively to keep the coming attacks under control.

Coming from a home gateway/personal router/CPE background (DD-WRT / OpenWRT) such devices are for me potential gatekeepers that can play an important role. Also ISP's should be brought on board, it's in their sole interest as well. To have an effect we need to gain maximum traction in the industry.

There are already activities (SPIN / IETF home gateway WG) in this field. I would work on connecting the ongoing activities to form technical standards and reference implementations for easy adoption by the industry. I would also work on advocating these to industry players (i.e. Broadband Forum) to get broader support for these activities as well.

It would be my pleasure and an honor to work closer with all of you for the better of the internet.

Thanks in advance,
Peter