[ripe-list] RIPE Chairs Selected

Dear colleagues,

We both are delighted and honoured to have been chosen as the new RIPE
Chair and Vice-Chair. We are eager to serve the RIPE Community and
ready to listen to what the Community has to tell us. We want to start
by acknowledging the effort and engagement of all who have worked to
bring about this outcome.

Many thanks to the RIPE NomCom and to the RIPE NCC Executive Board for
carrying out this selection process for the first time in the history
of the RIPE community.

Many thanks to the community and to everyone who provided feedback. We
feel honoured by the confidence you put in us and accept the
challenge. We will do our best to meet your expectations.

And many thanks to Hans Petter Holen who guided the community since
RIPE 68 when he had the RIPE Chair role handed over to him by Rob
Blokzijl who chaired the RIPE community since RIPE 1 in 1989. It will
be hard to step into the shoes of those two chairs. Obviously we
cannot do this without all of you and we will be seeking your input
and guidance.

We salute and draw inspiration from the commitment to service shown by
Filiz Yilmaz and Nigel Titley in standing as nominees for the positions
to which we have now been chosen.

We are currently in discussion with Hans Petter about the transition
to the new RIPE Chair team, and expect that the formal handover date
will be during August.  In the meantime, we shall be reading ourselves
into our new rôles.

We have been carefully following the discussion about the relationship
between the RIPE NCC and RIPE and the rôle which RIPE NCC staff can and
should play within the RIPE community; one of our early priorities will
be to start a review of these relationships.

We expect to have more to say about our other plans shortly.

We are looking forward to working with all of you.

Kind regards,
Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly

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