[ghpn-wg] new leadership for the GHPN

[Franco Travostino]

Dear all:

I have made a motion for Dimitra Simeonidou to take on the co-chair 
role for this Group. Over the years, I have been very impressed with 
Dimitra's vision and dedication to advance emerging topics in an open 
forum. Among things, Dimitra spearheaded GFD.36 (optical 
infrastructure for grids) and the OBS draft underway.

At the same time, I inform you that I will no longer act in the 
capacity of co-chair for the GHPN past GGF16. I took an active role 
in GHPN's operations shortly after GGF7, at the end of March '03. 
Throughout my 3-year term, I very much enjoyed working with you in 
advancing a networking agenda. I'm very thankful for your interest, 
stimulating contributions, and active participation. It's now time 
for me to hand off my role to new leadership. My plan is to pass the 
torch on to Dimitra.

As you may know, the NOMCOM has elected me to serve as Area Director 
for Infrastructure and steering committee member for 3 years, 
starting on October '05. The GHPN group is one of the groups in the 
Infrastructure Area. As such, I will continue to be involved with the 
GHPN. As well, I have a mandate to expand activities in 
Infrastructure and liaise with other networking initiatives (such as 
ITU NGN, IPSphere, OIF, etc.).

Should you have concerns or advices on the leadership changes, I 
encourage you to flag them to Cees de Laat, Area Director for 
Infrastructure, delaat at science.uva.nl.

With regard to the upcoming Athens meeting, the planning phase is 
well underway. We will have two 90' sessions. The first session 
focuses on work directly related to the current GHPN drafts. The 
second session is a roundtable on Grid Networks research projects 
bearing relevance to standardization. Earlier in the month, you have 
seen Costas' call for presentations. Costas Kotsokalis and the Greek 
Research and Technology Network (GRNET) have kindly taken the lead in 
organizing the second session. The agendas for both sessions will be 
published shortly.

-franco



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