[ghpn-wg] new leadership for the GHPN

[Franco Travostino]

Jon
well understood. I'm grateful for the many sound advices you provided 
over the years.
We are alerted of the new vacancy and will be recruiting additional leadership.

-franco


At 08:54 AM 1/25/2006, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

>  franco
>
>well that seems like a good deciision to make
>
>can i take this opportunity too to step down, since I have not been
>able to take part in the group much in the last year, and my curent
>program of work is increasingly not related to GHPN work?
>(nor, crucially, do I have funds to attend GGF, any longer etc)
>
>so long, and thanks!
>
>jon
>In missive 
><6.2.3.4.2.20060124122903.030d00f0 at zrtphxm1.corp.nortel.com>, Franco
>  Travostino typed:
>
>  >>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.
>
>
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