Re: A sad farewell

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

I've sent my thanks and appreciation privately to Henrik, so all
I will say here, with Leif's message as a convenient hook, is this:

Whatever we think about the past, the future is what matters.
Everybody can influence that future by means of their inputs to
NomCom. This year there are not only inputs for each individual
candidate, but also for some major topics that NomCom should
consider, for example:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2020/feedback/?topic=26
https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2020/feedback/?topic=22

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 05-Nov-20 02:38, Leif Johansson wrote:
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>> I also want to thank, rather belatedly, Netnod for their many years of funding some of the many hours Henrik has spent working on IETF tools.
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> You are welcome!
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> For context I'm the chairman of the foundation that owns netnod [1] and was responsible for
> contacts with the IETF related to Henriks work while he worked for netnod.
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> Henrik worked for netnod for many years and towards the last couple of years switched to working
> full time on IETF tools. During this time there was an agreement between netnod and the IETF that
> roughly 40% of Henriks time would be funded by netnod.
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> The year before Jay took on the role as LLC chair I was contacted by Portia Wenze-Danley who
> informed us that after a decision by IETF leadership, netnod would be required to submit a
> competitive bid for Henriks contract - ie a bid for what was in substantial parts a donation.
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> At that point Henrik decided to submit a bid under his own flag and netnod naturally ended the
> sponsorship at the same time. I expressed my surprise to Portia and later to Jay about how
> the relationship with Henrik and netnod was managed.
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> 	Best R
> 	Leif Johansson
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> [1] The TU-foundation is jointly controlled by the Swedish University Network and the Swedish
> Network Users Society that counts. The current board is me, Olle Johansson and Peter Löthberg.
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