Re: A sad farewell

[Behcet Sarikaya <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 2:29 PM Brian E Carpenter <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Folks, this is good point!

Behcet


> Regards
>    Brian Carpenter
>
> On 05-Nov-20 02:38, Leif Johansson wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > You are welcome!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >       Best R
> >       Leif Johansson
> >
> >
> > [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.
> >
> > .
> >
>
>