[IRTF-Announce] Fwd: IAB announces IRTF Chair appointment

["Eggert, Lars" <[e-mail]>]

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> From: IAB Chair <[e-mail]>
> Subject: IAB announces IRTF Chair appointment
> Date: August 31, 2016 at 16:09:05 GMT+2
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> Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail]
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> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> After having served as IRTF chair since 2011, Lars Eggert will step
> down as Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) chair during IETF 98 in
> March 2017.
> 
> The IAB has appointed Allison Mankin as his successor, and in the
> months to come Allison will be working with Lars in transitioning
> responsibilities.
> 
> Allison Mankin is an Internet protocol lead and researcher based in
> the Washington DC area, and holds the position of Senior Director,
> Public DNS, at Salesforce.  She has a long history in and around the
> IETF and IRTF, including serving as Nomcom Chair, Transport AD (most
> recently stepping down in 2006), and IPng AD.  In the IRTF, she
> chaired the Reliable Multicast RG and then moved it to the IETF as the
> RMT WG.  She has worked in a diverse set of industry, academic and
> government settings.  Some of her positions prior to Salesforce were
> at Verisign, JHU Applied Physics Lab, the US National Science
> Foundation (NSF), Bell Labs, and USC/ISI.  As a program director at
> the US NSF, Allison was a leader of the Future Internet Design (FIND)
> program, which initiated the funding of info-centric networking and
> also played an early role in software-defined networking.
> 
> On behalf of the IAB I would like to thank Lars for serving the
> community by fulfilling the role with zeal and thank Allison for
> taking up the responsibility.  I would also like to thank the other
> volunteers for this position; with so many good candidates, it was a
> difficult choice for the IAB.
> 
> For more information about the IRTF, please see https://irtf.org/.
> 
> Andrew Sullivan
> for the IAB
> 
> --
> IAB Chair (Andrew Sullivan)
> [e-mail]
>