Hi Gert, Sander & AP-WG members,
Thank you for the email and I would like to formally put my name in the
hat.
For those that don't know me personally, my name is Erik Bais, Dutch, I'm
45, married for 16 year with my wife Wilhelmina and we have 2 sons.
I'm the owner of a Dutch ISP named A2B Internet and I'm one of the
co-founders of the IPv4 broker : Prefix Broker.
I've lived most of my life in The Netherlands and as a family, we lived for
almost a year in the UAE (Dubai) in 2008/2009, when I worked for a US based
system integrator and I've worked in Germany for a US based company in the 90's
for a year.
I have a been working in the ISP community since the 2000. And started A2B
Internet in 2010 in The Netherlands.
In our work as a connectivity ISP, we started to request AS numbers and IP
space for customers in order to get them migrated to our network and while
doing so, we noticed some things that needed improvement in the AP policies.
That is how it all got started ...
I've been the author of the following proposals that have been accepted by
the community:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2011-02 : Removal of
multihomed requirement for IPv6 PI # co-author together
with Jordi
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2013-04 : Resource
Certification for non-RIPE NCC Members # Services
WG - allowing PI space holders and Legacy space holders the option for RPKI
certification.
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2014-02 : Allow IPv4 PI
transfer
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2014-12 : Allow IPv6
Transfers
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2014-13 : Allow AS
Number Transfers
https://www.ripe.net/participate/policies/proposals/2015-04 : RIPE Resource
Transfer Policies
And I've been quite active on the discussions on the mailinglist and in the
GM's.
Besides the various presentations about the policies, I've also done some
presentations in the plenary of the RIPE meetings and different WG's about
various topics..
Examples are:
https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/116/ : Naughty Port project about a
different way of making a peering decision based on Network Naughty-ness using
a rating system against DDOS's.
https://ripe74.ripe.net/archives/video/119/ : IRR Filtering at IXP Route
Servers
https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/165/ : Pre-Transfer Clean-Up of
Abused Prefixes
I really like the RIPE community and as an active policy proposer, I think
I can say that I have been around the block on the PDP and can work with the
sometimes harsh way of communication that a co-chair role has need to deal with
in the heat of some discussions.
I understand what it requires in effort from time to time and as I'm living
in the Netherlands, it makes it easy to visit the Amsterdam RIPE office for me
if needed.
I hope that the community appreciates the transparent way of communicating
and knowledge sharing that I like and that I will be selected as the co-chair
for the AP-WG.
Regards,
Erik Bais
