Thanks for all your great work, Rafik, and for helping to make
participation at NCSG such a smooth process! Look forward to working
with you more in the future in your non-chair capacity.

Best,
Tamir

On 10/22/2015 4:03 AM, Rafik Dammak wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am sending this last email as NCSG chair , since my term ends with
> the last day of Dublin meeting. Tapani is officially the NCSG chair
> after the ICANN board session this afternoon, I wish him good luck and
> keen to offer him my support for the coming months. 
>
> I wanted to thank all NCSG members who trusted me for  2 years, also
> the NCSG officers. I really enjoyed serving in such role and hoped to
> do more things. I could do some things, not succeeding on others and
> some that I couldn't do yet. 
> I trust Tapani will do more and being successful to reach the goals he
> set, following his strategy and get inputs. He needs all our support
> and help for the challenges ahead.
>
> My focus was to improve the operational side of NCSG like membership
> management, being able to influence more policy by regular submitting
> public comment, and more important being able to engage our members
> and let them more involved in policy making process, to communicate
> and collaborate with other groups and communicate better about NCSG
> activities.  That was built in what my predecessors did and I am
> passing this now to the new chair. I will also make a self-evaluation
> and self-criticism in timely manner.  I did the hand-over with Taapni
> and everything should be ok. You will also receive details of
> recordings of NCSG sessions in Dublin meeting and there will be follow-up.
>
> of course, I will continue my involvement and will be happy to
>  support our members on my personal capacity and respond to your
> questions.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rafik Dammak
>
> former NCSG chair
>