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