Congratulations on all the progress you brought to NCSG Rafik!! We all stand on the shoulders of giants when we get here, and I want to thank you for all your contributions, all your support for my pet issue (privacy) and all your constructive nagging. I will miss your reminders, but doubtless Tapani will take a lesson and figure out automated reminders to keep us on task:-) All teasing aside, thanks for all your hard work and middle of the night connectivity. You did a great job! stephanie perrin On 2015-10-22 4:03, 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 >