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
>