Re: A sad farewell

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On 2020-11-04 21:29, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I've sent my thanks and appreciation privately to Henrik, so all
> I will say here, with Leif's message as a convenient hook, is this:
> 
> Whatever we think about the past, the future is what matters.
> Everybody can influence that future by means of their inputs to
> NomCom. This year there are not only inputs for each individual
> candidate, but also for some major topics that NomCom should
> consider, for example:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2020/feedback/?topic=26
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/nomcom/2020/feedback/?topic=22

Indeed.  What Brian said.  Emphatically.

	Henrik


> 
> Regards
>    Brian Carpenter
> 
> On 05-Nov-20 02:38, Leif Johansson wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I also want to thank, rather belatedly, Netnod for their many years of funding some of the many hours Henrik has spent working on IETF tools.
>>>
>> 
>> You are welcome!
>> 
>> For context I'm the chairman of the foundation that owns netnod [1] and was responsible for
>> contacts with the IETF related to Henriks work while he worked for netnod.
>> 
>> Henrik worked for netnod for many years and towards the last couple of years switched to working
>> full time on IETF tools. During this time there was an agreement between netnod and the IETF that
>> roughly 40% of Henriks time would be funded by netnod.
>> 
>> The year before Jay took on the role as LLC chair I was contacted by Portia Wenze-Danley who
>> informed us that after a decision by IETF leadership, netnod would be required to submit a
>> competitive bid for Henriks contract - ie a bid for what was in substantial parts a donation.
>> 
>> At that point Henrik decided to submit a bid under his own flag and netnod naturally ended the
>> sponsorship at the same time. I expressed my surprise to Portia and later to Jay about how
>> the relationship with Henrik and netnod was managed.
>> 
>> 
>> 	Best R
>> 	Leif Johansson
>> 
>> 
>> [1] The TU-foundation is jointly controlled by the Swedish University Network and the Swedish
>> Network Users Society that counts. The current board is me, Olle Johansson and Peter Löthberg.
>> 
>> .
>> 
> 
> 

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