Dear IETFers, Here is a reminder of CFC on Itojun Service Award. We will have the final moment to complete the list of candidates in Vancouver on Thursday. Any of your recommendation and thoughts would be very much appreciated. Because this is the award for 'IPv6 samurai'! Thanks, Jun Murai = List of the committee members you might see in Vancouver. See them to talk!; Jun Murai Hiroshi Esaki Ole Jacobsen Bob Hinden Bill Manning Tatuya Jinmei Kazu Yamamoto Kenjiro Cho Erik Kline Lorenzo Colitti Bjoern A. Zeeb Remi Despres == ANNOUNCING: CALL FOR CANDIDATES FOR ITOJUN SERVICE AWARD The Itojun Service Award is presented every year to an individual or a group who has made outstanding contributions in service to the IPv6 community. The deadline for nominations for this year's award is (extended to be on ) 2 August 2012. The award will be presented at the 85th meeting of the IETF to be held in November 2012 in Atlanta, USA. About the Award The Itojun Service Award was established by the friends of Itojun and administered by the Internet Society (ISOC), recognises and commemorates the extraordinary dedication exercised by Itojun over the course of IPv6 development. The award includes a presentation crystal, a US$3,000 honorarium, and a travel grant. The award is focused on pragmatic technical contributions, especially through development or operation, with the spirit of servicing the Internet. With respect to the spirit, the selection committee seeks contributors to the Internet as a whole; open source developers are a common example of such contributors, although this is not a requirement for expected nominees. While the committee primarily consider practical contributions such as software development or network operation, higher level efforts that help those direct contributions will also be appreciated in this regard. The contribution should be substantial, but could be immature or ongoing; this award aims to encourage the contributor to keep their efforts, rather than just recognizing well established work. Finally, contributions of a group of individuals will be accepted as deployment work is often done by a large project, not just a single outstanding individual. The award is named after Dr. Jun-ichiro "Itojun" Hagino, who passed away in 2007, aged just 37. Itojun worked as a Senior Researcher at Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ), was a member of the board of the Widely Integrated Distributed Environment (WIDE) project, and from 1998 to 2006 served on the groundbreaking KAME project in Japan as the