Perhaps there should be a gold dot for past service. Maybe a silver dot for ten years, a gold dot for twenty. (Slightly non-serious, but also slightly serious.) -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre West Hanningfield Road, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 8HN, UK Tel: +44 1245 242194 | Fax: +44 1245 242124 chris.dearlove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.baesystems.com BAE Systems (Operations) Limited Registered Office: Warwick House, PO Box 87, Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Farnborough, Hants, GU14 6YU, UK Registered in England & Wales No: 1996687 -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jari Arkko Sent: 15 March 2013 13:40 To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> list Cc: Ralph Droms (rdroms) Subject: recognition ----------------------! WARNING ! ---------------------- This message originates from outside our organisation, either from an external partner or from the internet. Keep this in mind if you answer this message. Follow the 'Report Suspicious Emails' link on IT matters for instructions on reporting suspicious email messages. -------------------------------------------------------- I wanted to give recognition to someone. As Ralph Droms stepped down from the IESG this week, he completed 24 continuous years of service in the leadership of the IETF, with a dot on his badge. The last four years he has been one of the INT ADs, and before that he chaired the DHC working group for 20 years (!). Thank you Ralph for everything you have done! If you see Ralph in the hallway, please stop and thank him for his service and contributions with DHCP and many, many other things. The proceedings of the first meeting of the DHC WG are here: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/13.pdf (page 59). Jari Arkko IETF Chair ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ********************************************************************