<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">Dear all,</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have replied to this thread on the ENOG mailing list as I believe that this matter should be discussed on that list rather across multiple lists.</span></font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://lists.enog.org/pipermail/discuss/2022-March/000936.html" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">https://lists.enog.org/pipermail/discuss/2022-March/000936.html</font></span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">Regards,</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">Hisham Ibrahim</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">Chief Community Officer</font></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class="">RIPE NCC </font></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Mar 2022, at 02:43, Töma Gavrichenkov <<a href="mailto:ximaera@gmail.com" class="">ximaera@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Peace,<br class="">(which is my usual greeting message, always was, and will ever be, —<br class="">because the only thing I've always valued the most is peace)<br class=""><br class="">As the Programme Committee Chair of the Eurasian Network Operators<br class="">Group (ENOG), I, hereby, with all due respect, request that the RIPE<br class="">Executive Board formally dissolve ENOG and cancel all the potential<br class="">future meetings indefinitely.<br class=""><br class="">Rationale: ENOG was founded in 2011 per the decision of the RIPE<br class="">Executive Board, and it was assumed to be incorporating Ukrainian,<br class="">Russian, Belarusian, Armenian, Azerbaijanian, and many other regional<br class="">communities in the hope of building a better shared Internet space<br class="">among the communities.<br class=""><br class="">In view of the recent events (if not even the prior events), the said<br class="">"ENOG community" does not exist anymore, and in no way it could be<br class="">clear to the Programme Committee how to arrange a programme for all<br class="">the distinct and divided communities colloqually recognized as ENOG at<br class="">the time.<br class=""><br class="">Technically, under normal circumstances, a request like this should've<br class="">gone through a voting process in the PC; however, we currently have<br class="">several PC members under ongoing _missile attacks_, and I therefore<br class="">don't believe it is sane to arrange any vote in the PC.<br class=""><br class="">Additionally, at the moment, being a Russian citizen, I don't believe<br class="">I should assume there's a consensus in the entire RIPE Service Region<br class="">to still invest trust in me, without further due diligence, to hold<br class="">any official community position in the RIPE community; therefore, I<br class="">hereby step down as the PC Chair.<br class=""><br class="">It's now up to the members of the RIPE NCC Executive Board to decide<br class="">on future actions, and I urge the RIPE NCC Executive Board to act. It<br class="">is entirely up to the RIPE NCC Executive Board to consider any future<br class="">alignments to replace ENOG.<br class=""><br class="">Stay safe.<br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Töma<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">PC mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:PC@enog.org" class="">PC@enog.org</a><br class="">https://lists.enog.org/mailman/listinfo/pc<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>