<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">We would take my time to respond to you as you hold our equivalent seat in the RIPE region;</blockquote><br></div><div dir="ltr">Well, not anymore, but I have been for 11.5 years :)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for writing down your thinking and reasoning in such detail. That is important for transparency and very helpful in further discussions and also in showing to the community that you take your responsibility seriously. Whether people agree with you or not, you have explained how and why you made it. That is a basis to build upon.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5856d6"><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);">I won't go into the details, as I have not been an active participant in this process and I feel it's not my place. Thank you for doing this work for the community.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5856d6"><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5856d6"><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);">Cheers!</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5856d6"><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);">Sander</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#5856d6"><span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);"><br></span></font></div></body></html>