After my counting of the votes, I seem to be the last to offer my congratulations to Otto and my condolences to Ramon.

My excuse is that I had some onerous deadlines from my current client!

I know some (and I suspect many) of the abstentions were because people wanted to vote for both.

I look forward to our future, whether we have co-chairs or we have a chair and vice chair.

I must also add my appreciation of Augusto's 6 years as chairman.

I hope that API's problems with will not prevent him coming to future meetings.

Finally, and maybe here I might be first, I should like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Peter

Peter Radford

UK Representative to IFIP Technical Committee 6

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E: Peter.Radford@LogicaCMG.com

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