[rssac-caucus] Let's welcome to Tripti, and say thanks to Jun!

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 ICANN announced:

<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-02-02-en>


Full text:

RSSAC Elects Tripti Sinha as Co-Chair

The Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) has elected Tripti
Sinha, Assistant Vice President and Deputy CIO for the Division of
Information Technology at the University of Maryland, as co-chair
effective 1 January 2015. Sinha will serve in this leadership capacity
for two years. The ICANN Board of Directors appointed Sinha, who
brings 25 years of technology experience, to the RSSAC in 2014 as the
D-Root Server Operator representative on behalf of the University of
Maryland.

Sinha joins Lars-Johan Liman, Senior Systems Specialist at Netnod, the
I-Root Server Operator, as co-chair for 2015. Together, Liman and
Sinha will lead the RSSAC in its important mission of advising the
ICANN Board of Directors and stakeholder community on matters relating
to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the
Internet's Root Server System. The RSSAC is one of four advisory
committees and three supporting organizations that comprise ICANN's
global, bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development community.

With Sinha's election, Dr. Jun Murai, Founder of The WIDE Project,
ends his fifteen-year tenure leading the RSSAC. Professor Murai was
the first RSSAC Chair and one of the original nine ICANN Directors. He
subsequently led RSSAC through the growth and development of the root
server system as well as internal reviews.

Dr. Murai was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 for his
many career achievements and significant contributions--spanning
technical and academic work--in Japan, the Asia Pacific region, and the
broader global Internet community. He will remain on the RSSAC as the
appointed representative for The WIDE Project, the M-Root Server
Operator.

To learn more about the RSSAC, please visit rssac.icann.org.