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Dear colleagues

The two-year term of one of the two Co-chairs, Dr. Ching-Heng Ku, ends in August 2010. Therefore, APNIC is seeking a volunteer to serve as Co-chair of the NIR SIG. The Co-chair is a voluntary position whose responsibilities include:

- Working with the Chair to encourage and facilitate discussion on the mailing list and at the APNIC meeting

- Assisting with chairing the NIR SIG session

- Working with the Chair to develop the NIR SIG agenda

- Posting proposals and information about the NIR SIG to the NIR SIG mailing list

For more information about the role, please see the SIG guidelines at:

http://www.apnic.net/sigs/sig-guidelines.pdf

If you are interested in this position, please send an expression of interest, including a short biography in an email to sig@apnic.net and CC sig-nir-chair@apnic.net.

If you have someone to recommend, please write to us as above.

The nomination deadline is Friday, 20 August 2010.

If there are any volunteers, elections to select the new Co-chair will be held in the NIR SIG meeting at APNIC 30 in Gold Coast, Australia, 24 - 27 August 2010.

Candidates need to be present at the meeting to be eligible.

All SIG Chairs and Co-chairs undertake this work on a voluntary basis. The APNIC Secretariat speaks on behalf of the community in saying we are very appreciative of the work done by the Chairs and Co-chairs.

Regards Sunny