Your availability - and a THANK YOU!

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Mike,
Thanks for the heads up... I'll try to not ask BIG
tasks from you. If I do, pls refuse (I know you will)
and I will understand.

Sad to hear that you will have to reduce your IETF time sharply,
but I fully understand and I am REALLY HAPPY for you to have found
a new job. Hope (in fact I trust) it will work out well.

And SPECIAL THANKS for all the good work you have done over the
last few years, we certainly need more people like you who are
prepared to dig in and do serious and detailed review.

I have copied the IESG on this note. I expect many of us
already know that you have contributed a lot over the last
few years, and I am sure that I speak for all of them and the
IETF community: THANK YOU.

Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. M. Heard [mailto:heard@pobox.com]
> Sent: zaterdag 6 september 2003 22:13
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Subject: Re: FW: authors 48 hours: RFC 3595
> <draft-ietf-ops-ipv6-flowlabel-01.txt> NOW AVAILABLE
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> > Sorry to bother you again, but you do have very sharp eyes.  It
> > is a short doc. Since I am the only/single editor AND the AD, I
> > would appreciate an extra set of eyeballs taking a quick check.
> 
> Glad to be able to help.  However, I do want to give you a heads-up
> on my future availability for IETF work.  I just got a job offer
> yesterday for a software engineering position with a division of
> Honeywell International that makes helicopter rotor and engine
> vibration monitoring equipment.  I intend to accept the offer, and I
> expect to start at the end of October.  Since this involves a
> relocation from the Silicon Valley are to Southern California, I'll
> be pretty busy between now and then finding a place to live, getting
> my stuff moved, and so on, although I will have some time to devote
> to IETF activities.  However, my new company doesn't do anything
> even remotely related to SNMP or MIBs, so the amount of time that I
> have to spend on such activities will be sharply reduced after I
> start work (i.e., it can only be done on weekends and evenings).
> 
> The truth is that I've been expecting this to happen, and that's one
> reason I've been scrambling to finish up as much as possible on my
> in-process reviews and documents.  I think that I have made very
> good progress on that stuff, and I expect that whatever parts can't
> be wrapped up before I start work can be managed in the time that I
> will have afterward.  However, I think you can probably agree that
> it would be unwise to take on any new tasks that I might not be able
> to finish.  In other words, any new work has to be small stuff.
> 
> I'm sorry that it has to be this way;  I've enjoyed the last two
> years, and I think I've gotten a lot of useful work done --
> especially the MIB review document, which started out as something
> very different (i.e., a CLR documentation project).  But like most
> people on the planet, I have grown accustomed to eating and living
> under a roof, and I need to have some way to pay the bills :-)
> 
> Later,
> 
> Mike
>