[OPS-AREA]Re: [onions] Working Group Chair Appointments
"Chongfeng Xie" <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:13:31 +0800
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ongratulations to Ian and Mithun.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</d=
iv><div>Chongfeng</div>=0A<blockquote style=3D"margin-Top: 0px; margin-Bot=
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[email protected]">Mahesh Jethanandani</a></div><div><b>Date:</b> 2026-04-2=
8 07:09</div><div><b>To:</b> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">=
onions</a></div><div><b>CC:</b> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">o=
ps-ads</a>; <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">ops-area</a></div><div><b=
>Subject:</b> [onions] Working Group Chair Appointments</div></div></=
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<div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce the appointment of two co-cha=
irs for the Operationalizing Network & Service Abstractions (ONSEN) Wo=
rking Group:</div><div><br></div><div>Ian Farrer (Deutsche Telekom)</div><=
div>Mithun Thai Valaphil (Equinix)</div><div><br></div><div>Both Ian and M=
ithun bring strong expertise in network operations, service abstraction, a=
nd YANG data modeling =E2=80=94 exactly the combination ONSEN needs as it =
takes up the work of maintaining and evolving VPN service models (L2SM, L3=
SM, L2NM, L3NM), developing reusable service models, and defining service-=
layer APIs for OSS/BSS integration.</div><div><br></div><div>Ian has been =
a long-standing contributor to IETF work in the operations and management =
space, and Mithun brings complementary experience that will help the group=
drive toward its milestones.</div><div><br></div><div>Please join me in w=
elcoming Ian and Mithun to their new roles. They will be reaching out shor=
tly to the list with initial thoughts on organizing the group's work.</div=
><div><br></div><div>The current ONSEN WG mailing list is [email protected].=
To subscribe, visit:</div><div>https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/onio=
ns</div><div><br></div><div>However, please do note that we will be transi=
tioning to the new mailing list [email protected] shortly, at which point all=
the subscribers of the onions mailing list will be moved to the new maili=
ng list.</div><div><br></div><div>The group's datatracker page is at:</div=
><div>https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/onsen/about/</div><div><br></div><di=
v>I also want to take this opportunity to thank the participants who were =
active in the ONIONS WG discussions that led to the formation of ONSEN. Yo=
ur contributions shaped the charter and the group's direction.</div><div><=
br></div><div>Regards.</div><div>=0A<div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"font-family=
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