Dear Jose,
Though I already have left the IEEE 802.16 community (with limited group announcement), I decided to respond to your farewell notice.
I very much appreciate your hard and sincere effort during past years and I believe that your contribution to the group would never be forgotten. I wish you great luck in your new position in Tata and I believe that you will do great.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Hokyu
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Sender : Puthenkulam, Jose P<jose.p.puthenkulam@INTEL.COM>
Date : 2010-10-13 09:40 (GMT+09:00)
Title : [STDS-802-16] Farewell
Dear 802.16 friends and colleagues,
It is with mixed feelings that I announce my plans to step down
as Vice Chair of the 802.16 WG, as I've decided to leave Intel and pursue
a new position in Tata Consultancy Services North America in the Mobile
applications and services area starting Oct 18th. I still plan to attend the
November IEEE 802.16 plenary meeting in Dallas. But I hope we could have an VC election
in November and have a smooth transition.
Over the past several years you have given me the privilege to
serve you as Vice Chair and we have accomplished a lot together. One of the
most important accomplishments of 802.16 and WiMAX has been to make mobile
broadband affordable for the masses. I sincerely believe we have indeed helped
make a big difference in this area. We have also created immense impact in the
wireless broadband ecosystem with our 802.16e and 802.16m projects. One of the
amazing traits for IEEE 802.16 has been the boldness to embrace leading
technologies and concepts and to make them possible to be realized in products
based on our standards in a very fast paced manner. I hope the IEEE 802.16
Working Group continues that tradition as you embark on the IEEE 802.16n and
802.16p projects and many more to come. Wireless technologies are the future
and they are set to pervade and assist in many aspects of people's daily lives.
It's been an honor to work among such a talented group
of individuals in IEEE 802.16 and 802 at large and wish you all the best for
the future. I also thank you for the trust you placed in me over these many
years, I hope I've been able to live up to your expectations. I'm
surely going to miss you all. I very much hope someday I get to come back to
IEEE 802 again.
BTW, I also want to point out that, this by no means implies
that Intel is backing away from supporting 802.16 efforts. This was purely a
personal decision and I expect Intel to continue to support IEEE 802.16 WG efforts
going forward.
Hope to see you all in November, one more time to say good
bye. Hope to also stay in touch thru Linked-In or other tools.
Thanks & best regards,
Jose
My email after Oct 15th: {puthenkulam}@yahoo.com