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     39 		 Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching bei München \\ \\
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     54 \begin{letter}{
     55         To whom it may concern \\
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     63 GNUnet e.V. is an association dedicated to supporting research,
     64 development and education in the area of secure decentralized
     65 networking.  We are excited to learn that NLnet will apply for funding
     66 from the EC's NGI initiative, and are happy to lend them our strongest
     67 support.
     68 
     69 Various community members of GNUnet e.V. have worked with NLnet over
     70 the last decade, and we have found their funding process to be
     71 reasonably uncomplicated and effective.  In terms of knowledgeable and
     72 result-oriented mechanisms for grantmaking, NLnet is comparable with
     73 the (less specialized) Emmy Noether Programme of the DFG, except that
     74 it's decision making speed is even faster.  We also have experience
     75 with H2020, FP7, KTI and NSF funding proceedures, which are all more
     76 complicated and generally result in lower quality expert reviews (of
     77 both applications and deliverables).  We can also attest that NLnet is
     78 well known in the larger community of people building modern,
     79 privacy-preserving network applications and services, so we predict
     80 that they will have no problem attracting a substantial number of
     81 quality applications.
     82 
     83 We thus think that it is a really good idea for NLnet to coordinate
     84 funding in this area: many promising projects are unable to directly
     85 meet the requirements to receive EU funding, in particular given the
     86 complex application and reporting procedures.  Furthermore, NLnet's
     87 plan to create a shared infrastructure would add some of the
     88 professionalism that is currently lacking in this space.  As GNUnet
     89 e.V., we see particularly strong value in infrastructure to address
     90 usability, accessibility, continuous integration and reproducible
     91 builds, as these are not currently adequately covered for us by the
     92 GNU project.
     93 
     94 Thus, as one of the larger and older efforts in the space of
     95 reinventing the Internet, GNUnet e.V. would really like to see NLnet
     96 to be responsible for managing the NGI and selecting the right
     97 (sub)projects.  Having them as an intermediary will be hugely
     98 beneficial as we know that they can adapt to the needs of the
     99 people that might actually make a difference.
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    103 Prof. Dr. Christian Grothoff\\
    104 President, GNUnet e. V. \\
    105 {\texttt grothoff@gnunet.org}
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