<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all<div><br></div><div>We've just announced the latest Fellowships awarded for the next two IETF meetings.</div><div><br></div><div>Anya</div><div><br></div><div>It's also online: <a href="http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=3411">http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=3411</a><br><div><div><h3 style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; ">Latest Internet Society Fellows to bring first hand experience of Internet Standards processes to developing countries</h3><div class="entrytext" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; "><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The Internet Society today announced the 20<strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "> </strong>skilled technologists from 13 developing countries selected to receive sponsorship to attend the next two Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings. Ten Fellows will attend next <a href="https://www.ietf.org/meeting/80/index.html" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">week’s IETF meeting in Prague</a>, Czech Republic while the remaining Fellows will join participants at the meeting to be held in Quebec City, Canada in July.</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The Fellowships awarded form part of the Internet Society’s <a href="http://www.isoc.org/leaders/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Next Generation Leaders Programme</a>, designed to prepare professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders. While much of the IETF’s work takes place over mailing lists, the in-person experience promotes a deeper understanding of the standards process, encourages active involvement in IETF work, and facilitates personal networking with others that have similar technical interests. These benefits lend the participants to then share their experiences and knowledge gained among their local technical communities and professional networks.</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">“The Internet Society’s Fellowships to the IETF demonstrate the Internet Society’s ongoing commitment to fostering technical leadership and giving voice to technologists in emerging markets,” notes Toral Cowieson, Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes for the Internet Society. “We are pleased with the calibre of applicants and commend the twenty selected fellows for contributing to the growing prominence of the Internet as a platform for economic development and innovation around the world.”</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The latest round of Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF awards garnered over 260 applications, with recipients coming from Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Senegal, Philippines, Moldova, Mexico, Malaysia, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka. The program pairs recipients with an experienced mentor at IETF meetings to support their participation.</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The selected Internet Society Fellows to the IETF for the IETF 80 meeting next week and IETF 81 meeting in July 2011 are:</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "></strong></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">IETF 80, Prague, Czech Republic</strong></p><ul style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; "><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Roman Arcea (Republic of Moldova), PS Core Engineer at Orange Moldova. Roman is focused on global routing, network operations, M2M, IPv4 to IPv6 transition tools and protocol enhancements, mobility, interaction between 3GPP and non-3GPP networks.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Paventhan Arumugam, PhD, (India) is Senior Manager (R&D), ERNET (Education & Research Network) India. He works in the areas of network layer mobility protocols and monitoring and the management of lowpans. He is interested in IETF working groups mext, netext, mipshop and 6lowpan.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Luis Balbinot (Brazil) is a Senior Network Engineer at Commcorp Telecom and a researcher for Internet performance metrics over mobile 3G/4G networks. His work focuses on network management, provisioning, and engineering. He follows IETF’s IPPM WG, and as a member of IPNG WG, he published Internet-drafts regarding IPv6 and MPLS coexistence. He has done research on distributed network management inside IETF’s DISMAN WG with works on the Script MIB agent.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Suhaidi Hassan, PhD, (Malaysia) is Associate Professor of Computer Systems and Communication Networks at Universiti Utara Malaysia. Suhaidi is the founder and head of the UUM InterNetWorks Research Group and the Internet Society Malaysia Chapter’s InterNetWorks Special Interest Group (SIG).</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Sivasothy Shanmugalingam (Sri Lanka) is a PhD Student at Institut Telecom/Telecom SudParis, France and Research Engineer for Alcaltel Lucent Bell Labs France. Mr. Shanmugalingam’s research interests include Web, singaling protocol, networking, and architecture. More technical information is available at <a href="http://sivasothy.blogspot.com/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">http://sivasothy.blogspot.com/</a> .</li></ul><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "></strong></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">IETF 81, Quebec City, Canada</strong></p><ul style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; "><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Caciano Machado (Brazil) is Network Manager at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He works in the development of a university-wide network admission control and IP address management system.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Richard Mikisa (Uganda) is a Network Engineer/Architect actively involved in running and managing one of Uganda’s biggest Data and Voice Networks. His interests are in the IPv4-v6 transition and large scale MPLS Service Provider Networks.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Amir Qayyum (Pakistan) of CoReNeT research group at M. A. Jinnah University, Pakistan has contributed to RFCs in the MANET working group and is also following MPTCP group. His research interest lies in MANETs, VANETs and mobility management protocols.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Madeeha Rehman (Pakistan) is a Telecom Engineer by profession. She works in Network Operations Department of a broadband ISP-wi-tribe, Pakistan. Her areas of interest include transition from IPv4 to IPv6 and Wireless technologies including WiMAX, HSPA and LTE.</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Nestor Tiglao (Philippines) is a PhD student at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal. His research is on the development of caching-aware transport protocols for wireless sensor networks.</li></ul><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">Ten alumni of the program were selected to receive the Returning Fellows award, which supports their participation in an additional IETF meeting. Returning fellows are able to leverage their initial IETF experience to provide additional contributions into the IETF standards processes, while helping to build engagement by their local technical community in standards tracks that have important implications for regional Internet growth. Their attendance at the meetings also increases the visibility of the IETF in developing countries.</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The selected Returning Fellows for the 80<sup style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; ">th</sup> and 81<sup style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; ">st</sup> meetings are:</p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "></strong></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">IETF 80, Prague, Czech Republic</strong></p><ul style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; "><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Azael Fernandez Alcantara (Mexico)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Palanivelan Appanasamy (India)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Fernando Gont (Argentina)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Idris A. Rai (Uganda)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Zartash Afzal Uzmi (Pakistan)</li></ul><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; "></strong></p><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; "><strong style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">IETF 81, Quebec City, Canada</strong></p><ul style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 16px; padding-left: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; "><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Ali Hammad Akbar (Pakistan)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Jerônimo Bezerra (Brazil)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Vinayak Hegde (India)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Hassen Redwan Hussen (Ethiopia)</li><li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 5px; ">Khoudia Gueye Sy (Senegal)</li></ul><p style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 5px; ">The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF in 2011 are made possible by donations from the Internet Society’s organizational members <a href="http://www.afilias.info/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Afilias</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Google</a>, <a href="http://www.intel.com/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Intel</a>, and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Microsoft</a>, in addition to a grant from <a href="http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-decoration: none; ">the Nominet Trust</a>. Since its inception in 2006, this programme has made 122 awards to technologists from 37 developing countries to participate in IETF meetings.</p><div><br></div></div></div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Anya Chambers<br><b>Internet Society</b></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><br></b>mobile: +1 224 321 0378</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">web: <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/">www.InternetSociety.org</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/internetsociety">InternetSociety</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><b>What will the Internet look like in 10 years? </b><br>Watch the trailer; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OInTXcZ4HZM%0A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OInTXcZ4HZM</a><br><br>For more information: <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/scenarios">www.internetsociety.org/scenarios</a><br><br><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></body></html>