[afnog] FW: IETF Fellowship Announcement (IETF 82 and 83)

[Dawit Bekele]

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> The Internet Society has announced that it is inviting applications for
> its latest Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF, part of its Next
> Generation Leaders (NGL) programme (www.InternetSociety.org/Leaders).
> The Fellowship programme allows engineers from developing countries to
> attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.
> 
> As you know, the IETF is the Internet's premier standards-making body,
> responsible for the development of protocols used in IP-based networks.
> IETF participants represent an international community of network
> designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the
> technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of
> Internet architecture.
> 
> Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process.
> The Internet Society is currently accepting fellowship applications for
> the next two IETF meetings:
> 
>     * IETF 82, 13 - 18 Nov 2011, Taipei, TW
>     * IETF 83, 25 - 30 March, Paris, FR
> 
> http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/fellowship/index.php
> 
> Fellowship applications for both IETF meetings are due by 15 July 2011.
> 
> I encourage you to pass on information about this program to
> individuals involved in your network that have a keen interest in the
> Internet standardisation activities of the IETF.
> 
> The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF are sponsored by Afilias,
> Google, Microsoft, and Intel.
> 
> The Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders programme is sponsored
> by Nominet Trust, the Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en
> Coopération (AFNIC), SIDN, and the European Commission.
> 
> If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Steve Conte
> <conte[at]isoc[dot]org>.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Steve Conte
> Internet Society
> -----
> Steve Conte
> conte at isoc.org
>