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ISOC Fellowships to the IETF announced
ISOC selects Fellows for IETF meetings – IETF 70, Vancouver; IETF 71 Philadelphia
RESTON, VA, USA AND GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 14 November 2007 – The Internet Society (ISOC) has announced the names of those selected as Fellows to attend the next two Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings.
As part of its longstanding commitment to technical capacity building, ISOC awards a number of Fellowships for each IETF meeting, sending engineers from developing countries to IETF meetings and pairing them with a more experienced mentor.
"The ISOC Fellowships to the IETF are a very important part of ISOC's capacity building program," says Karen Rose, ISOC's Director of Education and Programs.
"The benefits really flow both ways," says Rose. "The Fellows take back to their own communities practical understanding of standards development and have an opportunity to make global connections with experts in their field of interest. But just as importantly, the Fellows contribute to the IETF, bringing their own expertise and increasing the range of perspectives represented in the standards development process".
This round attracted 190 applications. From this highly qualified field, ISOC awarded six Fellowships for IETF 70, to be held in Vancouver, Canada, from 2-7 December 2007, and five for IETF 71, which will be in Philadelphia, USA, from 9-14 March 2008.
These recipients will represent nine countries, including one each from Mauritius, Moldova, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Kenya, Bangladesh, India, and Haiti and three from Brazil. The current ISOC IETF Fellows are:
IETF 70, Vancouver, Canada
Subramanian Moonesamy (Mauritius) is a consultant for Eland Systems and is an active participant in IETF processes, especially in the area of IDN.
Frederico Faria (Brazil) is a Masters Degree Student and a Consultant for UFMG and Intec in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is mostly interested in the work of the radext, sip, and dime working groups.
Eduardo Ascenço Reis (Brazil) is a Senior Network Analyst for CTBC Multimidia in SDNS operations, with an interest in routing topics.
Pedro Rodrigues Torres-Júnior (Brazil) is a Network Manager within Brazilian National Research Network (RNP) in Parana, Brazil. He is mostly interested in the ntp working group.
Veaceslav Sidorenco (Moldova) is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Chisinau, Moldova. The most relevant issues for him will arise from working groups in the Operations and Management area.
Dessalegn Mequanint Yehuala (Ethiopia) is a Lecturer at the Computer Science department of the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He has been following the IETF speermint working group for some time now.
IETF 71, Philadelphia, USA
Ali Akbar (Pakistan) is currently a PhD student at the Ajou University in Suwon, Korea. He is active in the IETF 6lowpan working group and is working on an Internet Draft for that group.
Vincent Ngundi (Kenya) is the technical manager of the .ke ccTLD registry in Nairobi, Kenya. For his work, he is mostly interested in working groups related to DNS, such as dnsop and dnsext.
Mohibul Hasib Mahmud (Bangladesh) is a network manager responsible for the routing of bracNet (BRAC BDMail Network Ltd). He is interested in working groups related to DNS such as the idr working group.
Mudievedu Shroff Rajesh (India) is in charge of network and system administration at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU) at the Indian Institute of Science. He is interested in the following working groups: v6ops, 16ng, iptel, and sip.
Max Larson Henry (Haiti) is a University Professor at the State University of Haiti in Port au Prince and is interested in working groups related to IPv6.
ISOC is very pleased to acknowledge the corporate sponsorship from Afilias and Google in support of these IETF Fellowships.
About ISOC
The Internet Society (www.isoc.org) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.
About the IETF
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF is an organised activity of the Internet Society.
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Mark Thalhimer
Director of Communications and Public Relations, Internet Society
E-mail: thalhimer@isoc.org
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