[afnog] 2nd. Call for Papers and Participation - I Workshop pre-IETF (Side Event to CSBC 2014)

[Seun Ojedeji]

Great initiative. Do we have active African IETF participants that can
introduce a similar initiative in our region?

Cheers!

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kindly excuse brevity and typos.
On 29 Mar 2014 13:33, "Juliao Braga" <juliao at braga.eti.br> wrote:

>  2nd Call for Papers and Participation (apologies for multiple copies)
> ______________________________________________________
>
>
> Complete information in: http://iwpietf.lacnog.org (English, Spanish and
> Portuguese)
>
> I Workshop pre-IETF
>
> The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an international community
> interested in fulfilling the mission of defining standards that impact the
> design, use and management of Internet resources [RFC3935 (
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3935.txt )]. The process of establishing
> standards for the Internet is long, complex and requires active
> participation, particularly of students and researchers. There are many
> people around the world actively working on it, however there is a growing
> need for more fresh participation.
>
> The attendance from Latin America has been very low, as many potential
> targeted participants do not know about the IETF or were not motivated to
> do so. A group of volunteers emerged from the "IETF - LAC list" to build
> this Workshop, aiming to increase Latin American presence in IETF
> processes. Besides outreaching about IETF, it is important to provide an
> environment that allows our technicians, students and researchers to show
> their skills, in advance of any IETF meeting.
>
> The papers presented at the workshop will be adapted or supplemented if
> necessary, and forwarded to the IETF, with effective support (by the
> Committee Pos Workshop) to increase Latin American participation.
>  Important dates
>
>    - * Full and Short Paper Submission*: April 21
>    - * Notification to the authors*: May 21
>    - *Final version*: June 21
>    - *Workshop*: July 30
>
> Format
>
> The full-day event will consist of technical sessions with selected paper
> presentations and invited panels, lectures and workshops. Technical
> sessions have presentations based on technical papers (full papers) and
> extended abstracts (position papers) written in Espanish, Portuguese or
> English. They must follow the format defined in the standard from the
> Brazilian Computing Society, available in
> http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38,
> up to 15 or 6 pages and uploaded via JEMS:
> https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/chair.cgi?c=2018.  For CSBC 2014 attendees,
> there will be a daily group discussion to address additional topics,
> followed in the list IETF LAC (which subscription is free -
> https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/ietf-lac.
>  Topics of Interest
>
> Topics of interest for WPIETF LAC 2014 include a discussion (original or
> not) that fit in eight areas of interest to the IETF as described below and
> detailed in several pages of the IETF website (http://www.ietf.org), in
> particular on page http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/.
>
>    - *Area 1.* Applications: Protocols reaching users programs such as
>    email and Web
>    - *Area 2.* General: IETF processes and related working groups
>    processes that do not fit into any of the available areas.
>    - *Area 3.* Internet: The different ways to IP routing and DNS
>    management.
>    - *Area 4.* Operations and Management : Operational aspects monitoring
>    and network configuration.
>    - *Area 5.* Real-time applications and infrastructure : Interpersonal
>    communications sensitive to delays.
>    - *Area 6.* Routing : Routing packets to their destination.
>    - *Area 7.* Security : Authentication and privacy.
>    - *Area 8.* Transport: Special services for special packages.
>
> Key workshop contacts:
>
>    - *Alvaro Retana* <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alvaro-retana/3/179/270>:
>    aretana AT cisco DOT com (Chair)
>     - *Christian O'Flaherty*<http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/people/mr-christian-o-flaherty>:
>    oflaherty AT isoc DOT org (Co-Chair)
>     - *Julião Braga* <http://lattes.cnpq.br/7092085044582071>: juliao AT
>    braga DOT eti DOT br (Local Chair)
>     - *Lisandro Zambenedetti Granvile* <http://inf.ufrgs.br/%7Egranville/>:
>    granville AT inf DOT ufrgs DOT br (Chair TPC)
>
>
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