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    Hi Seun,<br>
    <br>
    Thank you for mentioning this again.<br>
    <br>
    If my memory serves me well, there was some gathering at AfNOG
    meetings to get us involved in IETF, the AISF from ISOC and some
    local initiatives.<br>
    - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.isoc.org/regions/africa/meetings/mar07.shtml">http://www.isoc.org/regions/africa/meetings/mar07.shtml</a><br>
    -
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-standards-forum">http://www.internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-standards-forum</a><br>
    <br>
    There was also a recent survey from ISOC called Operators and the
    IETF. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/01/new-project-operators-and-the-ietf/">http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/01/new-project-operators-and-the-ietf/</a><br>
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    How many operators from Africa took the survey ?<br>
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    This initiative from LAC is interesting and while I would like to
    see something similar in the Region, I understand that an AfIETF is
    a long term process and will never happen until someone take the
    lead and have the resources to conduct a readiness level assessment,
    draft a long term action plan and go forward. Juliao, how did the
    LAC community achieve this great initiative?<br>
    <br>
    Jean Robert<br>
    <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/29/14, 8:49 AM, Seun Ojedeji
      wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">Great initiative. Do we have active African IETF
        participants that can introduce a similar initiative in our
        region?</p>
      <p dir="ltr">Cheers!</p>
      <p dir="ltr">sent from Google nexus 4<br>
        kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Mar 2014 13:33, "Juliao Braga" <<a
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:juliao@braga.eti.br">juliao@braga.eti.br</a>>
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            <pre>2nd Call for Papers and Participation (apologies for multiple copies)
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            Complete information in: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://iwpietf.lacnog.org" target="_blank">http://iwpietf.lacnog.org</a>
            (English, Spanish and Portuguese)<br>
            <br>
            <h1>I Workshop pre-IETF</h1>
            <p>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 ( <a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3935.txt"
                target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3935.txt</a>
              )]. 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.</p>
            <p>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.</p>
            <p>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.<br>
            </p>
            <h3>Important dates</h3>
            <ul>
              <li><em> Full and Short Paper Submission</em>: April 21</li>
              <li><em> Notification to the authors</em>: May 21</li>
              <li><em>Final version</em>: June 21</li>
              <li><em>Workshop</em>: July 30</li>
            </ul>
            <h3>Format</h3>
            <p>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 <span
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                Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-spacing:0px"><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38"
                  style="color:rgb(0,168,89);text-decoration:none"
                  target="_blank">http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38</a></span>,
              up to 15 or 6 pages and uploaded via JEMS: <a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/chair.cgi?c=2018"
                target="_blank">https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/chair.cgi?c=2018</a>. 


              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 - <a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/ietf-lac"
                target="_blank">https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/ietf-lac</a>.<br>
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            <h3>Topics of Interest</h3>
            <p>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 (<a
                moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ietf.org"
                target="_blank">http://www.ietf.org</a>), in particular
              on page <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/" target="_blank">http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/</a>.
            </p>
            <ul>
              <li><em>Area 1.</em> Applications: Protocols reaching
                users programs such as email and Web</li>
              <li><em>Area 2.</em> General: IETF processes and related
                working groups processes that do not fit into any of the
                available areas.</li>
              <li><em>Area 3.</em> Internet: The different ways to IP
                routing and DNS management.</li>
              <li><em>Area 4.</em> Operations and Management :
                Operational aspects monitoring and network
                configuration.</li>
              <li><em>Area 5.</em> Real-time applications and
                infrastructure : Interpersonal communications sensitive
                to delays.</li>
              <li><em>Area 6.</em> Routing : Routing packets to their
                destination.</li>
              <li><em>Area 7.</em> Security : Authentication and
                privacy.</li>
              <li><em>Area 8.</em> Transport: Special services for
                special packages.</li>
            </ul>
            <h3>Key workshop contacts:</h3>
            <ul>
              <li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alvaro-retana/3/179/270"
                  target="_blank"><em>Alvaro Retana</em></a>: aretana AT
                cisco DOT com (Chair)<br>
              </li>
              <li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/people/mr-christian-o-flaherty"
                  target="_blank"><em>Christian O’Flaherty</em></a>:
                oflaherty AT isoc DOT org (Co-Chair)<br>
              </li>
              <li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://lattes.cnpq.br/7092085044582071"
                  target="_blank"><em>Julião Braga</em></a>: juliao AT
                braga DOT eti DOT br (Local Chair)<br>
              </li>
              <li><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://inf.ufrgs.br/%7Egranville/"
                  target="_blank"><em>Lisandro Zambenedetti Granvile</em></a>:
                granville AT inf DOT ufrgs DOT br (Chair TPC)<br>
              </li>
            </ul>
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