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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">The Internet Society has announced that it is inviting applications for its latest Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF. The Fellowship programme allows engineers
from emerging and developing economies to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.</font></font></div>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">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.</font></font></div>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process. The Internet Society is currently accepting fellowship applications for the IETF 92 in Dallas,
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">* IETF 92, March 22-27, 2015, Dallas, Texas, United States.</font><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><br>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">Information and links to apply can be found at: </font><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/fellows-ietf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" color="#1155CC">http://www.<wbr>internetsociety.</font><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" color="#1155CC">org/fellows-<wbr>ietf</font></font></a></font></div>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">Fellowship applications will close on 30 November, 2014.</font><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><br>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">I encourage you apply or pass this information about this program to individuals involved in your network that have a keen interest in the Internet protocol development
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF are sponsored by Afilias, Google, NBCUniversal, Microsoft, and Verisign.</font></font></div>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Niel Harper <</font><a href="mailto:harper@isoc.org" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">harper@isoc.org</font></font></a><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">>.</font><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif"><br>
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<font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Helvetica,Sans-Serif">Regards,</font></font></div>
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