Hello NANOG, This is a friendly notification of and invitation to the BCOP Track to be held on Monday afternoon at NANOG 63 in San Antonio next week. We’d (the BCOP Committee) like to invite you to come participate at our track. This is a great opportunity for newcomers to raise their technical questions - we're always looking for new topics to explore. Feel free to email ideas to bcop-support@nanog.org, or come to the track and raise them in person! Participation at the track can take (at least) two forms: 1) Come present your idea for a BCOP! Do you have a question that needs answered about the current operational practice for some portion of your network? Or maybe you have some insight to share about how something is best done? Remember that there are no dumb questions here and no BCOP is too basic or too simple. The things that you take for granted as common sense are new information for many other network engineers all around the world. Come tell us the question you’d love to have answered, or the practice you’d love to see spread! 2) Come observe, and provide feedback. There are currently 4 active NANOG-BCOP drafts: Public Peering Exchange Participant - http://bcop.nanog.org/index.php/Public_Peering_Exchange_Participant_BCOP_v0 Ethernet OAM - http://bcop.nanog.org/images/b/b0/BCOP-Ethernet_OAM-1_v_0.1.5.docx DDoS/DoS Attack - http://bcop.nanog.org/images/e/e2/BCOP-DoS-attack-appeal.docx eBGP Configuration - http://bcop.nanog.org/index.php/EBGP_Configuration_BCOP_v0.1 We will be discussing all of these documents, including considering moving some of them forward for last call and ultimately, publication as community vetted BCOPs! So, come vet them. ;-) We will likely also be discussing the Anti-Spoofing BCOP draft that is set to come out of security community stealth mode any day now. I hope to see many of you at the NANOG 63 BCOP Track in just a few short days! Cheers, ~Chris (Co-Chair, NANOG-BCOP) PS - to stay up to date on all things NANOG-BCOP, join the mailing list: http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/bcop PPS - you can also reach the committee for questions at: bcop-support@nanog.org