NANOG will hold its 17th meeting in Montreal, Canada on October 3 - 5, 1999. This we be our first truly North-American (i.e. not United States) meeting. The local host for NANOG17 is Nortel Networks. More information on the meeting and conference hotel is available at http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910/ Call for Presentations ---------------------- NANOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points. Previous meetings have included presentations on: Backbone traffic engineering Coordination of inter-provider QoS Deployment experience with queueing disciplines (CAR, RED) Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures Security issues for the Internet core Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration Building large-scale measurement infrastructure Cooperative inter-provider caching Alternatives to hot-potato routing Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance Experience with differentiated services Reports from next-generation networks (Internet2, CA*net, etc) Inter-domain multicast deployment Backbone network failure analysis Inter-exchange point updates Tutorials have covered topics such as: BGP case studies Address allocation and renumbering External route selection IP multicast technologies How to Present -------------- Submit an informal one- or two-paragraph abstract describing the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. The proposal should be submitted well in advance of the conference. Notification of acceptance is rolling and is usually provided one or two days after receipt of the abstract. NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and other presentation topics.