NANOG will hold its 17th meeting in Montreal, Canada on October 3 - 5, 1999 at the Hotel Wyndam Montreal. The meeting will be hosted by Nortel Networks and Mlink Internet. More information about the meeting, including current agenda topics and registration information, 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 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 I nter-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 within several days of the receipt of the abstract. NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and other presentation topics. ------------------------- Craig Labovitz (734) 764-0252 voice Merit Network, Inc. labovit@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105