The Latin American and Caribbean Peering Forum LACPF-2018 will be held in Panama City, Panama on the April 30th, 2018. The goal of the LACPF is to promote and provide collaboration spaces in topics related to interconnection and peering, IXPs, CDNs, transport capacity, and colo facilities among others.
From this edition, the LACPF will change to the more know format that other Peering Forums have. The event will be a day long, the first half for talks and presentations and the second half for work and negotiation sessions.
The LACPF-2018 Program Committee invites the Internet community to submit their presentations for the event. The topics of interest to LACNOG 2017 include, but are not limited to: - Topics related to interconnection, peering, routing, and content distribution networks - Best Practices - Success cases - IPv6 Deployment - Scalability - Challenges - Deployment projects - Monitoring and network management - Network operation and professional experiences, success stories - Infrastructure - Critical Systems - Disaster recovery - SDX - Services - DNS / DNSSEC / IDNs. - CDNs. - Cooperation - Synergies with operators and government - Relation between universities and network operators Presentations must be submitted according to the following schedule:: - Reception of drafts and abstracts: 23 March 2018 - Evaluation by the Program Committee: By April 6th 2018 - Submission of the final presentation: April 16th 2018 - Event date: April 30th 2018 All submissions must meet the following requirements: - Proposals must be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish. - Accepted formats: Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT, PPTX), Apache OpenOffice Presentation (ODP), LibreOffice Impress (ODP), or Portable Document Format (PDF). - The number of slides must be appropriate for the time assigned for the presentation. As a rule of thumb, estimate 1-2 minutes per slide. Please send works to cp-pf-lac@googlegroups.com with the following: - Title - Summary or Extended Abstract. No more than 500 words. - Name, email, organization Program Committee - Gabriel Adonaylo - Flavio Amaral - Hernán Arcidiacono - Guillermo Cicileo - Milton Kashiwakura - Fabian Mejia - Christian O’Flaherty - Mauricio Oviedo -