Greetings - here are topics we've lined up so far for NANOG17 in Montreal: - Traffic Engineering Update (Panel moderated by Ed Kern, Digex) - The HOW-TO Guide to Building Your Own Fiber Network: An ISP Perspective (Yves Le Borgne, RISQ, and Robert Proulx, IMS Expert Conseils) - Optical Networks for the Rest of Us: Recent Developments in Canada's Research Networks (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE) - Filling the Gap: Provisioning Bandwidth Between T1 and T3 (Joshua Sakov, Tiara Networks) - Wireless Internet Services (John Brown, iHighway) - BIND and DNS: The Moving Targets (Paul Vixie, ISC) - Spam Update (Paul Vixie, ISC) - Current and Next-Generation Content Distribution Techniques (Panel moderated by Bill Norton, Equinix) - CenterTrack: An IP Overlay Network to Facilitate Packet Tracing (Robert Stone, UUNet) - Building Network Monitoring Systems with RRDtool (Tobias Oetiker, CAIDA) - Using Remstats for Network and Server Monitoring (Thomas Erskine, Communications Research Centre) - New MBone Monitoring Tools (John Robinson, Communications Research Centre) - Network Security: Route Filters and Flow Analysis (Bruce Potter, Fort Nocs) - Application of Statistics/Measurement Technologies to Backbone Engineering (Panel moderated by Abha Ahuja, Merit) Sunday Tutorials - Introduction to MPLS (Peter Ashwood-Smith, Nortel) - Routing Policy Specification Language/Internet Routing Registry Tutorial (Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI) Monday Evening BOFs - Inter-Provider Cooperation for MEDs and Best-Exit Routing (Patrick Gilmore, PGExpress, and Avi Freedman, AboveNet) Further info about the meeting is available here: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910/ A bientot -- Susan R. Harris