Merit/NSFNET Regional-Techs Meeting Announcement ================================================ Hi. We are tentatively planning to hold a Merit/NSFNET Regional-Techs Meeting on January 21st and 22nd in Boulder, Colorado (in lieu of an Advanced Topics Seminar). Quite a novelity for us to hold this outside of Ann Arbor! While this is extrememly short notice for such a meeting, especially with the holidays upon us, we feel there is an urgent need to get together before the next IETF and begin planning for the expected summer time implementation of CIDR in the Internet (including BGP4 deployment, route aggregation, and management of the net number space). Other topics we are looking at for this meeting include the establishment of the GIX, transition to the next generation NSFnet, and our usual network status update. Overall, we are trying to get a feel for how many of you would be interested in attending this meeting, given its date and location. Thus, would you please send me a reply within the next few days to cast your vote on this? Positive responses will not be considered rsvp's..we are just trying to solidify our plans at the moment. If Boulder in January is a go I will be sending out a formal notice complete with an agenda, hotel information, etc., hopefully on or before next Wednesday (the 23rd). Thank you much, Sheri Repucci Merit/Internet Engineering (313) 936-2085