Bonjour - here's the draft agenda for NANOG17. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Draft Agenda: NANOG 17 October 3-5, Montreal ** MC for NANOG17 - Return Performance by Bill Norton! ** Sunday, October 3 Tutorials ----------------- 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Routing Policy Specification Language/IRR Tutorial Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Introduction to MPLS Peter Ashwood-Smith, Nortel 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Deploying Distributed Content Caching in Large IP Networks Andrew Khoo and Adrian Chadd, Versatel Telecom 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. OSPF Goodies for ISPs Howard Berkowitz, Gett Communications Monday, October 4 ----------------- 9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings Susan R. Harris, Merit Gregory Soo, Nortel Pascal Gosselin, Mlink Internet 9:15 a.m. Traffic Engineering Panel: Perspectives From Network Operators Ed Kern, Digex, moderator Alan Hannan, GlobalCenter Andrew Partan, Verio Hank Kilmer, Intermedia Communications Curtis Villamizar, Avici 10:45 a.m. BREAK 11:00 a.m. Building Network Monitoring Systems with RRDtool Tobias Oetiker, CAIDA 11:45 a.m. Using Remstats for Network and Server Monitoring Thomas Erskine, Communications Research Centre 12:00 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. Managing Multicast Services - A User's View John Robinson & John Stewart, Communications Research Centre 2:00 p.m. Optical Networks for the Rest of Us: Recent Developments in Canada's Research Networks Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE 2:45 p.m. The HOW-TO Guide to Building Your Own Fiber Network: An ISP Perspective Yves Le Borgne, RISQ Robert Proulx, IMS Expert Conseils 3:30 p.m. BREAK 3:45 p.m. News from the Exchange Points PAIX.Net - Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium 6TAP - Florent Parent, Viaginie Ameritech NAP - Andrew Schmidt, Ameritech The MAEs - Steve Feldman, MCI WorldCom Ames Exchange - Lance Tatman, NASA Ames Research Center 4:45-5:00 p.m. Update on the RADB Internet Routing Registry Service Craig Labovitz, Microsoft 5:30-7:30 p.m. Beer n' Gear! Monday Evening BOFs ------------------- 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Peering BOF Bill Norton, Equinix 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. How to Be a Local NANOG Host Lucy Lynch, University of Oregon 9:00 - 9:45 p.m. Inter-Provider Cooperation for MEDs and Best-Exit Routing Patrick Gilmore, PGExpress Avi Freedman, AboveNet 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. Conveying Clue: Educating New Staff and Customers Howard Berkowitz, Gett Communications Tuesday, October 5 ------------------ 9:00 a.m. Content-Friendly Caching: A Content Hoster's Guide to the HTTP/1.x Specifications Solom Heddaya, InfoLibria 9:30 a.m. Panel: Current and Next-Generation Content Distribution Techniques Bill Norton, Equinix, moderator Evan Baer, SkyCache Jonathon Seelig, Akamai Holly Pease, Digital Island 10:45 a.m. BREAK 11:00 a.m. Spam Update Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium 11:15 a.m. BIND and DNS: The Moving Targets Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium 11:30 a.m. TBA 12:00 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. Filling the Gap: Provisioning Bandwidth Between T1 and T3 Joshua Sakov, Tiara Networks 2:00 p.m. CenterTrack - An IP Overlay Network to Facilitate Packet Tracing Robert Stone, UUNET 2:30 p.m. Closing Remarks Susan R. Harris, Merit