Greetings - here's a draft of the agenda for next week's meeting. ------------------------------------- Sunday, Jan. 31 - Afternoon Tutorials ------------------------------------- 1:00-2:50 p.m. BGP 101: BGP Concepts Made Easy (Howard Berkowitz) 3:10-5:00 p.m. BGP 102: A Mid-Sized Network Configuration Case Study (Avi Freedman, Net Access) Monday, Feb. 1 -------------- 9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings (Craig Labovitz, Merit) 9:15 a.m. Routing Scalability in Backbone Networks (Enke Chen, Cisco) 9:45 a.m. Multiprotocol Label Switching: Progress in the IETF from an ISP Perspective Curtis Villamizar, ANS, moderator Paul Doolan, Ennovate Networks Tony Li, Juniper Networks Yakov Rekhter, Cisco 10:45 a.m. BREAK 11:00 a.m. Deploying Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (Dino Farinacci, Cisco) 11:45 a.m. A Modest Proposal for Quenching Smurf Amplifiers (Avi Freedman, Net Access) 12:00 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. Academic NGI Networking: What's the Difference Between Internet2, Abilene, and the vBNS? Paul Love, Internet2, moderator Guy Almes, Internet2 Jerry Sobieski, Abilene John Jamison, MCI/vBNS 2:30 p.m. ARIN Update (Kim Hubbard, ARIN) 2:45 p.m. InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) 3:15 p.m. BREAK 3:30 p.m. A Novel Use of Distributed Directory Service (Bill Manning, ISI) 3:45 p.m. Network Failure Analysis (Craig Labovitz, Merit) 4:15 p.m. RED Analysis for Congested Network Core and Customer Egress (Bradley Reynolds, QualNet) Monday Evening BOFs ------------------- 7:30-8:30 p.m. Switch Migration and Renumbering at the Chicago NAP (Andrew Schmidt, AADS) 7:30-9:00 p.m. Cflowd Configuration (Daniel McRobb, CAIDA) 9:00-10:30 p.m. Modem Wholesaling in Today's Marketplace: Vendor Approaches and Solutions (Marie Hattar, Nortel) 9:00-10:30 p.m. Managing Filters and Traffic Shaping in Complex Networks (Pete Kruckenberg, inQuo) Tuesday, Feb. 2 --------------- 9:00 a.m. The Ins and Outs of Layer 4+ Switching (Shirish Sataye, Alteon) 9:45 a.m. Cflowd Update (Daniel McRobb, Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) 10:30 a.m. BREAK 10:45 a.m. Internet Engineering Curriculum (Evi Nemeth, CAIDA) 11:00 a.m. IRcache Web Proxy Bake-Off (Duane Wessels, University of California, San Diego) 11:15 a.m. International Exchange Points: Growth and Trends (Bill Manning, ISI) 11:30 a.m. Setting Up a Local Exchange in Denver: Why Haven't More Providers Joined? (Trent Hein, XOR) 11:45 a.m. Closing Remarks (Craig Labovitz, Merit) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan R. Harris, Ph.D. Merit Network, Inc. Phone: 734.936.2100 srh@merit.edu Senior Science Writer Fax: 734.647.3185 -------------------------------------------------------------------------