Just a friendly reminder that proposals for the Miami NANOG are due on January 2. We're especially interested in hearing from people who'd like to give a tutorial. See you soon! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS * * NANOG 24 * * February 10-12, 2002 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 24th meeting February 10-12, 2002, in Miami, Florida. The meeting will be hosted by Terremark Worldwide. Registration begins January 2. NANOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to large-scale (i.e., national/international) Internet backbone networking technologies and operational practices. Meetings are held three times each year, and include two days of short presentations, plus afternoon/evening tutorial sessions. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering practices. NANOG conferences draw over 600 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the research and education community. <p> The meeting will be held at the Hotel Inter-Continental Miami. For more information about NANOG meetings, schedules, and logistics, see: http://www.nanog.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS NANOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points. Previous meetings have included presentations on: - Backbone traffic engineering - Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication - Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures - Security issues for the Internet core - Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration - Building large-scale measurement infrastructure - Cooperative inter-provider caching - Alternatives to hot-potato routing - Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance - Experience with differentiated services - Inter-domain multicast deployment - Backbone network failure analysis Tutorials have covered topics such as: - BGP case studies - Tools and techniques for ISP security - External route selection - IP multicast technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO PRESENT Submit a detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. The deadline for proposals is January 2, 2002. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by January 2, a limited number of slots will be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely and important. Submissions will be reviewed by the NANOG Program Committee, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by January 16, 2002. NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and other presentation topics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------