Agenda topics for NANOG 37 - San Jose - June 4-7

9 May 2006

      Here's the current list of confirmed agenda items for NANOG 37,
coming up June 4-7 in San Jose, CA:

Sunday, June 4:
     Newcomer Orientation and Reception, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
     Steering Committee Community Meeting, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

General Session: Mornings, June 5-7
     Managing 100+ Million IP Addresses    Alain Durand, Comcast

     Authentication for TCP-based Routing and Management Protocols
                                           Ron Bonica, Juniper

     Anatomy of Recent DNS Reflector Attacks From the Victim and
     Reflector Points of Views             Frank Scalzo, Versisign

     Panel: Network Neutrality—What Does It Mean To Operators?
                                           Dan Golding, Tier1  
Research, moderator

     Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers
                                          Anirudh Ramachandran and  
Nick Feamster,
                                          Georgia Institute of  
Technology

     Research Forum:
         Pretty Good BGP and the Internet Alert Registry
                                          Josh Karlin, University of  
New Mexico

         Active Measurement of the AS Path Prepending Method
                                          Samantha Lo and Rocky K. C.  
Chang,
                                          Hong Kong Polytechnic  
University

         Efficient Internet Routing with Independent ISPs
                                          Ratul Mahajan, David  
Wetherall,
                                          and Thomas Anderson,
                                          University of Washington/ 
Microsoft Research

     Lightning Talks - short talks of immediate interest, sellected  
on-site

Tutorials and BOFs: Afternoons, June 5-6
     Disaster Recovery for Customers: Physician, Heal Thyself
     Level: Introductory/Intermediate 	Howard Berkowitz

     MPLS Traffic Engineering
     Level: Introductory/Intermediate 	Pete Templin, TexLink

     Fundamentals of Passive Monitoring Access
     Level: Introductory/Intermediate 	Joy Weber, Net Optics

     BGP Techniques for Service Providers
     Level: Introductory/Intermediate 	Philip Smith, Cisco

     Exchange Operators BOF 	Moderators: Celeste Anderson, USC, and  
Joe Abley, ISC

     BGP Tools BOF       Moderators: Dan Massey, Colorado State  
University
                                     Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute  
of Technology
                                     and Lixia Zhang

     OPSEC Working Group BOF     Moderator: Ross Callon, Juniper

     Peering BOF XII             Moderator: William B. Norton, Equinix

     PGP Key Signing             Moderator: Joe Abley, ISC

More topics will be announced late this week.

Please note that the early registration discount period ends this coming
Sunday, May 14, and the discount hotel room block ends on Monday, May  
22.

As always, current information and links for meeting registration and  
hotel
reservations are available at http://www.nanog.org

     For the Program Committee,
     Steve Feldman, chair