Greetings - here's what we've lined up so far for the February NANOG. Are there other topics you'd like to hear about? ------------------------------------------- PRESENTATIONS - "Technical Considerations in Preventing Mail Abuse (Spam)" Presentation and open discussion, Paul Vixie, Vixie Enterprises See http://maps.vix.com/ - "Squid Caching Update," K Claffy, NLANR - "IPv6 Solutions/IPv4 Issues," Christian Huitema, Bellcore, & Yakov Rekhter, Cisco - "Monitoring your Network with Freely Available Statistics Reporting Tools: An Overview," Stan Barber, Academ Consulting Services - "ARIN Update," Kim Hubbard, ARIN - "Recent Events in Inter-Provider Multicasting," Dave Meyer, Univ. of Oregon - "Multihoming: Problems and Solutions from the Customer Point of View," Howard Berkowitz TUTORIALS - "BGP 101: An Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol" Paul Ferguson, Cisco - "Routing Gotcha's to Watch For," Avi Freedman, Net Access - "Using BGP Communities and MEDs With GateD," Sue Hares, Merit PS - the NANOG registration staff is on vacation until January 5, so please hold your cards, calls, and letters until then. (Web registration will stay open during the holidays ... :) --Susan Harris