OARC 41 will be a two-day hybrid meeting and the tentative dates are 6th-7th September to be co-located with ICANN DNS Symposium in Asia.

The Programme Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

All DNS-related subjects and suggestions for discussion topics are welcome. For inspiration, we provide a non-exhaustive list of ideas:

• Operations: Any operational gotchas, lessons learned from an outage, details/reasons for a recent outage (how to improve TTR, tooling)
• Deployment: DNS config management and release process.Monitoring: Log ingestion pipeline, analytics infrastructure, anomaly detection
• Scaling: DNS performance management and metrics. Increasing DNS Server Efficiency
• Security/Privacy: DNSSEC signing and validation, key storage, rollovers, qname minimization, DoH/DoT

The presentations can be either a full-length presentation - 20 mins (+5 mins Q/A) or a lightning presentation - 10 mins (+5 mins for Q/A)

Workshop Milestones:

2023-04-16 Submissions open via Indico
2023-06-10 Deadline for submission (23:59 UTC)
2023-06-27 Preliminary list of contributions published
2023-07-11 Full agenda published
2023-08-08 Deadline for slideset submission and Rehearsal
2023-09-06 OARC 41 Workshop - Day1
2023-09-07 OARC 41 Workshop - Day2

The Registration page and details for presentation submission are published at: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc41

To allow the Programme Committee to make objective assessments of submissions, so as to ensure the quality of the workshop, submissions SHOULD include slides. Draft slides are acceptable on submission. Example guidelines for presentation slides: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/presentation-tips/

Additional information for speakers of OARC 41:

• Your talk will be broadcast live and recorded for future reference
• Your presentation slides will be available for delegates and others to download and refer to, before, during and after the meeting
• Remote speakers have mandatory rehearsal on 2023-08-08 at 14:00 UTC. It would be very useful to have your slides (even if draft) ready for this.

Note: DNS-OARC provides registration fee waivers for the workshop to support those who are part of underrepresented groups to speak at and/or attend DNS-OARC. More details will be provided when registration opens.

If you have questions or concerns you can contact the Programme Committee:
https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/programme via submissions@dns-oarc.net

OARC depends on sponsorship to fund its workshops and associated social events. Please contact sponsor@dns-oarc.net if your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor.

(Please note that OARC is run on a non-profit basis, and is not in a position to reimburse expenses or time for speakers at its meetings.)

John Todd, for the DNS-OARC Programme Committee

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John Todd - jtodd@quad9.net
General Manager - Quad9 Recursive Resolver