*Call for Presentations--CNNOG 4 & NSP-SEC-China Summit** * The China Network Operators' Group (CNNOG) and first nsp-sec-china summit will hold its 4th meeting June 22-23, 2007, in Beijing, China. The meeting will be hosted by BUPT. <http://www.bupt.edu.cn/cin/index.htm> CNNOG conferences provide a forum for information exchange among network operators, engineers, and researchers. Meetings are held 1-2 times each year, and include panels, presentations, tutorial sessions, and BOFs. The CNNOG community is invited to attend and participate in this forum, which offers numerous opportunities to share ideas, explore research and development, and interact with leaders in this important field of network operations. Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperability. *General Session* The community is invited to develop present talks on topics relevant to the CNNOG community, including: - *Network Operations* - Present-day operational case studies - Everyday life in the NOC and tools of interest - Exchange point technologies and implementation - Peering/colocation coordination issues - State of OAM tools for IP and MPLS networks - Disaster recovery and planning - - * SP Security* - ISP security best practice - Anti-DDOS,SPAM - Botnet tracking - SP Forensics - - * Deployment Experience* - VoIP deployment, architecture, peering, and interconnect - Anycast - IPTV - wireless - 3G - - *Research, and New Technology* - Approaches to securing the global routing system (e.g., s*BGP and/or other tools) - Routing system scalability - Capacity planning standards and tools - Inter-provider MPLS/QoS/PCE - IPv6: economics, deployments, and adoption rates - Approaches to IPv6 scalability, e.g., Shim6 *Talks* A general session talk should be on a topic of interest to the general CNNOG audience, and may be up to 30 minutes long. *Lightning Talks* A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the CNNOG audience. These are limited to ten minutes; this will be strictly enforced. If you have a topic that's timely, interesting, or even a crackpot idea you want to share, we encourage you to consider presenting it. Signups for lightning talks will be accepted during the CNNOG meeting. *Tutorials* Proposals are also invited for tutorial sessions from the introductory through advanced level on all related topics, including: - Disaster Recovery Planning - Troubleshooting BGP - Best Practices for Determining Traffic Matrices - Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing - BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs *BOFs* BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are 90-minute informal sessions on topics which are of interest to a portion of the CNNOG community. A typical BOF session includes some presentations, but usually is focused on community discussion and interaction. Frequent BOF topics include: - Peering - ISP Security - Tools A BOF session is 90 minutes. * * *How to Present* The primary speaker, moderator, or author should submit presentation information to CNNOG4@gmail.com *All submissions must include:* - Author's name(s) - Preferred contact email address - Submission category (General Session, Panel, Tutorial, Research Forum, or BOF) - Presentation title - Abstract - Slides (attachment or URL), in PDF (preferred) or Powerpoint format (Slides are optional for BOFs.) *The deadline for proposals is Thursday, May 31, at 11:59pm.* A limited number of slots may be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely, important, or critical to the operation of the Internet. Submissions will be reviewed by the CNNOG Program Committee, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by June 10. Final versions for posting are due on June 15. Website: http://www.cnnog.org/cnnog4