* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS NANOG 35 October 23-25, 2005 Fourth Joint Meeting With ARIN! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 35th meeting October 23-25, 2005, in Los Angeles. The meeting will be hosted by Equinix. This will be NANOG's fourth joint meeting with ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (www.arin.net). NANOG will meet from Sunday to Tuesday, and ARIN from Wednesday to Friday, October 26-28. NANOG registration opens in August. NANOG conferences provide a forum for information exchange among network operators, engineers, and researchers. Meetings are held three times each year, and include presentations, tutorial sessions, and BOFs. NANOG solicits presentations highlighting issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in the Internet. Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperability. Researchers are invited to present short (10-minute) summaries of their work for operator feedback. Topics include routing, network performance, statistical measurement and analysis, and protocol development and implementation. Studies presented may be works in progress. Researchers from academia, government, and industry are encouraged to present. The community is invited to present talks on: Network Operations - Everyday life in the NOC - Present-day operational case studies - Exchange point technologies and implementation - Peering/colocation coordination issues - Content provider issues - Security attacks/mitigation, tools, and analysis - State of OAM tools for IP and MPLS networks Deployment Experience - Alternative last-mile technologies (metro/rural, broadband, radio, optical, etc.) - VoIP deployment - VoIP peering and interconnect - Anycast - IPTV - Large-scale wireless - Wavelength use by enterprises Research, Policy, and New Technology - Approaches to securing the global routing system (e.g., s*BGP and/or other tools) - Inter-provider MPLS/QoS/PCE - RIR policy (e.g., implications of HD ratio) - Currently active standards organizations and their topic areas - IPv6 economics: why is deployment so slow? - Approaches to IPv6 scalability, e.g., SHIM6 Topics for short (10-20 minute) lightning talks will be solicited on-site in LA. "Technologies to Watch" topics will be appropriate for this session. Proposals are also invited for tutorial sessions. Previous topics have included: - Troubleshooting BGP - Best Practices for Determining Traffic Matrices - Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing - BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for panels and other presentation topics. How to Present -------------- Submit an abstract and draft slides for the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. See www.nanog.org/presentations.html for submission guidelines. The deadline for abstracts and slides is September 6, 2005. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by September 6, a limited number of slots may be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely, important, or critical to the operations of the Internet. Submissions will be reviewed by the NANOG Program Committee, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by September 26. Final drafts of presentation slides are due by October 12, and final versions October 19.