Sorry for the late notice. Some people on NANOG may be interested in attending this meeting being held on the last day of ICANN, November 4, 1999. If you plan to attend, rsvp to Bill Manning, bmanning@isi.edu. The venue is set: (Meeting at the same location as ICANN) Sheraton Gateway Hotel 6101 West Century Blvd. Suite 214 04 November 1999 09:00 - 17:00 Note: the Sheraton Hotel is sold out, see the ICANN web site for additional hotels http://wwww.icann.org/. The Program: Internet Y2K Wrap-up The Internet will be used to maintain communications during the transition from 1999 to 2000. The Internet will also be used for status reports, requests for assistance, reports of late-breaking problems and solutions, and probably in ways we have not yet considered. Therefore, it is very important that we have this meeting to get as many as possible involved in making sure the Internet is Y2K Ready and On-Time. Join us for the Wrap-up meeting of the Asia-Pacific Internet Association Y2K Roadshow, Status/Update for the President's Y2K Council, and Internet Industry Status and Update for our Y2K efforts. The focus is Contingency Planning. All Internet Service Providers, those operating a name server and/or domain registry, exchange points, network time servers, industry associations, and government officials should take a quick look at http://www.cert.org/y2k/indmessage.html for a review of the upgrades and testing needed, anticipated problems and solutions, information resources, time based problems (NTP), and suggestions for contingencies. Confirmed speakers (more are making arrangements): Bill Manning - USC, Information Sciences Institute Justin Newton - NetZero Director of Networking Mike Todd - ISOC Los Angeles Chapter (World-Wide Y2K Weekend) Robert Cannon - FCC Pat Burt - US Y2K Coordination Center The meeting room will seat ~100 - theater style two refreshment breaks are scheduled A follow-up (no more than a two page report) and electronic copies of the presentations will be made available to the APIA web site as well as the Presidential Y2K site. ICANN may want a link to this as well. Call for additional presentations on these subjects: Please send e-mail if you have a presentation for the agenda. Overall - to push the best effort to make Internet Operation Y2K ready A) Reach ccTLD Administrators, appeal them to make sure they will prepare ther DNS servers Y2K compliant B) Call critical Network Operators and coordinate Contingency Plans on global basis - make real working plan Target audience: for A) DNS Root server opertaors ccTLD Administrators and related people (mostly those who come to ICANN meeting) for B) Engineers in charge of network operations at critical points: Internet Y2K coordination team from each country/region International Backbone operators Major exchange points Major NAPs and NOCs AS network operators (ISP and others) Plus Relevant Vendors A) is more towards calling for 'social responsibility' for managers and administrators B) is very pragmatic content - to share information about Y2K readiness in each country/region - to produce Global Contingency Plan and make final confirmation - make contact list of key operators for Y2K conversion - prepare procedures/information template for emergency report - discuss and prepare basic procedures/rules for network operation policy in the event of any unexpected function of Internet services/traffic.