Greetings - here's a draft agenda for the Atlanta meeting. For additional meeting details, see: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9811/update.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY EVENING, NOV. 8 TOOL DEMOS ---------- 6:30 p.m. Free Software for Configuring Routers and Monitoring Routing (Abha Ahuja, Merit, Jimmy Wan, IPMA/U-M, Mukesh Agrawal, IPMA/U-M) TUTORIALS --------- 7:15 p.m. Good ISPs Have No Class: Addressing Nuances and Nuisances (Howard Berkowitz) 8:45 p.m. Optimal External Route Selection: Tips and Techniques for ISPs (Avi Freedman, Net Access) MONDAY, NOV. 9 -------------- 9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings (Craig Labovitz, Merit) 9:15 a.m. Alternative Interconnects: Technology, Attachment Requirements, and Performance Measurements (Bill Manning, ISI, panel moderator) 10:45 a.m. BREAK 11:00 a.m. Who You Gonna Call? (Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates) 11:30 a.m. Interesting Peering Activities at the Exchange Points (Naiming Shen, Cisco) 12:00-1:30 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. CA*net 3 - Architectural and Engineering Issues of Building an Optical Internet (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE) 2:15 p.m. Enabling Technologies for Large-Scale Backbone Caching (Peter Danzig, Network Appliance, moderator) Domestic Users of Caching - Ed Schwab, Tripod/Lycos - Ed Kern, DIGEX Enabling Technologies - TBA, Cisco - Shirish Sathaye, Alteon - Bill Maggs, MCI 3:45 p.m. BREAK 4:00 p.m. Multicast/MBGP: Real-Life Experiences in the Field (Dave Meyer, Cisco, panel moderator) - Steve Rubin, AboveNet - Dorian Kim, Verio - Doug Pasko, Cable & Wireless - Henry Kilmer/Danielle Deibler, DIGEX - Jian Li, Qwest - Amir Tabdili, Sprint - Mujahid Khan, Sprint 5:25-5:30 p.m. Planning for Multicast Address Allocation: A Plea for Input from the IETF MALLOC Working Group (Dave Thaler, Microsoft) 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Beer n'Gear! MONDAY EVENING BOFs ------------------- 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Data Center Needs, Problems, and Technology (Bill Norton, Equinix, and Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates) 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. Caching in Today's Marketplace: Vendor Approaches and Solutions (Duane Wessels, University of California, San Diego) TUESDAY, NOV. 10 ----------------- 9:00 a.m. Updates from the Internet2 GigaPoPs - Ron Hutchins, Southern CrossRoads, Atlanta GigaPoP - Dave Meyer, Oregon GigaPoP - Mark Johnson, North Carolina Networking Initiative - Stan Barber, Texas GigaPoP 10:30 a.m. BREAK 10:45 a.m. ARIN Update (Kim Hubbard, ARIN) 11:00 a.m. InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. CAR Talk: Configuration Considerations for Cisco's Committed Access Rate (Cathy Wittbrodt, @Home) 2:00 p.m. Router Update: Fast Packet Forwarding and Packet Treatment for Differentiated Services (Curtis Villamizer, ANS, panel moderator) 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks (Craig Labovitz, Merit) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan R. Harris, Ph.D. Merit Network, Inc. Phone: 734.936.2100 srh@merit.edu Senior Science Writer Fax: 734.647.3185 -------------------------------------------------------------------------