NANOG 46 Call for Presentations ============================== The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 46th meeting June 14-17, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NANOG 46 will be hosted by Comcast. The NANOG Program Committee is now seeking proposals for Presentations, Panels, Tutorials, and Birds of a Feather sessions (BOFs) for the NANOG46 program. We invite 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 real-world deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperability. NANOG 46 submissions are welcome at http://pc.nanog.org. Conditional acceptance notifications for NANOG 46 will be sent by 19 May 2009. Detail of the submission process, as well as NANOG 46 dates of interest are described below. About NANOG =========== NANOG is the premiere meeting for network operators in North America, and provides a forum for information exchange among network operators, engineers, and researchers. NANOG meets three times each year, and include panels, presentations, tutorial sessions, and BOFs. NANOG attendees include operators from networks of all sizes, enterprise operators, peering coordinators, transport and switching equipment vendors, and network researchers. NANOG attendees will share ideas and interact with leaders in the field of network operations, discuss current operational events and issues, and learn about state of the art operational techniques. Materials from NANOG46 will be archived on http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog46. Key Dates for NANOG46 ===================== Call for Presentations Opens: 02 March 2009 Please use http://pc.nanog.org Deadline for Speaker Submissions: 27 March 2009 Final Slides: 06 April 2009 Final Program Published: 17 April 2009 Lightning talk submissions open: 15 May 2009 Technical Conference ==================== The NANOG Program Committee seeks proposals for presentations, panels, tutorial sessions, and BOFs in all areas of network operations, including (but not limited to): - Power and facilities Topics may include power reliability and engineering, green power, power efficiency, cooling, and facilities management. - Interconnections Topics may include IXes, intra-building, MMR, metro-wide connections, peering, and transit purchasing tactics and strategies. - Security Topics may include routing security, route filtering of large peers/customers, and inter-as security and cooperation. - DNS Topics may include using DNS data for network metrics, botnet discovery, and geolocation. - IPv6 Topics may include real-world deployment challenges, Carrier Grade NAT, NAT-PT implementations that work and scale, and allocation strategies. - Content Topics may include Distribution (p2p, IPTV), content payment models, content distribution technologies and networks, and storage/archiving. - Disaster recovery Topics may include Risk analysis, training, agencies, planning methods, hardware portability, key tools, transport audits, and other lessons learned. In general, presentations are being sought by and for network operators of all sizes. Presentations about difficult problems (and interesting solutions) that you encounter in the course of your job are encouraged. If you think you have an interesting topic but want some feedback or assistance working it into a presentation, please email the Program Committee chair (chair@pc.nanog.org), and a representative on the Program Committee will give you the feedback needed to work it into a presentation. Talks ===== Plenary Session --------------- A plenary session talk should be on a topic of interest to the general NANOG audience, and may be up to 30 minutes long (including time for questions and answers.) Tracks ------ Tracks are 90-minute informal agenda blocks on topics which are of interest to a portion of the NANOG community. The 90-minute block can be subdivided into any number of combinations to suit the theme. A moderator generally coordinates content within the 90-minute block of time. A typical track session includes some presentations, but usually is focused on community discussion and interaction. Frequent track topics include: - Peering - ISP Security - Tools A track session is 90 minutes. Typically two tracks or three tracks will be run concurrently. Panels ------ Panel selection will be based on the importance, originality, focus and timeliness of the topic; expertise of proposed panelists; as well as the potential for informative and controversial discussion. The panel leader should provide an abstract describing the panel theme, list of panelists, and an outline of how the panel will be organized. After acceptance, the panel leader will be given the option to invite panel authors to submit their presentations to the NANOG Program Committee for review. Until then authors should not submit their individual presentations for the panel. A panel may be up to 90 minutes long. Lightning Talks --------------- A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG 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 NANOG meeting. Research Forum -------------- 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. 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 - Peering business and engineering basics BOFs ---- BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are informal sessions on topics which are of interest to a portion of the NANOG community. BOFs may be held in the hallways, break-out areas or in an unscheduled tutorial room by request submitted to nanogpc@nanog.org at least 30 minutes in advance of desired use with estimated duration notes. A typical BOF session may include some structure or presentations, but usually is focused on community discussion and interaction. Frequent BOF topics include: - R&D collaboration - Hot-topics in the media - Peering - ISP Security - Tools The less structured nature of BOF sessions allows for the greatest flexibility from a timing perspective. Registration Fee Waivers ========================= The meeting registration fee will be waived as follows: - General session talk: one speaker - General session panel: one moderator and all panelists - Research forum talk: one speaker - Track: one moderator - Tutorial: one instructor How to Present ============== The deadline for accepting abstracts and slides is 06 March 2009. While the majority of speaking slots may be filled by that date, 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. The primary speaker, moderator, or author should submit presentation information and an abstract on-line at: http://pc.nanog.org Once you have done this, you will receive instructions for submitting your draft slides. See Presentation Guidelines for complete submission guidelines. 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.) You may instead submit the presentation information and draft slides in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. We look forward to reviewing your submission. Todd Underwood, Chair NANOG Program Committee _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce