-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SANOG 7 16-24 January 2006, Mumbai, India Call for Papers http://www.sanog.org/sanog7/cfp.htm Deadline for proposals : 1 December, 2005 Acceptance Notification: 15 December, 2005 Paper Confirmation : 1 January, 2006 Please submit Online at https://submission.sanog.org/paper/ The following is an open call for papers/presentations for the two- day conference at the 7th South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) Meeting. Presentations are expected to be 20-30 minutes long with technical content. Marketing and sales content in presentations is against the spirit of the SANOG and is strictly prohibited. Please respond to this call for papers/presentations by making submissions online at https://submission.sanog.org/paper/ The conference will be comprised of 6 session in two days, including the plenary. The tracks are for general ideas, and feel free to propose talks that you think are relevant to the operational and Internet research community. The topics given below are not exclusive. Track 1: Network operations In this session we invite papers, reports and presentations from network operators, equipment vendors and academic institutions conducting network research on operational issues. Possible topics for this track are: - - Prevention and mitigation of Denial of Service attacks including intrusion - - Routing policies and architecture for scalable IP and broadband networks - - Technology updates and trends in security and routing - - MPLS and QoS implementation experiences - - Traffic management and measurement - - Network migration issues (IPv4 to v6, Layer 2 to IP etc.) Track 2: Applications and Services This track will discuss various services that can be enabled on packet networks. Papers and presentations are invited from developers, operators, equipment vendors and research organizations on the following and related topics - - Voice and Multimedia over IP - - Managed network services including Security and VPNs - - Mail servers, SPAM prevention, - - Wireless Technology and Applications Track 3: Peering and IXP This is a new track at SANOG. This is to cater to the growing demand on the newly established Internet Exchange Points in the region. As local ISPs are going international, we would like to invite both regional and international experts to share their ideas and experience on these topics. - - Internet Exchange Points Operations - - Peering Techniques and Policies - - BGP Multihoming Techniques Track 4: Regional updates This track is fairly broad, and will include updates from ISPs, regional Internet exchanges, APNIC, routing table updates and such information that would be useful to the SANOG community. You are also welcome to submit proposals for BoFs, tutorials and other tracks. On behalf of Ananth Nagarajan, Program Chair - SANOG Sumon Ahmed Sabir, Program Co-Chair - SANOG and the SANOG Programme Committee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDKaaeSo7fU26F3X0RAipsAKDlvKAKH16cI6fphhKEF4HADidRTwCcDcAl K5sn/F/ipeWsvrNjXIOeR0g= =jkeN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----