Hi, Apologies if inappropriate and if you've seen this before (but quite a few NANOG people indicated they wanted to attend, so...) -- The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT, http://www.apricot.net) is a conference and series of tutorials targetted primarily at people who run (or want to run) large networks, particularly Internet Service Providers. This year, there are 13 tutorials ranging from DNS to Perl Programming and a 3 track conference consisting of 2 two day tracks on network operations and services & applications, and 2 one day tracks, one on legal and policy issues in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Policy and Legal (APPLe) Forum and the other, the Business of the Internet, in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA). For more information on the conference program and the tutorials, see http://www.apricot.net/program.html. To register for the conference, see the APRICOT registration page at http://www.apricot.net/registration.html (note that the web page uses SSL for secure transfers so you can safely send your credit card numbers over the Internet). If you do not have access to the web, please contact me and I'll send or fax an email form. Dates: APRICOT Tutorials: Jan 27 - 28 APRICOT Conference: Jan 29 - 30 APNIC Meeting: Jan 31 Fees: Conference Registration: US $275 Tutorials: US $275/tutorial If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or the organizing committee (apricot-oc@apricot.net). Note that space is quite limited... Regards, -drc