Greetings - here are presentations we've lined up so far for the upcoming NANOG in Eugene: - Security Attacks and Detection on OC-12 and Above Backbones (Y. John Jiang, Cable & Wireless Internet Engineering) - FBI Responses to Security Attacks on the Internet Infrastructure (Scott Larson/Steve Schmidt, FBI) - DNSSec and the new version of BIND (Paul Vixie/David Conrad, ISC) - Optical Networking (Marty Schulman/Dave O'Leary, Juniper Networks) - Wireless Networking and Improved Networking in Rural Areas (John M. Brown, iHighway) - SURFnet and the GigaPort Project (Erik-Jan Bos, Surfnet) - Amsterdam Internet Exchange (Erik-Jan Bos, Surfnet) - Controlled De-Aggregation - A Successful Experiment In More Optimal Routing (Avi Freedman, AboveNet) - InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC) - ARIN Update (ARIN staff) - Architecting Multicast Backbones (John Meylor, Cisco) - News from the Exchange Points (Mark Pryor, PacBell, et al.) - MPLS and Packet over SONET (Alan Hannan, Frontier GlobalCenter) - Y2K Status and NOC Contingency Planning (Sean Donelan, DRA) You'll find abstracts on our (new streamlined) Web pages: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9905/ We're also in the process of lining up tutorials. On Sunday afternoon, Avi Freedman and Abha Ahuja will offer a session titled "Router Configuration Management Tools." The tutorial will most likely begin at 2:00 p.m., so please plan your flights accordingly! And, folks have expressed interest in hearing about several other topics, including: - Provisioning redundant fiber paths - Wide-area deployment experience with VOIP - Experiences with providing large-scale XDSL service Please check the Call for Presentations at the URL above, and let us know if you're interested in presenting a talk on any of these subjects. See you in Eugene! --Susan Harris, Craig Labovitz, and Pam Ciesla