The networking administration community is expanding at an ever increasing pace. Now, USENIX and SAGE have created a conference just for it. The conference will enable dialogue among peers and experts in our field. 1st USENIX Conference on Network Administration April 7-9, 1999 Santa Clara, California Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association Co-sponsored by SAGE, the System Administrators Guild The conference is designed to create an environment allowing network administrators to come together and share ideas and techniques for managing all facets of the networking world. For the full Call for Papers, visit the conference Web site: http://www.usenix.org/events/neta99 Submission deadline: November 6, 1998 Notification to authors: December 1, 1998 Camera-ready papers due: February 23, 1999 We invite you to submit proposals to enhance the refereed papers, invited talks, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and tutorials. Please review the Call for Papers, make a submission, and join us in creating the first open network administration conference specifically designed to help you. We look forward to your participation. To facilitate these discussions, we encourage you to consider this partial topics list: The Enterprise Switching solutions for large LANs Choosing a network architecture Network management tools that work How to integrate multiple vendors in one seamless network Managing IP address space The Internet How to get on the Internet Firewalls and security integration Routing in the Internet Choosing and dealing with an ISP Remote Access Creating secure integrated dialup services DSL, ISDN, and other acronyms: what they mean The Future IPv6, and what it means to you Gigabit and beyond: high speed networking Quality of Service and ATM Voice and data integration Routing vs. Layer-3 switching -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association, a not-for-profit society with a membership drawn from the international community of systems and software professionals. SAGE, the System Administrators Guild, is a Special Technical Group within the USENIX Association dedicated to the recognition and advancement of system administration as a profession. USENIX and SAGE are co-sponsors of the well-known LISA, Systems Administration Conference.