Greetings everyone - here are topics we've lined up so far for NANOG18 in San Jose (February 6-8). Further information is available on the Web: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0002/ ------------------------------------------------ - State-of-the-Art Multicast: A User's View Dave Meyer, Cisco - Does BGP Solve the Shortest-Paths Problem? Timothy Griffin, Bell Labs - Building an MPLS Exchange Point Steve Feldman, MCI WorldCom - The Need for Improved Connectivity in Tier 2-4 Markets John Brown, iHighway - Sweden in 2005: 5 Mbit to Every Household Peter Lothberg, Sprint - What to Expect from BIND9 Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium - Large-scale Mail Server Architectures Hakan Millroth, Bluetail - ARIN Update Kim Hubbard/ARIN staff - NSI Registry Root/gTLD Update Tom Newell and Mark Kosters, Network Solutions - The RIPE-NCC Routing Information Service (or, "Where Would You Have Gone Yesterday?") Henk Uijterwaal and Antony Antony, RIPE-NCC - The RIPE-NCC Test Traffic Measurements Project Henk Uijterwaal, RIPE-NCC - Protection Options for IP over Optical Transport Larry McAdams, Cisco - Exchange Point Updates - Japan Internet Exchange (JPIX): Yoshikazu Ikeda and Toshiki Ueda - PAIX.NET: Paul Vixie - LINX: Keith Mitchell - AADS: Andrew Schmidt - Ames Exchanges: Lance Tatman - Brazilian Internet Exchange (BIX): Reinaldo Penno Filo Sunday Tutorials ---------------- - IS-IS for ISPs (Howard Berkowitz, Gett Communications) - MPLS Traffic Engineering Overview (Robert Raszuk, Cisco) Monday Evening BOFs ------------------ - ARIN Micro Allocations (Cathy Wittbrodt, @Home, moderator) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan R. Harris, Ph.D. Merit Network, Inc. Phone: 734.936.2100 Senior Science Writer Univ. of Michigan Fax: 734.647.3185 -------------------------------------------------------------------------