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NANOG31 Call for Presentations
May 23-25, 2004
San Francisco, CA
The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 31st
meeting May 23-25, 2004, in San Francisco. The meeting will be hosted by
CNET Networks and held at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. NANOG
conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of
technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking
technologies and operational practices. Meetings are held three times each
year, and include two days of short presentations, plus afternoon/evening
tutorial sessions. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on
relevance to current backbone engineering practices. NANOG conferences
draw over 450 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from
national service providers, and members of the research and education
community.
NANOG invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and
research topics. Presentations should highlight issues relating to
technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet
backbones and exchange points. Abstracts should include a concise summary
of findings to be presented in the talk.
Network operators are invited to present case studies detailing
their experiences with network planning and design, protocol
implementation, provisioning, automation, useful tools, traffic
engineering, troubleshooting, problems solved, and DoS. Vendors are
encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with
the vendor's products.
Researchers are invited to present short (10-minute) summaries of their
work for operator feedback. Topics include routing, network
performance, statistical measurement and analysis, and protocol
development and implementation. Studies presented may be works in
progress. Researchers from academia, government, and industry are
encouraged to present.
Previous meetings have included presentations on:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- Freely available configuration, management, and
measurement tools
- Enterprise network security, management, and route control
- Impact of BGP dynamics on backbone traffic patterns
- Route processor architecture
- Inter-provider security and routing protocol
authentication
- Large-scale wireless deployment
- Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures
- Security issues for the Internet core
- Routing policy specification and backbone router
configuration
- Building large-scale measurement infrastructure
- Experience with differentiated services
- Inter-domain multicast deployment
- Backbone network failure analysis
Tutorials have covered topics such as:
- Troubleshooting BGP
- Customer-triggered real-time blackholes
- BGP/MPLS layer 3 VPNs
- MPLS fast reroute
How to Present
See the How to Give a Presentation at NANOG section
for complete submission guidelines.
The deadline for proposals is April
12, 2004. While the
majority of speaking slots will be filled by
April 12, a limited number of slots will be available after that date for
topics that are exceptionally timely and important. Submissions will be
reviewed by the NANOG Program Committee, and presenters will be
notified of acceptance by April 26. Final drafts of presentation slides
are due by May 12, and final versions May 19.
NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels,
and other presentation topics.
