Call for Presentations - NANOG18
February 6-8, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
San Jose, California
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) will hold its 18th
meeting in San Jose, CA between February 6 - 8, 2000. The meeting will be
hosted by Exodus Communications. NANOG conferences provide a forum for
the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to
large-scale (i.e., national/international) Internet backbone networking
technologies and operational practices.
NANOG meetings, held three times each year, include two days of short
presentations, plus afternoon/evening tutorial sessions. Meetings are
informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering
practices. The conference draws around 500 participants, mainly consisting
of engineering staff from large national service providers, and members of
the research and education community.
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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.
Previous meetings have
included presentations on:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- Coordination of inter-provider QoS
- Deployment experience with queueing disciplines (CAR, RED)
- Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication
- Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures
- Security issues for the Internet core
- Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration
- Building large-scale measurement infrastructure
- Cooperative inter-provider caching
- Alternatives to hot-potato routing
- Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance
- Experience with differentiated services
- Reports from next-generation networks (Internet2, CA*net, etc.)
- Inter-domain multicast deployment
- Backbone network failure analysis
- Inter-exchange point updates
Tutorials have covered topics such as:
- BGP case studies
- MPLS fundamentals
- External route selection
- IP multicast technologies
- Distributed content caching in large IP networks
How to Present
Submit an informal one- or two-paragraph abstract describing the
presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. The
deadline for proposals is December 15, 1999. Abstracts will be
accepted after December 15 on the basis of timeliness and
quality of the presentation. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by
January 10, 2000.
NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels
and other presentation topics.
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