The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 26th
meeting October 27-29, 2002, in Eugene, Oregon. The meeting will be hosted
by the University of Oregon
and Sprint. Registration begins
September 4. NANOG 26 is a special occasion - the first joint meeting with ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers. ARIN manages IP numbers for North and South America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. NANOG will meet as usual from Sunday to Tuesday, and ARIN from Wednesday to Friday, Oct. 30 to Nov.1.
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. 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 500 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.
Previous meetings have included presentations on:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- 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
- Inter-domain multicast deployment
- Backbone network failure analysis
- Inter-domain traffic engineering: principles, applications, and case studies
- BGP multihoming
- ISP security: real-world techniques
- IP multicast technologies
How to Present
Submit a detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. The deadline for proposals is September 16, 2002. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by September 16, 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 September 30, 2002.NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and other presentation topics.