The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 29th
meeting October 19-21, 2003, at the Chicago
Marriott Downtown Hotel. This will be NANOG's second joint meeting
with ARIN, the American Registry for
Internet Numbers . NANOG will meet from Sunday to Tuesday, and ARIN from
Wednesday to Friday, October 22-24. Registration opens September 2. 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 350 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the research and education community.
NANOG invites presentations on backbone/enterprise 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. 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.
The community is invited to present talks on:
- Survey of open-source/commercial network management systems
- Operator experience and how-to's on building packet-switched
networks (e.g., IP or MPLS) that can carry:
- TDM
- Layer 2 (e.g., Frame Relay and ATM)
- IP services
- Emerging services such as the Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).
- Operator case studies on:
- Integration with optical control planes (GMPLS, ASON, etc.), voice (enterprise, Class 4 and Class 5), and video
- Provisioning and automation
- Enterprise network security, management, and route control
- Network troubleshooting and problems solved
- Experience with active DoS retaliation methods, e.g., reverse port scanning.
- Implementation and use of measurement technologies in vendor devices
Other potential topics include:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- Impact of BGP dynamics on backbone traffic patterns
- Route processor architecture
- Large-scale wireless deployment
- Building large-scale measurement infrastructure
- Inter-domain multicast deployment
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 8, 2003. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by September 8, 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 22. Final drafts of presentation slides are due by October 8, and final versions October 15.