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
- Troubleshooting BGP
- Customer-triggered real-time blackholes
- BGP/MPLS layer 3 VPNs
- MPLS fast reroute
How to Present
(Note that these date were listed incorrectly in an early version of this web page.)Submit a detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. 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.