The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 32nd
meeting October 17-19, 2004, in Reston, Virginia. This will be NANOG's
third joint meeting with ARIN,
the American Registry for Internet Numbers. NANOG will meet from Sunday
to Tuesday, and ARIN from Wednesday to Friday, October 20-22. NANOG
registration opens September 1.
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 5000 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, useful tools, traffic engineering, problems solved, DoS scenarios and mitigation techniques, and troubleshooting, including automation, approaches, and techniques, Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperabilty.
The community is invited to present talks on:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- Experience with large-scale VoIP deployments and peering
- Experience deploying metro-optical infrastructure
- Freely available configuration, management, and measurement tools
- Enterprise network security, management, and route control
- Innovative access technologies, including metro-optical and PON
- Case studies on deploying "triple play" (voice, video, data)
- Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures
- Security issues for the Internet core
- Experience deploying L2 VPN/PW and inter-provider L3 VPN
- Impact of BGP dynamics on backbone traffic patterns
- Route processor architecture
- OS architectures and implementations
- SSM deployment experience
- Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication
- Innovative network deployments supporting GRID
- Circuit2Packet (C2P) experience with legacy services
- Troubleshooting BGP
- Configuring IPsec
- Customer-Triggered Real-Time Blackholes
- BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
How to Present
Submit an abstract and draft slides for the presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. See http://www.nanog.org/presentations.html for submission guidelines. The deadline for abstracts and slides is September 7, 2004. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by September 7, a limited number of slots may be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely, important, or critical to the operations of the Internet. Submissions will be reviewed by the NANOG Program Committee, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by September 20. Final drafts of presentation slides are due by October 6, and final versions October 13.