Draft NANOG agenda

Wed Oct 28 20:18:25 UTC 1998

Greetings - here's a draft agenda for the Atlanta meeting.  For additional
meeting details, see:

	http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9811/update.html
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SUNDAY EVENING, NOV. 8
TOOL DEMOS
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6:30 p.m.  	Free Software for Configuring Routers and Monitoring Routing	
		 (Abha Ahuja, Merit, Jimmy Wan, IPMA/U-M, Mukesh Agrawal, 
		 IPMA/U-M)

TUTORIALS
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7:15 p.m.	Good ISPs Have No Class: Addressing Nuances and Nuisances	
		 (Howard Berkowitz)

8:45 p.m.	Optimal External Route Selection: Tips and Techniques for
		ISPs	
        	 (Avi Freedman, Net Access)

MONDAY, NOV. 9		
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9:00 a.m.	Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings	
		 (Craig Labovitz, Merit)

9:15 a.m.       Alternative Interconnects: Technology, Attachment Requirements,
		and Performance Measurements 	
		 (Bill Manning, ISI, panel moderator)

10:45 a.m.	BREAK	

11:00 a.m.	Who You Gonna Call?	
		 (Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates)

11:30 a.m.	Interesting Peering Activities at the Exchange Points
		 (Naiming Shen, Cisco)

12:00-1:30 p.m.	LUNCH	

1:30 p.m.	CA*net 3 - Architectural and Engineering Issues of
		Building an Optical Internet 	
		 (Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE)

2:15 p.m.	Enabling Technologies for Large-Scale Backbone Caching 
		 (Peter Danzig, Network Appliance, moderator)

		  Domestic Users of Caching
			-  Ed Schwab, Tripod/Lycos
			-  Ed Kern, DIGEX
		  Enabling Technologies
		        -  TBA, Cisco
			-  Shirish Sathaye, Alteon
			-  Bill Maggs, MCI	

3:45 p.m.	BREAK

4:00 p.m.	Multicast/MBGP: Real-Life Experiences in the Field
                 (Dave Meyer, Cisco, panel moderator)

		        -  Steve Rubin, AboveNet
			-  Dorian Kim, Verio
			-  Doug Pasko, Cable & Wireless
			-  Henry Kilmer/Danielle Deibler, DIGEX
			-  Jian Li, Qwest
			-  Amir Tabdili, Sprint
			-  Mujahid Khan, Sprint	

5:25-5:30 p.m.  Planning for Multicast Address Allocation: A Plea
		for Input from the IETF MALLOC Working Group	
		 (Dave Thaler, Microsoft)

5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Beer n'Gear!		

MONDAY EVENING BOFs		
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7:30 - 9:00 p.m.	Data Center Needs, Problems, and Technology
			 (Bill Norton, Equinix, and Sean Donelan, Data
			  Research Associates)

9:00 - 10:30 p.m.	Caching in Today's Marketplace:  Vendor Approaches
			and Solutions  	
			 (Duane Wessels, University of California, 
			 San Diego)

TUESDAY, NOV.  10		
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9:00 a.m.		Updates from the Internet2 GigaPoPs
			  -  Ron Hutchins, Southern CrossRoads, 
			     Atlanta GigaPoP
			  -  Dave Meyer, Oregon GigaPoP
			  -  Mark Johnson, North  Carolina Networking Initiative
			  -  Stan Barber, Texas GigaPoP	

10:30 a.m.		BREAK	

10:45 a.m. 		ARIN Update (Kim Hubbard, ARIN)

11:00 a.m.		InterNIC Update (Mark Kosters, InterNIC)

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.	LUNCH	

1:30 p.m.		CAR Talk:  Configuration Considerations for Cisco's
			Committed Access Rate	
			 (Cathy Wittbrodt, @Home)

2:00 p.m.		Router Update: Fast Packet Forwarding and Packet 
			Treatment for Differentiated Services 	
			 (Curtis Villamizer, ANS, panel moderator)

4:00 p.m.		Closing Remarks	(Craig Labovitz, Merit)
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Susan R. Harris, Ph.D.        Merit Network, Inc.     Phone: 734.936.2100
srh at merit.edu                 Senior Science Writer   Fax:   734.647.3185
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