NANOG topics we'd like to hear about

Wed Dec 1 14:28:44 UTC 2004

Our attendee survey in Reston yielded a lot of good suggestions for
presentation topics, and they're listed below.  We'd be delighted to have
you propose a talk on any of these subjects for NANOG33 (Las Vegas, Jan.
30 - Feb. 1). The CFP is at www.nanog.org, and the deadline for abstracts
and DRAFT slides is, um, soon ... Dec. 15.  Also, you'll find tips for
getting your talk accepted here:

	http://www.nanog.org/presentations.html
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- Hosting provider issues: firewalls, in particular shared virtual
  firewall services, load balancers, IDS, scaling large layer 2 networks
  shared with many different customers, automated traffic balancing systems,
  and DDoS mitigation.

- Bridging the cultural divide between operators of legacy voice/TDM
  networks and IP networks, especially where each can learn different
  views on VoIP. This could include working with TDM/IP voice handoffs
  as well as technical and cultural hurdles, such as issues with equipment
  and issues with voice techs trying to relate to IP operations staff.
  How different are the languages and technical expectations of the two groups?

- Broadband customer issues (DSL/cable) and fiber to the home/premises.

- IPsec deployment experience - what's wrong with today's IPsec
  implementations?  Hopefully this would provide feedback for vendors.

- How network designers improve the availability of the network and what
  vendor availability features they find useful.

- A talk by a defense/federal department on their network.

- Research on IPv6 deployment measurement, multi-prefix routing, and new
  security models.

- Instant messenger protocol traffic implications.

- Cases of production use of QoS in ISP networks.

- Internet Routing Registries and their current deployments and
  replication among the service providers.

- Network management (SNMP) and dealing with polling and monitoring
  networks on a large scale (500,000+ devices).

- IPv6 rollout strategies.

- MPLS pseudo-wires/L2VPNS and faster convergence - where does it
  stand today?

- Multicast voice and video streaming.

- Network admission control.

- P2P application-related topics; P2P traffic patterns.

- Changing traffic patterns on the Internet.