NANOG Call for Presentations

Thu Nov 18 17:58:00 UTC 2004

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			   CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
                                  NANOG 33

                              GENERAL SESSION
                                 TUTORIALS
                               CASE STUDIES
                     OPERATIONS RESEARCH POSTER SESSION

                       January 30 - February 1, 2005

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The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 33rd
meeting January 30 - February 1, 2005, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The
meeting will be hosted by UltraDNS; registration begins December 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 and BoFs. The meetings are informal,
with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering practices.
NANOG conferences draw over 500 participants, mainly consisting of
engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the
research and education community.

For more information about NANOG meetings, schedules, and logistics, see:

     http://www.nanog.org
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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

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.

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.

Presentation topics of special interest at NANOG 33 include:

  -  Implementation experience with Ethernet, e.g., Transparent LAN
     service (TLS), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), Ethernet private line,
     and Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS).
  -  Large-scale wireless deployment
  -  Last-mile technologies, including Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL)/Power
     Line Distribution (PLD)
  -  Security attacks/mitigation, tools, and analysis
  -  Enterprise network security, management, and route control
  -  Operator case studies on:

     - Integration with optical control planes, voice, and video
     - VOIP architectures and deployment
     - Building packet-switched networks (e.g., IP or MPLS) that can carry
       TDM, Layer 2 IP services, as well as emerging services, such as VPLS

  -  Implementation experience with 10/100Gig E
  -  Experience with active DoS retaliation methods, e.g., reverse port
     scanning
  -  OSS architectures and implementations
  -  SSM deployment experience
  -  Circuit2Packet (C2P) experience with legacy services
  -  State of Ops/Admin/Maintenance tools for IP and MPLS networks

Proposals are also invited for tutorial sessions. Previous topics have
included:

  - Troubleshooting BGP
  - Configuring IPsec
  - Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing
  - BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
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HOW TO PRESENT

Submit an abstract and draft slides for the presentation in email to
nanog-support at nanog.org. See http://www.nanog.org/presentations.html
for submission guidelines. The deadline for abstracts and slides is
December 15, 2004. While the majority of speaking slots will be
filled by December 15, 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 December 24. Final drafts of presentation slides
are due by January 19, and final versions January 26.

NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels,
and other presentation topics.
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