SANOG7: Call for Papers

Thu Sep 15 16:51:42 UTC 2005

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SANOG 7
16-24 January 2006, Mumbai, India

Call for Papers
http://www.sanog.org/sanog7/cfp.htm

Deadline for proposals : 1 December, 2005
Acceptance Notification: 15 December, 2005
Paper Confirmation : 1 January, 2006

Please submit Online at https://submission.sanog.org/paper/

The following is an open call for papers/presentations for the two- 
day conference at the 7th South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG)  
Meeting. Presentations are expected to be 20-30 minutes long with  
technical content. Marketing and sales content in presentations is  
against the spirit of the SANOG and is strictly prohibited. Please  
respond to this call for papers/presentations by making submissions  
online at https://submission.sanog.org/paper/

The conference will be comprised of 6 session in two days, including  
the plenary. The tracks are for general ideas, and feel free to  
propose talks that you think are relevant to the operational and  
Internet research community. The topics given below are not exclusive.

Track 1: Network operations

In this session we invite papers, reports and presentations from  
network operators, equipment vendors and academic institutions  
conducting network research on operational issues. Possible topics  
for this track are:

- - Prevention and mitigation of Denial of Service attacks including  
intrusion
- - Routing policies and architecture for scalable IP and broadband  
networks
- - Technology updates and trends in security and routing
- - MPLS and QoS implementation experiences
- - Traffic management and measurement
- - Network migration issues (IPv4 to v6, Layer 2 to IP etc.)

Track 2: Applications and Services

This track will discuss various services that can be enabled on  
packet networks. Papers and presentations are invited from  
developers, operators, equipment vendors and research organizations  
on the following and related topics

- - Voice and Multimedia over IP
- - Managed network services including Security and VPNs
- - Mail servers, SPAM prevention,
- - Wireless Technology and Applications

Track 3: Peering and IXP

This is a new track at SANOG. This is to cater to the growing demand  
on the newly established Internet Exchange Points in the region. As  
local ISPs are going international, we would like to invite both  
regional and international experts to share their ideas and  
experience on these topics.

- - Internet Exchange Points Operations
- - Peering Techniques and Policies
- - BGP Multihoming Techniques

Track 4: Regional updates

This track is fairly broad, and will include updates from ISPs,  
regional Internet exchanges, APNIC, routing table updates and such  
information that would be useful to the SANOG community.

You are also welcome to submit proposals for BoFs, tutorials and  
other tracks.

On behalf of
Ananth Nagarajan, Program Chair - SANOG
Sumon Ahmed Sabir, Program Co-Chair - SANOG
and the SANOG Programme Committee

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