Agenda topics for Dallas

Wed Jan 18 12:52:48 UTC 2006

Greetings - here are the talks we've lined up so far for Dallas. Stay 
tuned - we'll be adding new topics often.

SUNDAY ACTIVITIES
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Newcomer's Orientation and Reception         3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Steering Committee Community Meeting         5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception, (fabulous) location TBA   6:30 - 11:00 p.m.

GENERAL SESSION (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning)
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   - Searching for DNS Cache Poisoners
        Duane Wessels, Measurement Factory/CAIDA

   - How Prevalent is Prefix Hijacking on the Internet?
        Peter Boothe and James Hiebert, Univ. of Oregon; Randy Bush, IIJ

   - Hurricane Katrina: Telecom Infrastructure Impacts, Solutions,
        and Opportunities
        Paula Rhea, Verizon

   - Flamingo: An Internet Traffic Exploration Tool
        Manish Karir, Merit

   - NVisionIP and VisFlowConnect-IP: Two Tools for Visualizing NetFlows
     for Security
        Bill Yurcik, NCSA

   - Panel: Time for the Transition or Just More GOSIP?
        Dan Golding, Burton Group, moderator

   - IRR Power Tools: a Utility for Managing Internet Routing Registry
     Filters
        Richard Steenbergen, nLayer Communications

   - Flooding Attacks by Exploiting Persistent Forwarding Loops
        Jianhong Xia, Lixin Gao and Teng Fei, University of Massachusetts

   - Clear and Present Increase of AAAA Queries
        Tsuyoshi Toyono, Keisuke Ishibashi, Katsuyasu Toyama, NTT Labs

   = v6fix: Fighting Against an IPv6 Pandemic
        Kenjiro Cho, WIDE Project/IIJ, Ruri Hiromi, WIDE Project/Intec NetCore

RESEARCH FORUM
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   - An Inter-domain Consistency Management Layer
        Nate Kushman, MIT

TUTORIALS (Monday/Tuesday afternoon)
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   - Troubleshooting BGP
        Level: Introductory
        Philip Smith, Cisco

    - Overview of QoS for Packet-based IP and MPLS Networks
        Level: Introductory/Intermediate
        Paresh Shah, Utpal Mukhopadhyaya, and Arun Sathiamurthi, Cisco

BOFS (Monday/Tuesday afternoon)
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    - Tools BOF
        Todd Underwood, Renesys, Moderator

    - ISP Security and NSP-SEC BOF XI
        Danny McPherson, Arbor, Moderator

    - Peering BOF XI
        William B. Norton, Equinix, Moderator

Abstracts are linked off this page:

 	http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/topics.html

See y'all next month.