The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 38th meeting October 8-10, 2006, in St. Louis, Missouri. The meeting will be co-hosted by Savvis and Washington University in St. Louis. This will be NANOG's fifth joint meeting with ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers. NANOG will meet from Sunday to Tuesday, and ARIN from Wednesday to Friday, October 11-13. NANOG registration will open in August.
NANOG conferences provide a forum for information exchange among network operators, engineers, and researchers. Meetings are held three times each year, and include panels, presentations, tutorial sessions, and BOFs.
NANOG solicits presentations highlighting issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in the Internet. The NANOG community is invited to attend and participate in this forum, which offers numerous opportunities to share ideas, explore research and development, and interact with leaders in this important field of network operations. Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperability.
General Session
The community is invited to develop panel sessions or
present talks on topics relevant to the NANOG community, including:
Panels
Panel selection will be based on the importance,
originality, focus, and timeliness of the topic; expertise of proposed
panelists; as well as the potential for informative and controversial
discussion. The panel leader should provide an abstract describing the
panel theme, list of panelists, and an outline of how the panel will be
organized. After acceptance, the panel leader will be given the option to
invite panel authors to submit their presentations to the NANOG Program
Committee for review. Until then authors should not submit their
individual presentations for the panel.
Lightning Talks
A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG audience. These are limited to ten minutes; this will be strictly enforced. If you have a topic that's timely, interesting, or event a crackpot idea you want to share, we encourage you to consider presenting it. Signups for lightning talks will be accepted during the NANOG meeting.
Research Forum
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.
Tutorials
Proposals are also invited for tutorial session
from the introductory through advanced level on all topics related to:
Submit presentation information and an abstract online at: http://www.nanogpc.org Once you have done this, you will receive instructions for submitting your draft slides. Please remember that company logos may appear on the first and last slides only. See this web page for complete submission guidelines.
The deadline for proposals is August 3, 2006. 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. Your submission should include: