NANOG 16 Call for Presentations
NANOG will hold its 16th meeting in Eugene, Oregon on May 23 - 25, 1999.
NANOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination
of technical information related to large-scale (i.e.
national/international) Internet backbone networking technologies and
operational practices.
NANOG meetings, held three times each year, include two days of short
presentations, plus afternoon/evening tutorial sessions. Meetings are
informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone
engineering practices. The conference draws around 500 participants,
mainly consisting of engineering staff from large national service
provides, and members of the research and education community.
Now in its fifth year, NANOG evolved from the NSFNET "regional-techs"
meetings, where technical staff from the regional networks met to discuss
operational issues of common concern. With the emergence of the
commercial Internet, NANOG meetings evolved to include a broader base of
providers, network operators, and researchers.
NANOG 16 will be hosted by the University of Oregon and Verio. More
information about the meeting is available HERE.
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.
Previous meetings have
included presentations on:
- Backbone traffic engineering
- Coordination of inter-provider QoS
- Deployment experience with queueing disciplines (CAR, RED)
- Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication
- Routing scalability in backbone infrastructures
- Security issues for the Internet core
- Routing policy specification and backbone router configuration
- Building large-scale measurement infrastructure
- Cooperative inter-provider caching
- Alternatives to hot-potato routing
- Recommendations on queue management and congestion avoidance
- Experience with differentiated services
- Reports from next-generation networks (Internet2, CA*net, etc)
- Inter-domain multicast deployment
- Backbone network failure analysis
- Inter-exchange point updates
Tutorials have covered topics such as:
- BGP case studies
- Address allocation and renumbering
- External route selection
- IP multicast technologies
How to Present
Submit an informal one- or two-paragraph abstract describing the
presentation in email to nanog-support@nanog.org. The
proposal should be submitted well in advance of the conference.
Notification of acceptance is rolling and is usually provided one or two
days after receipt of the abstract.
NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels
and other presentation topics.