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Thanks for your interest in the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG)! NANOG is an educational and operational
forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking
technologies and operational practices.
NANOG meetings are held three times each year, and include presentations, tutorials, and BOFs. The meetings are informal,
and membership is open. Conference participants typically include senior engineering staff from tier 1 and tier 2 ISPs.
Participating researchers present short summaries of their work for operator feedback.
NANOG meetings are organized by
Merit Network, Inc.,
a non-profit Michigan organization, and are hosted by Merit and other
organizations around the U.S. and Canada. Overall leadership is provided by the NANOG
Steering Committee, established in
2005, and the
Program Committee.
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 Merit engineering staff. At the February 1994 regional techs meeting in
San Diego, the group revised its charter to include a broader base of network service providers, and subsequently
adopted NANOG as its new name.
Funding for NANOG originally came from the National Science Foundation, as part of two projects Merit undertook in
partnership with NSF and other organizations: the
NSFNET Backbone Service and the Routing Arbiter project. All NANOG funds
now come from conference registration fees and donations from vendors.
NANOG meetings provide a forum for the exchange of technical information, and promote discussion of implementation issues
that require community cooperation. Coordination among network service providers helps ensure the stability of overall
service to network users. The group's original charter is available here.
NANOG also offers a mailing list
that provides a forum for network operators around the world to to ask questions and discuss issues.
The mailing list is archived
by Merit Network.
Questions and comments about the group are welcome—please send e-mail to
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