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NANOG45 Call for Presentations

The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 45th meeting January 25 - January 28, 2009.  A new and exciting time as NANOG is going outside of North America.  Hosted by Terremark* NANOG45 will be in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Expected to be a great meeting and opportunity for network operators within the ARIN and LACNIC regions to explore topics relevant to both the engineering and the policy challenges raised by the Internet.

NANOG meetings 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.

Key Dates for NANOG45

  • Web tool now open to accept submissions at http://www.nanogpc.org/

    The deadline for submissions:

    November 21, 2008

    Talks submitted by this date will receive full consideration for a slot at NANOG45.   

    The agenda will be announced within two weeks of this deadline.     

    Talks may be submitted after this deadline but they will only be considered on a space-available basis. For the best chance for acceptance, please submit your presentation by December 5, 2008 or as soon thereafter as possible.

  • Lightning talk submissions and evaluations begin:

    Date TBA

General Session

Some (of the many) ideas that the Program Committee is considering for this NANOG meeting include:
  • Power, facilities - power reliability and engineering, green power, power efficiency, cooling, facilities management.

  • Interconnections - IXes, intra-building, MMR, metro-wide connections, peering, transit purchasing tactics and strategies.

  • Security - routing security (hijacking), route filtering of large peers/customers, inter-as security and cooperation.

  • DNS - using DNS data for network metrics, botnet discovery, geolocation and other fun.

  • IPv6 - real-world deployment challenges, NAT-PT implementations that work and scale, allocation strategies.

  • Content - distribution (p2p, IPTV), content payment models, content distribution technologies and networks, storage/archiving.

  • Disaster recovery - risk analysis, training, agencies, planning methods, hardware portability, key tools, transport audits, lessons learned.

  • Latin American specific regional engineering and operations challenges and case studies - What are the challenges and changes that are facing the region and how are those being addressed?

In general, presentations are being sought by and for network operators of all sizes. Presentations about difficult problems (and interesting solutions) that you encounter in the course of your job are encouraged.

If you think you have an interesting topic but want some feedback or assistance working it into a presentation, please email the Program Committee chair, Todd Underwood () and a representative on the Program Committee will give you the feedback needed to work it into a presentation.

Talks

A general session talk should be on a topic of interest to the general NANOG audience, and may be up to 30 minutes long (including time for questions and answers.)

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.

A panel may be up to 90 minutes long.

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 even 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 sessions from the introductory through advanced level on all related topics, including:
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Troubleshooting BGP
  • Best Practices for Determining Traffic Matrices
  • Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing
  • BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
  • Peering business and engineering basics

BOFs

BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are 90-minute informal sessions on topics which are of interest to a portion of the NANOG community.

A typical BOF session includes some presentations, but usually is focused on community discussion and interaction.

Frequent BOF topics include:
  • Peering
  • ISP Security
  • Tools

A BOF session is 90 minutes.

Registration Fee Waivers

The meeting registration fee will be waived as follows:
  • General session talk: one speaker
  • General session panel: one moderator and all panelists
  • Research forum talk: one speaker
  • Tutorial: one instructor
  • BOF: one moderator

How to Present

The deadline for accepting abstracts and slides is November 21st. While the majority of speaking slots may be filled by that date, 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.

The primary speaker, moderator, or author should 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. See Presentation Guidelines for complete submission guidelines. All submissions must include:
  • Author's name(s)
  • Preferred contact email address
  • Submission category (General Session, Panel, Tutorial, Research Forum, or BOF)
  • Presentation title
  • Abstract
  • Slides (attachment or URL), in PDF (preferred) or Powerpoint format (Slides are optional for BOFs.)

You may instead submit the presentation information and draft slides in email to .


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