What's in store for LA (so far)

[Susan Harris <srh () merit edu>]

Here are the topics we've come up with so far for LA.  Keep an eye on 
www.nanog.org/mtg-0501/topics.html for additional talks as the meeting 
draws nigh.

SUNDAY ACTIVITIES 
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  - All-day Tutorial (9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
      Getting Started with IPv6
      Level: Introductory
      Jordi Palet, Consulintel

  - Afternoon Tutorials
     - Best Practices for Determining the Traffic Matrix in IP Networks
         Level: Intermediate
         Thomas Telkamp, Cariden

     - Scaling Considerations in MPLS Networks
         Level: Intermediate/Advanced
         Ina Minei, Juniper

     - BGP Multihoming Techniques
         Level: Introductory/Intermediate
         Philip Smith, Cisco

** Steering Committee Community Meeting, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

** Welcome Reception! Details to follow, 7:30 - ?

GENERAL SESSION
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   - Near-term Futures for the Industry
       Geoff Huston, APNIC

   - AS Consumption Patterns
       Geoff Huston, APNIC

   - ASNs MIA: A Comparision of RIR Statistics and RIS Reality
       Rene Wilhelm and Henk Uijterwaal, RIPE NCC

   - Stager: Web-Based Statistics Displays
       Arne Oslebo, Uninett

   - Shim6: Network Operator Concerns
       Jason Schiller, UUNET

   - BLINC: Multilevel Traffic Classification in the Dark
       Thomas Karagiannis, UC Riverside; Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel
       Research; Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside

   - Should Internet Service Providers Fear Peer-Assisted Content?
       Thomas Karagiannis, UC Riverside; Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft
       Research; Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research

   - Mitigating Superfluous Multicast Data Traffic and Control State
       John Kristoff, Northwestern Univ.

   - Routers with Small Buffers
       Yashar Ganjali, Guido Appenzeller, Ashish Goel, Tim Roughgarden,
       and Nick McKeown, Stanford Univ.

RESEARCH FORUM
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   - Dynamic AS Renumbering.Research & Results on new BGP Mechanisms
        Sue Hares, NextHop, and Patrick Bose, Lockheed-Martin

SPECIAL TUESDAY TUTORIAL
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   - Getting to Know ARIN (1:00-1:30 p.m.)
       Ray Plzak, ARIN

MONDAY AFTERNOON BOFS
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   - IAB IPv6 Multi-Homing BOF
       Dave Meyer, Cisco, moderator

   - BGP Data Analysis BOF
       Mohit Lad, UCLA

   - ISP Security and NSP-SEC BOF X
       Danny McPherson, Arbor, moderator

   - Peering BOF X
       William B. Norton, Equinix, moderator