** NANOG17 Call For Presentations **

[Craig Labovitz <labovit () merit edu>]

NANOG will hold its 17th meeting in Montreal, Canada on October 3 - 5, 1999 
at the Hotel Wyndam Montreal. The meeting will be hosted by Nortel Networks 
and Mlink Internet.

More information about the meeting, including current agenda topics and 
registration information, is available at:
        http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9910


Call For Presentations
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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
        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
I       nter-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
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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 within several days of the receipt of the 
abstract.

NANOG also welcomes suggestions/recommendations for tutorials, panels and 
other presentation topics.





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Craig Labovitz                                  (734) 764-0252 voice
Merit Network, Inc.                             labovit () merit edu
4251 Plymouth Road                      
Ann Arbor, MI 48105