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Generic Call for Speakers, Instructors for Apricot 2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Smith)
Fri Dec 21 18:50:04 2001
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From: Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>
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Forwarded for your information. APRICOT is the Asia Pacific region's annual=
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Internet Operations and Technology conference, similar in format and=20
concept to the NANOG conferences we know and love. If you are interested in=
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contributing in any way, please read on...
cheers,
philip
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>CALL FOR APRICOT 2002 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TUTORIALS
>
>Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
>Bangkok, Thailand
>
>The APRICOT 2002 Program Committee is now preparing a schedule and
>materials for the conference, and is seeking contributors to the
>program.
>
>You can register your interest at
>http://programs.regweb.com/apricot/2002/ if you would like to:
>
>=B7 Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; and/or
>=B7 Be an instructor at the pre-conference workships; and/or
>=B7 Participate in the technical conference sessions as
> a speaker or chair; and/or
>=B7 Convene and chair a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session.
>
>CONFERENCE THEME
>The theme of APRICOT 2002 is Creating the Next Internet Wave. The
>program committee is therefore seeking material consistent with the
>theme of the growth and scaling of Internet infrastructure and
>services in profitable ways.
>
>CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
>2 January 2002: All Proposed Session Presentations and Tutorials Submitted
>10 January 2002: Presentations and Tutorials Selected and Announced
>
>27 February to 3 March 2002: Pre-conference Workshops
>3 March to 4 March 2002: Tutorials
>5 March to 6 March 2002: Conference
>7 March 2002: APNIC Meeting
>
>PROGRAM MATERIAL
>Tutorial and Technical Conference Session topics that have been
>successful in the past, or which have been requested for this year,
>include:
>
>=B7 IPv6 Introduction and Deployment
>=B7 IPv4 Address Planning, Conservation, Responsibility and
> Migration to IPv6
>=B7 Network Planning Tools, Techniques and Experiences
>=B7 Service and Server Scaling
>=B7 Broadband First/Last Mile Access Technologies
> (Cable, Wireless, Fiber, Copper)
>=B7 Mobile and Wireless Technologies
>=B7 Internet Exchanges, Peering and Collocation
>=B7 Open Source Software and ISP infrastructure
>=B7 Redundancy and Reliability Issues and Techniques
>=B7 New Pan Asian Backbones
>=B7 Experiences and Issues in deploying Internet in Emerging=
Countries
>=B7 Content Delivery Networks, Streaming and Multimedia=
Infrastructure
>=B7 Introduction and Advanced Network Management and ISP
> System Administration
>=B7 Hot Topics in Future Networks, Multi Protocol Label Switching
> (MPLS), Quality of Service, and Voice over IP
>=B7 Traffic Engineering with Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
>=B7 High Speed Networking Technology: ATM, Gigabit Ethernet,
> Switch Routers and Optical Dense Wave Division Multiplexing(DWDM)
>=B7 High Performance IP Backbone Routing and management,
> Routing Policy and RPSL
>=B7 Voice over IP Standards, Efforts and Impacts on ISPs
>=B7 Computer Telephony Integration and Voice over IP for ISPs
>=B7 Network Security, Encryption, Firewalls and VPNs for ISPs
>=B7 BIND, DNSSEC, IPv6 DNS, Reverse and Multilingual DNS
>=B7 Unified Messaging, Scaling E-mail infrastructure and SPAM control
>=B7 Operations, NOC, Helpdesk and other support aspects
> of ISPs in multi-lingual environments
>=B7 Supporting E-Commerce and ASPs
>=B7 Training the Trainers Workshops / Educators Track
>
>The program committee will consider proposals in any of these areas,
>and also in new areas. If you have an idea for a tutorial or session
>subject that is not listed, please feel free to submit it to us.
>
>When considering a subject, remember that the APRICOT audience is
>mainly comprised of technical network operators and engineers with a
>wide range of experience levels from beginners to multi-year
>experience. There is a strong orientation to offer core skills and
>basic knowledge in the tutorials and to address issues relevant to the
>day-to-day operations of ISPs over the next 12 - 18 months in the
>conference sessions.
>
>IMPORTANT NOTE:
>APRICOT is a TECHNICAL conference and marketing and commercial content
>is not allowed within the program. The program committee is charged
>with maintaining the technical standard of APRICOT, and will therefore
>not accept inappropriate materials. It is expected that the presenter
>be a technical person and not a sales or marketing person. The
>audience is extremely technical and expects that the speakers are
>themselves very knowledgeable. All sessions provide time for
>questions, so presenters should expect technical questions, and be
>prepared to deliver insightful and technically deep responses.
>
>TECHNICAL CONFERENCE SESSIONS
>The APRICOT Technical Conference Schedule is made up of 1.5 hour
>conference sessions, each including up to 3 speakers (therefore
>allowing 20-30 minutes per speaker). Sessions are chaired by persons
>of appropriate expertise in the subject matter of the session, and
>will include ample time for questions from the audience. If you would
>like to give a presentation or chair one of the sessions, follow the
>instructions at the end of this message for signing up as a speaker or
>instructor.
>
>TUTORIALS
>Tutorials are full-day workshops which focus on a particular subject
>in-depth. They may be presented by a single Instructor, or a team of
>instructors working together. Tutorial Instructors are encouraged to
>also sign up to be a Conference Session Chair and/or Speaker as
>well. You can sign up to give a tutorial, conference session
>presentation and/or be a Session Chair by following the instructions
>at the end of this message for signing up as a speaker or instructor.
>
>PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
>APRICOT 2002 will be offering a pre-conference 4 day set of hands on
>workshops for folks in developing nations or startup environments who
>need to get up to speed on Internet infrastructure best practices. The
>workshops will start on Wednesday 27th February at 9am and finish on
>Saturday 2nd March at 6pm.
>
>The workshops will last for 4 days, and all attendees are required to
>pre-register and attend from the beginning of the workshops. Topics
>already proposed include DNS, IP Routing, BGP Multihoming, and ISP
>Security. We would welcome any other contributions, for example ISP
>Network Management, Deploying IPv6, Internet Policies, MPLS, etc...
>
>The idea of the workshops is to continue the excellent work done by
>the ISOC in their past Network Training Workshop series. The workshops
>aim to teach attendees from developing countries some of the skills
>which are in common use throughout the developed Internet.
>
>Anyone who is interested in proposing a workshop session, offering
>material which can be used for the workshops, or assisting with
>presenting any workshops should contact Philip Smith pfs@cisco.com or
>Bill Manning bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com or following the
>instructions at the end of this message for signing up as a speaker or
>instructor.
>
>FUNDING AND SUPPORT
>Since APRICOT is a not-for-profit event that tries to keep the cost to
>attendees low, we do not have too much money to pay the costs of
>speakers. If you belong to a company or organization that can cover
>you travel expenses, that is a big help. For those of you who do not
>belong to such an organization, Apricot will cover 4 days of hotel
>accommodation for Tutorial Instructors from Overseas. Apricot can also
>consider covering economy class airfare up to US$1500 on a case by
>case basis.
>
>Local Tutorial Instructors can receive a US$500 honorarium but no
>Hotel accommodations. It is ok to split the work of a full day
>tutorial between several instructors, but APRICOT may only be able to
>cover the hotel accommodations and case by case airfare for one person
>per Tutorial. Of course, Tutorial, Conference Chairs and Speakers will
>not have to pay any registration fee to attend the rest of the
>conference.
>
>SIGNING UP AS A SPEAKER, INSTRUCTOR OR CHAIR
>If you would like to be considered as a tutorial instructor,
>pre-conference workshop instructor, session speaker, session Chair or
>a convener of a BOF, please go to
>http://programs.regweb.com/apricot/2002/ . If you have received a
>USERNAME/PASSWORD, use that to log in. Otherwise select the
>SPEAKER Audience selection below the username/password entry box and
>click on "CONTINUE".
>
>NOTE: If you are signing up speakers other than yourself, please
>create an entry/registration for each speaker. If you do not yet know
>who the speaker is, create a temporary username. Fill in the First
>Name with a Speaker Number (i.e. Speaker1, Speaker2, etc) and the Last
>Name with your company name for each session. Fill in your own contact
>info for the other fields (Company, email, phone number, Fax).
>
>More information on the conference will be made available at
>http:/www.apricot2002.net
>
>Thanks and if you have any questions, please contact me (email is best).
>Robert J. Berger
>Program Chair
>Voice: +1-408-882-4755
>Fax: +1-408-490-2868
>rjbApricot@ibd.com
