AFNOG 2002 - Call for Presentations

[Isatou Jah <isatou.jah at gamtel.gm>]

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 17TH MARCH 2002
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         CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

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                  May 12-13, 2002
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The Africa Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) will hold its 3rd meeting 
(AfNOG 3) in Lome, Togo from May 12th - 13th 2001. This event will follow 
an AfNOG-organised 5 day intensive training workshop.

AfNOG 3 will be a two day technical forum for tutorials, presentations and 
discussions relating to Internet networking, issues on cooperation,backbone 
networking technologies, and operational practices.

Day 1 of AfNOG3 will be a series of technical tutorials and Day 2 will 
include a morning session of short presentations, to be followed by an 
afternoon of open discussions. Topics for tutorials/presentation will have 
emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering practices. It is 
expected this conference will draw up to 200 participants, mainly 
consisting of engineering staff from national service providers, managers 
from IT Enterprises and members of the research and education community.

There will also a be a meeting for the Africa Internet Registry (Afrinic - 
see http://www.afrinic.org ) on the 14th of May. The AfNOG and Afrinic 
meetings will be held at Mercure Hotel, Sarakawa, Lome, Togo.

For more information about these events, conference hotels, schedules,and 
logistics, see
http://www.afnog.org/ and http://www.afrinic.org/

AFNOG 3: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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AfNOG3 invites presentations on backbone engineering, coordination, and 
research topics. Presentations should be non-commercial and should 
highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be 
deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points.

* Network Infrastructure
* Network Security
* Wireless Technologies
* Network Management & Capacity Planning
* Peering and Internet Exchanges
* DNS
* Internet Content
* Backbone traffic engineering
* Inter-provider security and routing protocol authentication
* Security issues for the Internet core
* Content Networking
* Rural Internet Access
* VOIP

HOW TO PRESENT
Submit an informal one-or two-paragraph abstract describing the 
presentation in email to: afnog-presentations at afnog.org.The deadline for 
proposals is March 17th, 2002. Abstracts will be accepted after March 17th 
on the basis of timeliness and quality of the presentation. Presenters will 
be notified of acceptance by April 5th, 2002.

Suggestions/recommendations for technical tutorials and other presentation 
topics can also be sent to afnog-presentations at afnog.org


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