DENOG 1 - Call for Participation and Papers

The first meeting of the German Network Operators Group (DENOG) will be held in Frankfurt, Germany on the 5th of November 2009. We are pleased to hereby invite applications for presentations or short lightning talks to be held at this inaugural event.

General Information =================== DENOG is a community for professionals within Germany who are operating, designing or researching the Internet. It provides a technical forum where those working on, with and for the Internet can come together to solve problems with every aspect of their (net)work.

The inaugural meeting is designed to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information among network operators, engineers, researchers and other professionals close to the network community.

More information about DENOG (in German) can be found at http://www.denog.de/ Information about the meeting will be published at http://www.denog.de/meeting/.

Meeting Countdown ================= What When ------------------------------------------------------ Publication of Call for Papers July 27th, 2009 Deadline for all submissions September 28th, 2009 Publication of final programme October 11th, 2009 Deadline for receipt of final slides October 29th, 2009 Meeting Day November 5th, 2009

Topics for Presentations/Talks ============================== The day will be divided into four sessions as described below. The number and length of presentations per session is not fixed, although due to time constraints we would prefer the length of the presentations to be between 10 to 30 minutes. However proposals for longer/shorter presentations or presentations whose subject falls outside of the topics below are also welcome; please do not hesitate to submit them.

Topic #1: Internet, politics and regulations -------------------------------------------- Duration: 90 minutes

Topics can include (but are not limited to): Legal interception, government-driven DNS blacklists, DNSSEC (and problems arising from DNS blacklists).

Topic #2: Peering ------------------ Duration: 60 minutes

All around your peering experience. Why are you doing it? How are you doing it? Have you written any useful tools which others might find interesting?

Topic #3: ISP BOF ----------------- Duration: 90 minutes

"All things ISP". From Network/SLA Management (for or against it), abuse handling and log systems to data centre layout and planning (including power and cooling), everything that is interesting to you as an ISP can be presented or discussed within this topic.

Topic #4: DENOG Organisational Matters -------------------------------------- Duration: 60 minutes, no papers necessary

In this session we will discuss how to proceed with DENOG and potential future meetings. We will present our ideas and eagerly await your own ideas, feedback and comments.

Submission Guidelines ===================== All submissions must have a strong technical bias and must not be solely promotional for your employer. To appeal to an international audience we ask you to produce your slides in English, but the presentation itself can be in either German or English.

Please remember that your presentations should be suitable for a target audience of technicians from varied backgrounds, working for companies whose sizes vary considerably.

To submit a proposal for a presentation, we request that you provide the following information as plain text or PDF format to denog-pc@denog.de:

* the name of the presenter (and if applicable your affiliation) * a working email address * the name and number of the topic which will contain the presentation * the title of the presentation * its expected length (in minutes) * the preferred spoken language for the presentation * a short abstract of the presentation (not more than 200 words)

We also welcome suggestions for specific presentations which you feel would be valuable to the DENOG community.

Please be aware that your presentation will be publish on the DENOG website after the event.

Best regards, Arnold