[apops] APRICOT 2003 First Call for Tutorial Instructors, Conference Presenters & BOF Leaders

[Philip Smith <pfs@cisco.com>]

Hi everyone,

Attached is the first call going out for the APRICOT 2003 conference to be 
held in Taipei at the end of February.

APRICOT 2003 will include many sessions apart from the main APRICOT 
conference, including workshops, tutorials, APNIC's meeting, the APOPS 
meeting, and so on.

Hopefully you can make space in your diary to attend, or even better offer 
assistance as described below.

Best wishes,

Philip Smith
APOPS Chair
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     CALL FOR APRICOT 2003 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TUTORIALS

Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
                           Taipei, Taiwan

The APRICOT 2003 Program Committee is now preparing a schedule and
materials for the conference, and is seeking contributors to the
program.

We are looking for people who would like to:

*	Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; and/or
*	Be an instructor at the pre-conference workshops; and/or
*	Participate in the technical conference sessions as
	a speaker or chair; and/or
*	Convene and chair a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session.


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
15 November 2002: All Proposed Session Presentations and Tutorials Submitted
30 November 2002: Presentations and Tutorials Selected and Announced

19 February to 23 February 2003: Pre-conference Workshops
24 February to 25 February 2003: Tutorials
26 February to 27 February 2003: Conference
28 February 2003: 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:

* Network security
* Address planning, conservation, responsibility and migration to IPv6
* High performance IP backbone routing and management
* Network planning, management and traffic engineering
* Operation experiences and issues in deploying Internet Infrastructure
* Internet exchanges, peering and collocation
* Operations, NOC, Helpdesk and other support aspects
* New Pan Asian backbones
* Hot topics in future network protocols and techniques
* BIND, DNSSEC, and Reverse and multilingual DNS
* Broadband first/last mile access technologies
* Mobile and wireless technologies
* Content, Applications, streaming and multimedia infrastructure
* Unified messaging, scaling e-mail infrastructure
* Service and server scaling, Redundancy and reliability, Open source
* VoIP
* 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 2003 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. Only in exceptional
circumstances of hardship will APRICOT be able to consider assiting
with travel expenses of tutorial instructors.

Of course, Tutorial, Conference Chairs and Speakers will not have to
pay any registration fee to attend the conference or tutorials.

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 copy the following form, fill it in and
email it to submission@apricot2003.net. Make a copy of the form for
each submission if you are sending in multiple submissions (ether
multiple speakers or multiple tutorial or conference session
proposal).

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SPEAKER PERSONAL INFORMATION

First (Given) Name:
Middle Name:
Last (Family) Name:

Title:
Company / School / Affiliation:
Organization URL:

City:
State:
Country:

Voice Phone:		Extension:
Fax:
email:
Personal URL:

Short Bio (please include enough information that we can determine
that you are a qualified speaker on this subject):

Please also include a photo of the speaker if possible.

Assistant Name (Person who may be submitting this for the speaker or
                 someone who is an alternate contact for the speaker):

Assistant Title:
Assistant Voice Phone:
Assistant Fax:
Assistant email:

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CONTENT INFO
Tutorial, Technical Presentation, BOF, Workshop (pick one for each
submission):

Subject Pick one from:
* Network security
* Address planning, conservation, responsibility, IPv6
* Network planning, management and traffic engineering
* Operation, NOC, Helpdesk and issues in deploying Internet Infrastructure
* Internet exchanges, peering and collocation
* Hot topics in future network protocols and techniques
* BIND, DNSSEC, and Reverse and multilingual DNS
* Broadband first/last mile access technologies
* Mobile and wireless technologies
* Content, Applications, Email, streaming and multimedia infrastructure
* Service and server scaling, Redundancy and reliability, Open source
* VoIP
* Other (Describe:_____________________)

Title of Entry:

Level of Material (Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced)

Abstract of Entry:

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http:/www.apricot2003.net

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Robert J. Berger
Program Chair
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Robert J. Berger
Program Chair

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