Just a reminder that the RFP is still open for NANOG 58!<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Temkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@temk.in" target="_blank">dave@temk.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fresh off of a great NANOG 57 in Orlando, your program committee is already working hard to provide a world-class program for NANOG 58 in NOLA - New Orleans, Louisiana - one of my favorite destinations in the world.</span></b></div>

<div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a reminder, we will be following the same Monday-Wednesday program that we started at NANOG 57, with Tutorials beginning Monday morning and closing with the Peering Track (and potentially a social) on Wednesday evening. </span></b></div>

<div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to seeing everyone in The Big Easy!</span></b></div>

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</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--------------------</span></b></div><div>

<b style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div>The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) will hold its 58th meeting in New Orleans on June 3rd - 5th, 2013  </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Verizon </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Terremark</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">will host NANOG 58. The NANOG Program Committee is now seeking proposals for presentations, panels, tutorials, tracks sessions, keynote materials, and the NOGLab experience for the NANOG 58 program. We invite presentations highlighting issues relating to technology already deployed or soon-to-be deployed in the Internet. Vendors are encouraged to work with operators to present real-world deployment experiences with the vendor's products and interoperability via the program and as part of the NOGLab.   NANOG 58 submissions are welcome at</span><a href="http://pc.nanog.org/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://pc.nanog.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About NANOG</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NANOG is the premier meeting for network operators in North America. Meetings provide a forum for information exchange among network operators, engineers, and researchers. NANOG meets three times each year, and includes panels, presentations, tutorial sessions, tracks, informal BOFs, and a NOGLab which features interoperability demonstrations. NANOG attendees include operators from networks of all sizes, enterprise operators, peering coordinators, transport and switching equipment vendors, and network researchers. NANOG attendees will share ideas and interact with leaders in the field of network operations, discuss current operational events and issues, and learn about state-of-the-art operational techniques.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Materials from NANOG 58 will be archived at:</span><a href="http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog55/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog58/</span></a><br>

<a href="http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog55/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Key Dates for NANOG 58</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">    </span>CFP Opens for NANOG 58: 25-February-2013</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>CFP Deadline #1: Presentation Abstracts Due: 8-April-2013</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>CFP Deadline #2: Presentation Slides Due: 29-April-2013</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>NANOG Highlights Page Posted: 22-April-2013</span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Preliminary Topic List Posted: 26-April-2013</span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Meeting Agenda Published: 13-May-2013</span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Meeting Agenda Final sent to printer: 20-May-2013</span><br>
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lightning Talk Submissions Open (Abstracts Only): 2-June-2013</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Speaker FINAL presentations to PCTool or speaker-support: 31-May-2013</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">•<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>On-Site Registration: 31-May-2013</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The NANOG Program Committee seeks proposals for presentations, panels, tutorial sessions, tracks, and BOFs in all areas of network operations, including (but not limited to):</span><br>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Power and facilities</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include power reliability and engineering, green power, power efficiency, cooling, and facilities management. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interconnections</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include IXes, intra-building, MMR, metro-wide connections, peering, and transit purchasing tactics and strategies. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Security</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include routing security, route filtering of large peers/customers, and inter-AS security and cooperation. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">DNS</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include using DNS data for network metrics, botnet discovery, and geolocation. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IPv6</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include real-world deployment challenges, Carrier Grade NAT, NAT-PT implementations that work and scale, and allocation strategies. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Content</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include Distribution (p2p, IPTV), content payment models, content distribution technologies and networks, and storage/archiving. 
</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disaster recovery</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Topics may include risk analysis, training, agencies, planning methods, hardware portability, key tools, transport audits, and other lessons learned.</span></li>

</ul><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In general, presentations are being sought by and for network operators of all sizes. Presentations about difficult problems (and interesting solutions) that you encounter in the course of your job are encouraged.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In addition, the Program Committee, through participation with other organizations and vendor’s, will be programming a </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NOGLab experience</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  The topic of the NOGLab will be timely and feature real-world experiences faced by operators of today’s Internet.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you think you have an interesting topic but want some feedback or assistance working it into a presentation, please email the Program Committee chair (</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:chair@pc.nanog.org" target="_blank">chair@pc.nanog.org</a></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), and a representative on the Program Committee will give you the feedback needed to work it into a presentation. Otherwise, don't delay in submitting your talk, keynote, track, or panel into the NANOG Program Committee tool, located at</span><a href="http://pc.nanog.org/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://pc.nanog.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. For more information about talk types and format, please see</span><a href="http://www.nanog.org/presentations/guidelines/talktips.php" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://nanog.org/presentations/guidelines/talktips.php</span></a><br>

<a href="http://www.nanog.org/presentations/guidelines/talktips.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How to Present</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The deadline for accepting abstracts and slides is April 8, 2013 . While the majority of speaking slots may be filled by that date, a limited number of slots may be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely, important, or critical to the operations of the Internet.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Complete Presentation Guidelines can be found at</span><a href="http://www.nanog.org/presentations/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://nanog.org/presentations/</span></a><br>

<a href="http://www.nanog.org/presentations/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The primary speaker, moderator, or author should submit presentation information and an abstract online at:</span><a href="http://pc.nanog.org/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://pc.nanog.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> once you have done this, you will receive instructions for submitting your draft slides.</span><br>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author's name(s)</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Preferred contact email address</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A preferred phone number for contact</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission category (General Session, Panel, Tutorial, or Research Forum)</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presentation title</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Slides (attachment or URL), in PDF (preferred) or PowerPoint format.</span></li>

</ul><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to reviewing your submission.</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Talks</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynote Presentation:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Program Committee invites speakers to submit materials for up to one-hour keynote presentations. Speakers should indicate that their submission is for a keynote in their abstracts. Speaker must submit slides for a Keynote Presentation.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Session Talk:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> A General Session presentation should be on a topic of interest to the general NANOG audience, and may be up to 30-minutes long (including time for Q&A). Speakers must submit slides for a General Session presentation.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Session Panel:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Panels are 60-90-minute discussion sessions between a moderator and a team of panelists. The panel moderator should submit an abstract on the panel topic, a list of panelists, and how the panel will be organized. Panel selection will be based on the importance, originality, focus and timeliness of the topic, expertise of proposed panelists, as well as the potential for informative and controversial discussion. After acceptance the panel leader will be given the option to invite panel authors to submit their presentations to the NANOG program Committee for review. Until then authors should not submit their individual presentations for the panel.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tracks:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Tracks are 90-minute informal agenda blocks on topics, which are of interest to a portion of the NANOG community. The 90-minute block can be subdivided into a number of smaller, highly related presentations, panels or open discussion. A moderator coordinates content within the 90-minute block of time, and must submit a detailed outline to the Program Committee, including sub-topics and presenters</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peering</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ISP Security</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tools</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Typically two tracks or three tracks will be run concurrently.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tutorials:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Tutorials are 90-minute sessions. A presentation from the introductory through advanced level on all related topics, including:</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Disaster Recovery Planning</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Troubleshooting BGP</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best Practices for Determining Traffic Matrices</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Options for Blackhole and Discard Routing</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPNs</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peering business and engineering basics</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A tutorial submission should include an abstract and slides.</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BOFs:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are informal sessions on topics, which are of interest to a portion of the NANOG community. BOFs may be held in the hallways, breakout areas or in an unscheduled tutorial room. Requests for scheduled BOFs will be take place on site at the meeting.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A typical BOF session may include some structure or presentations, but usually is focused on community discussion and interaction.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Frequent BOF topics include:</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">R&D collaboration</span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hot-topics in the media</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The less structured nature of BOF sessions allows for the greatest flexibility from a timing perspective.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lightning Talks:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG audience. These are limited to ten minutes; this will be strictly enforced.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have a topic that's timely, interesting, or even a crackpot idea you want to share, we encourage you to consider presenting it. The Program Committee will vote on all Lightning Talk submissions onsite at the meeting, and a submitter will be notified about his or her submission one day prior to the scheduled talk time.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submit your lightning talk proposal at</span><a href="http://pc.nanog.org/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(0,0,255);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://pc.nanog.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> starting June 2, 2013.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Research Forum:</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Researchers are invited to present short (10-minute) summaries of their work for operator feedback. Topics include routing, network performance, statistical measurement and analysis, and protocol development and implementation. Studies presented may be works in progress. Researchers from academia, government, and industry are encouraged to present.</span><br>

<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The NANOG registration fee is waived for:</span><br>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For General Session presentations, the registration fee will be waived for a maximum of one speaker. 
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For General Session panels, fees will be waived for one panel moderator and all panelists. 
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Tracks, fees will be waived for one moderator. 
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Research Forum presentations, fees will be waived for one speaker.</span></li>

<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For Tutorials, fees will be waived for one instructor. 
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