CALL FOR PAPERS

The AfNOG-14 Programme Committee are now seeking contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for AfNOG-14.

We are looking for people and proposals that would:

  • Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic; and/or
  • Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker; and/or - Convene and chair a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session.

Please submit proposals on-line at http://papers.afnog.org/paper/user/login.php?event=7

CONFERENCE MILESTONES

MilestoneDate
Call for PC Volunteers30 January 2013
Call for Papers Opens13 February 2013
First Draft Program Published19 March 2013
Final Deadline for Submissions29 April 2013
Final Program Published6 May 2013
Final Slides Received13 May 2013

PROGRAM MATERIAL

The AfNOG Programme is organised in three parts, including workshops, tutorials and the conference.

Topics for tutorials and conference would include, amongst others, relevance to Internet operations and technologies:

  • IPv4/IPv6 Routing and operations
  • IPv4 address runout/IPv6 deployment and transition technologies
  • Backbone operations
  • ISP and Carrier services
  • Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
  • Peering/IXP's
  • DNS/DNSSEC
  • Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management, Addressing, etc)
  • Access and Transport Technologies, e.g., broadband deployment, Cable/DSL, wireless, WiMax, Metro-E, Fibre, MPLS, e.t.c.
  • Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, TelePresence, Gaming, IPTv, e.t.c.)

CfP SUBMISSION

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to review the submission. For work in progress, the most current information available at time of submission is acceptable.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the AfNOG-14 web site.

While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by the first submission deadline, a limited number of slots may be available up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance.

Please submit on-line at http://papers.afnog.org/paper/user/login.php?event=7

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee by e-mail at pc-chairs@afnog.org