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Call for Papers: Africa Network Operators' Group, (Ghana) 05/01

Call for Papers: Africa Network Operators' Group, (Ghana) 05/01

The Africa Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) will hold its second meeting(AfNOG 2) in Accra, Ghana on May 12th 2001. This event will follow an AfNOG-organised 5 day intensive training workshop. AfNOG2 will be a one day technical forum for presentations and discussions relating to Internet networking, issues on cooperation,backbone networking technologies, and operational practices.

AfNOG2 will include a morning session of short presentations, to be followed by an afternoon of open discussions. Topics for 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 13th of May. The AfNOG and Afrinic meetings will be held at:Miklin Hotel,East Legon, Accra Ghana.

For more information about these events, conference hotels, schedules,and logistics, see

http://www.afnog.org/ and http://www.afrinic.org/

AFNOG 2: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

AfNOG2 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 caching
* Rural Internet Access
* VOIP

HOW TO PRESENT

Submit an informal one-or two-paragraph abstract describing the presentation in email to: afnog-presentations@afnog.org.The deadline for proposals is March 15th, 2001. Abstracts will be accepted after March 15th on the basis of timeliness and quality of the presentation. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by April 1, 2001.

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Date:Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:54:41 -0000 From: Ayitey Bulley <bulley@GHANA.COM> Subject:AfNOG-2001 Call for Abstracts


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