[SANOG] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations

[Philip Smith]

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned last week when I sent out the Call for Volunteers for the 
APRICOT PC, APRICOT 2021 will be online in February next year. Same 
dates as we had planned for the in-person meeting.

I've included the call for presentations below - looking forward to 
receiving your presentation proposals!

Thanks!

philip
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2021 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;

Please submit on-line at:

         http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=128

Tutorials will take place during the week of 22nd February.
Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week
of 1st March.  All APRICOT 2021 sessions times will be one hour long,
with up to four sessions scheduled per day.

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
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Call for Papers Opens:           Now
Draft Program Published:         As Papers Confirmed
Final Deadline for Submissions:   7 February 2021
Final Program Published:         14 February 2021
Final Slides Received:           21 February 2021

*SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, REGARDLESS OF
PUBLISHED DEADLINES*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
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The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
   wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
- Content & Service Delivery and "Cloud Computing"


PEERING FORUM
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Due to APRICOT 2021 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering
Personals prior to the event starting.  Submissions must be of a
single slide listing the operator's PeeringDB entry.  Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering
Personal presentation.


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

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, with all company confidential marks
removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline.  The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance.  Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline.  Presenters should endeavour to get material into
the PC sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
Committee by e-mail at:

         pc-chairs at apricot.net

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee
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