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	1st Conference on Network Administration April 7-10, 1999 Santa Clara Marriott Hotel Santa Clara, California Download PDF Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association Co-sponsored by SAGE, the System Administrators Guild. Important Dates
	Submission deadline		November 6, 1998
	Notification to authors		December 1, 1998
	Camera-ready papers due		February 23, 1999
	Registration material available		February 1999
	Program Committee Chairs David Williamson, Global Networking and Computing Paul Ebersman, Vixie Enterprises Fuat Baran, Columbia University Brent Chapman, Covad Communications Company Phil Draughon, RMS Business Systems Paul Ferguson, Cisco Systems Jeff Jensen, WebTV Networks Bill LeFebvre, GroupSys, Inc. Bryan McDonald, GNAC, Inc. Hal Pomeranz, Corio, Inc. Wade Warner, Georgia State University Overview The networking administration community is expanding at an ever increasing pace. Now, USENIX and SAGE have created a conference just for it. The conference will enable dialogue among peers and experts in our field. We invite you to submit proposals to enhance the invited talks, refereed papers, tutorials, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Please review this call for participation, make a submission, and join us in creating the first open network administration conference specifically designed to help you. We look forward to your participation. Topics The conference is designed to create an environment allowing network administrators to come together and share ideas and techniques for managing all facets of the networking world. To facilitate these discussions, we encourage you to consider this partial topics list: The Enterprise Switching solutions for large LANs Choosing a network architecture Network management tools that work How to integrate multiple vendors in one seamless network Managing IP address space The Internet How to get on the Internet Firewalls and security integration Routing in the Internet Choosing and dealing with an ISP Remote Access Creating secure integrated dialup services DSL, ISDN, and other acronyms: what they mean The Future IPv6, and what it means to you Gigabit and beyond: high speed networking Quality of Service and ATM Voice and data integration Routing vs. Layer-3 switching What to Submit The most important segment of the conference is the information dialog it creates. You can do your part by submitting material in one of the following categories. Invited Talks/Panel Discussions If you have a presentation that is not suitable for a technical paper submission, please submit a proposal for an invited talk. The proposal should include an extended outline of the talk or panel topic and format include a description of your qualifications to present the topic list the likely participants on the panel conform to the "How and Where ..." instructions below Acceptance will be based upon the general applicability of the topic and on availability of time in the program. Refereed Papers We seek papers relating work of general interest to network administrators, particularly technical papers that reflect hands-on experience or describe real solutions. Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written submission and whether or not the work advances the art and science of network administration. A paper submission should: contain a short abstract include an outline of the paper conform to the "How and Where ..." instructions below If you have a completed paper, you may submit it instead of the abstract and outline. Please see the detailed author instructions and a sample abstract. At least one author of each accepted paper or talk will present the paper during the technical track of the conference. Authors of an accepted refereed paper or invited talk must provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings containing all papers will be distributed to attendees and will also be available from USENIX once the conference ends. We also ask that, if possible, copies of presentation slides be made available for wider distribution. Conference proceedings containing all refereed papers will be distributed to attendees and will also be available from USENIX once the conference ends. Note that the USENIX organization, as well as most conferences and journals, requires that papers be "unique", i.e., not be submitted to more than one conference or publication. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings, both as a matter of policy and as protected by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. How and Where to Send Submissions Please email your submission to neta-submissions@usenix.org in any one of the following formats: Plain text with no extra markup Postscript formated for 8.5" x 11" page Microsoft Word RTF HTML A cover letter with the following required information in the format below must be included with all submissions:
	Authors:	Names and affiliation of all authors
	Contact:	Primary contact for the submission
	Address:	Contact's full postal address
	Phone:	Contact's telephone number
	Fax:	Contact's fax number
	Email:	Contact's e-mail address
	URL:	For all speaker/authors (if available)
	Category:	Category of the submission (paper, invited talk, panel)
	Title:	Title of the submission
	Needs:	Audio-visual requirements for presentation
	If you enclose files as an attachment to your submission, please use MIME encoding. We will acknowledge receipt of a submission by email within one week. Tutorials On April 7, there will be full and half-day tutorials in all areas and levels of expertise for network administrators. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial at the conference, contact the USENIX tutorial coordinator: Daniel V. Klein Email: dvk@usenix.org Phone: 412.422.0285 Fax:: 412-421-2332 Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Sessions BOF sessions are very informal gatherings of attendees interested in a particular topic. BOFs will be held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and may be scheduled at the conference or in advance by sending email to conference@usenix.org Registration Information Complete program and registration information will be available February 1999 at this Web site. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest, CA USA 92630 Email: conference@usenix.org Phone: 949.588.8649 Fax: 949.588.9706

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