Call For Presentation and Tutorials for AfriNIC-5

The next AfriNIC Public Policy Meeting will be held in Mauritius from 27 Nov - 01 Dec 2006. It is an open forum to discuss issues related to internet number resource management within the AfriNIC service region.

This meeting will also host a regional IPv6 conference where network operators will share their experiences on IPv6 deployment.

We are looking for presentations and tutorials of relevance from anyone. Tutorials are usually 2 to 4 hour workshops, while presentations may last between 10 and 30 minutes.

Presentations / Tutorials may cover the following topics:

- IPv6 deployment
- Routing Best Practice/Address Space Prefix Filtering
- Reverse DNS implemenation
- DNSec
- Fighting Spam

We would like to have as many practical, hands-on presentations as possible and they do not have to be long.

Policy proposals are also usually discussed at the meeting, but must pass through the appropriate phases of the Policy Development Process
(please see http://www.afrinic.net/pdp.htm).

If you would like to make a presentation or tutorial, please send your proposal to meeting@afrinic.net

Your proposal should contain the following information:

- Full Name
- Email Address
- Affiliation
- Short biography
- Title of Talk
- A detailed abstract or outline describing the presentation
- Draft slides for the presentation (if ready/available)
- Length of talk (minutes/hours/days)
- Need (or not) for sponsorship or assistance to attend the meeting (travel and/or accommodation, etc)

The audience at AfriNIC meetings is mainly composed of technical network operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels from beginners to several years of experience.

Presentations that contain any sort of marketing and commercial content are usually not encouraged at such meetings.

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