[menog-announce] RIPE 68 Call for Presentations

[Osama I. Al-Dosary]

Salaam colleagues,

Please find the CFP for RIPE 68 below or at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp/.

_Call for Presentations_

A RIPE Meeting is an open event where Internet Service Providers,
network operators and other interested parties get together. Although
the meeting is mostly technical, it is also a chance for people to meet
and network with others in their field.

RIPE 68 will take place from 12 – 16 May 2014 in Warsaw, Poland.

The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals from
the RIPE community for the plenary session presentations, BoFs (Birds of
a Feather sessions), panels, workshops, tutorials and lightning talks at
RIPE 68. The PC is looking for presentations covering topics of network
engineering and operations, including but not limited to:

• IPv6 deployment
• Managing IPv4 scarcity in operations
• Commercial transactions of IPv4 addresses
• Data centre technologies
• Network and DNS operations
• Internet governance and regulatory practices
• Network and routing security
• Content delivery
• Internet peering and mobile data exchange

Submissions

RIPE Meeting attendees are quite sensitive to keeping
presentations non-commercial, and product marketing talks are strongly
discouraged. Repeated audience feedback shows that the most successful
talks focus on operational experience, research results, or case
studies. For example, presenters wishing to describe a commercial
solution should focus on  the underlying technology and not attempt a
product demonstration.

The RIPE PC accepts proposals for different presentation
formats, including plenary session presentations, tutorials, workshops,
BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) and lightning talks. See the full
descriptions of these formats at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/
<https://ripe67.ripe.net/programme/i-want-to-present/presentation-formats/>

Presenters who are proposing a panel or BoF are encouraged to
include speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or
a neutral facilitator.

In addition to presentations selected in advance for the plenary,
the RIPE PC also offers several time slots for “lightning talks”, which
are selected immediately before or during the conference.

The following general requirements apply:

- Proposals for plenary session presentations, BoFs, panels,
workshops and tutorials must be submitted for full consideration no
later than 2 March 2014, using the meeting submission system at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/guidelines/. Proposals submitted
after this date will be considered on a space-available basis.

-  Lightning talks should also be submitted using the meeting submission
system (https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/submission-form/) and can
be submitted just days before the RIPE Meeting starts or even during the
meeting week. The allocation of lightning talk slots will be announced
in short notice – in some cases on the same day but often one day prior
to the relevant session.

- Presenters should indicate how much time they will require.
See more information on time slot allocations per presentation format at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/
<https://ripe67.ripe.net/programme/i-want-to-present/presentation-formats/>

- Proposals for talks will only be considered by the PC if they contain
at least draft presentation slides (slides may be updated later on). For
panels, proposals must contain a clear description, as well as the names
of invited panelists, presenters and moderators.

- Due to potential technical issues, it is expected that most, if
not all, presenters/panelists will be physically present at the
RIPE Meeting.

If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions,
please email pc [at] ripe [dot] net.

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