Dear colleagues,
RIPE 64 takes place on 16-20 April 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals from the RIPE community for the Plenary, BoF and tutorial sessions at RIPE 64. 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
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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. Presenters who are proposing a panel or BoF are encouraged to include speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or a neutral facilitator. Presenters should indicate how much time they will require (30 minutes is a common maximum duration, although some talks can be longer).
Proposals for presentations must be submitted for full consideration no later than *3 February* using the online topic submission system at:
http://meetings.ripe.net/pc/
Presentations submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis.
In addition to presentations selected in advance for the plenary, the RIPE PC also offers several timeslots for “lightning talks”, which are selected immediately before or during the conference. Lightning talks are short (10 mins maximum) and will be announced shortly before the conference.
If you are aware of a talk that might be interesting to the community, please provide us with the details and we will approach the potential speaker.
If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions, please email pc(a)ripe.net.
For more information about RIPE 64, including how to register, visit:
http://ripe64.ripe.net/
Kind regards,
Todd Underwood
on behalf of the RIPE Programme Committee
Dear colleagues,
The Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) call for
nominations for Seat Number 9 on the ICANN Board will close at 23:59 UTC
on 16 January 2012.
The ASO AC election procedures are found in Section 7 of the ASO
Operating Procedures and are available on the ASO website at:
http://aso.icann.org/documents/operating-procedures-aso-ac/
Article VI of the ICANN Bylaws states that: "At any given time, no two
Directors selected by a Supporting Organization shall be citizens from
the same country or of countries located in the same Geographic Region."
The ASO AC selection for Seat 10 of the ICANN Board of Directors resides
in the APNIC region, so nominees for Seat 9 cannot reside in the APNIC
region.
Submit nominations by email to nominations2012(a)aso.icann.org including
the following information:
* Full name of the person being nominated
* Contact email address for the person being nominated
* Contact telephone number (if available) of the person being nominated
* Full name of the person making the nomination
* Contact email address for the person making the nomination
* Contact telephone number of the person making the nomination
The full time frame for the selection process is as follows:
* Nomination Phase 1 November 2011 to 16 January 2012
* Comment Phase 17 January 2012 – 19 April 2012
* Interview Phase 20 February 2012 – 19 April 2012
- The deadline for return of written questionnaires is 20 February 2012.
- Telephone and face-to-face interviews with selected candidates may
take place.
* Selection Phase 23 April 2012 - 14 May 2012
* Due Diligence Review 15 May 2012 - 15 June 2012
* Winner Announced 18 June 2012 (or earlier, based on completion date of
due diligence review)
All phases will conclude at 23:59 UTC on the date specified.
Regards,
ASO Secretariat
secretariat(a)aso.icann.org
