CfP: Interdomain Routing Workshop (IDRWS), May 6-7, 2005.

(Apologies for duplicate messages)

The tremendous growth of the Internet is causing concern among researchers 
and practitioners about scalability and convergence of the current routing 
architecture. The concern arises from real world problems caused by 
configuration mistakes, routing anomalies, conflicting policies, protocol 
limitations and so on. Furthermore, demands for traffic engineering, and 
new services such as route control are being controversially discussed 
within the community.

A lot of efforts are focused on routing enhancements or even new protocol 
generations. To help researchers to act jointly with current operational 
problems, a workshop is organized with focus on the next steps towards the 
near-term future (next 5 years) of Inter-Domain Routing (IDR). This year 
IDRWS has a special focus on Inter-Domain routing security (e.g. 
requirements, solutions and experience) and especially asks people working 
in this area to participate on the workshop.

The general goal of this workshop is to bring together a small, focused 
group of operators, vendors and researchers, to discuss in an open forum 
important mid- and long-term problems, security issues, network management 
tools, measurement techniques and router features. Especially, it is 
intended to talk about issues that operators feel will come up in the next 
years if we do not start to investigate problems now and begin to work on 
potential solutions.

For the IDRWS we are looking for contributions that can range from academic 
ideas, monitoring strategies and tools, over reports about the current 
routing situation, best common operational practices, even to suggestions 
about protocol enhancements. Furthermore vendor feedback on implementation 
details or the presented ideas is more than welcome.

Practical details:

* Location: Clarion Hotel, Ringvagen 98, 10460 Stockholm (This is the same
   location as the RIPE50 meeting).
* Deadline abstracts: April 18, 2005
* Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2005
* Presentation duration: 15 - 30 min
* Contact: <mailto:idrws-submission at tm.uka.de>idrws-submission at tm.uka.de
* The workshop will take place at the 6th and 7th of May
* Web: <http://www.idrws.org/>http://www.idrws.org/
* Registration fee: 30 euro's for those attending RIPE50, 50 euro's for
   all others, or the equivalent in SEK. The registration fee can only be
   paid in cash at the venue. The fee includes coffee and lunches on the
   days of the workshop.



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