From rbriscoe at jungle.bt.co.uk Thu Jun 7 03:58:10 2007 From: rbriscoe at jungle.bt.co.uk (Bob Briscoe) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:58:10 +0100 Subject: [e2e] Invitation to join new unofficial IETF mailing list: re-ECN Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20070607110607.0525c8e0@pop3.jungle.bt.co.uk> Folks, You are invited to subscribe to a new unofficial IETF mailing list on re-ECN via Re-ECN is proposed as an extension to explicit congestion notification (ECN) intended to enable enforcement of fairness for congestion control & QoS including mitigation of DDoS and prevention of cheating between both networks & users. Why has this list been created?: At the last IETF in Prague, about 30-40 people got together at an unofficial BoF (Birds of a Feather) to hear about the architectural intent of re-ECN and to discuss how to move forward. It was decided to take an ad hoc approach initially, somewhat along the lines of how HIP got started. If a community hangs together around this work, then it may form an IRTF or IETF working group. The room was unanimous that re-ECN addresses a problem that is interesting, and about 75% were interested in using it, if it was implemented. Half a dozen people expressed interest in implementing the protocol. Full notes, transcript & slides as well as background papers are at: If interested in discussion of design and implementation of the re-ECN protocol, pls subscribe via the link at the start. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re-ECN is not an official working group of the IETF or IRTF. But the IETF has agreed to host the list to create a community around this work who may wish to bring it forward for standardisation. As such, if you subscribe, you will be asked to note well the normal IETF rules. This invitation will only be sent to relevant lists once. But apologies if you are on more than one of these lists. Cheers Bob ____________________________________________________________________________ Bob Briscoe, Networks Research Centre, BT Research B54/77 Adastral Park,Martlesham Heath,Ipswich,IP5 3RE,UK. +44 1473 645196 From vern at icir.org Mon Jun 11 23:41:42 2007 From: vern at icir.org (Vern Paxson) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:41:42 -0700 Subject: [e2e] Call For Papers - HotNets VI Message-ID: <200706120641.l5C6fgJ8066147@jaguar.icir.org> (http://www.sigcomm.org/HotNets-VI/) Call for Papers The Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), to be held in Atlanta, GA, will bring together researchers in the networking systems community to engage in lively discussion of future trends in networking research and technology. The workshop, which is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, provides a venue for researchers to present and discuss ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community in the long term; the goal is to promote community-wide discussions of those ideas. Each potential participant should submit a short position paper describing such an idea. The paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new solution, or re-frame or debunk existing work. We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and interesting ideas, across the broad range of networking systems research. We expect that work introduced at HotNets-VI, once fully thought through, completed, and described in a finished form, may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, OSDI, SenSys, or MobiCom. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to: A research agenda for Web 2.0 Architectural support for security or availability Computing in the cloud: what role for networking research? Ensuring correctness for distributed protocols Evolution of storage area networks Lessons drawn from failed research, and controversial or disruptive topics Measurement and management of metro-area WiFi networks Network coding: hype or reality? Power as a first-class design property; "green" protocols/implementations Protocol design for optical switching The future role of network processors Third-world networking challenges Understanding the economics of operational costs Unique challenges of massive multi-player game systems Validation of measurement-based research: what are our standards? Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion and technical merit. Online copies of accepted position papers will be made publicly available via the Web prior to the workshop, and printed proceedings will be published. Additionally, a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop. Attendance will be limited to around 60 people in order to ensure an interactive workshop atmosphere. Invitations to attend the workshop will be extended according to the following priorities: o the Program and Steering Committees, one author per paper, and any speakers invited by the Program Committee o co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available scholarships allow o event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee The workshop will be held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, which is the new home of the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/klaus/), in the Midtown area of Atlanta. Hotnets-VI is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and NSF. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). Authors may choose to submit a blind or non-blind paper. A blind submission will not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper; a non-blind submission will include the names and affiliations of each author on the first page of the paper. Only electronic submissions in PostScript or PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (Ghostview or Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. Please number your pages. HotNets-VI reviews will follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers may not receive full-length reviews. Submission information will be posted by mid-July at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/HotNets-VI Important Dates Submissions due: Friday, 3 August 2007 (11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time) No extensions will be granted. Notification of acceptance: Monday, 1 October 2007 Camera-ready copy due: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Workshop (Atlanta, GA): Wednesday-Thursday, 14-15 November 2007 Organizers: General Chair Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Tech Program Committee David Andersen, CMU Dave Clark, MIT Krishna Gummadi, MPI-SWS Kevin Jeffay, UNC Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan Craig Partridge, BBN Vern Paxson, ICSI/LBNL (co-chair) Stefan Savage, UCSD (co-chair) Nina Taft, Intel Research Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research From reddy at ece.tamu.edu Wed Jun 20 13:13:30 2007 From: reddy at ece.tamu.edu (Narasimha Reddy) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:13:30 -0600 Subject: [e2e] [CoNext 2007] CFP: CoNEXT' 07 Message-ID: <01a501c7b377$7ba85ce0$23d25ba5@tamu.edu> Please see the CFP for CoNEXT this year. Thanks Reddy --------------------------------------------------------- CoNEXT'2007 Columbia University, New York, U.S.A 10-13 December, 2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2007/ Important dates : Abstract registration: June 29th, 2007 Submission: July 7th, 2007 Notification: September 25th, 2007 Final version: October 15th, 2007 CoNEXT seeks to foster open discussions on technology alternatives and to be a forum accommodating multiple viewpoints. It is committed to a fair and thorough review process that will provide authors of submitted papers with sound and detailed feedback. CoNEXT 2007 solicits papers that help better understand today's networks and how their performance and functionality can be improved, as well papers proposing new approaches and systems on how to design and operate the next generation of networks. Additionally, papers reporting on the deployment and performance of services or exploring network functionality aimed at better supporting new services are also welcome. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following: - Internet measurements and modelling - Economic aspects of the Internet - Implementation and experimental evaluation of network protocols/applications - Network security and deep packet inspection - Networked games, multimedia applications - Routing and traffic engineering - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Wireless and mobile networks - Ad hoc and sensors networks - Delay and disruption tolerant networks - New networking protocols, architectures, and addressing schemes - Autonomic and dependable communications Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not have been submitted to another conference or journal for publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the CoNEXT web site and must be no more than 12 pages in the ACM SIGCOMM format (strictly enforced). Proceedings will be published by ACM, appear in ACM's digital library and the best papers will be forwarded to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible fast-track publication. Conference Chairs Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, U.S.A. Program Chairs Olivier Bonaventure, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Roch Guerin, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. CoNEXT 2007 is supported by Cisco and Thomson. Additional information may be found on http://www.sigcomm.org/co-next2007/