Call for Proposals

Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting

Arlington, Virginia

April 19-21, 2004

Important Note: The deadline for submitting track session proposals has now passed.

The Spring 2004 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for track breakout sessions at the 2004 Spring Member Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. Submissions are welcome from all members and international partners. You are encouraged to circulate this Call to others on your campus and in your organizations, and elsewhere within the Internet2 member community.

Below is information on:
· Areas of Focus
· Proposal Evaluation Criteria
· Submission Information

Areas of Focus for the Spring Meeting

The Spring member meeting traditionally highlights Internet2’s partnerships among academia, industry, government and the international community. Meeting sessions will, among other things, focus on collaborations with and among federal agencies, between the corporate community and higher ed, and with international organizations. The program will include many sessions that present a longer-term, strategic view of community priorities for the uses of advanced networking, as well as those that highlight key projects underway. The Program Committee is particularly interested in sessions that demonstrate or articulate summative approaches rather than single institutional programs that are common in many institutions. This year, as new opportunities arise and new challenges confront the Internet, the Internet2 community is focusing attention and energy on a number of important areas, reflected in the following areas of focus for Spring 2004:

*Advanced applications demos
*Presented demos with related development case studies
*Corporate/higher ed collaboration
* Cyberinfrastructure
*Cyberinfrastructure initiatives coming out of NSF, DoE, DoD, DHS, NIH
*Federal agency collaborations
*Cooperative funding arrangements with federal agencies
*Innovative leveraging of federal dollars
*Global collaborations
*International e-science projects and collaborations (Grid Physics Network, Virtual Observatory, etc.)
*Case studies of Internet2 members and international partners engaging in international collaborations and using or in need of international connectivity
*K/20
*K/20 partnerships
*K/20 and the national agenda
*Museum, science and cultural center projects
*Library projects
*Middleware
*Diagnostics
*Federations (for e-government, K/12)
*Authorization
*Directories
*NMI
*PKI for government – electronic proposal submission with federal agencies using PKI technology
*Network infrastructures
*Hybrid optical packet infrastructure
*Regional optical networking
*Overlay networks
*Bandwidth management
*Security for advanced networks
*Critical infrastructure protection
*Technology and research funding opportunities
*Security at line speed research
*High-performance networking and security

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- relevance to advanced networking and advanced applications; those things that are not possible or reasonable to do with the commodity Internet
- demonstration of the value of Internet2 to its members and to research, teaching and learning
- extent to which sessions highlight key partnerships
- extent to which session contributes to the key topic areas
- extent to which session presents summative rather than single institution approaches
- degree of anticipated interaction and information sharing; session is designed to promote discussion among attendees and to advance work
- degree to which session itself utilizes advanced and innovative technologies
- overall program quality and balance of topics

The Program Committee will select approximately 30 proposals to fill track session slots, and may also select some proposals for inclusion as poster sessions.

Track sessions are either 60 or 75 minutes in length, depending on the number of speakers and the session content. If you have a short talk (10-15 minutes), please submit it with a note indicating that if selected, it should be part of a larger session rather than standing on its own.

Track sessions will be scheduled between the morning of Tuesday, April 20 and afternoon on Wednesday, April 21. More information on the meeting schedule will be available here in January.

Submission Information

Each proposal must contain the following:
· a title
· a session abstract of no more than 200 words
· at least one speaker name
· major topic area
· intended session format
· audience information (who you’re targeting and what level of understanding they should have coming into the session)
· permission to netcast your session if it’s selected for the program and for netcasting
· a contact name and email address

You may use the form at
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/spring-mm/proposalsubmissionform.cfm

or submit the required information in an email message to Laurie Burns.

Deadline

Notification by:
Friday, February 9, 2004

Contact:
Laurie Burns (lburns@internet2.edu)