The Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for track sessions at the Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington, Virginia. 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:
The call for proposals is now closed.
Areas of Focus for the Spring Meeting
Spring 2007 will bring a new era to Internet2 and the advanced research and education community, with many exciting new elements factoring into the program for the Spring 2007 Member Meeting, including:
- The implementation of the new Internet2 Network, with its 100 Gbps capacity and dynamic wave provisioning service, and the applications that it supports
- The launch of a new governance structure, with special emphasis on increasing the involvement of key stakeholders and the membership at large in charting Internet2’s work going forward
- Activities and collaborations that are helping to realize the vision for a national cyberinfrastructure (CI) agenda and its potential for expanding international partnerships.
- The expanding relationship with federal agencies, in particular regarding efforts underway and planned with the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the FCC Rural Health Care initiative
- New advanced R & E community projects and initiatives, including (but not limited to) advanced content delivery, virtual communities, regional health networks, eScience portals, the TeraGrid project, enterprise workflow, etc.
The relationship with federal agencies will (literally) take center stage at the meeting, with a keynote presentation by Dr. Bruce Cole, the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities who will speak on the growing importance of digital humanities.
Please note that because the overarching theme of the spring meeting is strategy and policy, proposals that address campus, state, regional and national network policy issues, including work on Net Neutrality, are encouraged. While there will not be a separate Call for Demos, presentations that incorporate demos are also encouraged.
Proposal Track Titles and Descriptions
Advancing Applications: What's working? What's not? What's needed?: Sessions in this category will focus on case study examples of applications that have worked and that have not worked, with a strong focus on why and what's needed. Representatives from higher education, government and industry are invited to submit their examples and perspectives on these issues related to using advanced networking. Of particular interest will be proposals that talk about applications that take advantage of the new network capabilities.
Middleware: Sessions in this category will focus on innovative deployments and on-going technical and policy work in the areas of identity management, authentication, authorization, and workflow. Within these general categories, examples of session topics might include: identity management tools and products; the Shibboleth system, federations, and federated access management; NSF's Middleware Initiative; public-key infrastructure; middleware for wireless networking and video; middleware-enabled collaboration tools and virtual organization support; authority and group management systems such as Signet and Grouper; middleware diagnostics; and workflow management middleware.
Network Planning and Engineering: Sessions in this category will provide an opportunity for discussion of advanced network services, network infrastructure developments, cyberinfrastructure, end-to-end performance and performance measurement, and next generation networks. Examples of topics that might be considered include: network research initiatives, sensor networks, hybrid optical packet infrastructures, experimental network testbeds, regional optical networks (RONs) and optical regional education networks (ORENs), national or international research and educational networks (NREN's),and the drivers of the next-generation Internet. The Network Planning and Engineering track will also accommodate discussion of specific emerging technologies such as dynamic wave provisioning, optical multicast, jumbo frames, IPv6, emerging techniques, and network operational policy issues—such as data collection privacy rights, and network measurement and monitor policies.
Security for Advanced Networks: Sessions in this category will focus on the technical, policy, and management issues in network security—addressing immediate term to longer range planning and research. Suggested topics include: critical infrastructure protection, SALSA initiatives, homeland security, VoIP security, secure ad hoc collaboration, balancing security and performance, and the national strategy to secure cyberspace. Policy and management issues might include end user education, funding for basic security R&D, funding for security software tools, and cross-network cooperation (at the campus, national, and international levels).
Teaching and Learning/K20: Sessions will focus on initiatives and projects that explore ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools and digital content enhance teaching and learning. Suggested topics might include: K20 partnerships, K20 and the national agenda, student and teacher experiences in using Internet2, and transformation of libraries, museum, science and cultural center projects through uses of advanced networking.
What's Next for the Net?: A special series of panel discussions on “What’s Next for the Net?” will examine key technology trends and give corporate presenters (and others) opportunities to describe new technological breakthroughs in their field—and what they might mean for universities and the Internet2 community. Proposed topics for this area include broadband wireless, all-optical networks, network monitoring tools, grid computing, identity management, collaboration tools, etc
Please Note: specific technology or application sessions that address issues and impact in more than one category (e.g. how middleware, security and collaboration will be affected by advanced content delivery) are encouraged..
Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- Demonstrates value to Internet2 members
- Demonstrates advanced network strategy and policy focus
- Degree of anticipated interaction and information sharing
- Demonstrates originality and innovation
- Highlights key partnerships and collaborations
- Degree to which session itself utilizes advanced and innovative technologies, including demos
- Degree to which session addresses impact in more than one category
The Program Committee will select approximately 50 proposals that represent a balance of topics 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 afternoon of April 23 and the morning of April 25. More information on the meeting schedule will be available here: http://events.internet2.edu/2007/spring-mm/ in January.
Each proposal must contain the following:
- Title
- Session abstract of no more than 200 words
- At least one speaker name
- Primary track
- Intended session format
- Target audience
- Permission (if willing) to netcast your session if it's selected for the program and for netcasting
- Permission (if willing) to allow members of the media to attend your presentation
- Contact name and email address
Deadlines & Contact Information
Submission deadline COB on Friday, January 19, 2007
Notification by COB on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
For additional information, please contact:
Marianne Smith, <melser@internet2.edu>
