Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting Call for Proposals
-NOW CLOSED-
Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting
Renaissance Waverly Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
November 1-4, 2010
The Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for track sessions at the Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. You are encouraged to circulate this Call to others in your organization, and elsewhere within the Internet2 member community.
Below is information on:
Deadline: July 30, 2010
Areas of Focus for the Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting
The Internet2 community will be treated to a dose of southern hospitality when the annual Fall Member Meeting heads down south to Atlanta, Georgia from November 1-4, 2010. Hosted by Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Florida LambdaRail, LLC/Southern Crossroads (FLR/SoX), this meeting will focus on the significant progress the research and education community has made toward assembling the complex puzzle pieces that support and enable advanced networking across a wide range of disciplines. Each meeting track explores one of these critical puzzle pieces: cyberinfrastructure, federations, middleware, network engineering, security, teaching and learning, and the emerging technologies that continue to expand the bounds of research and education.
Specific topics of interest for track sessions at the Fall meeting will include:
- Cloud computing developments, designs and successful applications
- The FCC National Broadband Plan
- Implementations of the NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
- Collaboration and virtual initiatives and tools
- Federations and identity management policies and practices
- System and Network security
The Internet2 Fall Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for concurrent track sessions. Member representatives are encouraged to propose track sessions that share developments, designs, implementations and experiences in the identified focus areas. Case studies across disciplines and topic areas are encouraged.
The deadline for submitting proposals is July 30, 2010. Additional details on focus areas and tracks as well as submission guidelines are below.
Topics to be emphasized in the Fall 2010 Member Meeting program are highlighted in the following tracks:
Cyberinfrastructure and Advanced Applications in Action: What's working? What's not? What's needed? Sessions in this category will focus on case studies of how advanced networking—broadly defined—has succeeded (or failed) in enabling research and education, why, and what others can learn from this success (or failure). Representatives from higher education disciplines, health care, connector organizations, government and industry are invited to submit their examples and perspectives on these issues related to how researchers, staff and students are using advanced networking in actual laboratory, research or classroom environments.
Focus on Federations: Sessions in this category will focus on the development, implementation, and case studies of policies and practices and use of technologies related to federated identity access. Within this category, session topics might include: joining and operating within the InCommon Federation; inter-federation approaches; work with state, national and international federations; federated services such as wireless access; federating as an IT strategy; best practices for federating; opportunities and partnerships; and federating across sectors such as government and K12.
Middleware: Sessions in this category will focus on the on-going development and deployment of identity-related services such as identification, authentication, and authorization and how they integrate with infrastructure and applications. Within these general categories, example topics might include: identity and access management; enterprise directories and related schema; authorization approaches such as the use of group and and privilege management systems; public key infrastructure; opportunities and partnerships with open source community, government, and corporate organizations; identity-service middleware for specific applications, such as wireless networking and video services, and related diagnostic approaches; middleware infrastructure for virtual organizations and integration of these services into distributed applications; externalizing identity services from applications (application domestication); and middleware-enabled collaboration and related management platforms.
Network Planning and Engineering: Sessions in this category will provide an opportunity for discussion of advanced network services, network infrastructure developments, end-to-end performance and performance measurement, disaster recovery, cyberinfrastructure, wireless networks and solutions and next generation networks. Examples of topics that might be considered include: sensor networks, experimental network testbeds, mesh network coverage, regional optical networks (RONs) and optical regional education networks (ORENs), national or international research and educational networks (NRENs), and the drivers of the next-generation Internet.
System and Network 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: homeland security, critical infrastructure protection or national strategy to secure cyberspace; SALSA initiatives; DNSSec deployment; disaster recovery and business continuity; balancing security and performance;security of cloud computing; IPv6 security; mobile and wireless security; incident handling; as well as network monitoring and intrusion detection systems. Security policy and management issues might include funding security operations; security policy development and implementation; security awareness, training and education efforts; collaborative security efforts; and security leadership and governance.
Teaching and Learning/K20: Sessions should 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, the role of advanced networking in higher education teaching and learning domestically and internationally, student and teacher experiences in using Internet2 technology, assessment and accountability of pedagogical outcomes, interactive educational gaming environments, and the transformation of libraries, museum, science and cultural center projects through uses of advanced networking. Particular focus will be given to introducing promising practices and highlighting case studies in Teaching and Learning/K20.
The Future: What's Next for the Net? This track invites sessions focused on significant near-term challenges and the "disruptive" technologies that will help the community meet these challenges. Presenters are encouraged to describe new technological breakthroughs and what they might mean for universities and the Internet2 community. Proposed topics for this area could include cloud computing developments and services, new collaboration and social network tools, emerging demanding bandwidth services, video and multi-media services, etc. Of special interest this year are sessions on the environmental impact of the telecommunications industry and how the Internet2 community can promote greener technology.
Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- Demonstration of the value of Internet2 (the community and network) to members
- Extent to which session supports the track topic and theme
- Extent to which a project or initiative will provoke discussion and interaction
- Presentation of significant achievement (i.e. promising practices) rather than status updates
- Engagement of the Internet2 community
- Degree of interaction and information sharing among participants at different levels of engagement
- Focus on new technological breakthroughs, developing and evolving applications
- Degree to which session itself utilizes and/or demonstrates advanced and innovative technologies
- Overall proposal quality and balance of topics
- Vendor agnostic presentations (for Corporate Members)
The Program Committee will select approximately 70 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.
Please note, specific technology or application sessions that address issues and impact in more than one track are encouraged.
Track sessions will be scheduled for the mornings and afternoons of Tuesday, November 2 and Wednesday, November 3, and the morning (only) of Thursday, November 4. More information on the meeting schedule will be available on the Internet2 Member Meeting website.
Proposals are submitted at: -NOW CLOSED-
Required information on the submission form includes:
- A title
- A session abstract of no more than 200 words
- At least one speaker name
- Primary track assignment
- Session format
- Audience information (who you're targetting 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
Deadlines & Contact Information
Submission deadline July 30, 2010
Notification by August 20, 2010
For additional information, please contact:
Terry Doub – Program Committee Chair
Director, Network Operations Center, Louisiana State University
terry@lsu.edu
Marianne Smith – Program Committee Staff Support
Associate Director, Member and Partner Relations
melser@internet2.edu
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