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CALL FOR INSTRUCTORS, SESSION CHAIRS and SPEAKERS:

Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies

Apricot 2000 - Feb 28 - Mar 2 2000 Seoul S. Korea


Last year's Apricot '99 in Singapore was a great success and the upcoming Apricot
2000 in Seoul is looking to be even bigger and more impactful.

We are now looking for people who would like to contribute to the program in
the form of offering a full day tutorial and/or participating in the 1.5
hour technical conference sessions (each speaker would get 20 - 30 minutes).

As we get back the responses to this mailing, the conference committee will
make a mapping of people to tracks/sessions and thus the final technical
program. So if you are interested in participating, please get back to us ASAP
(before Dec 24th) as to your interest and potential talk titles as we expect to
make the final decisions in early January.

When considering a subject, remember that the audience is mainly technical
network operators and engineers with a wide range of experience levels from
beginners to multi-year experience. There is a strong orientation to offer core
skills and basic knowledge in the tutorials and to address issues relevant to
the day-to-day operations of ISPs over the next 12 - 18 months.

The technical conference sessions we are looking for people to act as
session chairs and to speak on are:

* High Performance IP Backbone Routing and management

* Content Distribution Networks, Streaming and Multimedia Infrastructure

* Unified Messaging, EMail scaling, SPAM

* Voice over IP and Voice/ Internet Infrastructure Integration

* Security, Encryption, Firewalls, VPNs

* QoS, Traffic Management, MPLS, Multicast and Caching

* Peering, Settlements and Collocation

* Alternative Last Mile Connectivity (xDSL, Wireless, Cable)

* ISP Management

* ASP Opportunities and Technologies

* Network Game Technologies

The sessions are 1.5 hours long and the individual session talks will be from
15 minutes to 45 minutes depending on how many other speakers are in the
same session. The content and presenter must be of a technical nature and
not a superficial marketing or commercial message.

We still have several tutorial slots open, so if you would like to give one of the
full day tutorials, please submit it. Tutorial Instructors are encouraged to also
sign up to be a Conference Session Chair or speaker as well. The tutorial
topics that still need to be covered are:

* Voice over IP Standards, Efforts and Impacts on ISPs

* Network Security for ISPs

* Computer Telephony Integration and Voice over IP for ISPs

* ISP System Administration

* Scaling E-mail infrastructure

* Supporting E-Commerce and ASPs

* Last Mile Innovations: Wireless, xDSL and Cable Modem

Though there are a limited number of tutorial slots there may be one or two
openings for something that is not listed above. If you have an idea for a
tutorial subject that is not listed, please submit it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS MUST BE OF A
TECHNICAL NATURE AND NOT MARKETING MESSAGES OR DELIVERED BY
MARKETEERS or SALESPEOPLE!

This is a TECHNICAL conference and having a marketing or sales person
deliver a superficial or commercial presentation will be bad for the reputation
of the company and degrade the focus of the conference. Besides the
content of the presentation being technical it is important that the presenter
be capable of delivering insightful and technically deep responses in question
and answer periods that will be part of all sessions.

Since APRICOT is a not-for-profit event that tries to keep the cost to
attendees low, we do not have too much money to pay the costs of
speakers. So if you belong to a company or organization that can cover you
travel expenses, that is a big help. For those of you who do not belong to
such an organization, Apricot will cover 4 days of hotel accommodation for
Tutorial Instructors from Overseas. Apricot can also consider covering airfare
up to US$1500 on a case by case basis. Local Tutorial Instructors can
receive a US$500 honorarium but no Hotel accommodations. It is ok to split
the work of a full day tutorial between several instructors, but APRICOT may
only be able to cover the hotel accommodations and case by case airfare for
one person per Tutorial. Of course, Tutorial, Conference Chairs and Speakers
will not have to pay any registration fee to attend the rest of the conference.

If you would like to be considered as a session chair, tutorial instructor or a
session speaker, please send your contact info, proposed tutorial or talk title
with a brief abstract in ASCII, RTF, PDF format via email to:


Robert J. Berger - Technical Conference Chair
Voice: +1-408-882-4755 Fax: +1-408-490-2868
rjbApricot@ibd.com

You can also send any questions to the above email or phone as well as to:
JongWon Choe Technical Conference Co-Chair
choejn@sookmyung.ac.kr

More information on the conference will be made available at
http:/www.apricot.net


If you are not the right person from your organization to speak at such a
technical conference or if you are not available, please forward this invitation
onto someone who might be available and would be appropriate for the
APRICOT conference.

Thanks!