- General Program

The  APRICOT  conference generally  consists of several days of Tutorials and about three
days  of  Conferencing. Other associated events may also take place  particularly those of
the Asia Pacific Internet organizations(so-called APstar AP*) such as APIA, APNG, APTLD, APNIC, etc

Tutorials

Tutorials are hosted during the first two days of the APRICOT week. Typically there are 6-8
tutorials given per day, with each involving an instructor that provides a one-day tutorial on
a given subject. Some instructors provide tutorials on a revenue-sharing basis.

Previous tutorial subjects have included :

• Advanced Internet Routing
• Building and Running an ISP
• Co-location, Hosting & Application Services
• Deploying Cable Modems/xDSL
• Deploying Wireless by Dewayne Hendricks
• Encryption and Firewalls
• Internet QoS & Traffic Mgmt
• Internet Regulation & Policy
• Internet Security
• Internet Telephony
• Introduction to Internet Routing
• IP V6 IP and ATM by Scott Bradner
• LAN/WAN Technologies overview
• Linux & Open Source for ISPs
• Promoting Routability
• Scaling Internet Services
• Sendmail by Eric Allman
• SPAM
• System Administration for ISPs by Barbara Dijker
• TCP/IP & Network Programming:
• The Domain Name System and Bind by Paul Vixie
• Unix Power Tools I by Evi Nemeth
• Unix Power Tools II
• Using Satellites
• Virtual Private Networks
• WWW Caching and Web Server Techniques
  

Conference

The APRICOT conference is hosted after the tutorials.

There are two specialised technical tracks per day (technical track 1 and technical track 2)
with the third track addressing a different subject each day ?  specifically business issues,
educational issues and policy issues.

• IPv6
• Routing
• Wireless Local Loop
• APNIC Address Policy
• ASP Opportunities
• Delivering Broadband
• Streaming and Multicast
• Multilingual DNS
• Traffic Engineering & MPLS
• Security & APNIC DB
• High Performance Routing
• ASP Technologies
• DNSSEC, Bind V9, IPv6 Bind
• Network Security
• Voice over IP Trends & Standards
• APNIC Address Policy pt2
• Optical Networking
• Content Distribution Net Works
• VoIP impact on ISP Infrastructure
• Reverse DNS
• Virtual Private Networks
• Network Game Technology
• Peering & Internet Exchanges
• QoS
• Panel ICANN UPDATE
  

Birds-Of-A-Feather Meetings

Birds-Of-A-Feather Meetings, otherwise known as BOFs, are informal meetings conducted
in the evenings. None are  held  on the  last day of the conference, so as not to clash with
the APRICOT Closing Social Event.

The purpose of the BOFs are for like-minded individuals to gather and discuss a give topic
in detail.