By Clifford Agugoesi, Editor-in-Chief
The Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) 2022 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2022 Conference, Cyber Era NG learns.
The Committee is looking for presenters who would:
- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;
Submissions are to be made online at: http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=142
According to the Committee, Tutorials will take place during the week of 21st February while Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week of 28th February. All APRICOT 2022 session times will be one hour long, with up to four sessions scheduled per day.
Conference Milestones
Call for Papers Opens: Now
Initial Draft Programme: 6th December 2021
Final Deadline for Submissions: 31st January 2022
Final Programme Published: 7th February 2022
Final Slides Received: 14th February 2022
*Slots Are Filled On A First Come, First Served Basis, Regardless Of Published Deadlines*
Programme Content
The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, namely Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.
Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:
- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Routing Security, including RPKI and MANRS
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies
- Content & Service Delivery and “Cloud Computing”
Peering Forum
Due to APRICOT 2022 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering Personals prior to the event starting. Submissions must be of a single slide listing the operator’s Peering DB entry. Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering Personal presentation.
Criteria For Presentation Submission
Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current information available at time of submission is acceptable.
All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only. Slides must be of original work, preferably not presented before at other venues, with all company confidential marks removed.
Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the APRICOT website.
Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may, at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely, important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material to the PC sooner rather than later.
Questions or concerns are to be made over email to the underlisted:
Mark Tinka, Tugsorshikh Badarch & Marijana Novakovic
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2022 Programme Committee
