World Conference on Network Administration and Security

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS 
                         AND PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT  
  
                     The 1992 World Conference On  
                  Network Administration and Security  
                       November 30 - December 4  
                           Washington, DC  
  
THEME: Practical solutions for cost-effective network administration  
and security in a UNIX environment.  
  
ELIGIBILITY: Network administrators, system administrators, security  
administrators, technology managers, computer installation managers,  
and their staff. In addition, a limited number of places are available  
for staff members from organizations that offer off-the-shelf software  
and hardware products that support network management and security.  
  
LOCATION:  
        Ramada Renaissance Techworld Hotel  
        919 9th Street NW  
        Washington, D.C.  20019  
        (202) 898-9000  
  
CONFERENCE DATES:  
                        Courses: November 30- December 1 
             Technical Sessions: December 2- December 4  
  
INFORMATION: For pre-registration materials, send mail to:  
  
        Conference Office
        World Conference On Network Administration and Security
        4610 Tournay Road  
        Bethesda, MD 20816  
  
or send email to pallerfedunix.org.  
  
HOST ORGANIZATION: The Washington Area UNIX Users Group and the Federal  
Network Administration Council.  
  
CONFERENCE SPONSOR: the Open Systems Conference Board, a not-for-profit  
educational organization dedicated to removing the barriers to widespread  
adoption of UNIX and Open Systems.  
  
WHY YOU SHOULD PARTICIPATE: The demands of mission critical  
applications are driving the need for network innovation at an amazing  
pace.  New technology and new standards promote confusion and  
interoperability problems while at the same time providing much needed  
connectivity and increased bandwidth.  Cutbacks have forced fewer  
people to provide more service with less money.  
  
These challenges are particularly apparent and frustrating in the  
government agencies (both in the US and abroad), universities, and  
companies which have been in the vanguard of the move to open systems  
and networks of UNIX computers.  
  
This conference is designed to identify the current state of the art  
for cost-effective network administration and security so that the  
techniques and tools used by the most effective managers can be  
adopted by those still looking for solutions.  
 
Peer-reviewed papers will be complemented with invited papers plus 
 
   "Ask the Experts" sessions where you'll find practical answers 
   to your questions.  
 
   "Best Of The Net" session where you'll learn which free programs 
   available from the net are most useful. 
 
   "Tips and Techniques" sessions in which conference attendees can 
   share, in 5-minute presentations, their favorite techniques for 
   solving recurring problems.  These sessions are run as moderated 
   BOFs with all conference attendees being asked, in advance, to 
   contribute if they choose. 
 
   "Ask OSF" session where you can learn from the people who brought 
   you DCE. 
 
   Informal Birds Of A Feather sessions in the evening to expand the 
   sharing time.  Please send your suggestions for topics with your 
   registration. 
  
In addition, the Monday-Tuesday courses will be taught by several of
America's top-rated instructors, including Matt Bishop, Rob Kolstad,
Bruce Hunter, Richard Stevens, Marcus Ranum, and Tom Christiansen.
Course topics include TCP/IP and UNIX Network Programming, UNIX
Security, OSF DCE and DME, UNIX Fundamentals, UNIX Internals, UNIX
System and Network Administration (Basic and Advanced courses), and
Perl Programming.
  
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                        ** CALL FOR PAPERS **  
                        *********************  
  
Papers are being sought for the technical conference from network  
administrators, system administrators, security managers, consultants,  
academics, and hardware and software developers.  
  
You don't have to have made a major breakthrough to have your paper  
accepted.  The delegates will be looking for good problem definitions  
and practical solutions. And your presentation does not have to be  
long. You may choose a 15, 30, or 45 minute time slot.  
  
IMPORTANT DATES FOR SUBMISSION:  
  
                  Abstracts Due: September 14, 1992 
     Notification of Acceptance: October 12, 1992  
        Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 16, 1992  
  
FORMAL REVIEW: Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted 
will be presented during the conference and will be published in the 
conference proceedings.  The Review Committee is composed of experts 
on network administration and security along with managers of large 
installations and architects from the vendor community. 
 
Among the people invited to serve on the Review Committee are Matt 
Bishop (Dartmouth), Michele Crabb (NASA Ames Research Center), Richard 
Stevens (author of several best selling books on Network and UNIX 
Programming), Marcus Ranum (Digital Equipment Corporation), Jonathan 
Gossels (OSF), and Bruce Hunter and Rob Kolstad (well-known columnists). 
  
The committee will decide whether your abstract addresses important  
challenges (large or small), whether your approach seems promising, or  
whether your abstract should be accepted for any other reason.  
  
TOPICS: Please feel free to submit abstracts on any topic. The list  
provided below may help prompt some ideas:  
  
1.  Managing heterogeneous networks  
2.  Policies and procedures on the network  
3.  Security policies  
4.  Network security monitoring  
5.  Network monitoring and performance testing  
6.  Training and education  
7.  Techniques for dealing with users  
8.  Networked backup schemes  
9.  Distributed mail systems  
10. Domain Name Service configuration  
11. Distributed console access  
12. OSF's DCE and DME  
13. Off-the-shelf tools  
14. Tools you don't like and why  
  
ABSTRACTS: A good abstract will be 500 to 1,500 words in length and  
include the following:  
  
1. A description of the problem(s) and its importance.  
2. Your solution including details of how it worked. If this is work  
   on emerging technology, try to show what the expected impact will  
   be.  If your solution is based on commercial hardware or software   
   tools, name them.  Abstracts from vendors are welcome, but should  
   not be sales pitches.  
3. Data on how well it works: before/after comparisons, direct savings,  
   trade-offs, etc.  
4. Lessons learned and what you might have done differently.  
  
Please also provide the following information about the author(s):  
name, title, organization, daytime telephone, surface mail address,  
email address (please), FAX if possible.  
  
Finally, tell whether you want a 15, 30 or 45 minute time slot for  
your presentation.  
  
WHERE TO SEND YOUR ABSTRACTS:   
        Technical Program Chairman  
        Hal Pomeranz 
        NASA Ames Research Center 
        M/S 258-6 
        Moffett Field, CA  94035-1000 
 
Questions or PostScript or ASCII format abstracts may be submitted via
email to pomeranznas.nasa.gov.