For those who follow the North American Network Operators Group activities, here's the draft agenda for NANOG17, October 3-5 in Montreal, CA.
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  Sunday, October 3  Tutorials		
  ----------------- 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.	Routing Policy Specification Language/IRR Tutorial	 			  Cengiz Alaettinoglu, ISI
  1:00 - 3:00 p.m.	Introduction to MPLS	 			  Peter Ashwood-Smith, Nortel
  3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Deploying Distributed Content Caching in Large IP Networks	 			  Andrew Khoo and Adrian Chadd, Versatel Telecom
  3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	OSPF Goodies for ISPs	 			  Howard Berkowitz, Gett Communications
  Monday, October 4		 ----------------- 9:00 a.m.	Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings	 		   Susan R. Harris, Merit 		   Gregory Soo, Nortel 		   Pascal Gosselin, Mlink Internet
  9:15 a.m.	Traffic Engineering Panel: Perspectives From Network		Operators 		   Ed Kern, Digex, moderator 		   Alan Hannan, GlobalCenter 		   Andrew Partan, Verio 		   Hank Kilmer, Intermedia Communications                    Curtis Villamizar, Avici	
  10:45 a.m.	BREAK	
  11:00 a.m.	Building Network Monitoring Systems with RRDtool 		   Tobias Oetiker, CAIDA
  11:45 a.m.	Using Remstats for Network and Server Monitoring Thomas Erskine, Communications Research Centre
  12:00 p.m.	LUNCH	
  1:30 p.m.	Managing Multicast Services - A User's View	 	           John Robinson & John Stewart, Communications Research Centre
  2:00 p.m.	Optical Networks for the Rest of Us:  Recent Developments		in Canada's Research Networks	 		   Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
  2:45 p.m.	The HOW-TO Guide to Building Your Own Fiber Network: An		ISP Perspective	 		   Yves Le Borgne, RISQ                    Robert Proulx, IMS Expert Conseils
  3:30 p.m.	BREAK	
  3:45 p.m.	News from the Exchange Points                    PAIX.Net      - Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium 	          6TAP          - Florent Parent, Viaginie 	          Ameritech NAP - Andrew Schmidt, Ameritech                   The MAEs      - Steve Feldman, MCI WorldCom                   Ames Exchange - Lance Tatman, NASA Ames Research Center
  4:45-5:00 p.m.  Update on the RADB Internet Routing Registry		Service	                    Craig Labovitz, Microsoft
  5:30-7:30 p.m.  Beer n' Gear!		
  Monday Evening BOFs		 ------------------- 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.  Peering BOF	 		     Bill Norton, Equinix
  7:30 - 9:00 p.m.  How to Be a Local NANOG Host	 	             Lucy Lynch, University of Oregon
  9:00 - 9:45 p.m.  Inter-Provider Cooperation for MEDs and Best-Exit Routing	 		     Patrick Gilmore, PGExpress 	             Avi Freedman, AboveNet
  9:00 - 10:30 p.m. Conveying Clue: Educating New Staff and Customers 		     Howard Berkowitz, Gett Communications
    Tuesday, October 5		 ------------------ 9:00 a.m.	Content-Friendly Caching:  A Content Hoster's Guide to the		HTTP/1.x Specifications	                    Solom Heddaya, InfoLibria
  9:30 a.m.	Panel:  Current and Next-Generation Content  Distribution		Techniques 	           Bill Norton, Equinix, moderator 		   Evan Baer, SkyCache 		   Jonathon Seelig, Akamai 		   Holly Pease, Digital Island
  10:45 a.m.	BREAK	
  11:00 a.m.	Spam Update	                    Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium
  11:15 a.m.	BIND and DNS: The Moving Targets	                    Paul Vixie, Internet Software Consortium
  11:30 a.m.	TBA
  12:00 p.m.	LUNCH	
  1:30 p.m.	Filling the Gap: Provisioning Bandwidth Between T1 and T3 	           Joshua Sakov, Tiara Networks
  2:00 p.m.	CenterTrack - An IP Overlay Network to Facilitate Packet		Tracing	 		   Robert Stone, UUNET
  2:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks	 		   Susan R. Harris, Merit
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