Call for Presentations

A RIPE Meeting is an open event where Internet Service Providers,
network operators and other interested parties get together. Although
the meeting is mostly technical, it is also a chance for people to
meet and network with others in their field.

RIPE 68 will take place from 12-16 May 2014 in Warsaw, Poland.

The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals
from the RIPE community for the plenary session presentations, BoFs
(Birds of a Feather sessions), panels, workshops, tutorials and
lightning talks at RIPE 68. The PC is looking for presentations
covering topics of network engineering and operations, including but
not limited to:

* IPv6 deployment
* Managing IPv4 scarcity in operations
* Commercial transactions of IPv4 addresses
* Data centre technologies
* Network and DNS operations
* Internet governance and regulatory practices
* Network and routing security
* Content delivery
* Internet peering and mobile data exchange

Submissions

RIPE Meeting attendees are quite sensitive to keeping presentations
non-commercial, and product marketing talks are strongly discouraged.
Repeated audience feedback shows that the most successful talks focus
on operational experience, research results, or case studies. For
example, presenters wishing to describe a commercial solution should
focus on the underlying technology and not attempt a product
demonstration.

The RIPE PC accepts proposals for different presentation formats,
including plenary session presentations, tutorials, workshops, BoFs
(Birds of a Feather sessions) and lightning talks. See the full
descriptions of these formats at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/.

Presenters who are proposing a panel or BoF are encouraged to include
speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or a
neutral facilitator.

In addition to presentations selected in advance for the plenary, the
RIPE PC also offers several time slots for "lightning talks", which
are selected immediately before or during the conference.

The following general requirements apply:

- Proposals for plenary session presentations, BoFs, panels, workshops
and tutorials must be submitted for full consideration no later than
2 March 2014, using the meeting submission system at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/guidelines/. Proposals
submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available
basis.

- Lightning talks should also be submitted using the meeting
submission system
(https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/submission-form/) and can be
submitted just days before the RIPE Meeting starts or even during
the meeting week. The allocation of lightning talk slots will be
announced in short notice---in some cases on the same day but often
one day prior to the relevant session.

- Presenters should indicate how much time they will require. See
more information on time slot allocations per presentation format at
https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/.

- Proposals for talks will only be considered by the PC if they
contain at least draft presentation slides (slides may be updated
later on). For panels, proposals must contain a clear description,
as well as the names of invited panelists, presenters and
moderators.

- Due to potential technical issues, it is expected that most, if not
all, presenters/panelists will be physically present at the RIPE
Meeting.

If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions,
please email pc [at] ripe [dot] net.