craig@BBN.COM (Craig Partridge) (11/08/89)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG)
Workshop on Architectures for Very-High-Speed Networks
January 24-26, 1990
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The workshop is a working meeting, designed as a forum in which
members of the academic, industrial and standards community can
meet to discuss research issues in the design and implementation of
environments to support very high-speed (e.g. gigabit) data communication.
Suggestions on how these ideas may related to the evolution of the
Internet are also of interest. This is a one-time workshop sponsored
by the Internet Research Steering Group and is being organized by
Dave Clark and Craig Partridge.
The goal of the meeting is foster discussion and the exchange of new
ideas. Topics to be discussed at the workshop include: Lightwave
Technology, High-Speed Data Networking and the Phone System, Flow
and Congestion Control at Very-High Speeds, Applications and
Application Support Paradigms, and Issues in Attaching Hosts to
Very-High Speed Networks. Sessions on additional topics will be
set up based on the ideas and interests of the attendees.
The workshop will last two and a half days, and consist of a series
of 90 minute sessions. Each session will begin with a handful of
short (ten minute) presentations followed by discussion. On the
first day, invited speakers will introduce each session with
a slightly longer talk (about 30 minutes long) designed to give
a somewhat broader perspective.
There will be no paper presentations. (We do expect to produce
an informal workshop report). Authors interested in publishing
papers are encouraged to consider the SIGCOMM '90 Symposium, which
is actively soliciting submissions on high speed networking.
(Contact the SIGCOMM '90 Program Chair, Phil Karn,
karn@thumper.bellcore.com for more information).
Attendance at the workshop is strictly limited to 50 people. People
interested in attending the workshop should apply to the program committee.
Applications should be about two paragraphs in length and should outline
the applicant's areas of interest in the field and relevant work
on related topics. Applications will be judged, in large part, on
new or interesting ideas that the applicant can bring to the workshop so
please be sure to highlight innovative work. Note that due to the
large number of expected applications, we encourage team projects or
close collaborators to restrict themselves to one attendee, and
suggest that organizations limit themselves to two applicants, with
differing areas of interest. The deadline for applications is Thursday,
November 16th, 1989. Notification of the decisions on applications
will be sent out no later than December 1st, 1989.
Local Arrangements: The workshop will be held in the BBN Conference
Center in Cambridge, Mass. We expect to arrange discount airfares and
hotel accomodations. The workshop fee, if any, will be nominal.
E-mail or mail applications to:
Craig Partridge (craig@bbn.com)
c/o BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
10 Moulton St, MS-6/5B
Cambridge MA 02138
(617) 873-2459
The program committee is:
Dave Clark (MIT), Gary Delp (IBM), Keith Lantz (Olivetti),
Craig Partridge (BBN), Dave Sincoskie (Bellcore), Don Tolmie (LANL)
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