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Apply for the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 31 July
by Gergana Petrova 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, For the fifth year in a row, the RIPE NCC is committing to support activities and projects for 'the good of the Internet'. We are pleased to invite applications for funding from the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. Through the Community Projects Fund, the RIPE NCC distributes up to EUR 250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefitting the technical community in the Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. If you or your organisation are working on a new or existing project that fits the criteria below and need some financial support to get it off the ground or keep it going, we want to hear from you! Is your project of benefit to the Internet, particularly the RIPE community? Is your project non-commercial in nature? Do you have a clear project plan and timeline? Some things to keep in mind: - Funding may be used to purchase equipment, but this cannot be the sole expenditure - Funding cannot be used for humanitarian aid, donations, or to encourage political reform - Funding cannot be used to provide scholarships or cover tuition fees - Funding cannot be used to support any form of commercial activity The call for applicants will remain open until 23:59 (UTC), Saturday, 31 July 2021. You can find more details on the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund page: https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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Hosting an Academic Day at your Institution
by Gergana Petrova 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Dear all, I have a question for you. The RIPE NCC used to host in-person academic days on various topcs such as Internet 101, Routing, the RIPE Database, IPv6, RPKI, Internet Governance. With the current COVID restrictions we would like to move these online. Are any of your universities interested in such an online event? If so, can you support us by organising and spreading the word about the session and inviting students and we will deliver the content. Please let me know if you are interested. We can organise these relatively quickly. And if it does not work for you before summer, we can do it also in fall, regardless of the COVID situation. Looking forward to hearing from you. Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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Call for Presentations RIPE 83
by Gergana Petrova 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Dear all, Another RIPE meeting is coming close - RIPE 83 takes place on 22-26 November. The meeting is fully online and participation is free of charge: https://ripe83.ripe.net/register I want to encourage you to submit any talks you might have to the call for presentations which closes this Sunday, 3 October. https://ripe83.ripe.net/submit-topic/cfp With RACI put on hold until the events are in-person, we don't see as many academic talks as before. The RIPE Community definitely misses them! Any proposals you submit via the link above will be considered for the plenary. In addition to this we have a number of Working Groups (DNS, Measurement and Analysis, Anti-Abuse etc), which cover specific topics in more detail. Check out the meeting plan to see all of them: https://ripe83.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan If you would like to submit a talk to a working group, you can: - either email them directly (type RIPE NCC + your chosen working group + chairs and a page would appear with the generic addresses of the chairs) or - email me and I will forward your proposal RIPE Meetings are a great way to reach practitioners and get their feedback and opinions on the research you are doing. I hope we can have a similar representation of great academic talks like previous years. For any questions, feel free to write back. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ANCS ' 21 - extended deadline
by Jasmin Jahic 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

We have extended the Paper Submission Deadline to 29 September 2021, AoE! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - ANCS 2021 16th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS ' 21) https://ancsconf.org/ December 13 - 15, 2021, ONLINE Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: Paper submission deadline: September 22nd, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANCS is the premier forum for presenting and discussing original research that explores the relationship between the algorithms and architectures of data communication networks and the hardware and software elements from which these networks are built. ANCS focuses on architectures for networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced communication, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, co-design of computer and network systems, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures. ANCS 2021 will be held online. *** Call for Papers *** The conference seeks an emphasis on the applicability and feasibility of approach, and will prioritize implementation and measurement-led submissions. Authors are invited to include artifacts and data sets as part of their submission, and those would be looked favourably by the committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ● Disaggregated computing ● Heterogeneous architectures ● Hardware offloading and accelerators ● Domain-specific languages ● Operating systems and virtualization ● Algorithms ● Switch/router/middlebox/NIC designs ● SDN/NFV systems ● In-network computing ● Host networking ● Network, compute, memory and storage convergence ● Hardware/software co-design ● Reconfigurable and programmable hardware ● Security, measurement, benchmark and management ● Emerging applications and use cases *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: 29 September 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2021 Camera Ready version due: 30 November 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Conference dates: December 13 - 15, 2021 *** Submission *** A submission must be a regular paper (up to 12 pages), short paper (6 pages, either in-progress or complete work) or poster abstract (3 pages, in-progress work). These page limits do not include references. The review process is double blind; papers must not indicate author names or affiliations. Papers must be in the PDF format and submitted via https://ancs21.hotcrp.com. The papers must be formatted using the ACM Primary Article Templates (“2. The Workflow and Templates” in https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions, ) and document class arguments of [10pt,sigconf,letterpaper,anonymous,nonacm]. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General chair: Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University Web chair: Manh Hung Nguyen, CYCU Publications chair: Jiri Matousek, Brno University of Technology Publicity Chair: Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge Program committee co-chairs: Suhaib Fahmy, KAUST, and Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh Dr.-Ing. Jasmin Jahić University of Cambridge, UK

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New IPv6 Course and Free Vouchers for the IPv6 Security Exam
by Gergana Petrova 21 Sep '21

21 Sep '21

Dear colleagues, I want to share with you that RIPE NCC recently launched an IPv6 Security Course. https://academy.ripe.net That is in addition to the courses already available, such as Introduction to IPv6 and the RIPE Database. The IPv6 Security course covers: 1) How to protect your IPv6 network against new attack vectors and most common threats 2) Filtering rules for IPv6 packets 3) Security options for IPv6 routing protocols 4) Tools to assess IPv6 security threats and mitigation techniques 5) IPv6 network vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques 6) Designing a high-level IPv6 security strategy 7) Justify the need to implement IPv6 security solutions All the courses are available for free to anyone. If you think they might be useful to your students or anyone in your department, please share with them the link. https://academy.ripe.net We've also launched exams that you can take after you complete the course (or without completing the course if you already know the material) and receive a certificate for doing so. The exam questions are aligned with the demands of the job market, so that the certifications test actual skills and knowledge required in the workplace. Anyone from academia can request free vouchers to take the exams for a limited time. Please write to exams at ripe.net before 15 October. The issued vouchers will be valid until the end of the year. To assign the voucher we need to know the name, email, position and organisation/university. You can read more about RIPE NCC Certified Professionals here: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals I hope you found this useful. Best regards, Gergana -- Gergana Petrova External Relations RIPE NCC

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ANCS 2021: Final call for papers
by Jasmin Jahic 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - ANCS 2021 16th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS ' 21) https://ancsconf.org/ December 13 - 15, 2021, ONLINE Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important: Paper submission deadline: September 22nd, 2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANCS is the premier forum for presenting and discussing original research that explores the relationship between the algorithms and architectures of data communication networks and the hardware and software elements from which these networks are built. ANCS focuses on architectures for networking and communication in the broad sense, including novel architectures, architectural support for advanced communication, algorithms and protocols for advanced architectures, software and applications for next-generation networking architectures, co-design of computer and network systems, and methodology and benchmarking for evaluating advanced communication architectures. ANCS 2021 will be held online. *** Call for Papers *** The conference seeks an emphasis on the applicability and feasibility of approach, and will prioritize implementation and measurement-led submissions. Authors are invited to include artifacts and data sets as part of their submission, and those would be looked favourably by the committee. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Disaggregated computing - Heterogeneous architectures - Hardware offloading and accelerators - Domain-specific languages - Operating systems and virtualization - Algorithms - Switch/router/middlebox/NIC designs - SDN/NFV systems - In-network computing - Host networking - Network, compute, memory and storage convergence - Hardware/software co-design - Reconfigurable and programmable hardware - Security, measurement, benchmark and management - Emerging applications and use cases *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: 22 September 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Notification of Acceptance: 15 November 2021 Camera Ready version due: 30 November 2021, 23:59 (GMT) Conference dates: December 13 - 15, 2021 *** Submission *** A submission must be a regular paper (up to 12 pages), short paper (6 pages, either in-progress or complete work) or poster abstract (3 pages, in-progress work). These page limits do not include references. The review process is double blind; papers must not indicate author names or affiliations. Papers must be in the PDF format and submitted via https://ancs21.hotcrp.com. The papers must be formatted using the ACM Primary Article Templates ("2. The Workflow and Templates" in https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions, ) and document class arguments of [10pt,sigconf,letterpaper,anonymous,nonacm]. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General chair: Muhammad Shahbaz, Purdue University Web chair: Manh Hung Nguyen, CYCU Publications chair: Jiri Matousek, Brno University of Technology Publicity Chair: Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge Program committee co-chairs: Suhaib Fahmy, KAUST, and Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh Dr.-Ing. Jasmin Jahić University of Cambridge, UK

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID), 2021
by Lars Eggert 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Show me the numbers: Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID), 2021 Web Page: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/aid/ The IETF as an international Standards Developing Organization hosts diverse data on the history, development, and current activities in the development and standardization of Internet protocols and its institutions. A large portion of this data is publicly available, yet this data is arguably underutilized as a tool to inform the work in the IETF and research on topics like Internet governance and trends in ICT standard-setting. This workshop aims to enable engineers and researchers alike to mine the IETF's data sources in order to explore trends through the analysis of IETF data, such as email archives <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/>, I-Ds <https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/>, RFCs <https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/>, and the datatracker <https://datatracker.ietf.org/>. This work can be used to derive insights into the inner workings of the process of standardization, participation, and governance[1]. This workshop aims to bring together people who have already analyzed IETF data, those who are interested in the analysis of IETF data, and those who are interested in the results of such analysis as input for improvement of the IETF's work. We invite the research community, IETF participants, and others with an interest in the data collected by the IETF, its protocols, and participants, to submit a contribution to the workshop. Furthermore, we also welcome participants who are interested in the analysis that could be performed based on this data as well as those contributing considerations regarding future collection and handling of IETF data. Possible avenues for explorations include, but are not limited to: A. What are patterns for participation in the IETF (what are predictors for a long and productive tenure, when do people stop participating, what is needed to successfully produce RFCs)? B. How is the IETF community developing (i.e., affiliations, publications, language, nationality, leadership positions)? C. How do affiliations develop in the IETF (i.e., does a change in affiliation translate into a change in behavior, is there a relation between affiliation and leadership positions and/or centrality, what is the affiliation distribution per area and/or WG)? D. What social dynamics (gender, nationality, income, occupation, and other social dynamics) are not captured by IETF data and what data and research approaches are needed to develop further insights in the social dynamics of standardization? E. How productive and effective is the IETF, with respect to documents, pages, words, letters and in comparison the overall activities e.g. on mailing lists? F. How well is the outcome of the IETF used, e.g,. based on references to RFCs in research papers, product manuals, or other sources? G. What data would be relevant to collect that is not collected yet or what should be considered with respect to handling of personal data during the data collection and research. H. How effective is the IETF's consensus-based decision making process? Is there evidence that documents receive broad and effective reviews? Are experts with relevant expertise engaging with developing standards in a timely manner? Participation and Submission People interested in participation are requested to submit short position papers (500-1000 words). The paper can cover one or multiple of the following points, but this list should not be considered exhaustive: 1. Research questions and interests in IETF data; indication which question should be answered, the data needed to do so, and how these insights could be used to improve processes and operations; 2. Description of the IETF data they aim to analyze or the information they would like to see made available to inform their work (such as mailing list archives, or participation data obtained through the datatracker) and their methods for doing so (see footnote 1); 3. Potential and preliminary findings; and how those insights could either benefit leadership, WG chairs, and authors/participants, and/or society and industry at large; 4. Potential or preliminary findings and how those add novel insights to ongoing academic debates. Proposals for data analysis should also contain a brief consideration of any related ethics and privacy issues. The basic principles of ethical research are outlined in the Belmont Report2 (covering e.g., respect for persons, beneficence, and justice) and/or institutional ethics guidelines. The workshop will be invitation-only. The organizers will decide whom to invite based on the submissions received. Therefore, please indicate your interest by submitting a research proposal by September 29, 2021 to aid-workshop-pc(a)iab.org. The Program Committee members are Niels ten Oever (chair, University of Amsterdam), Colin Perkins (chair, IRTF, University of Glasgow), Corinne Cath (chair, Oxford Internet Institute), Mirja Kühlewind (IAB, Ericsson), Zhenbin Li (IAB, Huawei), Wes Hardaker (IAB, USC/ISI). All inputs submitted and considered relevant will be published on the workshop web page. Sessions will be organized according to content, and not every accepted submission or invited attendee will have an opportunity to present as the intent is to foster discussion and not simply to have a sequence of presentations. Position papers from those unable to attend in person are encouraged. A workshop report will be published afterwards. Logistics • Submissions Due: 29 September 2021 • Invitations Issued by: 15 October 2021 • Workshop Date: November 29 – December 3 2021 • Location: Online and at the University of Amsterdam (COVID-19 permitting). The workshop will consist of three parts: 1. opening workshop (Monday) 2. hackathon (Tuesday – Thursday morning) 3. closing event (Thursday afternoon) Feel free to contact the program committee with any further questions (including questions related to available data or expected outcomes): aid-workshop-pc(a)iab.org. ----- [1] Examples of such approaches are: https://www.arkko.com/tools/docstats.html, http://datactive.github.io/bigbang/, https://csperkins.org/research/protocol-standards/2020-12-10-ignacio-iesg-t…, https://sodestream.github.io/impact-of-early-engagement-on-longevity-of-iet… [2] https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sites/default/files/the-belmont-report-508c_FINAL.…

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IEEE ICNP registration is open!
by Ignacio Castro 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Hi all, please join us at ICNP this year. Registration is already open and early registration finishes on October 11, 2021. Cheers, Ignacio ICNP 2021, the 29th annual edition of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is the premier conference covering all aspects of network protocol research, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. We welcome you all to attend IEEE ICNP 2021, which will be held as a virtual event on November 1-5, 2021. On November 1, we will have five workshops running in parallel starting 7AM Pacific Time. Between November 2-5, we will have the main conference between 7AM and 12PM Pacific Time. The main conference technical program will include a keynote talk by Prof. Donald Towsley of UMass. Amherst; 10 technical paper presentation sessions; and a poster and demo presentation session over the four days (November 2-5). Thanks to generous donations of our sponsors including Cisco, Juniper, and the UTD CS Department, we will have a nominal registration fee for all attendees. In addition, thanks to a generous donation of the IEEE TCDP, we offer student registration awards for a large number of student participants of ICNP to attend the conference free-of-charge. The conference registration site is now available at https://icnp21.cs.ucr.edu/registration.html, and we invite you all to register and joining us for another successful ICNP conference.

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IEEE ICNP 2021 Student Registration Awards
by Ignacio Castro 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Please consider applying for student registration awards before the deadline of Sept-20th! Cheers, Ignacio ---------------------------------- IEEE ICNP 2021 Student Registration Awards The purpose of the Student Registration Award is to encourage students' participation in the conference by funding their conference registration. The program is made possible with the kind support of the IEEE Technical Committee in Distributed Processing (TCDP). All students are eligible for the award to attend ICNP conference but the priorities will be given to - female students, - students who are presenting a paper, poster or demo, - students who are co-authors of accepted papers including poster or demo papers and who are not presenting at the conference, - students who are authors of papers submitted but not included in the program, - students in early stages of their Ph.D. studies without alternate means of support, - students who are the first-time attendees to ICNP. We also take into account extenuating circumstances that are discussed in statements and letters. Applicants are expected to show evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by coursework and project experience. ICNP particularly encourages the participation of women and students including co-authors. How to Apply The following information should be submitted: - A CV with complete contact information and the correct email address. - A short personal statement (1 or 2 paragraphs, no more than 1 page) that includes information that you, the applicant, feel is relevant to support your case. This includes why the conference attendance is important to your research and career development. You should mention any papers or posters you submitted or had accepted, and whether or not you are presenting any work (including if it is in the main track or workshop). - A letter from your advisor (or a faculty contact if you do not have an advisor) which: - Confirms your good standing in the institution; - Explains why you would benefit from attending ICNP as well as how you could contribute to the conference; - Explain the current funding status and why the applicant is in need of the registration award; - If you are a co-author of an accepted paper, the advisor should indicate whether other co-authors will be attending the conference and who is presenting. Applications that do not include the above items will not be considered. Submit your application (one zip file) through email at: katelin(a)nycu.edu.tw<mailto:katelin@nycu.edu.tw> with the title [ICNP 2021 Registration Award]. The awardee will get a discount code for registration. Important Dates Submission deadline: September 20, 2021 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2021 Student Award Committee - Chen Qian (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) - Kate Ching-Ju Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

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