<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" id="m_8115136200609291286gmail-m_-5193413448563916721gmail-docs-internal-guid-f730a227-abd1-dbca-133c-6fdde14ad6d2"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">LACNOG, the Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group, will be holding its annual conference – LACNOG 2017 – in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, on 18-22 September 2017. This event will be co-located with the LACNIC 28 meeting.</span></p></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The 2017 LACNOG Program Committee invites the Internet community to submit their presentations for the event.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Possible formats are as follows:</span></p></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Lightning talk: short, 10-minute presentation with an additional 5 minutes for questions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Presentation: 20-minute presentation with an additional 10 minutes for questions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Tutorial: 45-minute presentation with an additional 15 minutes for questions.</span></p></li></ul><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left:18pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">In the spirit of LACNOG, the topics to be covered by the presentations should be geared towards regional Internet development. The topics of interest to LACNOG 2017 include, but are not limited to:</span></p></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Network operation and professional experiences, success stories</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">IP network architecture, sizing, configuration and administration</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Routing and switching protocols, including unicast, multicast, anycast, and others</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">End-user applications (e.g. E-mail, HTTP, DNS, etc.)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Value-added services such as VPNs, distributed systems, cloud computing, etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Peering, regional traffic exchange, IXPs</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Transition to IPv6 and IPv6 Deployment</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Network security and data management, attack mitigation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Network monitoring, performance, measurements and telemetry</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Network automation, evolution and convergence</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Infrastructure and physical transport including optical and wireless networks</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Internet governance issues, legislation and regulations</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Research and education</span></p></li></ul><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">All submissions must meet the following requirements:</span></p></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Proposals must be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Accepted formats: Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT, PPTX), Apache OpenOffice Presentation (ODP), LibreOffice Impress (ODP), or Portable Document Format (PDF).</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The number of slides must be appropriate for the time assigned for the presentation. As a rule of thumb, estimate 1-2 minutes per slide.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We recommend following the </span><a href="http://www.lacnog.org/guiapresentaciones/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(223,72,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Guidelines for Submitting a Presentation</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p></li></ul><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Presentations must be submitted according to the following schedule:</span></p></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Reception of drafts and abstracts: 12 June to 17 July</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Evaluation by the Program Committee: 17 to 31 July</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Submission of the final presentation: 31 July to 28 August</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Event date: 18-22 September</span></p></li></ul><span class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Anyone wishing to participate must submit a short biography, picture and abstract to </span><a href="http://www.lacnog.org/en/call-for-presentations-lacnog-2017/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">http://www.lacnog.org/en/call-<wbr>for-presentations-lacnog-2017/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Presenters at the LACNOG 2017 conference will receive a certificate attesting their participation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Program Committee</span></p></span></div>
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