See: http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2005/

TERENA Networking Conference 2005
6-9 June 2005
Poznan, Poland.


   The TERENA Networking Conference 2005 is organised by TERENA, the
   Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, hosted
   by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre (PSCN), operators
   of the Polish Research and Education Network, Pionier.

   TERENA Networking Conferences are prominent annual events, offering an
   opportunity to present and discuss technical and strategic aspects of
   the provision of networks and services to the research and education
   community, and the corresponding research and development activities.
   They bring together leading figures from the research networking
   community in Europe and worldwide, and provide a unique opportunity to
   learn about the latest developments and plans.

   The theme of this year's conference is: "The World of Pervasive
   Networking".

   "Pervasive networking" refers to the next generation networking
   environment where information and communication technology are
   available everywhere, for everyone, at any time and for a wide range
   of applications.

   Although this theme encompasses numerous new technologies such as
   sensor networks and computer mediated reality, we intend to keep the
   focus of the conference on "Pervasive networking" in the academic and
   research community. Of particular relevance this year will be the
   deployment of the GÉANT2 pan-European backbone which will develop an
   increased service portfolio including a testbed and on-demand
   "wavelengths", that should be well underway by the time of the
   conference, as well as the deployment of a pan-European Grid
   infrastructure under the auspices of the EU-funded EGEE project.
   However, other topical areas of interest such as mobility,
   policy-based authorisation infrastructures, real-time services,
   security, IPv6, and the testing and deployment of all-optical networks
   in the research networking environment will also be covered in depth
   in order to keep you fully aware of the very latest developments.

   The conference offers a unique opportunity for technical networking
   specialists and users of research networks to meet and discuss
   requirements for the future. The conference will also include
   presentations on the important legal and policy issues that influence
   and, indeed, threaten the fundamental structure and the future of the
   Internet in general and the research and education networks in
   particular.

   The conference will be structured around keynote presentations and
   invited talks, complemented by presentations of reviewed papers and
   panel discussions.

   Olivier Martin
   Programme Committee Chair

   The conference presentations will focus on the technology as well as
   the user applications and related issues in the following areas:
     * THE NEXT GENERATION NETWORKING AND COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT: ultra
       high-speed optical networks, inter-institutional Grids, "lambda"
       Grids (Bandwidth on Demand), next generation Web services and
       semantic Web, sensor networks
     * ON THE CAMPUS: involving the end-user, management, IPv6
       deployment, reliable multicast, security infrastructures
     * OFF THE CAMPUS: reliable bulk data transfer protocols, quality of
       service (QoS), performance measurements, distance learning,
       virtual environments
     * EVERYWHERE: European roaming infrastructure (EduRoam), mobility
       issues and technologies, real-time applications, voice and video
       over IP
     * FOR EVERYONE: widening the user community of research and
       education networks, legal issues, digital copyright
     * SAFE AND SECURE: single sign-on federations, network and system
       security, application data security, privacy, biometrics,
       cyber-terrorism, spam, intrusion detection, NOC co-ordination
     * IN EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE: GÉANT2, connectivity in southeast and
       eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, Latin America and Asia and
       global connectivity


SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS

   The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is 30 November 2004.

   TO SUBMIT EXTENDED ABSTRACTS, PLEASE PLACE THEM IN THE DROP BOX AT:

   www.terena.nl/tnc2005/submit/

   Extended abstracts (rather than full papers) are invited on all
   subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference: to
   present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking
   technology for the research and education community and their use by
   the community.

   The above topics are an indication of the planned scope of the
   conference, but are not meant to be restrictive.

   Extended abstracts of about 1200 words (two A4 pages) must be
   submitted in English, the official language of the conference. The
   abstracts should be structured according to the "Formatting Guidelines
   and Submission Instructions for Authors", which is available from the
   conference website at: www.terena.nl/tnc2005/guidelines.html

   Closer to the date of the conference, TERENA will issue a Call for
   Short Presentations to provide an opportunity to present late-breaking
   news in sessions dedicated to recent results in the development and
   deployment of networking infrastructures, user services and
   applications.

   The Conference Programme Committee will review all abstracts submitted
   to the conference on the basis of a set of criteria including the
   quality of the submission and its relevance to this conference,
   originality and international scope of the subject matter and the
   extent to which presentations of a similar content were made at
   previous TERENA conferences.

   FORMAT
   Extended abstracts should be submitted at:
   www.terena.nl/tnc2005/submit/ in HTML, PDF, Word or as plain ASCII
   text files.

   STRUCTURE for EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
   All abstracts should be structured in the following order: Title,
   Authors, Author Affiliations, Keywords, Abstract, Acknowledgements,
   References, Author Biographies.

   AUTHORS AND AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS
   The first and family names of all authors and co-authors should be
   provided. The organisational affiliation, postal address and e-mail
   address of each author should also be listed, for example,
   Carol de Groot, TERENA Secretariat, Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam,
   The Netherlands
   E-mail: carol@terena.nl

   KEYWORDS
   Abstracts should include between one and five keywords to describe the
   contents. Each keyword (which may be a phrase or a single word) should
   describe a single concept. Conjunctives (words such as "and", and
   "while" which join words or, phrases together) and common words such
   as "computer" should be avoided. Abbreviations and acronyms should be
   spelt out (e.g. "Asynchronous Transfer Mode" instead of "ATM") unless
   the abbreviation is so well established that the full term is rarely
   used, for example, use "laser" instead of "Light Amplification by
   Stimulated Emission of Radiation".

   Please indicate where you think your subject fits into the listed
   subject areas for the conference.

   Author Biographies
   Short biographies (maximum of 100 words) should be provided for each
   author of the paper. Biographies should be included at the end of the
   paper under the heading "Vitae".

   NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
   Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 30 January 2005.


IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due: 			30 November 2004
Call for Short Presentations:	15 January 2005
Notification of acceptance:	19 January 2005
Registration commences:		20 February 2005
Slides due:			15 May 2005