WELCOME TO NANOG 19 June 11-13, 2000 Hosted by iHighway

NANOG Staff Susan R. Harris Farewell to Pam : ( Hello to Carol Wadsworth !

Merit’s Role Provide coordination Outgrowth of NSFNET era

Community Effort Meetings Web resources E-mail list

Campaign to Improve Signal-to-Noise on the NANOG List

NANOG Pre-Posting Guide Does my e-mail have operational/technical content ? Would I be interested in reading this e-mail ? Would 9,000 other Internet engineers want to read this? Will Randy and Jhawk respond positively to my e-mail?

Monthly Email Volume M E S S A G E S “Year of the Backhoe” AlterNIC 1400 “Year of the Backhoe” AlterNIC 1000 “Cisco as Big Brother” 600 200 ‘94 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00

Daily E-mail Volume - May ‘00 45 M E S S A G E S 35 25 15 Date 5

NANOG E-mail AUP Focus on operational/technical issues No postings to multiple lists No foul language, character assassination, or lack of respect No blatant product marketing or headhunting Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature discouraged Use real, identifiable names/addresses, not aliases

Network Information Squid, multicast, wireless details: www.nanog.org/mtg-0006/network.html IPv6 connectivity available We have DHCP and static IP addresses

General Information Please turn off beepers & cell phones Slides for most talks linked from agenda: www.nanog.org/mtg-0006/agenda.html Beer ‘n Gear 5:30, Pavillion room BOFs start at 7:30

Conference Evaluations Evaluations are now linked off the conference web: www.nanog.org/mtg-0006/eval.html

NANOG 19 Equipment Sponsors

Equipment Sponsors, cont’d. Border States Electric Siemon’s Systems Southwest Cyberport

Equipment Sponsors, cont’d.

Equipment Sponsors, cont’d. IRCache

Comments From Our Host ! John Brown