The meeting will be hosted by America Online.
Meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current backbone engineering practices.
The conference draws around 500 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from large national service providers, and members of the research and education community. Presentations should highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed in core Internet backbones and exchange points. The deadline for proposals is September 11, 2000. While the majority of speaking slots will be filled by September 11, a limited number of slots will be available after that date for topics that are exceptionally timely and important.