This form allows you to submit a paper for the LISA 2001 Conference, December 2-7, 2001 to be held in San Diego, California.

The chances of acceptance of your paper will be greatly increased if you have made sure to follow the following checklist before submitting:

1. Have you read and referred to previous work on the same topic?
2. Have you described how your paper fits into the context of that work?
3. Have you explained the relevance of your paper to network and system administration in general?
4. Have you made any unjustified assertions? (Sales pitch, e.g. "more efficient", "more scalable", "improved", should be justified or avoided)

Good luck!

The form asks for the following information:

• The full contact details of one author who will act as the primary contact for this paper.
• The full list of authors: you must supply the first name, the last name and the affiliation of each author.
• Which, if any, of the authors are full-time students.
• You will be asked to upload an extended abstract using the Web file upload mechanism. We know that certain browsers do not support file upload, but alternative upload mechanisms are complicated, and we wish to make this operation as painless as possible for most people. If your browser does not support file upload, we are sure that you will be able to get access to a browser that does.

Your uploaded file should be in PDF, PostScript or text format.

PDF

PDF appears to be the safest and most portable way of moving text page images from one place to another. You should format your original page for US Letter size. We prefer submission in PDF. PDF files are detected by examining the first PDF characters of the file, if they are '%PDF' then file is assumed to be in PDF format.

PostScript

PostScript, these days, is often very non-portable. You should take care to format the page for US Letter size, and ensure that all the portability switches are turned on if you are using a Windows platform.

ASCII text

Should be formatted where each paragraph is separated by a blank line, and lines should be terminated by a newline character. Lines should be at most 75 characters long. Any file failing the two tests above are assumed to be text.

If you have all this information available, the press Submit to start the registration process. Submission is not complete until you see a page titled `Thank You'. If you do not see this page, then you have not completed the submission process. Some browsers do not support file upload, and occasionally caches get in the way of the proper functioning of the form.