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BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER
SESSIONS
Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers!
Present new work! Don't
miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your
time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather
sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a
particular topic.
Enhanced BoFs
Resources will be available to help facilitate a great BoF (even if
you've never led a BoF before). Instant discussion lists will be
provided to all BoFs so that attendees can easily continue their
interactions after the session ends and keep the networking going
throughout the year. Click here to create a mailman list now.
Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest
technologies with LISA attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored
one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and
proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits.
Email sponsorship@usenix.org
if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF. Click here for more
information about sponsorship opportunities.
Scheduling a BoF
To
schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and
affiliation on one of the BoF Boards located in the registration area.
If you have a description of our BoF you'd like posted on this Web
page, please schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title,
the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location
of the BoF to bofs@usenix.org
with "LISA '06 BoF" in the subject line.
BoF
Schedule
| Monday, December 4, 2006 |
| ROOM |
#
of Seats |
7:00 p.m.–
8:00 p.m. |
8:00 p.m.–
9:00 p.m. |
9:00 p.m.–
10:00 p.m. |
10:00 p.m.–
11:00 p.m. |
| Virginia A/B |
100 |
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| Virginia C |
75 |
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| Washington 1 |
80 |
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| Washington 2 |
80 |
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| Washington 3 |
80 |
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Documentation, Wikis and Tools
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| Washington 5 |
80 |
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| Washington 6 |
80 |
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| Coolidge |
40 |
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| Tuesday, December 5, 2006 |
| ROOM |
#
of Seats |
7:00 p.m.–
8:00 p.m. |
8:00 p.m.–
9:00 p.m. |
9:00 p.m.–
10:00 p.m. |
10:00 p.m.–
11:00 p.m. |
| Virginia A/B |
100 |
agámi
Systems Vendor BoF
Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategist, agámi
Systems |
Solaris Configuration BoF
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| Virginia C |
75 |
Cambridge Computer Services, Inc., Vendor BoF
Cambridge
Computer's USENIX Community Appreciation Night (Beer & Ice
Cream Social) |
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| Washington 1 |
80 |
Lesbian,
Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Intersexed Sysadmins and Friends BoF
Michael R. Crusoe, Google Corporate Reliability Engineer. /
Bronze
LOPSA Founding member |
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Issues in HPC/EDA Environments on AMD
Platforms
Travis Campbell |
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| Washington 2 |
80 |
moka5 Vendor BoF
Your Secure Office
Computer on a USB drive
Monica Lam, PhD, moka5 |
Software Licensing BoF
Sandra Bittner, Argonne National Labs
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Bash Scripting Competition!
5-10 minute Bash challenges with prizes |
|
| Washington 3 |
80 |
Implementing a
Successful NOC as Part of Your IT Infrastructure
Scott Newton & Josh Brand, CNN Internet Operations
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Educational
Institution/University Issues BOF
Barb Winget, University of Wisconsin River Falls
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| Washington 5 |
80 |
LISA Flickr
Meetup
Peter Norby, Yahoo! Inc. |
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| Washington 6 |
80 |
Systems Management is Dead. Long Live Systems
Management Consortiums!
Zenoss and Hyperic |
UNIX Microsoft Interoperability
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| Coolidge |
40 |
Fedora DS
Users' BoF
Chris St. Pierre, Nebraska Wesleyan University;
Brian K. Jones, Princeton University
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PGP Signing Party and CAcert Assurances
Teus Hagen, Stichting NLnet foundation
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Wiki Talk
Hunter Matthews, Nathan Hubbard, Chris St. Pierre |
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| Wednesday, December 6, 2006 |
| ROOM |
#
of Seats |
7:00 p.m.–
8:00 p.m. |
8:00 p.m.–
9:00 p.m. |
9:00 p.m.–
10:00 p.m. |
10:00 p.m.–
11:00 p.m. |
| Virginia A/B |
100 |
ROOM
NOT AVAILABLE |
USENIX and SAGE Community
Meeting |
Sysadmin Education BoF
Alva
Couch, Tufts University; Mark Burgess, Oslo
University College |
ROOM
NOT AVAILABLE |
| Virginia C |
75 |
GroundWork Open Source Vendor BoF
Integrating Open
Source Tools for IT Monitoring |
Data Domain Vendor BoF
Going
Tapeless—Deduplication: Protecting Your Data in
a World Without Tape
Kai Li, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
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| Washington 1 |
80 |
BlueArc Vendor BoF
Network Storage
Without Compromise: A BlueArc Customer Roundtable
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Splunk Vendor BoF
Building a Log and IT
Data Infrastructure
Erik Swan, Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder;
Christina Noren, VP Product Management & Support
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Multimedia
Streaming Practices for Universities
Real, Darwin, etc
Joe Morris, UNC Chapel Hill |
| Washington 2 |
80 |
PostgreSQL
BoF
Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL |
Config and Monitoring Tools: Should You
Write Your Own?
David Israel, Intel |
LOPSA
Community Meeting
Doug Hughes, League of Professional System Administrators
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| Washington 3 |
80 |
Usenet and
the Big-8 Management Board
Tim Skirvin, UIUC |
OpenAFS
Moose, The OpenAFS Project |
Xen BoF
Mark Ballew, Univresity of California |
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| Washington 5 |
80 |
Configuration
Management and Server Automation
Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs (author of Puppet)
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Trends and
Challenges in Domain based Email Authentications
Brent Hoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, and Sumeet Jain, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Bcfg2 (Config Mgmt)
Narayan Desai, Argonne National Labs
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| Washington 6 |
80 |
Net Optics Vendor BoF
Network Monitoring with Test Access Ports
Dan McCarthy, Business Development Manager, Net Optics, Inc.
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RRDTool/MRTG
Q+A
Tobi Oetiker, <tobi at oetiker ch> |
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| Coolidge |
40 |
agámi Systems BoF
Live File System Replication and High Availability Network Attached Storage
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Internet Voting BoF
Discussing challenges in the system or architecture supporting RIES
Jon Meijer, SURFnet |
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Barbershop #2
Joel Huddleston |
| Hoover |
50 |
Configuring
Large MultiTerabyte Storage
From 2TB to 16TB and Beyond. Practical tips, different platforms,etc
Sergey Sviridov [sergey at ACNC dot com]
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A Crash Course in Storage Virtualization:
Virtual Blocks, Volumes, and File Systems
Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer
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| Thursday, December 7, 2006 |
| ROOM |
#
of Seats |
8:30 p.m.–
9:30 p.m. |
9:30 p.m.–
10:30 p.m. |
10:30 p.m.–
11:30 p.m. |
| Virginia
Suite |
175 |
Zenoss Vendor BoF
Solving Your IT Management Headaches with Open Source
Software |
Puppet "Vendor" BoF
Luke Kanies, Reductive
Labs
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| Washington 1 |
80 |
IT Design Competition for Cyber Defense
Brent Hoon Kang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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An Update on Standards
C, Posix, C++, LSB
Nick
Stoughton |
SpamAssasin: Tips & Tricks for Dealing with the Latest Barrage of Text, Image, & Any Other Spam. Come Share!
"Tokyo Jim" Gottlieb, San Diego, CA
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| Washington 2 |
80 |
Network Admins BoF
David Nolan, Network Services, Carnegie Mellon University
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Nagios & Sec BoF
John Rouillad |
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| Washington 3 |
80 |
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(Very)
Small Shops
Those of us who work solo + manage small numbers of machines, the
challenges + changes in your corners of the world
Rowan Littell & Betsy Schwartz |
Mentoring: Next Steps
Alva Couch, USENIX Board
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| Washington 5 |
80 |
Google Vendor BoF
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| Washington 6 |
80 |
Visualization
and Usability in Computer Security
Glenn Fink, Pacific Northwest National Labs
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Blackboard Issues Sakai?
Joe Morris, UNC Chapel Hill |
Veritas, Anyone?
Tim Kirby, Cray
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| Coolidge |
40 |
Large Volume
Email Senders
Jason Faulkner, Systems Manager, IntelliContact
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F5 (Big-IP, etc)
User BoF
Frank
Wojcik, F5 Networks Inc.
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| Hoover |
50 |
BoF for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Users
Joshua Jensen
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*Asterisk & Sys Admin
Marin Harriss
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BoF
Descriptions
agámi
Systems Vendor BoF
Organizer: Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategist,
agámi Systems
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Virginia A/B
agámi Systems, a leading supplier of enterprise-class NAS
systems,
will demonstrate the use of file-level replication in its highly
available and disaster tolerant NAS solutions. Using the
agámi
FSR™ replication capability, an agámi filer can
replicate
file system operations on alternate filers located either nearby (for
high availability) or at a distance (for disaster recovery). In the
event that the primary filer fails, or a site disaster occurs,
alternate filers detect the failure, take over the failed filer's
network personality, and serve its file system clients. In this BOF
agámi Systems representatives will describe the technology
in
detail, and demonstrate file system failover between two filers.
Cambridge
Computer's USENIX Community Appreciation Night (Beer & Ice
Cream Social)
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Virginia C
Want free beer? Want free ice cream? Want a sneak peek at the hottest
topics in storage and data protection? If you answered "yes" to at
least one of these questions, then plan to join Cambridge Computer and
its selected storage technology showcase partners at this BoF. To show
our thanks and appreciation to the USENIX community, we invite all
USENIX attendees to join us for an informal evening of beer, ice cream
and a little bit of storage sprinkled on top.
Lesbian,
Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, Intersexed Sysadmins and Friends BoF
Organizer: Michael R. Crusoe, Google Corporate Reliability
Engineer. / Bronze LOPSA Founding member
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington 1
A gathering of LBGTIQ Sysadmins and their supporters. Come swap stories
and compare notes about being out (or not) at work, corporate diversity
issues, and where the best restaurants are in D.C.
Your Secure
Office Computer on a USB drive
Organizer: Monica Lam, PhD, moka5
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington 2
You’ll automatically be registered to win a COOL USB Hamster
Wheel by attending the moka5 BoF session with Monica Lam, PhD. Learn
how to put your secure office computer on a USB drive. In this BOF
Monica will discuss and show a demonstration of the LivePC technology.
moka5 develops virtual computer technology for the real world. With its
patented technology, moka5 provides an engine for broad distribution of
virtual computers, called LivePCs.
Implementing a
Successful NOC as Part of Your IT Infrastructure
Organizers: Scott Newton & Josh Brand, CNN Internet
Operations
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington 3
A guided discussion on implementing or improving a NOC as part of your
IT department.
LISA Flickr
Meetup
Organizers: Peter Norby, Yahoo! Inc.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Washington 5
A social event for flickr users (or anybody who is interested
in learning more about flickr or photography really, or who wants
to just plain socialize) to meet, chat about flickr, photography
and anything else under the sun. And of course to take pictures!
Because what is a meetup without pictures?
Systems
Management is Dead. Long Live Systems Management Consortiums!
Organizer: Zenoss and Hyperic
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington 6
What is wrong with systems management? Why is it so
terrible? Has
any other area of IT promised so much and delivered so little? Come
discuss what's wrong with the state of systems management and what is
missing. Is open source a necessary component of any solution? Topics
will include discussion of efforts such as the Open Management
Consortium, COSMOS, and more. Attendees will include members of both
efforts as well as representatives from a variety of companies that
make
up this space. Organized by Hyperic, members of both OMC and COSMOS.
Fedora DS
Users' BoF
Organizers: Chris St. Pierre, Nebraska Wesleyan University;
Brian K. Jones, Princeton University
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Coolidge
An informal meeting for current or future users of Fedora Directory
Server. Bring your problems, solutions, experiences, scripts, and
plans.
Educational
Institution/University Issues BOF
Organizer: Barb Winget, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Washington 3
This BOF will focus on the challenges and opportunities that
information technology presents to higher education System
Administration. Our internal and external customers (students,
staff and faculty) all want and expect more: more technology tools,
more
digital content, more resources, more stuff! Come share how
institutions
of higher education can make better use of information technology in
campus operations and services. How do you stay ahead in this
continuing game of digital catch-up? How are you changing what you are
doing, both physically and virtually, to respond to the new ways that
students and faculty are thinking, working, communicating and
socializing?
PGP Signing
Party and CAcert Assurances
Organizer: Teus Hagen, Stichting NLnet foundation
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Coolidge
Your chance to have your PGP key(s) signed by others, as well to have
your CAcert cert ID assured by CAcert Assurers! In crease the web of
trust! Joining is free.
At the LISA conference you will be able to collect CAcert Assurer
points
enough to have at least your name on the X.509 certificate (50 points)
or be an CAcert Assurer yourself (100 points). CAcert certicates are
free and can be used for client (e.g. email signing,...) and server
(e.g. https, ssl,...) appllications. You can have as many CAcert as you
want to have.
Be prepared and have with you: your ID (passport, and/or driver
license), enough PGP fingerprints, and a print off of at least two
CAcert Assurer Forms. If you have not yet registered at https://www.CAcert.org
please do so. The CAcert web site will enable you
to print off CAcert Assurer Forms with your email address and name
easily and very clearly.
At the BoF Assurer Forms will be available as well free CAcert Assurer
pins in order to allow you to show that you are willing to assure
CAcert
applicants at LISA.
Integrating
Open Source Tools for IT Monitoring
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Virginia C
Review of several open source monitoring tools, their strengths and
weaknesses, along with some practical examples on integrating among
them. We'll also discuss issues surrounding configuration, automation,
maintainability and data modeling in the open source monitoring space.
Network
Storage Without Compromise: A BlueArc Customer Roundtable
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington
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There is a better way to deploy network storage. Join BlueArc customers
from a number of innovative companies and campuses, to learn how they
achieve aggressive business goals, further their academic and research
missions, and enable a better infrastructure for their users.
PostgreSQL
BoF
Organizer: Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington
2
PostgreSQL project leaders and major contributors will talk about
what's in PostgreSQL 8.2 (released November 2006) and what's planned
for
PostgreSQL 8.3. Anyone using or just interested in PostgreSQL is wecome
to attend.
Usenet and
the Big-8 Management Board
Organizer: Tim Skirvin, UIUC
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington
3
Usenet lives! Over the last year, a group of Usenet veterans has banded
together to try to rebuild and support the Big-8 hierarchies (comp,
rec,
soc, sci, talk, news, misc, and humanities.*) to better reflect the
current realities of Usenet. While this effort is already well
underway,
what is most needed now is simple awareness that changes are afoot.
Anybody interested in Usenet, past or present, is welcome to come
discuss
their views, or just their past experiences.
Configuration
Management and Server Automation
Organizer: Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs (author of Puppet)
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Washington
5
This BoF is an open discussion of all aspects of high-level operating
system management, including tools, practices, generally good ideas,
and horrible warnings. Come along if you have something to add,
something to learn, or just think maybe there's an easier way to get
your machines in better shape yet still go home on time. Discussion has
traditionally focused on what tools are available and what people are
doing with them; Jim Thornton has kept notes from the last three years[1], so you can get an idea of what
we really cover.
Going
Tapeless—Deduplication: Protecting Your Data in a World
Without Tape
Speaker: Kai Li, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Virginia C
Interested in maximizing the
benefits of disk for data protection and reducing reliance on tape?
What if disk storage cost less than $0.35/GB - with improved data
protection? How can you vault massive amounts of data across the
WAN, utilizing 99 percent less bandwidth than traditional data
replication solutions? Enterprise backup customers achieved
results with Data Domain's Enterprise Protection Storage that
reduces data volume by 20x.
Building a
Log and IT Data Infrastructure
Presenters: Erik Swan, Chief Technology Officer &
Co-founder; Christina Noren, VP Product Management
& Support
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Washington
1
Getting to logs and other IT data when you need it can be tough,
time-consuming and if you don't have access--impossible! But what if
your logging infrastructure was set up to let you quickly search and
navigate your way to any log events, messages and configurations and
with role-based access controls, reporting and alerting capabilities
too? Come join us for beverages and some logging fun. Whether you're a
small IT shop with a few servers or you have several large data centers
with thousands of systems, we'll show you how to architect your log and
IT data infrastructure for your environment. We'll talk about, data
access methods, log rotation schemes, archiving and how to get your
data centralized with specific deployment architectures. You'll learn
best practices for alerting on privilege events, monitoring
configuration changes, performing ad hoc investigations and what you
should keep in mind when granting access to your data.
About the presenters:
Erik is a product innovator, engineering manager and operations
executive. Erik manages Splunk's engineering and product development
team, applying the latest innovations in human interfaces, advanced
algorithms, iterative product development and quality automation.
In addition to Splunk, Erik is a co-founder of several successful
start-ups and has held executive engineering and operations roles at
larger companies including Apple Computer, Walt Disney Company,
Taligent and InfoSeek. Erik studied computer science at California
Polytechnic University. He has a long history of building and leading
teams and bringing to market a broad range of services and software
products includes inventor credits on seven U.S. patents.
Christina is a respected authority in enterprise log solutions and a
hands on product management executive immersed in large-scale data
management, systems management, security information management and IT
security compliance. Christina is forging an aggressive Splunk product
roadmap to address the needs of availability, reporting and cost
cutting in the modern IT organization.
Christina has held leadership positions at successful startups
including SenSage (formerly Addamark Technologies), Portal Software and
Sonic Solutions. Earlier in her career she was with Microsoft's MSN
group where she was directly responsible for MSN's systems management
infrastructure across all MSN properties and thousands of servers.
Christina holds a B.A. in International Finance and Economics and a
B.F.A. from the Dominican University of California.
OpenAFS
Organizer: Moose, The OpenAFS Project
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Washington
3
Interested in learning about OpenAFS? Looking for more information?
OpenAFS is a free, secure, networked filesystem that works on a
variety of platforms, including most major Unix platforms, Windows and
Macs. OpenAFS uses the security of Kerberos, offers multiple
replicated redundancy of static data, scalibility and location
independance - users never need to know what server holds their data.
Trends and
Challenges in Domain based Email Authentications
Organizers: Brent Hoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, and Sumeet Jain, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Washington
5
Advances in spam reduction techniques presently authenticate the sender
before creating content in an Inbox. Sender Authentication systems,
such as DKIM, Best-Guess SPF and SenderID, are increasingly being
accepted by various organizations. These authentication techniques
efficiently classify emails from authenticated senders or domains.
These techniques are used along with other spam filters to classify
emails from the unauthenticated senders or domains. However, recent
studies have shown that a sizable amount of the authenticated emails
are considered spam by the users. The sender authentication techniques
have certain disadvantages: 1. most early adopters of these techniques
were the spammers; 2. the domains create their own authentication
schemes that are not verified by a third party; and 3. Forwarding
emails are identified as a problem in some of the sender authentication
techniques. More recently, attention is being placed on sender
reputation management for the authenticated emails. A reputation
management framework will classify emails efficiently at a domain by
ranking the sending domains.
We will discuss the current trends in sender authentication techniques
and discuss about the need for an authorization framework for email
infrastructure. We discuss the need for a distributed quantitative
reputation management framework that will aid in reducing unsolicited
emails. This BoF session discusses the current trends and challenges in
domain based email authentication technologies.
Internet
Voting BoF
Organizer: Jon Meijer, SURFnet
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Coolidge
Discussing challenges in designing the next iteration of the system
architecture supporting RIES, the Rijnland Internet Election System.
A number of documents describing the voting protocol and some numbers
are
available at https://www.surfnetters.nl/meijer/riesvoting/
In the Netherlands, water management is important enough that it is
overseen by a system of water boards, regional organisations charged
with
the care of water levels in their area. They are run as a fully-fledged
democratic system parallel to the usual National governmental system,
with
their own parties, elections etc.
In 2004, the Dutch water board region Rijnland (who cover a
jurisdiction
of 1.2 million heads) commissioned SURFnet and one-man outfits MullPon
and
MagicChoice to create a system that would deliver Rijnland with the
capability to conduct an election through Internet voting. This system
was
to be first deployed during their September 2004 elections. MullPon and
MagicChoice (together forming TTPI, Trusted Third Party Internetvoting)
assumed responsibility for developing and running the voting software,
while SURFnet was responsible for the system integration and network
layer. I designed the system and network architecture and lead the 6
man
SURFnet team that implemented and ran it. The system was awarded an UN
Public Service Award in 2006
RIES was the system enabling Dutch expats to cast their vote over the
Internet during the upcoming November 2006 parliament elections, again
run
by SURFnet and TTPI.
The RIES project will be continued through 2007 and 2008, where it will
be
used as an election platform for all 24 regional water boards (24
parallel elections) and 12.2 eligible million voters.
I am now facing the challenge of defining the system and network
architecture to support the 2008 elections, and I want to make sure the
design is solid, underwent public scrutiny and proper peer review.
A Crash
Course in Storage Virtualization: Virtual Blocks, Volumes, and File
Systems
Organizer: Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Hoover
With all the buzz about server virtualization, there is suddenly a
renewed interest in the field of storage virtualization. But what the
heck is storage virtualization? Depending on who you ask, you get a
different answer. So, here is, a concise crash course in the different
technologies that get labeled as storage virtualization.
LOPSA
Community Meeting
Organizer: Doug Hughes, League of Professional System
Administrators
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Washington
2
LOPSA (The League of Professional System Administrators) will be
holding
a community meeting. Join members of the board to discuss past,
current,
and future directions for the organization after our first year of
operation.
IT
Design Competition for Cyber Defense
Organizer: Brent Hoon Kang, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Washington 1
In recent years, Cyber Defense Competitions have become increasingly
popular at universities and colleges across the country. The majority
of these competitions test students' reactive network defense skills
when faced with a series of offensive attacks spawned by a team of
seasoned IT professionals posing as hackers. While these competitions
are undeniably useful in testing students ability to react quickly in a
"sink or swim" environment, such competitions do little to test
students' IT design capability to output a plan for IT Infrastructure
Design to a given set of business requirements. It is these types of
skills which are desperately needed by a work force lacking the
creative design and critical problem solving skills necessary to
prevent attacks from occurring in the first place. Thus, we feel that
there is a need to incorporate elements of IT Infrastructure Design
into current IT Defense Competitions. In doing so, not only will
students be able to exercise the technical skills previously taught by
faculty in a controlled environment, they will be able to get hands on
experience in designing systems which are in line with core business
objectives. Through the incorporation of design elements, we hope to
create a new IT Design Competition for Cyber Defense, which can be in
line with current ACM Programming Competitions, focusing heavily on
students' design, analysis and problem solving skills.
In this BoF, we plan to share our initial experience in the hopes that
others can provide insight into challenging design issues that IT
Systems Defense Architects might encounter in the future.
Network
Admins BoF
Organizer: David Nolan, Network Services, Carnegie Mellon
University
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Washington 2
Switches, Routers, DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, VPN, Firewalls, Wireless,
NAS/SAN, oh my...
How do you manage your network? What do you automate vs what do you
do by hand? What tools do you use? What hardware do you use? Where
do you draw the line between Network Administration and System
Administration? How do you manage the explosion of responsibility
thats been placed on the network in recent years? We'll talk about
all these topics and probably share a few horror stories as well...
Visualization
and Usability in Computer Security
Organizer: Glenn Fink, Pacific Northwest National Labs
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Washington 6
This group will meet informally and discuss the importance of visualization
and usability
to computer security applications. I am especially interested in
meeting with folks who have found that computer security technologies
present overwhelming amounts of data very poorly.
Large Volume
Email Senders
Organizer: Jason Faulkner, Systems Manager, IntelliContact
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Coolidge
Having trouble with email blacklists? Wondering why your clients and/or users aren't receiving their mail? Come talk about strategies for getting email past draconian mail filters. I face this problem in my job every day and want to swap notes with other large volume senders about deliverability strategies.
BoF for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Users
Organizer: Joshua Jensen
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Hoover
Join the informal meeting for those of us interested in, or currently
using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Come with questions, experiences, and
needed solutions to share with fellow attendees.
Topics we may cover:
- Corporate acceptance as a desktop platform
- Red Hat's Enterprise Linux and Fedora strategies
- Migrating toward or away from RHEL 3/4
- Package Management - Red Hat Network, Zenworks Linux, or Yum?
- Experiences and best practices
- Third party Vendor support
- Red Hat's Clustering Solutions
- etc
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