SANOG 8
27 July - 4 August 2006, Karachi, Pakistan

The venue for SANOG 8 is Karachi, Pakistan. The meeting is hosted by Networking Society of Pakistan (NSP).

8 August : All SANOG Slides are available for Download

5 August : SANOG 8 concludes successfully in Karachi. Thanks to all who worked to make it a success.

1 August : SANOG workhop and Tuotrial slides are available.

27 July : SANOG 8 starts in Karachi, Regent Plaza Hotel - Blog, Entries, Photos

22 June : SANOG VIII program Published

2 June : Fellowship Results are published

22 May : Preliminary Program Published

15 May: Registration is now Open

30 March : Call for Papers is now published

15 March : SANOG 8 Fellowship Now Open

15 February : SANOG 8 Workshops are:

ISP Routing and BGP Multihoming
DNS / DNSSec Deployment
ISP and NSP Security

SANOG 8 Keynote Speaker

Engineering the Internet and its Governance
Akinori Maemura

This presentation will discuss how the Internet is working, operationally like how it should be coordinated both technically and non-technically. "Internet Governance" is not a matter of officers and sociologist, but the Internet Engineers can engineer the Governance as well as the Internet.

About Akinori Maemura: kinori MAEMURA is Research Engineer at France Telecom Research and Development Tokyo, Director IP Department at JPNIC and the Chair of the APNIC Executive Council. He started the career in IP network in 1994 with start-up network design of NEC's BIGLOBE Internet Service. With his primary concern for the Internet Coordination for sustainable operation he is actively involved in Internet Community including JANOG - Japan Network Operators Group as a founding committee member, IP resource management in JPNIC and APNIC, and Internet Governance Issues.

About SANOG8

For the first time, SANOG was hosted in Karachi. There was a lot of requests to host the meeting in Pakistan, and with NSP coming forward to host it, it was indeed an event to note for professionals and operators in the country. Thanks to all who worked hard to make it a success.