Note electronic registration closes August 17th (this Friday)!
After this date only on-site registration will be available.
Call for Participation
ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference
August 27 - August 31, 2001
University of California, San Diego, CA USA
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2001
ACM SIGCOMM 2001 is the annual conference of the Special Interest
Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a single-track, highly
selective conference with a technical program of 23 papers, tutorials
by noted instructors on the two days prior, and a panel discussion.
Registration details are available at the SIGCOMM website above.
Tutorials
SIGCOMM 2001 begins with two days of full- and half-day tutorials covering
single topics in detail at both the introductory and advanced level.
Space is still available. Tutorials offered this year are:
- Wireless Data
Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Traffic Measurement for IP Operations
Matt Grossglauser and Jennifer Rexford, AT&T
- Interdomain Routing and BGP
Timothy G. Griffin, AT&T
- Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP
Prof. Steven H. Low, California Inst. of Technology
- Algorithms for Networks: Some Techniques for Design and Analysis
Ashish Goel, University of Southern California
Nick McKeown and Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
SIGCOMM Award
The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to a person whose career and
technical achievements demonstrate a long-term commitment to the field
of data communications. ACM SIGCOMM is pleased to announce that the 2001
SIGCOMM Award is being given to Van Jacobson of Packet Design, Inc.
Van Jacobson will receive the award and give the conference keynote
address in the opening session on Wednesday.
Support from Cisco, IBM, Deloitte and Touche, PMC-Sierra, Marconi,
Procket Networks, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft Research, and
USC/ISI is gratefully acknowledged.
Dear TC6 members,
I am attaching a table, which indicates all the registered TC6 events
since 1998. It would be useful to complete it as much as possible in the
blank fields that relate to the event statistics concerning the papers
and attendees. I am aware that most of this past information might be
difficult to get, but many WG chairmen probably have it available in
their archives. Therefore I would mainly request the WG chairmen to
provide the respective information.
It is my proposal that for future WG reports, this information is
provided for every event that is sponsored by the WG. This will help us
to have a more precise view of what is happening with our sponsored
events.
I would thank if the WG chairmen could send me the information until
September 10th.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear Herbert,
Following the discussion at the last TC6 meeting in Cape Town, it would be
nice to recommend a second software (besides the Confman freeware) to
handle paper reviewing, and add a link to it on the TC6 web page.
The system is Cyberchair and the URL is:
http://www.cyberchair.org/
CyberChair is used for the online submission and review process. CyberChair
is -more or less- based on a paper by Oscar Nierstrasz, called 'Identify
the Champion'. There is also support for the preparation of the proceedings
(using the format required for Springer Verlag). CyberChair is continuously
being updated to include new ideas, and suggestions by its users. The
version that is currently available for download was introduced for ECOOP
2000.
CyberChair is free software (GNU General Public License).
Best regards,
Guy
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:53:40 +0200
>To:Herbert Leitold <herbert.leitold(a)iaik.at>
>From:leduc@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Guy Leduc)
>Subject:Confman software for IFIP TC6 events
>Cc:Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>
>
>Dear Herbert,
>
>After a short debate in our WG6.1, we would recommend the use of the
>Confman software to handle paper reviewing and selection for all TC6
>conferences.
>[I mean recommend, not impose of course].
>
>It may be a good idea to add a reference to the Confman web page
>http://confman.unik.no/~confman/whats_new.html
>somewhere on the TC6 web page. For example with the organizers guidelines,
>or so.
>
>Best regards,
>Guy
>
>>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:37:23 +0100
>>From: Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>
>>To: Guy Leduc <leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be>
>>Subject: Confman software
>>
>>Dear Guy,
>>
>>I noticed that AP55/38 indicated that you would send the Confman
>>software to H.Leitold so that it can be available to conference
>>organisers. Is it already done?
>>
>>Thank you and best regards
>>
>>Augusto
>
________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
Augusto,
Recently, within the FMOODS steering committee, we discussed the
possibility to "buy" Internet domain names for the conference (see below).
What is TC6's (or IFIP's) position about this?
What can I say to the FMOODS 2002 organizers?
Best regards,
Guy
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:34:37 +0200
>From: Elie Najm <najm(a)inf.enst.fr>
>To: Arend Rensink <rensink(a)cs.utwente.nl>
>Cc: Guy Leduc <leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be>,
> Roberto Gorrieri <gorrieri(a)cs.unibo.it>, Elie Najm <Elie.Najm(a)ENST.fr>,
> John Derrick <J.Derrick(a)ukc.ac.uk>, Elie Najm <najm(a)gervaise.enst.fr>
>Subject: Re: fmoods.org?
>
>I agree to the idea. Regarding the property of the domain, I think it is up
>to IFIP to see into this issue. Guy what would be the position of IFIP ?
>
>
>On 20/07, Arend Rensink wrote:
>| I've checked; we can get the fmoods.org domain name for about $35/year.
>| That would allow us to have common URLs for all past and future events,
>| like 2002.fmoods.org or fmoods.org/2002. Do you think this worthwile?
>| If so, I can take care of the particulars.
>|
>| Regards,
>|
>| --
>| Arend Rensink http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~rensink
>| Department of Computer Science mailto:rensink@cs.utwente.nl
>| University of Twente tel: +31 53 489 4862
>| P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands fax: +31 53 489 3247
>
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________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
Dear TC6 members,
The previous version of the TC6 report for the IFIP GA did not contain
the final version of the Student Travel Program in the Annex C of the
report. Now, this is updated and I attach the new version of the report
to this mail. Please notice that the only difference in relation to the
previous version is in Annex C.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Hello,
Volker Tschammer wrote:
>Organization: GMD (???) Fokus
>
>> Recently, within the FMOODS steering committee, we discussed the
>> possibility to "buy" Internet domain names for the conference (see below).
>>
>> What is TC6's (or IFIP's) position about this?
>Positive from my side - we do the same with all our large projects.
>Volker Tschammer
OK, but GMD Fokus (??? I believed that the abbreviaiton GMD has become obsolete ???) is even richer than
IFIP TC6 :-)
Best wishes
Otto
Dear Guy (and others),
>
>Recently, within the FMOODS steering committee, we discussed the
>possibility to "buy" Internet domain names for the conference (see below).
>
>What is TC6's (or IFIP's) position about this?
>
a. I believe that neither IFIP nor TC6 has a position about this for the moment being.
b. The mentioned cost of USD 35 per year is not prohibitivily high; very probably it is
in the 0,xxx percent range of the global budget (maybe even in the 0,0xx percent range).
c. The idea of buying a domain name is a cheap and rather efficient means (to my opinion)
for visibility and corporate identity. I support it.
d. We might even impose that the buying fee appears as a fixed cost position in
the conference budget.
Best regards
Otto
Dear colleagues,
due to "popular demand" I redistribute the following Haiku poetry (see below).
The message was first sent only to our "nontechnical sublist".
Please send me a short message if you want to join that list.
As an extension of the Haiku poetry I would like to add a self-produced one
for our committee. Here is it:
The server is down.
Email quite sporadic. That's
communication.
Best wishes (and have fun with the following Haiku's)
Otto
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JAPANESE ERROR MESSAGES
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict
construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables:
five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the
third. Haiku's are used to communicate a timeless message, often
achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through
extreme brevity. Here are some examples:
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
