OARC 42 - Call for Contributions (co-located with NANOG 90)

[John Todd <jtodd () quad9 net>]

OARC 42 will be a two-day hybrid meeting and the dates are 8th and 9th 
February to be co-located with NANOG 90 in Charlotte, North Carolina, 
USA.

The Programme Committee is seeking contributions from the community.

All DNS-related subjects and suggestions for discussion topics are 
welcome. For inspiration, we provide a non-exhaustive list of ideas:
Operations: Any operational gotchas, lessons learned from an outage, 
details/reasons for a recent outage (how to improve TTR, tooling).
Deployment: DNS config management and release process.
Monitoring: Log ingestion pipeline, analytics infrastructure, anomaly 
detection.
Scaling: DNS performance management and metrics. Increasing DNS Server 
Efficiency
Security/Privacy: DNSSEC signing and validation, key storage, rollovers, 
qname minimization, DoH/DoT

The presentations can be either 10 or 20 minutes in length (plus 5 
minutes for Q&A). Proposals for in-person lightning presentations will 
be opened closer to the Workshop dates.

Workshop Milestones:

2023-09-07 Submissions open via Indico
2023-11-22 Deadline for submission (23:59 UTC)
2023-11-29 Preliminary list of contributions published
2023-12-13 Full agenda published
2024-01-10 Deadline for slideset submission and Rehearsal
2024-02-08 OARC 42 Workshop - Day1
2024-02-09 OARC 42 Workshop - Day2

The Registration page and details for presentation submission are 
published at:
<https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc42>

To allow the Programme Committee to make objective assessments of 
submissions, so as to ensure the quality of the workshop, submissions 
SHOULD include slides. Draft slides are acceptable on submission. 
Example guidelines for presentation slides: 
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/presentation-tips/

Additional information for speakers of OARC 42
 - your talk will be broadcast live and recorded for future reference
 - your presentation slides will be available for delegates and others 
to download and refer to, before, during and after the meeting
 - remote speakers have mandatory rehearsal (Date and Time TBD). It 
would be very useful to have your slides (even if draft) ready for this

Note: DNS-OARC provides registration fee waivers for the workshop to 
support those who are part of underrepresented groups to speak at and/or 
attend DNS-OARC. More details will be provided when registration opens.

If you have questions or concerns you can contact the Programme 
Committee:
https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/programme
via submissions () dns-oarc net

OARC depends on sponsorship to fund its workshops and associated social 
events. Please contact sponsor () dns-oarc net if your organization is 
interested in becoming a sponsor.

(Please note that OARC is run on a non-profit basis, and is not in a 
position to reimburse expenses or time for speakers at its meetings.)

John Todd, for the DNS-OARC Programme Committee

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John Todd - jtodd () quad9 net
General Manager - Quad9 Recursive Resolver