Gigabit Networking Workshop GBN'97 - Call for Participation 7 April 1997 - Kobe, Japan Sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking in conjunction with INFOCOM'97 Purpose and Format The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing very recent work in gigabit networking and to raise relevant issues to the general networking community in a timely manner. It will take place from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM with lunch provided. There will be an open business meeting of the Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking following the workshop at 5:00 PM. The workshop will consist of a number of short informal presentations and discussion on current research and implementation, hot topics, position statements, and controversial issues relating to high bandwidth networking. The focus is on end-to-end issues including transport and higher layer protocols, host and network interface architecture, operating systems, emerging applications, deployment and management of large networks, economic and regulatory issues, security and privacy, and other societal impacts. We are particularly interested on the theme of high performance distributed information access designed to scale to gigabit giganode networks with a high (number of users) x (throughput per user) product, including: -- high-performance authentication and security (hardware and software solutions, and their trade-off) -- low latency name resolution (e.g. URL and URC) and name service (e.g. URL and DNS) -- high-performance distributed IPC, shared memory, and file systems -- high-performance information access and interactive service support -- high-performance low latency transactions, session control, and network signalling Special Focus Topic - High Performance Web. Distributed interactive objects are emerging as a distinct and dominant transport class. The current web is a simple example of these objects. In addition to the issues listed above, GBN `97 is seeking abstracts specifically addressing: -- how the Web changes GBNs: are there new transport classes to be considered? -- how GBNs change the Web: what should a high bandwidth Web look like? There will be significant blocks of time reserved for interactive discussion sessions. Suggestions for additional topics are welcome (email to giga@tele.pitt.edu and Cc: to the program co-chairs); controversial topics and outrageous viewpoints are encouraged. Presentations will appear in the online proceedings of the workshop, under URL http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/conference/gbn97. Submission Submission of a one page abstract is due 30 Jan 1997, and must be in plain text by email to the program co-chairs at jpgs@ieee.org and touch@isi.edu. Please include the text "GBN'97 Submission" in the Subject: field; all submissions will be quickly acknowledged (otherwise contact the program chair to confirm receipt). Notification will be made by 15 February 1997. At the time of the workshop, an electronic annotated version of the presentation foils will be due for inclusion in the online proceedings. Submission in HTML and/or postscript is encouraged; if these formats are not possible, plain text will be accepted. Registration Registration for the workshop will be handled as part of INFOCOM'97 registration; information is available on the WWW at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~infocom. Additional copies of the GBN'97 CFP and additional information on the workshop are available on the WWW at http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn, or by email to one of the program co-chairs. Program Co-chairs James P. G. Sterbenz Joe Touch GTE Laboratories USC/ISI 40 Sylvan Road MS-47, Suite 1001 4676 Admiralty Way Waltham, MA 02254 USA Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA +1 617 466 2786 +1 310 822 1511 x151 jpgs@ieee.org touch@isi.edu http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~jpgs http://www.isi.edu/~touch Program Committee Christophe Diot, INRIA Joseph Evans, University of Kansas Aloke Guha, NSG StorageTek Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University Bryan Lyles, Xerox PARC Dick Skillen, Nortel Masahiro Taka, UNCL Richard Thompson, Univ. of Pittsburgh