The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardizes the protocols and services that vendors implement and Internet operators are supposed to deploy and use. For many years, and for many reasons, we have observed an opportunity for improved communication between the IETF and these operators. The result is that IETF standards do not always fit operators’ needs; standards could be better designed and implemented if more operators that actually use them in their real-world networks agreed on what they need and provided more feedback into the RFC process within the IETF. Case in point – perhaps IPv6 could have been implemented more widely and more quickly if more operators had been involved in the IPv6 standardization process.

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Technical presentation wanted! We welcome all who want to talk about network technologies, operators’ solution and the best examples of network implementations. If you feel that sharing your knowledge and experience can make a significant contribution to the network community, don’t hesitate to send your topic! Together we want to create the most professional network conference in Poland.

Deadline for submission of tutorial proposal is 11th January, 2013. Please send the proposals (including name and surname of the speaker together with bio, topic of the lecture and abstract) to jakub.koziol {@} proidea.org.pl and andrzej.targosz{@}proidea.org.pl.

We would like to kindly inform, that the next PLNOG Meeting will take place on the 30 September – 1 October, 2013 in Galaxy Hotel in Krakow (POLAND). As in previous years, we have invited several foreign guests, who will share their experience. If you have any suggestions what we should talk about, what should we focus on, we encourage you to send your remarks to jakub.koziol {@} plnog.pl or andrzej.targosz {@} proidea.org.pl. We would also like to invite for the unique workshops, which will be held in the days before and following conference.

All volunteers are welcome to submit their own proposals for CfP.