Ok people. It's time to fess up. If you are planning to go to the NZNOG Conference then please go to the following page and register. http://www.uniforum.org.nz/registration.cgi Incase you are still unsure of why you should go - here is a list reasons/highlights. 1) Paul Vixie. Yep we managed to get Paul Vixie to agree to come out. For those of you who have managed to get on this list without knowing who Paul Vixie is, then just think words like: DNS cron dhcp Book on Sendmail etc etc etc Paul is worth the asking price for the conference. And we have him doing an hour lecture and then a whole day workshop on Saturday. 2) Greg Shepherd. Greg is a Consulting Engineer for Juniper Networks, focusing primarily on multicast protocols, performance, customer solutions, and market drivers. Before joining Juniper, Greg worked in multicast development at Cisco Systems, and also presented the Advanced Multicast Routing tutorial for Cisco Networkers. Until recently he held a faculty position at the University of Oregon's Advanced Networking Technology Center, where he provided multicast direction to the Internet2 community. Greg also sits on the Board of Advisors for Digital Fountain. 3) David Moore David's research interests are high speed network monitoring, denial-of-service attacks and infrastructure security, and Internet traffic characterization. His current research includes tracking and quantifying global DoS attacks using the backscatter analysis technique, developed with Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage of UCSD. Most recently, David has been applying some of the same measurement techniques using large address spaces to monitor several of this summer's large worms: CodeRed v1 and v2, CodeRed-II, and Nimda. 4) lots of other people. We've really pulled out the cast of thousands for this conference. It's going to be a great opportunity to listen to that people are doing. Topics include IPv6, VoIP, Wireless, DOS etc 5) Here is the guilt trip... If you support NZNOG and this conference then there is a good chance that it will keep going in years to come. If no one turns up then there will never be one again. So even if this conference is not you IDEAL nznog conference - then please consider attending the parts that do interest you. That way there will be one in the future for you to have input into. So SIGN UP. If there is a reason why you are not signing up then please email me and let me know. There may be something that I can do about it. And do not try and just ignore it. I'll be mailing people individually to hassle them into it as well =) Dean - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog