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[Heather BOYLES <>]

Colleagues - we are pleased to forward information about the next 
semi-annual ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop.  This Joint Techs workshop 
will be held in partnership with CANARIE and will be located in Vancouver, 
Canada.

As many of you know, the Joint Techs Workshop series (held twice yearly) 
attracts many campus, regional and national backbone network managers and 
engineers with its focus on next generation networking with sessions, 
tutorials and in-depth sessions on emerging services and technologies.  In 
particular, note the two hands-on workshops also collocated with the Joint 
Techs workshop - one on network performance and one on SIP.

Please let me or Ana know if you have any questions about the Joint Techs 
workshops.

best regards,
Heather Boyles and Ana Preston

PLEASE NOTE:  The hotel reservation cut-off date is June 17!  This is peak 
season for Vancouver hotel rooms, so please make your reservations as soon 
as possible!

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Russ, Scott, & Thomas would like to update you on the plans for the Summer 
2005 ESCC/Internet2/CANARIE Joint Techs Workshop co-hosted by BCNET, the 
University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Institute of 
Technology, taking place at BCIT the week of July 17.

Registration is now open - the link is off the workshop's main page:
    http://jointtechs.es.net/Vancouver20051.htm

NOTE: This is a common registration for the Joint Techs Workshop, the ESCC 
Meeting and the other workshops.  After you enter your personal information 
you will be asked to select the workshops/meetings you want to attend.

You'll also find hotel information off that page. The hotel block cut-off 
date is Friday, June 17.

We are still open to proposals for sessions and we're always receptive of 
BoFs.  If you'd like to do a presentation or organize a BoF, please drop 
one of us a note.

There will be two focal areas for this Joint Techs.  First is Advanced 
Optical Networking which will look at the many technologies and projects 
are in the works for the next generation of networks.  Also because of the 
requirement that we do something to increase it, security will be the other 
focus.  We will explore what increasing security really means for network 
operators.  There will also be presentations on subjects such as 
performance, measurement and other relevant areas.

There are currently two hands-on workshops scheduled before and after the 
Vancouver JT:
        1) E2Epi Network Performance Workshop, July 16-17
        2) SIP.edu Workshop, July 20-21

As has been our pattern for the last couple of years, Wednesday afternoon 
will also see the start of the more limited-focus ESnet Coordinating 
Committee meeting, which will continue on into Thursday.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Vancouver,

Joint Techs Co-chairs
        Russ Hobby 
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        Scott Bradley 
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        Thomas Tam 
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