LISA 9 Call for Participation

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Pre-LISA '95  Workshop: Advanced Topics in System Administration
September 19, 1995
Monterey, CA

A one-day, pre-LISA conference workshop, to be held Tuesday, September 19,
1995, will focus on a discussion of the latest-breaking technical
issues in the systems administration arena as introduced by those in
attendance.  Attendance is limited and based on acceptance of a position  
paper.  Acceptance notices to all participants will be issued by August 7, 1994.

HOW TO SUBMIT:  Potential workshop attendees are invited to submit a
proposal of at most 3 pages (ASCII) via electronic mail to jessgi.com
no later than  August 1.  These proposals should  briefly contain a
topic for discussion, a description of the subject, an explanation of
what makes this topic controversial or interesting, and a personal
position.  (More substantative reports of completed  works should
instead be submitted as papers to the technical sessions.) A
representative subset of positions will be discussed in an open forum.

The workshop is being organized by John Schimmel of Silicon Graphics.
Mail these proposals to jessgi.com by August 1.  Chosen participants
will be notified by August 14.  Participants must be pre-registered for
the LISA conference.  No additional fee will be charged to attend this
workshop, and lunch will be provided.
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              ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

      9th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '95)
                     September 18-22, 1995
                Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California

Co-sponsored by 
USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Professional and Technical Association, 
and 
SAGE, the System Administrators Guild

IMPORTANT DATES

Refereed paper submissions:
Extended abstracts due:  May 1, 1995
Notification to authors: June 5, 1995
Final papers due: August 1, 1995

Registration materials available: July, 1995

The USENIX Systems Administration (LISA) Conference is widely
recognized as the leading technical conference for system
administrators.  Historically, LISA stood for "Large
Installation Systems Administration," back in the days when
having a large installation meant having over 100 users, over
100 systems, or over one gigabyte of disk storage.  Today, the
scope of the LISA conference includes topics of interest to
system administrators from sites of all sizes and kinds.  What
the conference attendees have in common is an interest in
solving problems that cannot be dealt with simply by scaling up
well-understood solutions appropriate to a single machine or a
small number of workstations on a LAN.

The theme for this year's conference is "New Challenges," which
includes such emerging issues as integration of non-UNIX and
proprietary systems and networking technologies, distributed
information services, network voice and video teleconferencing,
and managing very complex networks.  We are particularly
interested in technical papers that reflect hands-on experience,
describe fully implemented and freely distributable solutions,
and advance the state of the art of system administration as an
engineering discipline.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Monday and Tuesday, September 18-19, 1995

The two-day tutorial program at the conference offers up to five
tracks of full- and half-day tutorials.  Tutorials offer expert
instruction in areas of interest to system administrators of all
levels, from novice through senior.  Topics are expected to
include networking, advanced system administration tools,
Solaris and BSD administration, Perl programming, firewalls,
NIS, DNS, Sendmail, and more.

To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, USENIX
continually solicits proposals for new tutorials.  If you are
interested in presenting a tutorial at this or other USENIX
conferences, please contact the tutorial coordinator:

Daniel V. Klein
+1  412  421 0285
FAX: +1  412 421 2332
E-mail: dvkusenix.org

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Wednesday through Friday, September 20-22, 1995

The three days of technical sessions consist of two parallel
tracks.  The first track is dedicated to presentations of
refereed technical papers.  The second track is intended to
accommodate invited talks, panels and Works-in-Progress (WIP)
sessions.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Papers addressing the following topics are particularly timely;
papers addressing other technical areas of general interest are
equally welcome.

- Your plans for the year 2000
- Deployment of new networking technologies
- Coping with the commercialization of the Internet
- Support models in use at your site
- Dealing with differences in UNIX implementations -- migration
  and interoperability among BSD, SVR4, OSF and others
- Integration of UNIX-based with non-UNIX-based and proprietary
  systems and networking technologies (Mac, NT and DOS PCs)
- Application of emerging technologies (Mbone, Mosaic) to system
  administration
- Administration and security of distributed information services 
  (WAIS, gopher, WWW) and network voice and video teleconferencing
  (Mbone)
- Experience supporting mobile and location-independent computing
- Experience with large (1000+ machine) networks, especially
  networks of SVR4-based systems
- Real-world experience with implementations of proposed system
  administration standards
- Unusual applications of commercial system administration
  software packages
- Application of operational planning techniques to system
  administration including measurements and metrics, continuous
  process improvement, automation, and increasing productivity
- File migration, archival storage and backup systems in extremely
  large environments
- Innovative tools and techniques that have worked for you
- Managing high-demand and high-availability environments
- Migrating to new hardware and software technologies
- Administration of remote sites that have no technical experts
- Supporting MIS organizations on UNIX
- Real-world experiences with emerging procedural/ethical issues--
  e.g., developing site policies, tracking abusers, and 
  implementing solutions to security problems
- Networking non-traditional sites (libraries, museums, K-12)

REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS
An extended abstract is required for the paper selection
process.  Full papers are not acceptable at this stage; if you
send a full paper, you must also include an extended abstract.
"Extended" means 2-5 pages.

Include references to establish that you are familiar with
related work, and, where possible, provide detailed performance
data to establish that you have a working implementation or
measurement tool.

Submissions will be judged on the quality of the written
submission, and whether or not the work advances the state of
the art of system administration. For more detailed author
instructions and a sample extended abstract, send email to
lisa9authorsusenix.org. or call USENIX at +1 510 528 8649.

Note that the USENIX organization, like most conferences and
journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously
to more than one conference or publication and that submitted
papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere.
Papers accompanied by "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not
acceptable and will be returned unread.  All submissions are
held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the
conference proceedings, both as a matter of policy and as
protected by the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

Authors of an accepted paper must provide a final paper for
publication in the conference proceedings.  At least one author
of each accepted paper presents the paper at the conference.
Final papers are limited to 20 pages, including diagrams,
figures and appendixes, and must be in troff, ASCII, or LaTeX
format.  We will supply you with instructions.  Papers should
include a brief description of the site, where appropriate.

Conference proceedings, containing all refereed papers and
materials from the invited talks, will be distributed to
attendees and will also be available from the USENIX following
the conference.

WHERE TO SEND SUBMISSIONS
Please submit extended abstracts for the refereed paper track by 
two of the following methods:

% E-mail to: lisa9papersusenix.org
% FAX to: +1  510  548 5738
% Mail to:
  LISA 9 Conference
  USENIX Association
  2560 Ninth Street, Suite 215,
  Berkeley, CA USA 94710

To discuss potential submissions, and for inquiries regarding the
content of the conference program, contact the program co-chairs
at lisa9chairusenix.org or at:

Tina M. Darmohray
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
PO Box 808 L-510
Livermore, CA USA 94550
+1  510 423 5999
FAX: +1  510  422 7869
E-mail: tmdusenix.org

Paul Evans
Synopsys, Inc.
700 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA USA 94043
+1  415  694 1855
FAX: +1  415  965 8637
E-mail: pleusenix.org

INVITED TALK TRACK
If you have a topic of general interest to system administrators, 
but that is not suited for a traditional technical paper submission,
please submit a proposal for a second track presentation to the 
invited talk (IT) coordinators at <itlisausenix.org> or to:

Laura de Leon, Hewlett-Packard
+1  415  857 5605
FAX: +1  415  857 5686
E-mail: deleonhpl.hp.com

Peg Schafer, BBN
+1  617  873-2626
FAX: +1 617 873 4265
E-mail: pegbbn.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Co-chair: Tina Darmohray, Lawrence Livermore National
                  Laboratory
Program Co-chair: Paul Evans, Synopsys, Inc.
Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
Kim Carney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rob Kolstad, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Bryan McDonald, SRI International
Marcus Ranum, Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
John Schimmel, Silicon Graphics, Inc.

VENDOR DISPLAY
Wednesday, September 20, 1995
Well-informed vendor representatives will demonstrate products
and services at the informal table-top display.  If your company
would like to participate, please contact:

Zanna Knight
+1 510  528 8649
FAX: +1 510  548 5738
E-mail: displayusenix.org

BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings
of attendees interested in a particular topic.  BoFs are held
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings of the conference.
BoFs may be scheduled in advance by telephoning the USENIX
Conference Office at +1 714 588 8649 or via e-mail to
conferenceusenix.org.  They may also be scheduled at the
conference.

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
All details of the conference program, conference registration
fees and forms, and hotel discount and reservation information
will be available in July, 1995. If you wish to receive
registration materials, please contact:

USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
+1  714  588 8649
FAX: +1  714 588 9706
E-mail: conferenceusenix.org

For more information about USENIX and its events, access
the USENIX Resource Center on the World Wide Web.  The URL
is http://www.usenix.org.  OR send email to our mailserver
at infousenix.org.  Your message should contain the line:
send catalog.  A catalog will be returned to you.