CFP: AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop 2005

[Esther Filderman]

Apologies for the cross posting & to those who see this multiple times.


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                          Call for Papers and Talks
                       Submission Deadline: May 2, 2005 

                             The Second Annual 
	                      AFS & Kerberos 
		          Best Practices Workshop
          
                             June 20-24, 2005                    
		Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
 
                       http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/

 
 Purpose of the Workshop:
 * To bring together AFS and Kerberos novices and experts
 * To learn about AFS and Kerberos tools
 * To learn about AFS and Kerberos best practices

 
 Target Audience:
 * People interested in AFS & Kerberos
 * AFS and Kerberos administrators: novices and experienced

 One week of AFS and Kerberos content, including:
 

 * One day tutorial "Introduction to AFS and its Best Practices" on June 20
 * One day tutorial "Introduction to Kerberos" on June 21
 * Three days of talks including:
    * KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Mike Kazar, NetApp
	One of the original writers of the filesystem now known as
	AFS, Mike Kazar is still in the "filesystems" business.
  * Contributed talks (30-45min)
 

 Possible Topics include, but are not limited to:

 * OpenAFS and Arla development status reports
 * MIT Kerberos and Heimdal development status reports
 * AFS best practices (volume naming, directory hierarchy, volume sizes, ...)
 * AFS weaknesses (locking, ACLs on files, ...)
 * AFS performance tuning (client side, server side)
 * Benchmarking AFS
 * AFS server scaling and HW recommendations
 * AFS service monitoring
 * Migration experiences
 * AFS and Kerberos 5:
     * How to install a new cell from scratch
     * Migration from kaserver to MIT Krb5
     * Migration from kaserver to Heimdal Krb5
 * Kerberos 5 and Windows Active Directory working together
 * AFS related tools (AFS Perl, Java API, scripts, ...)
 * Kerberos related tools
 * AFS and backup (scripts, amanda, TSM, ...)
 * AFS, Kerberos and Web integration
 * Delegation of AFS administration
 * AFS on non-Unix platforms (Windows, Mac OS X)
 * Commercial support 
 
 Please register your talk or paper at http://www.pmw.org/afsbpw05/submit.html .

 Conference registration and hotel information to come soon.

 
 
 Please send questions to: afs-workshop at pmw.org.