The program committee (I am a member, but not representing) had some discussion in Toronto on the subject of recruiting tutorials containing entry level material. Philip's bgp tutorials have always been well received but most tutorial material we receive is aimed fairly narrowly at routing/bandwidth/te issues and some fairly high-level concepts. I realize that nanog future's participants are not necessarily the target audience for introductory materials, but people in your companies might be. Would additional or different folks gets sent if there were tutorials relevant to their interests or business roles? Would topics like this be a useful addition to the tutorial agenda?
Off the top of my head and in no particular order entry-level topics might include (but not be limited to) things like: DNS operations mechanics of voip network instrumentation ids/ips deployment understanding flow/packet capture output noc practices (monitoring/ticketing) setting up a looking-glass deploying load-balanced services machine virtualization Are things like this useful? Is audience too macho to be seen with their peers discussing rfc 2317 reverse dns delegation? Are the potential presenters who haven't submitted tutorials because of a perception that nanog isn't in the business of entry-level educational outreach? Sorry for all the questions, the Socratic dialog has been going on in my head for a couple of meetings. joelja
