6–7 Feb 2025
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
America/New_York timezone

Call for Presentations

  • Opening day
  • Submission deadline

OARC 44 Call for Contribution

Date - 6-7 February 2025
Location - Atlanta Marriott Marquis - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Time zone - approximately 09:00-17:00 UTC -5 (TBC)
Partnered/co-located with - NANOG 93

Submission requirements

  • Topic must be related to DNS
  • 10 or 20 minutes (there will be additional 5 min of Q&A following each talk)
  • Will be broadcast live and recorded for future reference
  • Presentation slides will be publicly available before, during and after meeting

Acceptance Criteria

  • Proposal should be at a high technical level suitable to the audience
  • Submissions should include draft slides or at least detailed description of the proposed talk content
  • PC might require improvements to slides before and after talk acceptance

How to submit

  • Submission deadline: 2024-12-02 23:59 UTC
  • You will need to create an account in the Indico system
  • A Step-by-Step guide to submitting in Indico can be found here: Submitting a Contribution

Suggested Topics

All DNS-related subjects and discussion topics are welcome!

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of ideas:

  • Operations: Any operational gotchas, lessons learned from an outage,
    details/reasons for a recent outage (how to improve time to recovery,
    tooling), interoperability concerns and experience.
  • Deployment: DNS config management and release process.
  • Monitoring: Log ingestion pipeline, analytics infrastructure, anomaly detection.
  • Scaling: DNS performance management and metrics. Increasing DNS server efficiency
  • Security/Privacy: DNSSEC signing and validation, key storage, qname minimization, DoH/DoT/DoQ

Workshop Milestones

  • CFP submissions open in Indico: now
  • Deadline for Submissions: 2024-12-02 23:59 UTC
  • Preliminary list of contributions published: 2024-12-17
  • Pre-recorded presentation video deadline: 2025-01-16 23:59 UTC [TBC]
  • Deadline for slides submission - no changes possible: 2025-01-23 23:59 UTC

Relevant Links


If you have questions or concerns you can contact the Programme Committee via submissions@dns-oarc.net.

For OARC 44 we are open to patronage and donations to fund the Workshop and associated events. Please contact sponsor@dns-oarc.net if your organization is interested in becoming an OARC 44 patron.

(Please note that OARC is run on a non-profit basis, and is not in a position to reimburse expenses or time for speakers at its meetings.)

The call for abstracts is open
You can submit an abstract for reviewing.