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Opening day
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Submission deadline
OARC 45 Call for Contribution - Now Open
Date - 7-8 October 2025
Location - Stockholm, Sweden
Time zone - approximately 10:00 (08:00 UTC) -17:00 (15:00 UTC) UTC +2
Adjacent to the Netnod Tech Meeting 2025 (October 9, 2025)
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 the meeting
Acceptance Criteria
- Proposals 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
- The PC might request improvements to slides before and after talk acceptance
How to submit
- Submission deadline: 29 July 2025 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 & Deployment
- Configuration management, deployment processes, and interoperability experiences.
- Tools, tips, and making effective use of DNS software features.
- Performance, Resilience & Scaling
- Provisioning, load-balancing, and planning for resilience.
- DNS performance management, efficiency improvements, and metrics.
- Monitoring infrastructure: log pipelines, analytics, and anomaly detection.
- Security, Privacy & Policy
- DoS attacks, DNS abuse, DNSSEC signing and validation.
- Privacy considerations, for example: encrypted transport, qname minimization, data anonymization.
- Relevant global and regional policies, legislation, and compliance.
- Research & Innovation
- Data-driven testing, measurement, and analysis.
- New protocols, protocol extensions, and next-generation namespace management.
- Lessons & Learnings
- Outage experiences, recovery stories, and cautionary tales.
If you have something interesting to share with the community that lies outside of the ideas above, please don't be put off - if it's good, we'll be happy to include it.
Workshop Milestones
- CFP submissions open in Indico: now (30 April 2025, 15:00 UTC)
- Early Bird Registration opens TBC (early to mid June)
- Deadline for Submissions: 29 July 2025 23:59 UTC
- Preliminary list of contributions published: 27 August 2025
- Pre-recorded presentation video deadline: 09 September 2025 23:59 UTC
- Deadline for slides submission - no changes possible: 23 September 23:59 UTC
Relevant Links
- Registration page and details for presentation submission
- How to Submit a Proposal for the Workshop
- Contact information (who to contact for what)
- Guidelines for presentation slides
If you have questions or concerns you can contact the Programme Committee via submissions@dns-oarc.net.
For OARC 45 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 45 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.)
