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Opening day
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Submission deadline
OARC 47 Call for Contribution
Date - 09-10 November 2026
Location - Vancouver, British Columbia
Times - approximately 10:00-17:00 PDT (Local time PDT is UTC -7; note that British Columbia has opted to remain on PDT all year round )
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: 24 August 2026 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: 09 June 2026 15:00 UTC
- Deadline for Submissions: 24 August 2026 23:59 UTC
- Preliminary list of contributions published: 29 September 2026
- Pre-recorded presentation video deadline: 14 October 2026 23:59 UTC
- Final slide submission deadline: 27 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC
Slides submitted by this deadline should be complete, approved by the
speaker’s shepherd, and ready for publication in Indico. Only
essential corrections may be accepted after the deadline.
- Programme information freeze: 2 November 2026
After this date, speakers may no longer edit presentation titles, abstracts, affiliations, or other published programme details in Indico. Essential corrections must be requested through DNS-OARC staff.
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 47 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 47 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.)
