<div dir="auto"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear All</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">SdNOG is a non-profit group that provides an</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">  </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">open forum to be used by any interested member from the Internet Community in Sudan, to exchange</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">technical information and expertise in inter-networking. It is managed and organized by group of volunteers with the aim of capacity building and technology development. [<a href="https://sdnog.sd/" style="color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://sdnog.sd</a>] </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The SdNOG Program</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">==================</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Committee announces the opening of SdNOG-5 CFP,which will take place on 3rd – 4th of October 2018 in Khartoum,Sudan. and is now seeking contributions for Presentations.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We are looking for presenters who would:</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">CONFERENCE MILESTONES</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">=====================</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Call for Papers Opens [31/May/2018]</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Final Deadline for Submissions [15/Sep/2018]</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">PROGRAMME MATERIAL</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">====================</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The SdNOG program is organized in two parts; tutorials and conference. To pics for tutorials and the conference must be relevant to networks and </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">  </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Internet Operations and</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">  </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Technologies. All papers are welcomed except for the ones that have promotional objectives orcopyrights infringement. The list below gives example of some topics but it is not comprehensive:</span><br><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Routing and operations </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- IPv6 deployment and transition technologies </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- IXPs and Peering</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Virtualization and Cloud Computing</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Internet ecosystem</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam,Anti-Malware)</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- DNS / DNSSEC </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Internet governance and policies (Security, Regulation, Content Management, Addressing, etc) </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">- Any other topics </span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">CfP SUBMISSION</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">==============</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided with CfP submissions</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Otherwise, the Program Committee will be unable to review the submission.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for publication on the SdNOG website.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Please submit on-line at :<a href="https://papers.apia.org/user/login.php?event=75" style="color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://papers.apia.org/user/login.php?event=75</a></span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><br></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the: <a href="mailto:info@sdnog.sd" style="color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">info@sdnog.sd</a></span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69);min-height:14px"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">   </span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.</span></p><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"helvetica neue";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt">SdNOG program Committee.</span><span style="font-family:'arial','helvetica',sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p></div>