The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) is a forum for the coordination and dissemination of information to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. It runs meetings, talks, surveys, and a

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for

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s. The main method of communication is the NANOG mailing list (known informally as NANOG-l), a free mailing list to which anyone may subscribe or post.

History

NANOG evolved from the

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"Regional-Techs" meetings, where technical staff from the regional networks met to discuss operational issues. At the February 1994 regional tech meeting in

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, the group revised its charter to include a broader base of network service providers and subsequently adopted NANOG as its new name. NANOG was organized by

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, a non-profit

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organization, from 1994 through 2011, when it was transferred to NewNOG.

Funding

Funding for NANOG originally came from the

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as part of two projects Merit undertook in partnership with NSF and other organizations: the

Backbone Service and the Routing Arbiter project. All NANOG funds came from conference registration fees and donations from vendors, and starting in 2011, membership dues.

Meetings

NANOG meetings are held three times each year and include presentations, tutorials, and BOFs (Birds of a Feather meetings). There are also lightning talks, where speakers can submit brief presentations (no longer than 10 minutes) on a very short term.

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participants typically include senior engineering staff from tier 1 and tier 2 ISPs. In addition to the conferences, NANOG On the Road events offer single-day networking events. NANOG meetings are organized by NewNOG, Inc., a

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, which took over responsibility for NANOG from the

in February 2011. Meetings are hosted by NewNOG and other organizations from the U.S. and

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. Overall leadership is provided by the NANOG Steering Committee, established in 2005, and a Program Committee.NANOG Program Committee page
on the NANOG Web site.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.nanog.org/
Routing Arbiter ProjectCIO official websiteRipe Labs - Network operations
Computer networking Electronic mailing lists Internet Network Operators' Groups History of the Internet

History

Funding

Meetings

See also

References

External links