Announcing MJTS meeting, October 7

[Merit Network Professional Learning]

Merit Network is pleased to announce the agenda for the fall MJTS 
meeting, to be held on Tuesday, October 7 at the MSU Union in East 
Lansing. All Merit Member organizations are welcome and encouraged to 
attend MJTS meetings for a free day of information and interaction. 
Full information and registration are available at:

 http://www.merit.edu/events/mjts/

The following presentations are of particular interest:

* Mary Roy from Cental Michigan University will discuss CMU's recent 
legal complaint against the RIAA and its investigative partner, 
MediaSentry. In response to inquiries by RIAA and MediaSentry, CMU 
questioned MediaSentry's authority to perform investigations against 
Michigan residents without a license. Mary will discuss this action in 
light of the RIAA's ongoing efforts to identify illegal file sharers 
and involve higher education institutions in the process.

* Also on the P2P front, staff from the University of Michigan will 
discuss BAYU (Be Aware You're Uploading), an automated system that 
notifies users on selected University networks when their computers 
appear to be uploading files using peer-to-peer file sharing networks. 
Educational in intent, the service seeks to help users avoid unintended 
uploading, share files lawfully when intended, and remain mindful of 
the associated risks. We will discuss both the policy issues and the 
technical implementation of the service.

* Lih-Er Wey from Michigan State University will discuss recent 
wireless LAN advances at MSU.

* Larry Blunk from Merit will share information about the recently 
discovered cache poisoning vulnerability in the Domain Name Service. 
Larry will describe the vulnerability, the potential dangers, the 
industry response, and corrective steps that should be taken. He will 
also talk about general best practices in DNS management as well as 
DNSSEC--ultimately the only way to truly prevent cache poisoning.

* Manish Karir from Merit will give an update on several 
Merit-sponsored research projects.

The agenda will also include an update from Merit on backbone 
networking and organizational advances. Registration is available at:

  http://www.merit.edu/events/mjts/

As always, MJTS is open only to Merit Member organizations. We 
encourage you to invite others from your organization to the meeting, 
in this case particularly those who have interests in P2P issues, 
wireless LAN, and DNS. Registration is free, and we ask that you 
register in advance.

This meeting will be webcast in RealMedia format. On the day of the 
event there will be a link to the broadcast on the page linked above.


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Upcoming Merit Professional Learning events:

E-Rate Funding: A Strategic Asset for Institutional Goals
  September 23, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/learning/erate

Michigan Information Technology Executives (MITE) Forum Meeting
  September 24, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/resources/mite

NANOG44
  October 12-15, Los Angeles, CA
  http://www.nanog.org/

Internet2 IPv4 Multicast Workshop
  Nov 5-7, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/learning/multicast

Hands-on Network Security: Practical Tools & Methods
  Nov 10-11, Ann Arbor
  http://www.merit.edu/learning/securitytools

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