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December 2015 SIGCOMM Newsletter
Dear SIGCOMM Community Members,
With the end of 2015 at hand, we can reflect upon a year of many events in the Internet landscape, from net neutrality battles, to the fall of safe harbours, and legal threats to the future of encryption on the web. I hope that in 2016 we will see a move towards a free and open Internet that is available and accessible to everyone across the world. On behalf of the Executive Committee I would like to wish you season’s greetings, and best wishes for the new year.
Here is the news for this month:
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1. CoNext seeking site proposals for 2017
2.  CAIDA BGP Hackathon, Call for Participation and travel grants
3. ACM Fellows and Distinguished Scientists 2015
 
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1. The Steering Committee is soliciting proposals for hosting CoNext 2017. Please see here for details on CoNext and instructions for site proposals:
http://sigcomm.org/events/conext-conference
http://www.sigcomm.org/events/conext-conference/site-proposals
 
2. CAIDA, in cooperation with CSU, USC, UFMG, FORTH, Route Views, RIPE NCC, will host a BGP Hackathon on the 6-7th of February 2016 at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA, USA). The theme of the hackathon is “live BGP measurements and monitoring”.
 
When: Feb 6-7, 2016
Where: the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California at San Diego (UCSD)
Who: Parties interested in hacking on live BGP data.
Inquiries: bgp-hackathon-info@caida.org
Important Deadline: Dec 22, 2015 for travel grant requests
Apply to attend: http://www.caida.org/workshops/bgp-hackathon/1602/
 
3. Three SIGCOMM members have been selected as ACM Fellows this year: Kevin Fall, Michael George Luby, and Pablo Rodriguez. Other members of the community were recognized as ACM Distinguished Scientists: Ratul Mahajan, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Ben Y Zhao. Congratulations to them all!
 
That’s all for now!