Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions are informal gatherings of attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs enable attendees to discuss topics of mutual interest and to build professional relationships with other people who share similar interests. The highly interactive sessions will be held Wednesday (May 24) from 11:45 a.m. till 06:15 p.m. and Thursday (May 25) from 11:00 a.m. till 04:15 p.m. If you want to schedule a BoF, please contact the BoF coordinator by email at the address <sane2000-bof@nluug.nl>
SANE 2000 will, prior to the conference, not accept and/or pre-schedule BoF's that compete with activities in the regular conference program.

Work in Progress Reports (WiP) sessions are short pithy and fun. Work in Progress reports introduce interesting new or on-going work. If you have work you would like to share or a great idea that's not quite ready for publication, send a one- or two-paragrah summary to <sane2000-wip@nluug.nl>. A schedule of presentations will be posted at the conference and the speakers will be notified in advance. Work in Progress reports are ten-minute presentations; the time limit will be strictly enforced. The WiP sessions will be held Wednesday (May 24) from 11:45 a.m. till 06:15 p.m. and Thursday (May 25) from 11:00 a.m. till 04:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2000 0.8 Rome	THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2000 0.8 Rome
This slot (and possibly some other BoF's that might take place over a beer or two) will be assigned at the conference. Please refer to the BoF Announcements board near the registration desk. There will be blank forms availble, so if you have an idea for a BoF, fill out a form and put it up on the board.	Topic: Linux-HA (High Availability) Chair: Jos Visser Time: -- Description: One of the most commonly cited remarks concerning the applicability of Linux for enterprise class computing is the absence of a trustworthy, proven, solution for creating High Availability clusters with Linux. The excellent stability and robustness of Linux notwithstanding, I notice a huge demand in the Unix market for these types of clusters. There are currently a number of different projects being worked on which could, in time, turn into such a solution. This Birds of a Feather session's purpose is to bring together a number of people that are interested in, or involved with, High Availability, and who might have an idea on how this can, should or might be achieved under Linux. About the chair: Jos Visser is a Unix consultant with Open Solution Providers, a company that specialises in Unix and High Availability. BoF session
Topic: FreeBSD Chair: Poul-Henning Kamp Time: -- Description: The BOF will be about any FreeBSD related topic that SANE 2000 attendees are interested in, to be decided at the start of the BOF. BoF session	Topic: USENET Chair: Brad Knowles Time: -- Description:-- BoF session
Topic: Security SIG Chair: Hans v/d Looij Time: -- Description: -- BoF session	Topic: ROCK Linux Chair: Clifford Wolf Time: -- Description: ROCK Linux (www.rocklinux.org) is a Linux Distribution for admins an high skilled Linux/UNIX users. With this BoF users have the chance to discuss about the ROCK Linux design with the developer and make suggestions for the future development. About the chair: Clifford Wolf is the core maintainer and developer of the ROCK Linux distribution. He also is a Linux and Internet cosultant. BoF session
Topic: LinuxFailSafe Chair: Alan Robertson Time: -- Description: The LinuxFailSafe project is a community development effort spearheaded by SuSE and SGI to port SGI's field-proven FailSafe product to Linux. LinuxFailSafe provides a full suite of high-availability capabilities for Linux. These include full N-node cluster membership and quorum services, application monitoring and failover-restart capabilities, along with a set of GUI tools for adminstering and monitoring clusters. WiP session	Topic: Automatic Attack Blocker (Preliminary) Chair: Flavio Marcelo Cavalcante Bandeira do Amara Time: -- Description: The focus of this work is to create a tool for automatic detection Denial Of Services attacks on networks and to automatically take countermeasures against these attacks. The presented tool is a technique of stopping some attacks at their early stages on the external border of the network. This is joint work by Flavio M.C.B Amaral and Paulo S. Motta Pires. WiP session
Topic: Emperical data signing ccTLD zonefiles Chair: NLnet Labs Time: -- Description: There are a lot of rumors floating around regarding DNSSec about the resources it will take to sign zone files. NLnetlabs has undertake some experiments to investigate these problems. The early results presented in this WIP session will show that the problem isn't as bad as rumored. WiP session	Topic: LogReport Chair: Anton Holleman Time: -- Description: LogReport (www.LogReport.org) is an open source project focussing on the transformation of log files into useful reports. You can for instance upload your log files to our online report responders for Sendmail, DNS and UNIX accounting files. We will explain what we plan to achieve and how. We are looking forward to meet you and to discuss all relevant aspects of the LogReport initiative. Your input is vital! BoF session