Call for Participation TechDay at ICANN 55 in Marrakesh, Morocco The ICANN Tech Working Group is again planning a technical workshop at the ICANN 55 meeting on 07 March 2016 in Marrakesh, Morocco. The TechDay Workshop has been a part of ICANN meetings for several years and has provided a forum for both experienced and new people to meet, present and discuss technical topics related to registry and DNS work and security. For reference, the most recent session was held at the ICANN meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 19 October 2015. The presentations and transcripts are available at: https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule/mon-tech. We are specially interested in: 1. Registration information accuracy panel For this panel, we are interested in presentations relating to registry contact data cleanup, address validation, malicious registration data verification, batch and/or real-time validation. We would like, in particular, to see solutions leveraging Open Source, Open Data or Open Research in order to make them available to a wider audience. 2. Next Generation DNS Infrastructure Panel: For this panel we are seeking presentations from next generation DNS infrastructure platform implementers. We are looking presentation on DNS Anycast platform that are small footprint, low cost, highly performant and scalable. We are particularly interested in presentations on DNS infrastructure that use an innovative approach to deliver new breakthroughs in either footprint, cost, performance or scalability. We are interested in understanding how provisioning is performed, detailed hardware and software routing architecture, logging, monitoring, packet capture, multi-tenancy, performance metrics. 3. In addition, we welcome suggestions for additional topics, such as; * Registry, EPP, RDAP initiatives * Big Data & associated data analysis * IETF DNS protocol updates * Registry security 4. And, as usual we shall invite a host presentation. If you are interested in participating, please email one or all of el@lisse.NA ondrej.filip@nic.cz jacques.latour@cira.ca kimberly.carlson@icann.org preferably by 2016-01-17. We hope that you can join us and request that you disseminate this Request to other lists where it might of of interest. el