IP-Centric Control and Management of Optical Networks, 
NANOG 20, Washington DC, October  2000.

Control and Management of Modern Optical Networks, 
Hot Interconnect 9, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,  August 2001

Control and Management for Optical Networks,
IEEE INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage, Alaska,  April 2001

IP-Centric Architecture for Control and Management of Optical Networks, 
SPIE Opticom 2001, Denver, CO, August  2001

Control Plane for Optical Networks: The State of the Standards, 
ECOC 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark, November  2002

Optical Networks: Architecture, Protocols, and Standards, 
IEEE Globecomm 2003, San Francisco,  CA, December 2003