Speaking of which, we've just finished grinding through the session proposals for DEC 2006, and this is the first time that I recall that we had so many proposals that we had to make a concerted effort to reject a bunch of them because there were just too many for the time available. And this is after adding Master's Tracks for AD and MIIS! The initial agenda should be announced today. See www.dec2006.com.
What was it with disaster recovery this year? I think we had six separate proposals for DR topics, including the pre-conference workshop that Guido and I are doing. Is that AD has reached a level of maturity where a lot of people have taken the time to develop DR plans? I hope its not because there have been that many AD disasters to recover from 
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