Program and Proceedings

An electronic version of the proceedings will be provided to all participants and authors and will be publicly available after the workshop.

Live Broadcast

Presentations will be broadcast live on the Plan 9 Foundation YouTube channel.

Schedule

Will be announced.

Scope

This 2025 edition of the International Workshop on Plan 9 aims to bring together researchers, developers, and students working on Plan 9, Inferno, the 9P family of protocols, and related technologies to discuss advances in these fields, ideas for further improvement, applications, and impact of these ideas on the broader computer science community; and to work together on key issues identified during the first two days of the workshop or during the discussions leading up to it.

This year, our host having a focus on computer security, papers about cryptography, authentication, fault tolerance, robustness, security applications, error detection and remediation, software reliability, etc. are particularly welcome.

A second area of focus this year include Plan 9 and its derivatives’ history, and their impact on the broader computer industry. A round table will be held on these topics, and the history team at the Cnam is willing to assist in conducting oral history interviews with interested parties. Any paper or talk proposal focusing on the history of these technologies will also be particularly welcome.

As usual, the workshop topics also include, and are not restricted to:

• system architecture
• system services
• file systems and servers
• applications
• projects for other platforms related to Plan 9

Important Dates

December 1st, 2024: Submission Deadline
February 1st, 2025: Papers announced
May 22-24, 2025: The Workshop

Types of Submission

In order to increase the interactivity of the workshop, we intend to offer a hackathon in addition to the presentation of regular and short work in progress papers. Please send your proposal to iwp9paper at iwp9.org including the topic and a short abstract of the session, the name(s) of the organizer(s), duration of the session and required infrastructure (e.g. wired/wireless network, power, video projector).

Paper Submission

Papers of up to 15 pages must be sent to iwp9paper at iwp9.org in PDF format. Please do not forget to include the email address of the contact author. Submissions will be acknowledged via email.

Work-in-Progress Submission

Works in progress of up to 3 pages must be sent to iwp9wip at iwp9.org in PDF format. Please include the email address of the contact author. Submissions will be acknowledged via email.

Registration

The registration deadline is May 1st, 2025. Please register either by emailing: iwp9reg@iwp9.org, or registering on Eventbrite

Students can benefit from a discount ($20). Two price tiers are available : Simple access to the conference ($50), Or access to the conference, plus three lunches included in a neighboring restaurant, and a social event (a guided tour of the CNAM museum on friday the 23rd at night) for $125 total. Please note that we can accomodate, at most, fifty (50) attendees.

Location & Travel

The workshop will be held at the Cnam (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers), 2 rue conté 75003 Paris, France. Signage will guide you to the workshop from the door.