Internet2 Members Update

February 2004

<> First Inter-City Segment of Dark Fiber Through FiberCo
<> National Internet2 Day
<> Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting
<> Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Demo
<> H.323 Videoconferencing Training in Indianapolis on March 22
<> Board and Council Nominations
<> International Update
<> Middleware Update
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) Update
<> Applications Update
<> Redesigned Security Web Pages
<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
<> New Internet2 Members
<> Future Internet2 Events
<> Internet2 Days
<> Showcase and Spotlight Opportunities
<> Internet2 Related Events

The monthly member updates are archived at: http://members.internet2.edu/memberupdates/

<> First Inter-City Segment of Dark Fiber Through FiberCo
On 12 January 2004, FiberCo, established by Internet2 to support the community's goals of developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies, announced that Indiana University became the first assignee of FiberCo optical networking assets through the acquisition of a pair of dark fiber between Indianapolis, Ind. and Chicago, Ill. Indiana University intends to use this dark fiber pair to light two 10 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) circuits to connect the IP-Grid, a collaboration between Indiana University and Purdue University, to the National Science Foundation-supported Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) in Chicago. The fiber also will support the universities’ connection to the new National LambdaRail facility and ultimately other connection services to Chicago. In addition, the assigned fiber will enable additional Chicago-based peering connections for the two Indiana research institutions.
http://www.fiberco.org/press-indiana.html

<> National Internet2 Day – 18 March 2004
Your chief research scientist wants access to a petabyte of new data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, but the data is geographically dispersed across multiple datasets. You want Pinchas Zukerman to hear the violin prodigy you are coaching, but Zukerman is in New York and the student is in Oklahoma. Learn how Internet2 members use advanced networking technologies to address these and other challenges at the first-ever virtual National Internet2 Day. This daylong, netcast event will feature a series of virtual presentations, demonstrations, and performance events across several disciplines. National Internet2 Day will demonstrate the value of your institution's investment in Internet2, share the potential and reality of advanced network applications, and generate additional awareness of Internet2 capabilities across our member community. Additionally, many member campuses are taking advantage of this virtual event to host local National Internet2 Day activities, with presentations by campus-based faculty to complement the netcast national speakers.
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/Internet2Day/

<> Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting
The spring Internet2 Member Meeting is fast approaching! Watch the Internet2 web space in mid-February for information about registration, lodging, travel, and the preliminary program.
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/spring-mm/

+ Call for Posters Announced
All Internet2 members and International MoU Partners are invited to submit proposals for poster sessions at the Spring 2004 Member Meeting. Poster sessions are a consciously low-tech forum for the exchange of information and ideas about collaborations, projects and works-in-progress. Stories are conveyed by the use of graphs, diagrams, pictures, data, and narrative text displayed on ~4' x 3' corkboard. Participants discuss their presentations informally with meeting attendees. Each poster session proposal must contain the title, organization name, brief abstract, and contact name and email address. Send submissions to <postersession@internet2.edu> by 20 February 2004. Notification will be sent by 1 March 2004. For more information contact Ellen Vaughan <evaughan@internet2.edu>.

+ Call for Sponsors
We are seeking sponsorship contributions for the evening welcome reception, which will be held at the hotel the evening of 19 April. In addition we are seeking support for meeting lunch and refreshment breaks on 20-21 April. Sponsors will be acknowledged via signage at the event site and recognized in the published meeting program and on the meeting web site. We are open to suggestions regarding other ways to acknowledge generous support. For more information please contact Ellen Vaughan <evaughan@internet2.edu>.
http://members.internet2.edu/EventSponsorship.html

<> Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Demo
At Joint Techs Hawaii last month, the Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group successfully completed an experimental communications trial. The trial demonstrated SIP-based (Session Initiation Protocol) voice, video, and instant messaging over wireless fidelity (WiFi), and SIP voice conferencing – all in the context of rich presence derived from WiFi location service and enterprise calendaring. Participants downloaded and installed one of several integrated communications clients onto their laptops allowing them to initiate voice, instant messaging, and video calls to other participants – using the receiver’s email address as a single, converged electronic identity. With the inclusion of rich presence services, participants were able to see not only whether their buddies were online or offline, but their exact locations and activities as well. For more information, visit:
http://pic.internet2.edu/

<> H.323 Videoconferencing Training in Indianapolis on March 22
Videoconferencing experts from Internet2 member institutions will introduce a broad framework for understanding H.323 videoconferencing over advanced networks. Held in conjunction with the annual ViDe Workshop, this day-long training will cover topics such as: H.323 basics; gateways and gatekeepers; the new H.350 directory standard; introduction to SIP; room set-up basics; tools and troubleshooting; hands-on equipment demonstrations; and more. The fee is $100. To register or to learn more, visit:
http://commons.internet2.edu/train/200403/

<> Board and Council Nominations
Nominations for the Internet2 Board of Trustees and Advisory Councils are now being accepted. Any member of Internet2 may nominate a candidate for the Board or a Council. Advisory Councils have the following openings: Applications Strategy Council (ASC), 4 openings; Industry Strategy Council (ISC), 3 openings; Network Planning and Policy Council (NPPAC), 4 openings. The Network Research Liaison Council (NRLC) also has openings, the exact number of which is to be determined. The Nominating Committee will meet to review the nominations and recommend a slate of 3 Trustees to the Board. The new Council and Trustees will be announced at the Spring 2004 Member Meeting, April 19-21. Nominations may be submitted on the Web, sent to <bnanzig@internet2.edu>, or faxed to (734) 913-4255. All nominations must be received by 20 February 2004. For more information see:
http://www.internet2.edu/about/nominationinfo.html

<> International Update
+ First Extensible International Peering Collaboration
The Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWP) and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) recently announced they would work together to establish a new extensible peering facility. Extending along the US Pacific Coast (from Seattle to Los Angeles), the new Pacific Wave new facility will enable international networks to connect at either location as well as being able to peer with any other Pacific Wave participant regardless of the site of their physical connection. Currently, many networks are already peering at these locations (Seattle and Los Angeles): AARNet (Australian Academic & Research Network) at 310 Mbps, CA*Net4 (Canada's Research and Education Internet Backbone) with 1 Gbps, GEMnet with 155 Mbps, SingAREN (Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network) with 155 Mbps, and TANET2 (Taiwan Academic Network) with 2.5 Gbps connection. The Internet2 community has access to these networks via the Internet2 Abilene backbone network, which is connected to the Seattle location of Pacific Wave at 10Gbps and will soon be connected to the L.A. location at 10Gbps as well.
http://www.pacificwave.com

+ APAN 2004 meeting
On 28-30 January 2004, APAN held its first meeting of the year in Honolulu, HI where representatives and speakers from the Asia-Pacific region joined to share information on advanced networking efforts, international connections, and applications. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Internet2/ESCC Joint Techs meetings. For more information, agenda and presentations, please visit: http://apan.net/meetings/honolulu2004/

<> Middleware Update
+ Shibboleth
The 1.2 release of Shibboleth is still on track for the first quarter. The new version will be backwards compatible with 1.0 and 1.1. Major changes are support of Apache 2.x and IIS 6 as target platforms, and the introduction of multi-federation support. For more information see:
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

+ InCommon Executive Committee
The Internet2 Shibboleth technology, developed to enable protected resource sharing, is intended to be used in the context of a federation. A new US research and education federation is being formed. An Executive Committee has been established for oversight and to make recommendations to Internet2 on issues arising from the operation and management of this federation. It has begun meeting to set management direction. We thank the following individuals for their willingness to serve in this crucial role on the new InCommon Executive Committee: Jerry Campbell, University of Southern California, Clair Goldsmith, University of Texas System, Lev Gonick, Case Western Reserve, Mark Luker, EDUCAUSE, Tracy Mitrano, Cornell University, Susan Perry, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Carrie Regenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mike Teets, OCLC, and David Yakimischak, JSTOR.

+ NMI - Shibboleth Presentation at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference
At the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference in Dallas on February 25-27, Barry Ribbeck from the University of Texas at Houston – Health Sciences Center will present a session featuring their integration of Shibboleth and the Blackboard learning management system entitled, "Digital Diversity: Multi-institutional Access to Distributed Course Resources." For more information, refer to: http://www.educause.edu/conference/swrc/2004/

+ Save the Date: 3rd Annual PKI R&D Workshop
12 – 14 April 2004 in Gaithersburg, MD
This workshop considers the full range of public key technology used for security decisions. PKI supports a variety of functionalities including authentication, authorization, identity (syndication, federation and aggregation) and trust. Registration opening soon at:
http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki04/

+ Directories
The MACE-Dir subgroup focusing on management of Groups is creating a roadmap for development of the Grouper toolset. The proposed sequence involves adding functionality in three phases. This document will identify elements of the Group Tools Architecture to be developed, elements of the toolset itself, potentially contributed elements, feature support, and points of articulation with other activities.

+ Middleware End-To-End Diagnostics Advisory Group (MW-E2ED)
The group is currently pursuing three primary efforts: requirements gathering, architecture development, and survey data collection for the diagnostic space. Attention will then turn to the first phase of the pilot, whose objectives are: to study the normalization strategies of the diagnostic data, to collect and distribute the data in a highly flexible manner, via piping of diagnostic data streams, to provide simple operators to manipulate data, and to enable forensic applications. There has been much interest from those working in the security area for this effort.
http://middleware.internet2.edu/e2ed/

<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) Update
+ E2Epi at Joint Techs
E2Epi hosted 5 sessions at the January Joint Techs Workshop; summaries for these and other E2E-related sessions are available at:
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/JT04/JT-winter04-sessions.html

+ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Working Group
With colleagues from APAN, the P2P Working Group co-hosted an application technology workshop directly following the Joint Techs Workshop in Hawaii. Information on this workshop can be found at: http://apan.net/meetings/honolulu2004/ws-application.htm#appl3

+ Case Studies
Two new case studies regarding wireless problems have been posted: one offers a solution to a common problem caused by the Internet Connection Sharing option in Microsoft Windows. The other addresses recommendations for wireless network planning for meetings.
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/CaseStudies/cs-list.html

+ E2E piPEs (End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System)
The team demonstrated integrated data collection (along with NLANR’s Advisor Project) via a common web interface at the January 2004 Joint Techs in Hawaii (between the UIUC and the University of Hawaii campuses). As a follow-up to this demonstration, E2E piPEs and the Advisor were co-presented at a track session on Interoperable Measurement Frameworks. The E2E piPEs team also sponsored a BoF on the project. For more information on this project, see:
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/E2EpiPEs/index.html

<> Applications Update
+ Toward an Updated Internet2 Applications Strategy: Continue the Discussion!
In September 2003, the Internet2 Applications Strategy Council (ASC) initiated a process to develop an updated applications strategy for Internet2. An open videoconference was followed up by an in-person session held at the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting. The purpose of these activities was to initiate a discussion of the current state of applications development and serve as a checkpoint to assess whether we are meeting the expectations that were set forth when Internet2 first started. We welcome ongoing input from the Internet2 member community to help us understand the current status quo and where we should head from here. An updated set of PowerPoint slides, providing the overall context and describing this process, is available at the link below. We encourage your ongoing discussion of issues and ideas on our Bulletin Board. For additional information, please contact David Lassner, University of Hawaii CIO and Internet2 ASC Chair at <david@hawaii.edu>.
http://apps.internet2.edu/ascplan.html

<> Redesigned Security Web Pages
Internet2 has redesigned their security web pages in order to highlight current activities, working groups, resources, and events. A new page has been added for SALSA, an oversight group consisting of technical representatives from the higher education community who will advise on leading edge technology issues, provide prioritization, and set directions in the security space. The Security at Line Speed Workshop Findings and Report and EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Effective Security Practices Guide are also featured at:
http://security.internet2.edu

<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
+ Kansas Named SEGP of the Month
An exemplary practice in teaching and learning that is currently being extended to classrooms in SEGP schools through KAN-ED's new network infrastructure is the JASON Project. JASON is uniquely structured to utilize distance-learning technology to bring science and mathematics education to communities across Kansas. In November of 2003, KAN-ED sponsored a keynote presentation by Dr. Ballard at the Global Learning Conference. For more information on this project and the Kansas SEGP please visit:
http://k20.internet2.edu/segp/index.html

<> New Internet2 Members
+ Corporate Members
- Infinera Corporation – http://www.infinera.com

<> Future Internet2 Events
+ Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting: Arlington, Virginia, 19-21 April 2004
+ Summer Joint Techs Workshop, Columbus, Ohio, 18-22 July 2004 - hosted by the Ohio Valley Internet2 Consortium
+ Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting: Austin, Texas, 27-30 September 2004

<> Internet2 Days
Hold an Internet2 Day for your Internet2 member organization. Technical support for live demonstrations and informational materials are available. For more information contact Marianne Smith <melser@internet2.edu> or see:
http://apps.internet2.edu/Internet2-Days.html

+ National Internet2 Day
18 March 2004
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/Internet2Day/

<> Showcase and Spotlight Opportunities - Projects and People
A Showcase on the Internet2 Web site is a great way to highlight the milestones, events, collaborations and efforts that are a result of your work in the advanced networking community. You are also encouraged to submit a profile of anyone in the Internet2 community whose efforts merit notice. Include a brief description (less than 100 words), all appropriate links and images, and contact information. If you have suggestions about projects, people or news that might be featured, please contact Adam Csillag <acsillag@internet2.edu>.

<> Internet2 Related Events
+ Online Calendar
For a complete listing of events for and of interest to the Internet2 community, see the online Internet2 Calendar. Be sure the Internet2-related event you are holding or know about is listed at: http://events.internet2.edu/calendar/main.php

If you are holding an event of any kind related to Internet2, we will be glad to assist members with resources such as printed publications, equipment or speakers. Please contact Marianne Smith for more information <melser@internet2.edu>.

+ HIMSS Annual Conference
22-26 February 2004
Orlando, FL
http://conference.himss.org/ASP/index.asp

59th IETF Meeting
29 February - 3 March
Seoul, Korea
http://ietf.org/meetings/IETF-59.html

Global Grid Forum
9-12 March
Berlin, Germany
http://www.gridforum.org/

CENIC 2004 Annual Conference
15-17 March
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.cenic.org/CENIC2004/index.htm

6th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop
22-25 March
Indianapolis, IN
http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2004