Internet2 Members Update
May 2003
<> Abilene Update
<> North American Global IPv6 Forum Summit
<> Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting
<> Internet2 Fall 2003 Member Meeting
<> Virtual Briefings
<> New Members Named to Internet2 Councils
<> Applications Update
<> International Update
<> Middleware Update
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi)
<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
<> Member-to-Member Announcements
<> Future Internet2 Events
<> Internet2 Days
<> Showcase Opportunities
<> Internet2 Related Events
Member updates are now archived at:
http://members.internet2.edu/memberupdates/index.html
<> Abilene Update
+ Abilene Observatory
The Abilene Observatory is a program to support basic network
research on the Abilene network. The observatory serves network
engineers by providing a view of the operational data associated
with a large-scale network, and the research community by
providing data associated with the fundamental properties
of network protocols. There are two components of the program:
the collection of data by Abilene engineers that is available
to the public, and collocation of equipment in the Abilene
router nodes by research groups.
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory/
+ Network Research Facilitation Project
The Network Research Facilitation Project is a program to
provide routing equipment to the research community in support
of network research. The Abilene router nodes were recently
upgraded to new routers and the original Cisco 12008 routers
are now available for use by this program. A proposal process
is currently being designed and the first deployment is expected
by the end of June. The grants will be yearly in length, with
the possibility of renewal. The entire program is expected
to last two years. For more information contact Rick Summerhill
<rrsum@internet2.edu>
or see:
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory/research-projects.html
<> North American Global IPv6 Forum Summit
Internet2 joined as a sponsor of the upcoming North American
IPv6 Forum to be held in San Diego, CA, June 23-27. Internet2
members are encouraged to attend and arrangements have been
made for Internet2 members to receive a discounted registration.
The IPv6 Forum welcomes everyone interested in meeting the
pioneers and time-to-market developers and adopters of the
IPv6 Technology. The North American IPv6 Global Summit is
the world premier event for the world IPv6 community, providing
an international forum for advancing the development and implementation
of new generation Internet networks, technologies, applications
and policies. For more information see:
http://www.usipv6.com/
<> Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting
+ Post Meeting Survey - Chance to Win a Free Meeting Registration!
If you have not already done so, please complete the Spring
Member Meeting evaluation form. Your feedback helps enormously
in efforts to improve each Member Meeting, and is particularly
useful planning begins for the Fall 2003 Member Meeting. By
completing the form, you will become eligible for a free registration
at the Fall meeting!
http://events.internet2.edu/2003/spring-mm/evaluation.html
+ Spring 2003 Meeting Summary on Web
A summary of meeting highlights from the Spring 2003 Member
Meeting is now posted on the Internet2 web site: http://events.internet2.edu/2003/spring-mm/
<> Internet2 Fall 2003 Member Meeting
Call for Proposals: Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
The Program Committee for the Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
is seeking proposals for track sessions for the Fall 2003
Member Meeting in Indianapolis, October 13-16. Proposals will
be due mid-June. Contact Laurie Burns <lburns@internet2.edu>
for further information, and see the Internet2 web site later
this month for details.
<> Virtual Briefings
+ May Internet2 Virtual Briefings
The May 2003 Internet2 Virtual Briefing will focus on the
implications of a Networking 2003 presentation by Nancy Wong,
Director, Office of Planning and Partnerships, Department
of Homeland Security. It will also include a panel session
on Network and IT Security, with live commentary by leaders
in the Internet2 community. See more details about this Briefing:
http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/index.html
<> New Members Named to Internet2 Advisory Councils
New members for Internet2 Advisory Councils were approved
at the Internet2 Board of Trustees meeting on April 13, 2003.
For information, see: http://www.internet2.edu/about/councils.html
<> Applications Update
+ Internet2 Commons Expands to Include Subscription Services
Now that the Internet2 Commons H.323 videoconferencing service
has proven reliable and has built a wide community of users,
a formal production plan will advance the Internet2 Commons
with several new levels of service. The new services, scheduled
for deployment this September, will include blocks of port
hours for H.323 conferences using advanced and impromptu scheduling
features. The most innovative offering will create a subscription
plan for communities with members across institutions, beyond
a single campus deployment. This Community plan will allow
research groups and other inter-organizational collaborations
to benefit from reliable, scheduled videoconferencing. Details
on the subscription plans will be published soon. For more
information contact Jonathan Tyman, Internet2 Manager for
Digital Video <tyman@internet2.edu>.
+ Internet2 Commons Videoconferencing Training, May 18
An Internet2 Commons videoconferencing training session will
be held in conjunction with the TERENA Networking conference
in Zagreb, Croatia on May 18. This marks the first occurrence
of Internet2 Commons training in Europe, and provides an opportunity
to broaden both the user and support base for international
videoconferencing.
This training will be led by Egon Verharen, Innovation Manager
at SURFnet, and Ted Hanss, Internet2 Director for Applications
Development, both of whom are members of the Internet2 Commons
Management Team. Training topics include:
- Network Overview
- Multipointing Gateways
- Operating and troubleshooting procedures common to videoconferencing
systems
- Hands-on use of the equipment
Seats are still available. There is a fee of 50 euros for
the training. To register, send an email to: <tnc2003@terena.nl>
or see: http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2003/meetings/h323.html
<> International Update
+ New International Exchange Point for Research and Education
Networks
Established in New York Manhattan Landing (MAN LAN) is a high-performance,
gigabit-ethernet-based exchange point in New York City to
facilitate peering among U.S. and international research and
education networks. Establishing MAN LAN has been a collaborative
effort by Internet2, NYSERNet and Indiana University's Global
NOC. MAN LAN, as the "Manhattan Landing" exchange
point is known, has been established at NYSERNet's co-location
space in building housing many large communications carriers
in downtown Manhattan and is operated and monitored by the
IU Global NOC.
MAN LAN joins other Internet2 member-led international exchange
points such as StarLight, Pacific Wave and AMPATH in providing
the Internet2 community the ability to connect at gigabit
speeds to advanced research and education network around the
world. Internet2’s Abilene network is connected at 10
Gbps, GEANT has two 1 Gbps connections and HEANET is connected
at 1 Gbps. CA*net4 expects to connect with two 1 Gbps connections
and NYSERNet plans to connect at 10Gbps. http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/manlan/
+ Venezuela's REACCIUN-2 and Internet2's Abilene Network
Begin Peering Agreement
REACCIUN-2, the high-performance, research and education network
in Venezuela, is now peering with Internet2 networks at 45
Mbps via the AMPATH project. REACCIUN-2 will initially connect
over 7 universities and research center across Venezuela.
REACCIUN-2 is operated and managed by CNTI, Centro Nacional
de Tecnologias de Información. CNTI is responsible
for stimulating and supporting research, scientific and technology
goals and developments of Venezuelan universities and research
centers. CNTI has been an Internet2 International partner
since October 2002. AMPATH is a project of Florida International
university in collaboration with Global Crossing that has
enabled connections between Internet2's Abilene network to
the national research and education networks of Brazil (2
connections), Chile, Argentina and now Venezuela. For more
information see:
CNTI: http://www.reacciun.ve/
AMPATH: http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/
<> Middleware Update
+ Shibboleth
The use of Shibboleth continues to grow as additional universities
and content providers deploy the software. Enhancements to
the code continue with version 1.0 of Shibboleth to be released
in the next few weeks. For updates go to: http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
+ Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
The Internet2/NIH/NIST PKI Research Workshop was held in Gaithersburg,
MD, April 28 & 29th, grew in attendance its second year.
The refereed papers and summaries are now available at: http://middleware.internet2.edu/pki03/
+ Directories
The Internet2 MACE-Dir working group has identified the creation
of a tool to facilitate operational tasks, such as management
of, representation of, and access to group information within
enterprise directory services, as a high priority activity.
A document named SAGE (Service for Authorized Group Editing),
recently released as part of the NMI Release 3, is the initial
step towards specifying the functional capabilities that it
should embody. The working group will now turn its attention
to the technical design and creation of the tool.
+ National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI)
- CAMP - June 3-6, 2003, Boulder, Colorado
The CAMP workshop offers system architects and project managers
involved in enterprise middleware deployment an opportunity
for learning and guidance on management, policy, implementation
and technology, with a special focus on enterprise authentication.
Institutions are encouraged to send the two individuals
who most closely match the system architect and project manager
roles. Learn more about CAMP and register at:
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/camp032/
- Advanced CAMP - July 8-11, 2003, Boulder, Colorado
Save the date for Advanced CAMP, a workshop offering a highly
focused, highly technical forum research in middleware technologies
with an emphasis on authorization approaches. For further
details see: http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/camp033/
- NMI Release 3
NMI Release 3 was issued on April 28th, 2003. NMI-R3 includes
four new EDIT components -- Look, SAGE, Enterprise Directory
Implementation Roadmap, and PERMIS -- which support directory
performance monitoring, group management, and service deployment
as well as inter-institutional authorization. Also updated
for NMI-R3 is Shibboleth, an architecture and suite of software
used for accessing customized or restricted content and services
while protecting privacy. The Components are available at:
http://www.nsf-middleware.org/NMIR3/components.asp
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) Update
+ piPEs/ AMI and OWAMP
There were over 60 attendees for the joint piPEs/Web100 Rollout
session at the Spring Member Meeting (April 10). Development
on piPEs continues in the aftermath of the Spring Member Meeting;
recent progress includes continued development of Iperf and
trace route testing code, performance enhancements to the
performance result database, and refinement of the web interface
for viewing performance results. We are also engaged in planning
for presentations at UCL E2E workshop, the TERENA conference,
and GGF8.
+ piPEfitters
Iosef Legrand (CERN) and Shawn McKee (University of Michigan)
gave presentations on MonaLisa (MONitoring Agents using a
Large Integrated clientS Architecture) during the piPEfitters
session at the recent Internet2 Spring Member Meeting; MonaLisa
is an easy-to-use, host-end measurement tool. There is some
interest in tying this effort in with piPEs. For more information,
see http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring03/20030408-pipefitters-Legrand.htm
and http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring03/20030408-pipefitters-McKee.htm.
+ E2E Measurement Sponsored Interest Group (SIG)
During the E2E Measurement SIG session at the Internet2 Spring
Member Meeting, Kevin Walsh (SDSC/UCSD) presented information
on a problem an NPACI researcher was having with poor network
performance from one of his two labs at UCSD and Mladen Vouk
of (NC State) described the development of an open source
toolset that assesses and predicts end-to-end performance
of video sessions using distributed agents. A summary of this
session (with links to the presentations) is available at:
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/SMM03/SMM_Measurement_summary.html
+ Campus Network Infrastructure (CNI) Guide
A draft outline was posted for review/comment on the E2Epi
web site; many additional comments were collected at the Internet2
Spring Member Meeting. A summary of topics discussed (with
a list of attendees) is available at: http://e2epi.internet2.edu/SMM03/SMM_CNI_summary.html
+ National Library of Medicine (NLM)
E2Epi is conducting a pilot study on user expectations, the
results of which will help NLM to determine if a more extensive
study is needed or will be of use to them in policy decisions.
Eighteen people attended the E2Epi/NLM Pilot Study Update
session at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting. On April 16,
the Phase II report was submitted to NLM. The project is seeking
potential interviewees (health sciences/health care community
using networks); if you know of anyone who might be interested
in participating, please send contact information to George
Brett <ghb@internet2.edu>.
+ Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Working Group
At the Spring Member Meeting, the group discussed the new
Campus Bandwidth Management WG, updates from the security
subgroup, additions to the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Working Group
website, deployment of Lionshare (a federated P2P application)
at Penn State, use of Onobee at the University of Oregon (a
multi-collaborative tool), and international concerns. Thirty-five
members of the WG attended; session notes have been posted
at:
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/SMM03/SMM_P2P_summary.html
<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
+ Wisconsin's WiscNet Named SEGP of the Month
WiscNet, a cooperative Educational Service Provider in Wisconsin
connects over 500 educational members to Internet2. WiscNet's
membership includes 75% of Wisconsin's K-12 schools, including
Milwaukee Public Schools. For more information on WiscNet,
please see the Internet2 K20 website: http://k20.internet2.edu/segp/index.html
or http://www.wiscnet.net
<> Member-to-Member Announcements
Ixia, an Internet2 sponsor, is providing state-of-the art
network analysis equipment to Internet2 as part of the company’s
commitment to furthering advancements in Internet research
and development. The new equipment will be used in the build-out
and testing of networks for Internet2 member meetings and
other Internet2-sponsored events as well as for advanced traffic
analysis and testing. This new program builds upon the Ixia
University Partners Program, which was established in June
2002 to provide traffic generation and analysis equipment
to Internet2 universities. For more information, contact email:
<partners@ixiacom.com>
or visit http://www.ixiacom.com/.
jaalaM Technologies announces the appareNet" Network
for Academics (aNA), a cooperative network test environment
available to North American academic institutions. The aNA
program provides academic institutions and research organizations
with access to appareNet network measurement and problem determination
software, for use within and between eligible institutions
in support of network operations and network-specific research
projects. For more information on the aNA program visit: http://www.jaalam.com/ana/
<> Future Internet2 Events
+ Summer Joint Techs Workshop
The University of Kansas will host a meeting of Joint Techs
August 3-7 in Lawrence, Kansas. The agenda will include a
combination of advanced technology, infrastructure updates,
and case study sessions. The special focus areas for this
meeting will be Optical Networking, Security, and Network
Tuning and Performance Monitoring. Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF)
meetings will again be encouraged. http://www.ncne.org/training/techs/2003/0803/jt-lawrence.html
+ Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
Indianapolis, Indiana will be the site of the Fall 2003 Internet2
Member Meeting. The meeting is scheduled for October 13-16.
As details of the meeting become available, they will be announced
on the Internet2 website. http://www.internet2.edu
<> 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.php
<> 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/
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>.
+ HPDC-12: The Twelfth IEEE International Symposium
22-24 June, 2003
Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers
The Twelfth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance
Distributed Computing will be a forum for presenting the latest
research findings on the design and use of highly networked
systems for computing, collaboration, data, analysis, and
other innovative tasks. Submissions are encouraged on all
aspects of Grid and high performance distributed computing.
Case studies describing novel applications are also of interest.
A more complete list of topics can be found at:
http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/HPDC-12/.
+ The 8th Global Grid Forum (GGF8)
24-27 June, Seattle, WA
Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers
With the theme “Building Grids: Obstacles and Opportunities”,
this GGF will update global Grid practitioners, enthusiasts
and researchers on the current state of Grid technology. The
GGF8 program will include esteemed Keynote Speakers, Technology
Updates, Application Updates, Industry Updates and Special
“Grid Debate” Panels. The plenary session, BoF’s,
workshops, WG/RG Sessions and tutorials will round out the
four day program. More information about GGF8 can be found
here: http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf8/default.htm.
CENIC 2003 Conference
7-9 May
San Diego, CA
http://www.cenic.org/CENIC2003/index.htm
TERENA Networking Conference 2003
19-22 May
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.terena.nl/conferences/tnc2003/
NANOG 28
1-3 June
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.nanog.org
Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments (WACE 2003)
22-24 June
Seattle, WA
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/events/wace2003/index.html
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