Internet2 Members Update
November 2004
<> Internet2 Activities at SC2004
<> Internet2 and Members Contribute
to SCinet
<> Internet2/CANARIE Multicast Hands-On Workshop
<> Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting Call for Proposals
<> Mark
Your Calendars for Winter ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop
<> Quilt
Regional Optical Networking Workshop
<> Corporate Relations Update
<> Applications Update
<> International Update
<> Middleware Update
<> Security Update
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative Update
<> FiberCo Update
<> K20 Initiative Update
<> Internet2 Showcases and Spotlights
<> New Internet2 Members
<> Coming in January: New Location for
Internet2 Ann Arbor Office
<> Future Internet2 Events
<> Internet2 Workshops
<> Internet2 Days
<> Internet2 Related Events
<> Internet2 Activities at SC2004
Internet2, and Internet2 members, are
participating in several aspects of SC2004, taking place 6-12 November 2004
in Pittsburgh. The annual SC conference highlights the most innovative developments
in high-performance computing and advanced networking. The Internet2 booth
(#2241) in the SC2004 exhibit area will feature a series of mini-presentations
on topics such as network performance tools, security, digital video, and more.
SC Global 2004 features presentations on innovative uses of interactive technology
and also provides a behind-the-scenes look at the technology required to produce
this geographically distributed event. SC Global presentations emphasize advances
in AccessGrid (AG) technology and describe how the AG is being used for scientific
and artistic collaborations and for reaching out to underserved areas. SC Global
is accessible to sites running the AG Toolkit. In addition, the Internet2 Commons
is providing a VBrick MPEG-2 stream (accessible to anyone using the free VBrick
Streamplayer client), a Windows Media stream, and an HD over DVIP stream at
19.2 Mbps.
http://events.internet2.edu/2004/sc2004.html
<> Internet2 and Members Contribute to SCinet
Internet2 and several members
of the Internet2 community are making significant contributions to SCinet,
the collection of high-performance networks built each year to support the
SC Conference. In partnership with Qwest Communications, Level 3 Communications,
and MCI--SCinet is providing direct wide area connectivity to Internet2's Abilene
Network and to many other networks worldwide. In addition, SCinet is working
with National Lambda Rail to provide very high bandwidth transit for several
national optical network testbeds into Pittsburgh for the conference. Internet2
will provide a map showing current utilization on all SCinet external links,
based on the technology used for the Abilene weather map, developed by the
Abilene Network Operations Center (NOC) at Indiana University. In addition
to general network monitoring, an Internet2 team has set up performance measurement
points running OWAMP, NDT, and BWCTL at the NOC. Regularly scheduled tests
will be run to both ESnet and to Abilene nodes, monitoring the quality of the
peering between SCinet and other research networks. On-demand tests to all
three nodes will be used to debug network performance issues.
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/scinet.html
<> Internet2/CANARIE Multicast Hands-On Workshop
Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is hosting the Internet2/CANARIE
Multicast Hands-On Workshop, 20-22 November. Workshop participants will design
and set up a set of inter-connected multicast networks. The hands-on workshop
will include a set of exercises for small network teams. Each team will work
on a mix of router types and over the course of the workshop will configure
their own network and then interconnect with the other teams. Participants
will learn to engineer multicast network, troubleshoot multicast problems,
and explain multicast engineering concepts to peers.
http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/advnet2004/multicast.html
<> Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting Call for Proposals
The Spring
2005 Internet2 Member Meeting will be held 2-4 May 2005 in Arlington, Virginia. A
Call for Proposals for topic sessions will be issued on 8 December 2004, with
a submission deadline of Friday, 21 January 2005. Proposal submitters will
be notified regarding acceptance of their proposals by 18 February.
http://events.internet2.edu/2005/spring-mm/
<> Mark Your Calendars for Winter ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop
The
University of Utah in Salt Lake City will host the Winter 2005 ESCC/Internet2
Joint Techs Workshop during the week of 13 February. Tutorials will be held
Sunday afternoon and plenary sessions will start Monday morning and run until
lunch on Wednesday. In-depth sessions will be held Wednesday afternoon and
(possibly) Thursday morning. Focus areas are still under development, but will
include wireless. There will also be BoFs and Vendor Soup sessions as well
as various Internet2 Working Groups, Special Interest Groups, and side meetings
over lunch on Monday and Tuesday and at the hotel in the evenings. A reception
will be held on Monday evening.
http://jointtechs.ornl.gov/SLC2005.html
<> Quilt Regional Optical Networking Workshop
The Quilt, in conjunction
with MCNC, will be hosting the second Fiber Workshop on 30 November-2 December
in Research Triangle Park, NC. This workshop will focus on issues associated
with building and managing metro or regional optical networking infrastructure.
A true example topology will be used as a case study, including presentations
by vendors on how their equipment would be deployed over this topology. Specific
topics covered will include fiber types, optical networking equipment, optical
testing, regional optical networks, and backbones.
http://www.thequilt.net/meetings/Dec-Fiber-Meeting/index.html
<> Corporate Relations Update
+ "Click to Meet" Internet2 Grant Program
First Virtual Communications,
Inc. an Internet2 corporate sponsor and provider of infrastructure software
and solutions for real-time, rich media communications, has launched the Click
to Meet(tm) Internet2 Grant Program. Click to Meet combines high-quality, standards-based
multipoint audio, video, and web collaboration in a single web browser interface.
Educational institutions use Click to Meet for meetings, classes, electronic
field trips, and interaction with remote guest lecturers. Internet2 university
members may apply for a grant that includes free software and one year of technical
support and developer resources.
http://www.fvc.com/eng/education/internet2grant.htm
+ ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop Welcome Reception Sponsorship Opportunity
Internet2
is seeking a sponsor for the welcome reception at the ESCC/Internet2 Joint
Techs Workshop, which will be hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake
City the week of 13 February 2005. The welcome reception will be held the evening
of Monday, 14 February 2005. The sponsor will be acknowledged via signage at
the event site and on the workshop web site. We welcome suggestions regarding
additional ways to acknowledge generous support. For more information please
contact Ellen Vaughan <evaughan@internet2.edu>.
<> Applications Update
+ Joint Internet2/NLM Tutorials and Demos at RSNA
Internet2, the National Library
of Medicine (NLM), and the Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN)
are collaborating to present a series of tutorials and demonstrations of advanced
networking technology and its future application in the healthcare arena. These
tutorials and demos will be featured at the annual meeting of the Radiological
Society of North America (RSNA), which will take place in Chicago from 28 November
to 3 December 2004. Around 30,000 radiologists, healthcare administrators,
technologists and scientists, plus another 30,000 imaging and information system
vendors from all over the world, are expected to attend RSNA 2004 making it
one of the world's largest medical meetings.
http://apps.internet2.edu/rsna2004-demos.html
+ Megaconference VI on December 9
Join your colleagues from around the globe for a participatory conference via
videoconference. Now in its sixth year, the Megaconference has been a hallmark
event for learning about cutting-edge uses of videoconferencing. The event
also pushes the state of the art in videoconferencing, bridging more than
200 sites at 768 Kbps, and will this year allow both H.323 and SIP software
endpoints for the first time. Sign up to participate in this daylong, one-of-a-kind
event. Registration is free.
http://www.megaconference.org/registration/
+ Ruth Lilly Health Education Center Celebrates 15 Years
The Ruth Lilly Health
Education Center (RLHEC), located in Indianapolis, IN, is a not-for-profit
organization with a mission of providing health education through innovative
presentations that promote healthy lifestyle choices for children and adults.
RLHEC, who became an Internet2 member in June 2004, used their recent 15 th
anniversary celebration to demonstrate the potential of advanced networking
technology for use in outreach and education. The celebration featured 3D simulation
movies of dental health, anatomy, and other health-related topics, developed
for RLHEC through their close affiliation with the Indiana University School
of Informatics. Darrell Bailey, Executive Associate Dean of IU's School of
Informatics, was among the presenters. Another demonstration featured Steve
Senger from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse who gave attendees a virtual
tour of human digital anatomy using the innovative tools he developed in conjunction
with Parvati Dev, and other collaborators, at Stanford University.
http://www.healtheducationcenter.org/
<> International Update
+ Chinese American Networking Symposium Conference
The Chinese American Networking
Symposium (CANS) conference will be held 30 November to 2 December in Miami,
FL. Networking experts from China and the United States gather annually at
CANS to discuss new ideas and advancements in networking technologies. The
annual programs, alternately held in the US and China, include presentations
by networking experts, panel discussions, and executive and technical breakout
sessions. Internet2, along with
the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST-USA) and the
China Education and Research Network (CERNET) and China Science and Technology
Network (CSTNET) are organizers of the event. CANS2004 will be hosted
in Miami at the Kovens Conference Center at Florida International University.
Simultaneous Chinese/English translation will be provided.
http://www.canscouncil.org/cans/2004/index.html
+ CUDI advances applications and collaborations
CUDI (Corporacion Universitaria
para el Desarrollo de Internet), the not-for-profit corporation in charge of
the advanced research and education network in Mexico, had its bi-annual member
meeting in Acapulco, Mexico from October 14-15. Highlights of the meeting included
many exciting demos on robotics, nanotechnology, tele-medicine, grids, earth
sciences, virtual reality and a live "opera" performance,
as well as presentations on ongoing collaborations taking place over the CUDI
network and with several partner networks around the world, including Internet2's
Abilene Network. Leaders of the Internet2 community spoke at the conference,
including Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, President of the University of Texas and Chair
of Internet2's Board of Trustees; Dr. Doug Van Houweling, President and CEO
of Internet2 and Dr. Sangtae Kim, Director of Shared Cyberinfrastructure at
the CISE Directorate at the US National Science Foundation, as well as other
renowned leaders from the global networking community. CUDI, an Internet2 international
partner since 1999, has over 400 Mbps of connectivity into the Internet2 backbone
network and connects over 80 Mexican universities and research centers.
http://www.cudi.edu.mx/otono_2004/programa.html
<> Middleware Update
+ Shibboleth
- Phase 1 of the Shibboleth Federal e-authentication pilot project
has been successfully completed. The Shibboleth software was modified to meet
the e-auth specification and successfully inter-operated with e-auth test sites.
Phase 2 will complete the implementation of the e-auth support, which will
make Shibboleth v1.3 software e-auth compliant. Subsequent work is intended
to align policy and trust models around the technology. E-Authn certification
would mean that campuses could use the Shibboleth software, and the InCommon
federation, to interact with Federal government web sites.
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
- Elsevier's ScienceDirect recently completed its pilot project with a small
group of campuses including Dartmouth College, Georgetown University, New York
University, Penn State, and University of California, San Diego to deploy and
test Shibboleth. This will ensure ScienceDirect is in a good position to make
Shibboleth authentication available to a wider audience and helps Shibboleth
and the InQueue/InCommon federations move forward. If you would like to begin
using Shibboleth enabled ScienceDirect please contact Niels Weertman <N.Weertman@elsevier.com>.
- NSF has recently awarded Argonne National Laboratory and the National Computational
Science Alliance (NCSA) funding for a "Policy Controlled Attribute Framework." These
projects will integrate "GSI and Shibboleth to form a robust attribute
infrastructure for campus environments to enable secure verification of user
attributes by inter-institutional Grid users." More information will be
coming out soon from the receiving organizations.
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0438424
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0438385
- Article on Shibboleth in EDUCAUSE Quarterly
An article on Shibboleth titled "Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach" co-authored
by R. L. "Bob" Morgan, Scott Cantor, Steven Carmody, Walter Hoehn,
and Ken Klingenstein can be found in the recently released issue of EDUCAUSE
Quarterly, Volume 27 Number 4.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0442.pdf
+ Federations
- International Meeting: Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
An
international peering meeting was held in the Cotswolds, UK, on 14-15 October
to discuss interconnecting national authentication and authorization infrastructures
to support the research and education community internationally. The meeting
was attended by representatives from Australia, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain,
Switzerland, UK, US, and CERN. Documents, experiences, and issues relating
to national federations were shared. Issues included agreeing on policy framework,
comparing policies, correlating application usage to trust level, aligning
privacy needs, working with multinational service providers, and scaling the
WAYF function. Discussions focused on Internal Federations, Inter-Federations,
and Union of Federations. Major outcomes included assembling a "cookbook" or
guidance documentation, establishing a website for communication, and potentially
establishing a short-term position to coordinate the activities.
http://www.incommonfederation.org/docs/other/Intl-middleware-oct-2004.html
- The Inside ID Conference, taking place in Washington, DC on 15-17 November,
will include a track on Models of Federated ID and Web Services. Ken Klingenstein
has been invited to present on "InCommon: A Shibboleth-based Research
and Education Federation."
http://www.jupiterevents.com/insideid04/agenda2.html#130-1
- Middleware presentation at CNI
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) will hold its next meeting on
6-7 December in Portland, OR. This is a reminder to those who will be attending
that there are plans for a middleware update including current status and future
plans for Shibboleth to be presented by Nathan Dors, University of Washington.
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2004b.fall/index.html
+ Diagnostics
The middleware E2E diagnostics pilot and proof of concept for the
Common Event Record and the Diagnostic Backplane Concept have been successfully
completed. The group is now taking the lessons learned and applying them
to the technology and the common event record system.
http://middleware.internet2.edu/e2ed/public/pilot/pilothome.html
+ Signet Working Group
In response to the recent Signet early adopter CFP,
three institutions have been accepted into the program. They are the University
of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Southern California, and the University
of California, Davis. Details of their participation will be available soon
on the Signet webpage.
http://middleware.internet2.edu/signet/
+ National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI)
- November CAMP Identity
Management and Enterprise Authentication Workshops
The next CAMPs are only weeks
away and registration is still open. For more information on CAMP Identity
Management Workshop, refer to
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=42
For information on the CAMP Enterprise Authentication Workshop, refer to
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=43
- Save the Date: CAMP Med: Identity and Access Management for Medical Applications
NMI-EDIT
will be holding a CAMP focusing on medical middleware in Tempe, Arizona on
9-11 February 2005.
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/
- Middleware CAMPs are now going international with the inaugural Australian
Middleware CAMP scheduled for 9-11 December at Griffith University in Queensland
and a Euro CAMP tentatively scheduled for 2-5 March 2005.
http://www.aarnet.edu.au/events/middle/2004/
+ Directories
The Internet2 MACE-Directories Working Group is preparing a draft
specification of attributes to express membership relationships. This specification
will follow a new style of schema declaration, which facilitates representation
in different technological contexts such as LDAP directories and SAML messages. The
Working Group's Grouper project is ramping up to its initial release, expected
to occur in December in conjunction with the upcoming 6th release of National
Science Foundation Middleware Initiative components.
http://middleware.internet2.edu/dir/
<> Security Update
+ SALSA
During the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh, 6-12 November 2004, T.
Charles Yun, Internet2 Program Manager for Application Program Science and
Engineering, will provide several talks with respect to Internet2 activities
in the security arena, specifically focusing on SALSA activities.
http://security.internet2.edu/salsa/index.html
+ NetAuth Working Group
EDUCAUSE Live! is going to feature the NetAuth Working Groups efforts in its
upcoming seminar on 12 November. The speakers for the seminar will include
Phil Rodriguez from New York University and Chris Stephens from Lewis and Clark.
http://www.educause.edu/live/
http://security.internet2.edu/netauth/index.html
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative Update
+ E2E piPEs (End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System)
A
concerted effort to make PMPs (performance measurement points) available has
begun. As of November 2004, ten institutions/networks have installed publicly
accessible PMPs, including recent addition ESnet.
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/pipes/pmp/pmp-dir.html
+ Measurement Tools in Use
Since the new software was released in September
2004:
- Seventeen locations downloaded the code of the alpha release of the "glue" software
- Sixty-seven locations downloaded version 1.1b of BWCTL
- Fifty locations downloaded version 1.6f of OWAMP
- Seventy-three locations downloaded version 3.0.21 of NDT
Statistics on the downloads of each of the four tools is being collected.
http://people.internet2.edu/~ghb/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StatspiPEs
+ Publications in Production
Four documents were drafted in November 2004 relating
to performance and measurement:
- An extended abstract for a PAM2005 paper
- The newest release of OWAMP specifications was submitted to the IETF IPPM
Working Group
- The Internet2/GEANT2 joint whitepaper on interoperable measurement architectures
has begun
- A formal Plan for Deployment of E2E piPEs was drafted
<> FiberCo Update
+ Florida LambdaRail Acquires FiberCo Dark Fiber for Regional Optical Network
FiberCo
announced that Florida LambdaRail LLC (FLR), a consortium of nine public and
private Florida universities has purchased the rights to 1,540 route miles
of dark fiber and collocation services from FiberCo, under an agreement with
Level 3 Communications, Inc. Utilizing FiberCo's national-scale wholesale pricing
structure and streamlined fiber acquisition process, FLR acquired the dark
fiber at a significantly discounted rate and will use the network facilities
to create an advanced optical network that connects campuses and institutions
across the state.
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2004-10/msg00005.html
+ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Allocated FiberCo Dark Fiber
FiberCo
announced that the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of nine
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) multi-program national laboratories, has purchased
the rights to 561 route-miles of Level 3 Communications inter-city dark fiber
optic cable between Seattle, Washington, and Boise, Idaho, with an additional
lateral connection to Richland, Washington. The new fiber will enable PNNL
to establish next-generation optical network connections to the new DOE UltraScience
Network, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop in Seattle, Internet2's Abilene Network,
and other national and international high-performance networks.
https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2004-10/msg00002.html
<> K20 Initiative Update
+ Schools, Colleges Flock to Internet2
Louis Fox, Director of the Internet2
K20 Initiative, presented at an FCC hearing on 6 October 2004 making the case
for increased support for broadband in K12, museums, and libraries across the
country. An excellent story on Internet2 appeared in eSchool News following
the hearing. A quick free registration process is required to view the link
below.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/PFshowstory.cfm?ArticleID=5324
<> Internet2 Showcases and Spotlights
+ The Envision Center for Data Perceptualization
Scientists and researchers
at Purdue University can collaborate with teams worldwide to analyze the movement
of the earth's plates, image areas of the brain and spine, or design the next-generation
automobile. The Envision Center for Data Perceptualization enables such research
by providing a special facility for 3D visualization of data. The mission of
the Envision Center is to address the exponential growth of data that has resulted
from advances in computing and instrumentation techniques and provide efficient
tools for the interpretation, or "perceptualization," of this data across multiple disciplines.
Large-scale visualization facilities such as the Access Grid and CAVE virtual-reality
environments--as well as haptic devices that allow researchers to "feel" data
using sensory feedback--have emerged as key technologies in this realm. Through
the Envision Center's connection to the Abilene Network, these tools and resources
are now accessible for collaborations worldwide. Purdue is also a Teragrid
site, providing their researchers with access to a distributed supercomputing
infrastructure across the US. Representatives from the Envision Center will
be demonstrating some of their innovative technologies at the upcoming SC Global,
held in conjunction with SC2004 (6-12 November 2004 in Pittsburgh). The Envision
Center receives support from the National Science Foundation.
http://www.envision.purdue.edu/
For more Internet2 showcases, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/pastshowcases.cfm
+ Member Spotlight: Gary Dietz
Gary Dietz leads First Virtual Communications'
activities in the Internet2 community. As the education marketing manager at
First Virtual, he is responsible for ensuring that the company's real-time,
rich media communications products and services meet the needs of higher education
and K-12 institutions. Gary interacts daily with educators to extend his knowledge
of their e-learning requirements and works to deliver "blended" real-time
learning solutions that combine high-quality multipoint voice and video with
web collaboration tools. Gary is looking forward to working with Internet2
members on the Click to Meet Internet2 Grant Program.
http://www.internet2.edu/pastspotlights.cfm
Showcases and spotlights highlight exemplary milestones, events, collaborations,
and people within the Internet2 community. Send suggestions about projects,
people or news to <publications@internet2.edu>.
<> New Internet2 Members
+ Affiliate Members
- Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation
http://www.ieeaf.org/
- U.S. Census Bureau (with Collaboration Site Status)
http://www.census.gov/
<> Coming in January: New Location for Internet2 Ann Arbor Office
In January 2005, Internet2's Ann Arbor office will relocate to the new Michigan
Information Technology Center building. Both the central Internet2 phone numbers
and individual Internet2 staff phone numbers will remain the same. Please make
a note of the new mailing address:
Internet2
1000
Oakbrook Drive, Suite 300
Ann
Arbor MI, 48104
<> Future Internet2 Events
+ Spring 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting
2-4 May 2005
Arlington, VA
http://events.internet2.edu/2005/spring-mm/
<> Internet2 Workshops
+ CAMP Identity Management Workshop
15 - 17 November
San Diego, CA
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp044/
+ CAMP Enterprise Authentication Workshop
18 - 19 November
San Diego, CA
http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/2004/camp045/
+ Internet2/CANARIE Multicast Workshop
20 - 22 November
Halifax, Nova Scotia
http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/advnet2004/multicast.html
+ 2nd Quilt Regional Optical Networking Workshop
30 November - 2 December
MCNC in Research Triangle Park, NC
http://www.thequilt.net/meetings/Dec-Fiber-Meeting/index.html
+ Performance and Master Class Production Workshop
24 - 26 January 2005
Miami, FL
http://events.internet2.edu/2005/NWS/index.html
<> Internet2 Days
+ University of Arizona
4 November
Tucson, AZ
http://computing.arizona.edu/internet2/internet2day.html
+ Wichita State University
11 November
Wichita, KS
http://www.hipecc.wichita.edu/internet2.html
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/host-Internet2-day.html
<> Internet2 Related Events
+ Online Calendar
For a complete listing of events for and of interest to the
Internet2community, see the online Internet2 Calendar. Be sure the Internet2-relatedevent
you are holding or know about is listed at: http://events.internet2.edu/calendar/main.php
+ SC2004
6-12 November
Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/
+ National Association of Schools of Music Annual Meeting
20-21 November
San Diego, CA
http://nasm.arts-accredit.org/
+ Radiological Society of North America 2004
28 November-3 December
Chicago, IL
http://www.rsna.org/rsna/
+ Chinese American Networking Symposium 2004
30 November-2 December
Miami, FL
http://www.canscouncil.org/
+ Megaconference VI
9 December
Virtual Event
http://www.megaconference.org/
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