Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation (IEEAF) Board Meeting (9am-Noon) for board members and affiliates. Then lunch (noon-1pm) for board members, affiliates and asset stewards, followed by regional workshops/discussions (1pm-5pm) for board members, affiliates, stewards, and other invited guests.

This workshop covers the unique challenges around communicating about advanced networking and effective practices to meet them. With an equal amount of time devoted to presentations by thought leaders and discussion among participants, the program covers emerging technologies and paradigms such as lightpaths, hybrid optical networking, and federated authentication, as well as strategies and tactics for identifying and reaching key audiences. More than a one-time event, the workshop is a focal point for ongoing collaboration among about a dozen individuals who will use online collaboration technologies to prepare for, participate in, and build on the one-day in-person event.

The Health Sciences Advisory Group provides leadership and sets the strategic direction for Internet2 Health Sciences. The advisory group engages medical industry participation in Internet2 activities. The voluntary Health Sciences Advisory Group includes faculty, researchers, clinicians and industry experts from both healthcare and the life sciences. Health Sciences Advisory Group members encompass a variety of roles within the Internet2 organization, including Working Group Chairs, Applications Strategy Council members, and Internet2 staff. Breakfast will be served.

The ITF is made up of representatives from each of the organizations with whom Internet2 has partnered through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The ITF serves as the forum for discussion of international issues relevant to the development of a high-performance, leading-edge network infrastructure, advanced technologies and applications for research and education.

Please note Breakfast will be served at 7:30am and that the meeting will start at 8:30 a.m. During the first half of the ITF meeting, we will hold two panels with participants from the global networking community.

Panel 1 will focus on discussing current Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures (AAIs) and issues, activities, plans and opportunities for interconnecting national AAIs, as well as the role of NRENs in this important space.

Panel 2 will focus on security; with a focus on discussing current NREN practices in network operational security and opportunities for inter-NREN collaboration in this area.

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This meeting will consider and discuss a plan for the goals and activities for the Internet2 Health Sciences Initiative for a period of approximately two years. The end product of these goals and activities is to provide the health sciences community with a set of advanced networking tools and capabilities that allow new and valuable processes and resources that can be used and built upon by the members of the Internet2 health sciences community. This plan also provides Internet2 with a stable and valuable infrastructure that will continue to support the health sciences.

For the last two years, campuses have been exploring the use of Shibboleth technology with a variety of intra- and inter-campus applications. This tutorial will offer attendees an opportunity to see the range of applications that have been Shib-enabled, as well as discuss implementation challenges and strategies with the application project leads.

The tutorial content is tailored to technology management and implementation staff interested in knowing how the Shibboleth technology can be used on their campuses, as well as what implementation details should be considered. There is no cost to attend this event, but seating is limited. Please register separately for this tutorial by April 15, 2005.

Sponsored by the NMI-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, Educause, and SURA.

Business meeting for members of the Internet2 K20 Initiative. Breakfast and Lunch will be served.

This session provides a basic overview of Internet2, covering the concepts and terminology in advanced network services, middleware and applications. It will also provide information to help attendees understand how to engage with the Internet2 community, with a focus on current projects, initiatives and working groups. The session will incorporate the popular Apps 201 overview from previous meetings, which offered a detailed look at the range of activities underway in the advanced applications communities and related support efforts. Related information will be provided on both broad and discipline-specific outreach activities. The session is open to all Internet2 member representatives and meeting attendees, and those new to Internet2 member meetings and the Internet2 community are particularly encouraged to attend. There will be plenty of time to ask questions of and interact with Internet2 staff and other attendees.

The functions of reflecting and joining information from source systems, adding credentials, and provisioning application security infrastructure using the resultant information are central to the operation of an Identity and Access Management System (IdMS) that automates life-cycle management of digital resources provided to people as they join or leave an organization or undergo changes in affiliation or status. A sampling of real-world scenarios which serve to highlight key requirements, challenges, and operational concerns related to metadirectory and provisioning systems will be presented. Open source tools being developed to provide these core IdMS functions will be featured.

Lunch will be served.

Since the beginning of the Internet2 effort, the number and complexity of distributed application initiatives has exploded, and each must create its own framework for providing diagnostic tools and performance metrics. These distributed applications have become increasingly dependent not only the system and network infrastructure that they are built upon, but also each other. It is therefore becoming extremely complex to diagnose problems and provide a way to provide diagnostic and performance information to the application development and enterprise operations efforts. To address the difficulty of diagnosing these highly distributed applications, EDDY (End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY) has pioneered a new approach of bringing together the diagnostic information from multiple subsystems. EDDY collects these events, normalizes them into a common event record (CER) and disseminates them into a highly distributed diagnostic backplane where diagnosticians can perform both general and highly focused forensic analysis on a wide variety of faults and anomalies. The CER supports tagging events by five basic types: application, network, system, environmental, and security, as well as adding a derived event type to accommodate other injected events. The diagnostic backplane serves as a platform for developing next generation diagnostic applications for the Internet. This session will give a description of this new approach, its progress, deployments to date, and future feature directions.

The ITF is made up of representatives from each of the organizations with whom Internet2 has partnered through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The ITF serves as the forum for discussion of international issues relevant to the development of a high-performance, leading-edge network infrastructure, advanced technologies and applications for research and education.

In the second part of the meeting, we will have presentations on current activities and programs from international partners and the Internet2 community, including:
- a presentation on the new Special interest group for supporting international collaboration in Hard to Network Parts of the world
- presentations by New MoU partners and ongoing activities, including Europe's GN2 and Southern/Eastern European networking efforts.
- an overview of the World Bank and the role of NRENs and opportunities to collaborate for international partners and the Internet2 community
- and a panel featuring the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Network Connections program (IRNC), with presentations from each of the awarded projects.

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The Internet2/ResearchChannel Working Group focuses on all aspects of digital video applications from streaming to handhelds to interactive HD technologies. The group welcomes new members and interested parties for a whole range of applications that are changing campus infrastructure and expectations. Current discussions include digital asset management issues, testing with ConfXP, expansion of DVTS applications and uses, HD VOD, camera uses and selection and the DVGuide project which highlights high quality content. Please join the working group for updates on current projects and to participate in future digital video projects.

Come join a discussion on the issues and challenges relating to authentication. Issues such as password reset strategies will be covered, along with the Enterprise Authentication Implementation Roadmap , a compendium of general and higher-ed expertise in the area of authentication.

The SALSA-FWNA group will work on their current activities related to federated wireless authentication, including the preparation of use cases documenting all of the questions and issues that arise in enabling such roaming. Feedback from existing and new members is sought. Discussion around the SALSA-NetAuth futures roadmap will also be on the agenda. This document suggests a model for thinking about development of network registration and host remediation systems.

This is an open working group session for the VidMid-VC group. The goal of this session is to inform you on our progress in the area of Federated Secure Conferencing and solicit information from you on what our next goals should be.

Matt Zekauskas will host this SIG. Among the topics to be discussed is an overview of the joint Internet2-GEANT2 measurement infrastructure prototype. A report on the outcomes of a recent hands-on Network Performance Workshop will also be presented, along with information on how to participate in such a workshop with your campus and GigaPoP.

This discussion session will explore (1) applications in use or being developed in U.S libraries and museums; (2) incentives/barriers to implementation of Internet2 technologies and applications; and (3) other issues of concern to this K20 and library and museum community.

This kick-off meeting of the Teaching and Learning Working Group will include updates on activities to date in the Teaching and Learning space, defining the relationship between the T&L WG and the K20 Initiative, and setting directions with the Working Group members on most effective ways to achieve the WG goals. The kickoff meeting will also include case studies in Teaching and Learning including "Learning Commons and Internet2". For an agenda please click here.

Closed meeting for members of MAGPI and Three Rivers Optical Exchange.

The Internet2 Humanities Advisory Group plans and promotes the application of advanced networking activities across the humanities arena. Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager for Arts & Humanities Initiatives, provides leadership for this group. This session, which is open to all Spring 2005 Member Meeting attendees, will serve to welcome the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a new Affiliate Member of Internet2. Arnold Kramer, the Museum's Chief Information Officer, will highlight the resources, collections, and expertise provided by the Museum that are relevant to humanities studies in higher education and for the K12 community. Meeting attendees will then discuss potential opportunities for Holocaust education at their institutions, utilizing Internet2 access to Museum resources. Breakfast will be served.

This meeting, which is for members of the E2Epi TAG and E2Epi Internet2 staff only, offers the opportunity for TAG members to provide technical guidance over programmatic aspects of E2Epi efforts. Special emphasis will be given to the deployment status of piPEs (Performance Improvement Performance Environment System), work on the interoperable prototype with the European community, and efforts to work with members of APAN; E2Epi staff on the project will update the TAG on the current status of these efforts and solicit input from the group on next steps. Breakfast will be served.

It is the tradition of Internet2 to invite its Corporate Membership to a Corporate Breakfast during the Internet2 Member Meetings. This event is an excellent opportunity to connect with industry leaders and to interact with Internet2 staff. Staff will provide short updates on key initiatives and industry participants will share key aspects of their engagement in Internet2.

The mission of the Internet2 Special Interest Group (SIG) for Supporting International Collaborations in Hard to Network Parts of the World is to bring together the international community to address what we can do together to advance the state of high-performance networking for research and education in hard-to-reach places in the world.

This SIG will provide a forum for:
Sharing information about initiatives underway in various areas
Sharing information about facilities/data/researchers that need to be reached
Discussing any possible role for the Internet2 community in this area

Participants are encouraged to share challenges, ideas, opportunities and successful case studies based on their own experiences. Breakfast will be served.

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The purpose of this BoF is to bring together representatives from state and regional networks to discuss their plans and efforts with regard to middleware, in general, and Shiboleth or Globus, in particular, as well as to discuss any movement toward federation. The Great Plains Network has been participating in the EDUCAUSE Extending the Reach program to build middleware awareness and capacity among member universities. Reaching out to hospitals, libraries, and the broader K20 community seems to be an important consideration.

In April 2004, President George W. Bush revealed his vision for the future of healthcare in the United States. The President's plan involves a health care system that puts the needs of the patient first, is more efficient, and is cost-effective. The President's plan is based on the following tenets:

• Medical information will follow consumers so that they are at the center of their own care
• Consumers will be able to choose physicians and hospitals based on clinical performance results made available to them
• Clinicians will have a patient's complete medical history, computerized ordering systems, and electronic reminders
• Quality initiatives will measure performance and drive quality-based competition in the industry
• Public health and bioterrorism surveillance will be seamlessly integrated into care
• Clinical research will be accelerated and post-marketing surveillance will be expanded.

Over the past year, The Quilt has run a series of workshops focused on the issues associated with using optical networking infrastructure as a basic building block for metro and regional aggregation. This session will provide summaries of the lessons learned during these workshop, observations of trends and issues in optical networking as well as some of the next steps in optical networking for regional aggregators. Specific topics that will be addressed include: Quilt optical networking projects; optical network testing and test kits; RON fiber builds and current trends in optical networking. Information regarding the next Quilt Fiber Workshop will be provided as well. The Quilt is a consortium of over 20 non-profit, advanced regional network organizations focused on providing a broad range of advanced networking services to their constituents as well as the national networking community as a whole.

Whether you attempt to implement core middleware services, like identity management or trust networks, on a single campus, across a hierarchically organized state system, or in a loosely coupled consortium, you may struggle, in the first stage, between the Scylla of centralized "power grab" and the Charybdis of multiple "autonomous" implementations. Navigating a wise course is critical at this early stage of middleware implementation. To assist in this process, panel members, who participate together in the Extending the Reach portion of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI-ETR) have developed and continue to refine a lifecycle framework from which to understand and discuss the implementation of core middleware services.

The panel will present several case studies in the context of this lifecycle approach with particular emphasis given to:

• factors motivating the initial decision
• initial project goals
• strategies to gain buy-in and decrease resistance
• policy considerations and decisions
• problems encountered and related adjustments
• user satisfaction
• impact of environmental changes (e.g., new middleware releases) on implementation.

Virtual communities form around a common interest and typically cross institutional boundaries. The task of establishing on-line collaboration tools, so essential to virtual organizations, can quickly become mired in the difficult problems of tool selection, identity management and access control. Collaborations are hampered when there is no single tool or site that can satisfy all requirements and the quality of collaboration suffers.

Most solutions assume a central administration body will provide and manage the service; we will demonstrate a 'Just In Time' approach for creating virtual organizations that provides an easy way for anyone to create, manage and share their own collaboration space, without requesting special permission or requiring a portal.

Virtual organizations define and assign members' roles in the VO and are the authoritative source for these attributes. MyVOCS/MyVO provides an attribute aggregator service that is the VO's attribute authority for Shibboleth. This approach combines institutional identity management and VO specific attribute authorities and leverages Shibboleth to distribute member attributes to all collaboration tools, across institutional and administrative boundaries. VO attribute federations provide a consistent user experience to researchers based on their role in the virtual organization. MyVO is a virtual organization provider infrastructure that enables members of an identity federation to dynamically create virtual organizations. VO members establish collaboration specific attributes which are distributed via Shibboleth to all collaboration tools. This presentation reports on work done by NSF ANI-0330543 NMI Enabled Open Source Collaboration Tools for Virtual Organizations.

The Shibboleth system, developed by Internet2, offers a powerful, scalable, easy-to-use, and easy-to-manage solution to securely sharing online services and digital content. It leverages campus middleware services; users can manage their privacy level with remote services. This presentation will profile several campuses using Shibboleth as both a Single-Sign-On System within the campus, and a framework for controlling access to remote licensed resources. This session is offered in collaboration with the NSF Middleware Initiative-EDIT Consortium of Internet2 and EDUCAUSE. In addition, the Shibboleth development roadmap for the next year will be reviewed.

Overview of new standards such as H.350 and H.239 driven by Internet2. Discussion of implication for IP visual communications and discussion of how these standards are implemented into real-life products and technologies.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Douglas Van Houweling

Collaboration and Contemplation: The Keys to 21st Century Cyberinfrastructure
Arden L. Bement, Jr.

Cyberinfrastructure is one of the most important investments of the 21st Century, for science and engineering and for the nation. An ideal cyberinfrastructure will be as prevalent, reliable and useful as the electrical grid, enabling avenues of commerce, collaboration and communication that will exceed the best capabilities of today’s Internet.

To realize this enormous potential, new collaborations and partnerships are needed. Tighter bonds must be forged among the science and engineering community to ensure the broadest possible participation among researchers. New collaborations with the private sector are critical, as they will create the equipment that underpins tomorrow’s cyberinfrastructure. Finally, new partnerships will be needed across the globe, to glean insight, ensure openness, interoperability and a high level of trust within the international community.

In this spirit, the National Science Foundation is creating new internal collaborations. The agency has formed new management structures, with representation spanning the gamut of NSF expertise. These groups will identify opportunities and determine the next steps for NSF’s cyberinfrastucture portfolio. These new collaborative efforts will yield a thoughtful, purposeful pathway to a ubiquitous, robust and utilitarian cyberinfrastructure.

With access to Internet2 broadening to include the K-12 and K-20 markets, we need to prepare to address issues of content, accessibility and potential obstacles to connectivity. This session will be devoted to brainstorming how to best address the needs of this emerging market and to determine a "Best Practices" approach to help the institutions reap full advantage and benefits of their Internet2 connection. Up to 25 people can be accommodated, please email Larry Gallery to reserve a space. Lunch will be served.

Joint meeting of the GPN Executive Council and MIDnet, Inc. Board of Directors. Lunch will be served.

Lunch will be served.

Lunch will be served.

This will be an interactive session to share experiences and knowledge regarding the use of grid technology to unite distributed institutional resources into a "campus grid". Topics include, but are not limited to, policy development and documentation, comparisons and selection of available grid technologies, linking of grid infrastructure to campus infrastructure, encouraging and supporting use. Discussion will also serve as additional input to an educational white paper being co-authored by the listed speakers as part of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) Integration Testbed Program. Lunch will be served.

LionShare developers and friends will meet to discuss the progress on the software development and to illicit feedback from interested parties. Lunch will be served.

By enabling work across disciplines and technologies, Internet2 provides members a unique environment in which to pursue an integrated approach to innovation that is critical for progress in advanced networking but difficult to achieve by any organization alone. Opportunities for collaboration among organizations from industry, academia, and government and individuals from a wide range of disciplines form a valuable and important part of Internet2 membership. During this BoF, corporate members will have an opportunity to discuss opportunities for "corp-to-corp" collaborative work, and Internet2 staff will be on hand to gather requirements for the facilitation of "corp-to-corp" collaborations. University, affiliate, and association members are invited to attend as well to discuss collaborative engagement opportunities with Internet2 corporate members. Lunch will be served.

Session will provide an update for members on the financial and operational aspects of Internet2.

What is the BIRN?

The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported initiative that is establishing a distributed information technology infrastructure to enable fundamentally new capabilities in large-scale studies of human disorders, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

Currently the BIRN involves a national consortium of 19 universities and 26 research groups that participate in one or more of three test bed projects centered around brain imaging of human neurological disorders and associated animal models.

• BIRN Coordinating Center: Provides the information technology infrastructure and overall support for the BIRN and its scientific test bed projects.
• Morphometry BIRN: Examining neuroanatomical correlates of neuropsychiatric illnesses in such disorders as unipolar depression, mild Alzheimer's disease, and mild cognitive impairment.
• Function BIRN: Studying regional brain dysfunctions related to the progression and treatment of schizophrenia utilizing functional neuroimaging and the application of recently developed multi-modal techniques.
• Mouse BIRN: Studying animal models of disease using multi-modal and multi-scale imaging data to understand disorders such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.

In this session advanced security experts representing the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) and Juniper Networks will discuss technical challenges, architectures, and lessons learned relating to security for IPv6-capable networks. Speakers will also address the policy and government/industry partnership aspects of securing advanced networks. Some technical examples and illustrations will be presented; however, the overall session content is appropriate for any Internet2 member interested in the security issues posed by IPv6-enabled networks.

DREN, an Abilene peer network, is the official United States Department of Defense (DoD) network for computational scientific research, engineering, and testing, enabling over 4,300 scientists and engineers at DoD and other government laboratories, test centers, universities, and industrial locations to use DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program resources.

The Internet2/MACE efforts in the security / middleware area have resulted in an understanding of the business drivers, organizational processes, and functional technical specifications surrounding campus-level identity and access management. This session will present a view of this space and help attendees understand how the best practices, standards, schema, and tools can be integrated to implement the model that has emerged.

This session is the first of two parts. The companion presentation, "Using Signet and Grouper for Access Management" will illustrate how these specific tools can be integrated into a comprehensive campus identity and access management system. Sponsored by the NSF Middleware Initiative-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and SURA.

Instant Messaging and presence is becoming the watchword and underlying communications architecture of today's enterprise network. Whether IM came into the enterprise virally or through a decision by the IT manager, presence-based communications is now an important way people communicate. But, as IM becomes part of a larger communications strategy, how does the IT manager integrate it into a larger desktop multimedia communications architecture of voice, video, and data communications and collaboration?

In this session we will explore the architecture of Instant Messaging and presence and then discuss how it can be used as a tool for initiating ad hoc point-to-point or multipoint conferences. After that we will discuss related IT and network issues such as supporting other protocols, inviting in other non-IM video/voice end points, scheduling, scalability, deployment, and integration into third party directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory.

In this session panelists will address the evolution of optical networking, discuss implementation strategies, and provide technology updates.

Videoconferencing can bring a wealth of expertise and experiences to a variety of K20 learning environments. Panelists will discuss how to successfully establish an Access Grid Node classroom and provide examples of successful performing arts video conferencing programs.

Design and Implementation of Integrated H.323 and Access Grid Classrooms at Texas A&M
This presentation will explore the challenges and implementation solutions to integrate the technical infrastructure required by an IP video or H.323 video based classroom with that of an Access Grid Node to create a versatile and flexible collaborative environment in a cost effective manner. Practical examples of systems implemented at Texas A&M University will be utilized as a discussion basis for trade-off considerations and decisions most likely encounter when integrating systems with different requirements but similar peripherals. Detailed technical design considerations will also be presented.

Composing an Internet2 Music Event
Colleen Wheeler from Wheaton College, and Christianne Orto from Manhattan School of Music, will discuss current and future plans to use Internet2 for remote music instruction and performance in K20. They will explore several program applications, as well as developing partner collaborations; connecting communities of practice; leveraging key internal resources; addressing institutional adoption of advanced networking technology; and identifying challenges and "best practices" in higher education.

This session involves discussions related to middleware-enabling the mailing list application, focusing on the work of the MACE-MLIST Working Group since the last I2 member meeting. First, results from our survey of campus mailing list administrators will be presented; about half the respondents indicated that they are considering changing their current choice of mailing list software. Find out what functionality is most important to mailing list administrators and strengths and weaknesses of commonly used packages. Second, we will present a high-level review of candidate middleware integration points in the mailing list application. Last, Serge will lead a discussion about which new technologies may be useful for controlling spam into and out of mailing lists. Mailing list servers may be wrongly placed on ISP blacklists; what information might be required to prove that your mailing List server is not a spam machine? What technologies on the horizon may provide solutions for authentication of the mailing List service? MACE-MLIST, working with the open source Sympa development team, is interested in developing a reference document describing solutions to these problem; this discussion will serve as a kick-off towards that effort.

A panel of people from very different environments who have each implemented H.350 at their respective institutions will present why they selected H.350, architectural decisions made during their deployment implementation, and what new advantages exist as a result of their deployments.

Jason Lynn's implement ion at a large research university includes both room and person listings and is integrated with the campus directory. Frank Reinemer was hired by a very large German corporation for an internal videoconferencing management solution. Kewin Stoeckigt has implemented H.350 for the German national research network and uses H.350 to solve the fire wall traversal problem . Larry Amiot has recently implemented H.350 for a SIP deployment. A basic familiarity with the H.350 LDAP schema is assumed.

For background information please refer to http://metric.it.uab.edu/vnet/.

Signet and Grouper are tools that support distributed management of authority and authorization information and enable granular access control for integrated applications. This session will describe real access management scenarios and show attendees how these tools function as part of an integrated campus identity and access management system capable of meeting requirements as exemplified by these scenarios. This presentation is the second of two parts : the first one entitled "An Integrated Framework for Identity and Access Management" describes a framework for comprehensive campus identity and access management systems of which these tools are substantial parts.

Sponsored by the NSF Middleware Initiative-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and SURA.

While campus leaders have gradually come to understand and appreciate the risks associated with security threats such as viruses, spyware, unpatched hosts, unencrypted network traffic and insecure physical facilities, many chancellor/president/provost-level university executives have had little opportunity to be briefed on the serious risks their campus may face from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

This talk will address what are distributed denial of service attacks: Are Internet2 universities at risk and why; what motivates someone to perform a distributed denial of service attack; what sorts of sites can be successfully attacked in a DDoS attack; what's involved in mitigating a distributed denial of service attack (including the roles of Abilene engineers, your Gigapop's staff, others ISPs and law enforcement); what are reasonable expectations for mitigation, including mitigation timelines; what are some implications associated with being out of service for the duration of a DDoS attack; are there technical measures which your university should be considering; how can you help to insure that your own hosts do not end up getting misused as part of a DDoS drone army; what are some resources if I want to know more. Time will be left for questions from the audience.

California Polytechnic State University and the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education are working in collaboration on the integration of common technologies and infrastructure, to deliver on the promise of a rich and compelling, personalized educational experience in the classroom and at home for students and educators throughout California.

As part of a large-scale pilot, Cal Poly is working to demonstrate portability of existing content between portals, and the benefits of enabling transparency for users across centers of expertise, reaching a unified teaching and learning population of over one million users. Cal Poly is also employing a unique funding and collaborative model with select corporate agencies to help build the core infrastructure, and to establish friendly, easy-to-deploy, and cost-worthy technology bundles that may be added in a modular fashion in order to scale service and accessibility.

The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG, is a voluntary network or grid connecting individuals and institutions to enable the sharing of data and tools, creating a World Wide Web of cancer research. The goal is to speed the delivery of innovative approaches for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The infrastructure and tools created by caBIG also have broad utility outside the cancer community. caBIG is being developed under the leadership of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Bioinformatics.

The challenges of bringing caBIG from concept to implementation will be addressed in this session. Specific biomedical research tools that are being developed as part of caBIG activities include standards-based, components-based clinical trial management systems, tissue banks and pathology tools and a rich collection of integrative cancer research applications. Related data sets within these domain areas will also be accessible to researchers via the caBIG grid. To ensure consistency, standards and tools will be created to support common usage of vocabularies, data elements, and the formation of a unifying architecture for the caBIG community. caBIG will allow researchers to answer research questions more rapidly and efficiently, thereby promising to accelerate progress in all aspects of cancer research– from etiologic research to prevention, early detection and treatment. Ultimately, because caBIG will provide a common unifying force that facilitates progress in cancer research, the most important beneficiaries will be cancer patients and the public at large.

Although the perimeters of modern networks bristle with firewalls, intrusion detection, and other defenses, most interior networks bare an unprotected "soft underbelly" vulnerable to zero-day attacks, and misuse and abuse by insiders, contractors, and visitors. On the inside, behind perimeter firewalls, open access creates a myriad of opportunities for misuse, ranging from sophisticated attacks against proprietary protocols to attacks that can be carried out using a web browser. These exposed business processes carry a potential for damage that vastly exceeds the damage that Internet hackers cause; although a hacker can take down your network, an insider can kill your trading feed or access your payroll server. And because these insider attacks can be carried out using a web browser, they can't be described by signatures, scanned for in a packet, or even published in a security advisory.

Based on years of experience researching, developing, and deploying network security technology on the core networks of many of the largest enterprises in the world, Arbor has advanced the state of the art in anomaly detection and network modeling. Our core technology, Relational Modeling, constructs a graph-based model of network usage and applies it to the problems of worm detection and prevention, automatic generation of "internal security perimeters", and availability impact analysis. Using Relational Modeling, Arbor's technology can construct "Safe Quarantines" of entire network services that will block 99.9% of illegitimate traffic without causing costly disruption to legitimate traffic. We believe anomaly detection in general, and Relational Modeling technology in particular, represents an important new approach to solving the critical problem of internal network security.

Conventional TCP can serve advanced applications poorly because of both limitations of its congestion control algorithms (increased delays and sensitivity to even minor non-congestive packet loss) and limitations of its application programmer interface (sequential nature of data delivery to the application); in addition, TCP window size (and the corresponding send and receive buffers) is often left by system administrators at its default setting, which is too low for high-performance networks. In this session, advanced application requirements for transport protocols and ways to satisfy these requirements will be discussed.

The Internet2 E2E piPEs project is deployed across the Abilene backbone, in universities and government labs, and in international partners in Europe, South America, and Asia. The piPEs team has been actively working with GEANT's JRA1 effort to jointly develop an interoperable design architecture that will form the basis for the next generation of both Internet2's piPEs and GEANT's measurement component of their next generation backbone. Eric Boyd will present a prototype of this effort along with details of the design architecture behind it.

As always, this update session will allow piPEs developers to present the latest project developments, including updated tools (OWAMP, BWCTL, and NDT) and interoperable network collaborations (with ESnet, RNP, CLARA, and GEANT, among others). Methods by which individuals and organizations can get involved will be presented, along with details about potential cost-benefit tradeoffs. In addition, several piPEs case studies of recent problems, solved with the aid of piPEs tools, will be explored, suggesting ways in which the existing measurement infrastructure can be used to solve real-life problems confronting end-users.

This session will describe the overall progress the NSF Middleware Initiative has made and highlight the ongoing development efforts and the emerging national and international federations.

This session is sponsored by NMI-EDIT Consortium of Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and SURA.

Recent expert reports and research funding trends suggest that research groups will increasingly operate across geographic boundaries, forcing organizations to adapt to the problems of distributed collaboration. At the University of Michigan, personnel at the School of Information are split nearly evenly between two buildings that are nearly three miles apart, making the virtual organization of tomorrow a reality today for faculty, staff and students.

This talk will provide an introduction to one effort to minimize the impact of this dispersion, the Connection Project. The Connection Project is an experiment in the development, deployment and evaluation of high-quality conferencing technologies within the School of Information using the University's shared network infrastructure. The project leverages a number of high-bandwidth technologies, such as DVTS and high-resolution MPEG-4 capture, to provide an extremely high quality conferencing experience between the two locations.

This presentation will focus on the design and deployment of the facilities and will present findings from studies of the human factors and organizational impacts of the Connection Project systems that will be instructive to other projects trying to leverage high performance networks, such as Abilene, to overcome the barriers of distance in their work.

The talk will cover the use of ConferenceXP as a technology for distributed learning over Internet2. The talk will include 2 case studies of how ConferenceXP has been used to support distributed learning: a) A 4-way graduate C/S course shared between UW, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Microsoft Research. b) Use of ConferenceXP to enable a collaborative, cross-cultural business school course between the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Galway, Ireland.

How are K-20 learning organizations using Internet2 to manage and deliver their high-quality educational resource collections? The panelists will present successful models and suggest best practices.

Museum Applications of Internet2
The Exploratorium will share experiences in developing media and exhibits for distribution over high performance networks. They will demonstrate and discuss their use of DVD-quality Webcasting, a multi-user music exhibit, and a microscope imaging station. They will also discuss other ways in which the Internet2 participation will enable the Exploratorium to enhance and expand its museum programs.

Internet2 and Informal Science: Connecting K-8 Classrooms with Real Science
The Franklin Institute Science Museum is investigating how informal science institutions can use Internet2 to connect K-8 classroom learning with the real science resources accessible within the Internet2 consortium. They will share the outcomes of the Institute's work with NASA's informal science education office to explore how informal science institutions can use Internet2 to connect K-6 classrooms with NASA's earth and space science education resources. They will also highlight the Institute's development of models for using Internet2 to provide support for teachers of science in grades six, seven, and eight.

Digital Asset Management: Solutions for Campus Collections
ResearchChannel uses the DigitalWell Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) to manage large, collaborative video collections. The same system is in use by other organizations to provide encoding services, simplify management and distribution of high quality dynamic media (audio/video), and provide a solid architecture that scales depending on individual needs. Members of the ResearchChannel and DigitalWell teams will describe the functionality and features of the DAMS content administration interface as it is currently being used by a variety of groups including UWTV, ResearchChannel, and KEXP Radio among others. They will also briefly describe the supporting infrastructure.

The state of the SALSA-NetAuth and Federated Wireless NetAuth groups will be reviewed. The NetAuth group will primarily be discussing their work on a futures document. The document suggests a model for thinking about development of network registration and host remediation systems. FWNA will address the current state of their efforts to consider the issues behind the development and deployment of systems to roaming between wireless networks using home authentication credentials.

In this session we will discuss how Force10 and Internet2 are collaborating to explore new network architectures via the Hybrid Optical Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project; how Force10 switch/routers are being utilized in leading-edge applications by Internet2 members, requiring the highest density, throughput and resiliency in GigE and 10 GigE. And what the future beyond 10 GigE may hold!

The High-Energy and Nuclear Physics SIG will hold a short meeting to cover two current projects of interest to our membership: the Open Science Grid and the UltraLight project. For more information click here.

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way we conduct business, research, and education. Its development and diffusion was a significant achievement of the late 20th century. While the history of the ARPANET has been told in many popular books and articles, the transition in the 1980s toward academic research networks and a general purpose network infrastructure capable of supporting a wide range of advanced applications is neither well documented nor well understood. Understanding the success factors that facilitated this transition, which spawned a multi-billion dollar a year industry, has important public policy implications.

We propose creating a historical record of the particular period of federal R&D support that built the foundation for the modern Internet. This occurred over a period of about 15 years, beginning with the interagency cooperation between ARPA and the NSF in the planning and development of CSNET and ending with the initial diffusion of Mosaic and the acceleration of commercial Internet growth. The specific objective of this project is to create a digital archive of materials about the development and evolution of BITNET, CSNET, the NSFNET backbone and regional networks, and the academic, government and corporate partnership that created and supported them.

Substantial work has already been done under a National Science Foundation planning grant. This session will consider next steps and solicit recommendations from the participants.

Panelists from the National Science Foundation will discuss the important efforts underway within their organization toward furthering the use of advanced networks and applications and their implications for K20 institutions - schools, libraries, and museums.

The Transport working group addresses the need of the community for a bulk transport tool that is easy to use on today's advanced networks, is portable across a wide range of platforms, has high performance, can tolerate minor non-congestive packet loss, applicable to both static file transfer and interactive applications, and is TCP-friendly.

The goal of this BOF is to focus on possibilities for experimental uses of the Layer 2 and Layer 3 NLR networks. The BOF will give a short overview of what NLR is and is intended to be, followed by a short talk focused on the Layer 2 and Layer 3 NLR networks and services that are being planned and deployed by the NLR L2/3 Support Center, including topology, facilities, and equipment. NLR Experiments Support Services will also give a short presentation on their role in supporting NLR research objectives. The NLR ESS has a primary goal of providing end-to-end support to the research community's utilization of NLR, and they will talk about the wide range of functions and services they will provide in support of NLR research experiments, and networking research experiments in particular. Discussion and feedback from the community are the most important parts of this BOF. We welcome ideas, comments, and questions about uses of, and experiments on, the NLR Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks.

Purpose of this meeting is to continue a series of conversations on the Southern/South-Eastern RONs and ways to enhance collaboration, leverage relationships and position this region with respect to national and international optical initiatives.

The GigaPoP Coordination Group is an affinity/communications group with membership including managers from across the Internet2 gigaPoPs and program managers from within Internet2. The purpose of the group is to provide a regular, ongoing forum for peer networking, information sharing, and generally fostering open communications among mid-level managers in the gigaPoPs and Internet2. The group's primary focus is on programmatic - rather than technical - issues, such as member outreach, expanded access models, Internet2 membership policies and procedures, communications tools, etc.

Russ Hobby hosts the 8th E2E Tools Tutorial. At this session, Matt Zekauskas will show the steps he follows to identify and solve complex problems, including identifying the appropriate tools for the symptoms, explaining the pros and cons of each tool, and suggesting methods by which problems can be more quickly recognized and resolved (via regular testing, benchmarking, and pre-authorized on-demand testing).

This is an opportunity for the Performing Arts Advisory committee to meet in person. The purpose of this committee is to work with Ann Doyle, Manager of Internet2 Arts & Humanities Initiatives, to set direction and goals for performing arts activities that highlight the gifts of performers and artists from our member institutions and the capabilities of Internet2 technology-enabled performances.

This session will solicit and explore applications for the use of private networks built using the Abilene network as transport. A small team of engineers from the Abilene Planning Group that has been experimenting with these capabilities will share details of their work and discuss what it may take to deliver such services to campuses and end-users. The services are perceived as complementary to some of the services offered by National Lambda Rail and regional optical networks (RONs). GigaPoP operators, as well as anyone having an application that might benefit from private networking capabilities using the Abilene network are encouraged to attend and participate in this BoF.

Having been successfully incubated in the VoIP working group, SIP.edu has been spun off as its own working group. To ease this transition, the meetings of the SIP.edu and VoIP working groups are being held back-to-back in this session. Each working group will conduct a review of progress and status and discuss future directions. For an agenda click here.

NPPAC Briefing to the Internet2 Membership. Breakfast will be served.

In developing the new Internet2 Applications Strategy, the Applications Strategy Council (ASC) found the promulgation of a common framework for "lecture objects" to be a potentially valuable initiative within Internet2 since various forms of lectures are a standard methodology for intellectual interchange in academia -- within classes, as colloquia and at conferences. In addition to the value of sharing lectures among members, an initiative in this area could be an interesting test of many aspects of the Internet2 ecosystem including bandwidth availability, access control through middleware and distributed storage. A survey of Internet2 members was undertaken this spring to understand current practices by members of our community.

The survey results will be shared with ASC members and others at this Birds-of-a-Feather session for all interested parties to discuss what the appropriate next steps might be, if any, for a collaborative initiative in this area. Breakfast will be served.

Breakfast will be served.

Why aren't advanced real-time collaboration tools being used more widely? What are some examples of projects that are successfully using them? What are the advanced technologies that warrant our experimentation and pilot use? Come share your thoughts and experiences and listen to ours as we try to create a community of users through this new Special Interest Group devoted to promoting the successful adoption of advanced collaboration tools. Breakfast will be served.

Campus IT planners need to understand not only the emerging capabilities of standards-based, advanced personal communications, but also how users will adopt these technologies to enhance their personal productivity and improve the quality of their networked collaborations.

The Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group has been working to provide the means to answer these questions through the practice of an engineering principle known as "paths-in-the-snow", which encourages software development via a feedback loop with the user community. Those who are building the infrastructure and applications to support advanced personal communications need to understand what users want and don't want. To begin this exploration in the field, the PIC Working Group has developed an open, standards-based platform that can support a variety of advanced communications modalities.

This session will be in four parts. The first part will be an overview explanation of integrated communications, rich presence and the ongoing transition to advanced, standards-based IP communications. The second part will be a live demonstration. The third part will elaborate on the demonstration, presenting a vision of how these technologies may be deployed on campus to provide both immediate value and a platform for growing a rich set of services and capabilities over time. A final fourth part will provide an overview of the PIC Working Group's PALS software distribution.

At 8:30pm Pacific time on January 17, 2005, Prof. Larry Smarr of the University of California San Diego began his keynote address from Seattle, Washington to hundreds of dignitaries attending the JGNII symposium held in Osaka, Japan where the local time was 1:30pm on January 18, 2005. In this produced event, Prof. Smarr used technology and media (ResearchChannel 1.5Gbps uncompressed high-definition video conferencing over IEEAF/PNWGP/WIDE/JGNII 10Gbps trans-Pacific links) that was the subject of his presentation, "Using OptIPuter Innovations to Enable LambdaGrid Applications." Application, networking, and administrative staff from several international networking and research groups cooperatively designed, planned, and executed this significant event.

This presentation will discuss all behind-the-scenes facets of this production (technical, operational, management) and will highlight the critical role of integration and communications across each of these functional areas. We will discuss the production process, what worked, what didn't work and give our predictions on the evolution and future of what we believe will be many, many more joint efforts such as this.

WebLabs for Advanced Internet
The Weblabs applications allow the access and usage of the experimental real laboratories by remote virtual laboratories. These kind of applications can be provided due to the use of the Advanced Internet that ensures high quality connections in terms of data transmission rate, low delay and reliability between the interconnected virtual and real laboratories. In this presentation, some examples of WebLabs in the areas of chemistry, physics, biology (bees colony control and monitoring) and medicine (usage of a remote 2D image repository for equipment tuning), which are under development for Advanced Internet in Sao Paulo - Brazil, will be described. The goals, the basic architecture and the expected results of these WebLabs will be discussed, showing how researchers and students can benefit from this type of applications.

Real Issues and Scientists' Tools Bring Science to Life in the Classroom
Real-time, remote access from the XL-30 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to the K-12 classroom is one of the newest and most exciting educational tools now available from the Nanocharacterization Lab housed within the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Lehigh University. Educational Technology Specialist George Motter of Lehigh University's Library and Technology Services and Andrea Harmer, Director of Web-based Materials Science Education, will present on how this new tool is allowing students to actively explore their own specimen's physical and chemical attributes down to the near-nano scale.

Experiences Delivering Massive Geospatial Datasets for Educational Use
Orthophotographs are aerial images, taken from either an airplane or satellite, transformed to account for camera location, orientation and ground elevation to produce a uniform scale image. Due to this transformation, they are routinely used as base images in GIS systems. Seamless orthophoto datasets exist and would be of great educational benefit to many university departments. For example, imagine forestry, agriculture, or city planning students zooming and panning across the United States to view any national forest, farmland, or city instantaneously from the classroom. Presently, we have access to a 22TB, 1-meter resolution, black and white orthophoto dataset of the United States, generously made available (for evaluation purposes only) by AirphotoUSA. In order to evaluate the educational impact of this material, we conducted a pilot study involving several Internet2-connected university classrooms. We measured server and network loads generated by labs of students accessing the data to complete an instructor-assigned lab activity. We also conducted student and instructor surveys to determine the impact of using orthophoto data as a pedagogical tool. Using the results of this study, we hope to develop best practices for data delivery and use these practices, as well as the allure of the dataset, to encourage educator collaboration via a virtual team.

Welcome and Closing Remarks
Laurie Burns, Internet2

Internet2 Land Speed Record Award Ceremony
Rich Carlson, Internet2
Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo
TBD, Caltech/CERN

Announcement of New IDEA Awards Program
David Lassner, Internet2 Applications Strategy Council
Ted Hanss, University of Michigan
Annie Stunden, University of Wisconsin

National LambdaRail and Internet2: Technical and Organizational Progress
Erv Blythe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tracy Futhey, Duke University
Gregory Jackson, University of Chicago
Douglas Van Houweling, Internet2

National LambdaRail (NLR) and Internet2 have a shared goal of providing the US research and education community with leading-edge networking capabilities that serve both production and research needs in a robust, affordable way. The two organizations are working collaboratively on technical and organizational plans that capitalize on developments and investments in the future R&E infrastructure. This session will highlight the progress made since the Fall Member Meeting on both technical and organizational planning, and invite your participation in discussion about the future R&E network.

This is the second meeting of the Digital Anatomy Birds of a Feather group. Our goal is to use Internet2 to develop useful and innovative ways to make our anatomy resources available for learning over the Internet. These collections range from large collections of web-accessible dissection images and interactive stereo imagery of body parts, to 3D data volumes and 3D anatomy models. We are building tools for resource registry and discovery. At the BoF, some of these resources and tools will be demonstrated and discussed. Lunch will be served.

This meeting is for collaborators and contributors of the End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi) measurement and evaluation effort, piPEs. The group will continue discussions on the development of piPEs, with updates of the tools under development (OWAMP, BWCTL, NDT), discuss the coordinated development of a next generation prototype with GEANT2, update the group on the recent deployment workshop in Atlanta (Georgia Tech), set goals, and identify upcoming challenges. Lunch will be served.

The Internet2 Digital Video Initiative is a Special Interest Group (SIG) focusing on various digital video activities of interest to the Internet2 community. The meeting is an open meeting. This meeting will feature a presentation on TERENA Taskforce's Work/Progress by Egon Verharen of Surfnet; a presentation and demonstration of Wireless Cameras for Video Conferencing and Streaming by Bob Dixon, Gabe Moulton, and Megan Troyer of OSU; and an Overview of theInternet2 Bigvideo group's Activities by Bob Riddle of Internet2. The meeting will be concluded by roundtable updates on events/activities of interest from the audience. Lunch will be served.

Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee. Lunch will be served.

Mike Halm will provide an update on Lionshare, the P2P application being developed at Penn State. Greg Wood will provide an update on Internet2's recent interaction with P2P and the RIAA. Vint Cerf, the designer of TCP/IP, will provide his perspective on P2P. You can get a preview of his thoughts in this article: http://www.isp-planet.com/news/2005/cerf_f2c.html

Identity Management means different things to different people- Enterprise Directory, Directory Synchronization, SSO, Web ISO, federation etc. Different people in a campus care about different aspects of Identity Management. The full benefit of an Identity system can be realized only by taking a holistic view of the different aspects of Identity Management, even if they are not all implemented at the same time.

This session describes an initiative that has been underway for about two years as a partnership involving Internet2, Harvard Business School, and several other universities and technology companies. The purpose of the "Business Applications Group" is to accelerate the adoption of advanced networking applications in business. Inspiration for this effort arises from the observation by certain Internet pioneers that the elapsed time between the creation of the Internet (late 1968) and widespread adoption in business (late 1990s) seems unreasonably long. We aspire to shorten that cycle for the next generation Internet.

During this session we will describe and demonstrate the MonALISA (MONitoring Agents using A Large Integrated Services Architecture) and the new enhanced VRVS (Virtual Room Videoconferencing System) systems, and their integration to provide a next generation of collaboration system. The melding of these two systems creates a distributed intelligent system that provides an efficient collaborative service to a very large dispersed community of users. This real-time system operates over an ensemble of national and international networks (in more than 100 countries). The new features include IM, encryption, automatic troubleshooting detection among others. VRVS is global in scope: it covers the full range of existing and emerging protocols and the full range of client devices for collaboration, from desktops to installations in large auditoria. VRVS that have interconnected users since 1997 and that hold around 3000 hours of meeting per month provides now a mobile collaboration access (for Pocket PC) to its users. The new system based on VRVS will be demonstrated during the session.

The specialized mobile agents in the MonALISA framework optimize data replication strategies for data processing in GRID systems as well as to help and improve the operation of the VRVS. The agents are deployed to all the active MonALISA services and perform supervision tasks for distributed applications. Thus, the auto-adaptive system can detect and face all network problems encountered (congestion, line cut, etc) to keep unlimited number of the user inter-connected.

ResearchChannel continues to experiment with interactive technologies. Quality and latency are the two areas that most impact the user experience and the value of interaction. ResearchChannel and the University of Washington have demonstrated High Definition Interactive technologies at bitrates up to 1.5gigabits. Come learn the details of the architecture, software development, and partnerships required to enable fabulous quality video approaching real time communication. Lessons learned from successful demonstrations at SC2004, PTC and JGNII will be discussed.

Discussion will focus on the growing interest in Federations, associations of enterprises that come together to exchange information about their users and resources to enable collaborations and transactions. Session will highlight the interactions with the Federal Government and International Research and Education Federations on both technology and policy issues and the efforts to address interfederation interoperability. There will also be an update on InCommon, the first U.S. Research and Education Federation.

The CIO Forum is intended for the executive liaisons of Internet2 member institutions and organizations. It is designed as a high-level briefing and dialog on key priorities for the Internet2 community in the next year and beyond. These include the future R&E network and its implications for campus networks; network security in this same context; and the work of the newly formed Campus Expectations Task Force, which is reexamining expectations for the community, in light of accomplishments since Internet2's inception, to facilitate the adoption of advanced applications and technologies in support of research and education. Internet2 is nearing the end of its first decade and is now looking ahead to new challenges in building the next generation of a secure, high-performance, integrated and globally connected R&E infrastructure. As this work unfolds, we want to ensure that the leadership in the community is aware and engaged.

This session will provide an update on the HOPI project. The deployment of the HOPI testbed will be discussed along with the projected evolution of experiments to be performed on the testbed over the next three months. The impact on next generation networks will be outlined and lessons learned to date will be emphasized. Direct connections to the HOPI testbed will also be discussed together with alternative methods of connecting through the Abilene network.

The capabilities of research and education networks are constantly being challenged by new demands on a constant basis. Innovations in optical technologies such as WDM, Wavelength Switching, New Modulation Schemes, and Optical control will enable the network to meet these new demands and add flexible to address the requirements that are not yet known. This presentation will provide an overview of some of the new optical technologies that are being introduced and how they might be applied to research and education networks.

TANDBERG's Expressway is a revolutionary method for real time video communication that not only enables enterprises to securely traverse multiple Firewalls with their video traffic but additionally provides a mechanism for a global, massively scalable dial plan. TANDBERG's briefing will explain how Expressway can route real time protocols like H.323 and SIP securely and seamlessly between separate, firewalled networks, traverse NATs and navigate the public Internet using standards based H.323 supporting a dialing plan that allows multiple entities to connect to one another without the need to establish explicitly defined links between each other.

The presentation will cover what makes Expressway unique, why it should be compliant with almost any IT security policy and how and why TANDBERG have implemented a global, scalable dial plan.

Many recent events have highlighted our vulnerability to both natural and anthropogenic disasters. The impacts of floods, tornados, wildfires, agricultural blights, terrorist acts, and other events are felt in terms of human suffering, property damage, loss of livelihood, economic deterioration, and environmental destruction. Efforts to reduce the impacts of emergencies and disasters require getting the right information to the right people at the right time. The current "non-system" does not effectively use the wealth of information that resides with various organizations.

Our ability to collect high quality, high resolution data has undergone a revolution, but information management has not kept up. The nation needs a more effective information infrastructure to support its emergency preparedness and response communities. We are proposing to address the critical information technology requirements of disaster and emergency response communities by creating CrisisGrid, a data and systems infrastructure built upon a Grid of Grids approach to advance the ways in which information is monitored, analyzed, modeled, visualized, and delivered. Through a partnership among IUPUI, IUB, Purdue, and the Open GIS Consortium, we propose to apply Internet, Grid, GIS, sensor, and visualization technology to the emergency preparedness and response (EPR) and critical infrastructure projection (CIP) activities of government and business.

Our presentation will discuss our initial model of this new approach to critical information technology, which focuses on an area of disaster management of concern to Indiana's floods.

Come see the new additions to the Internet2 Commons family of collaboration tools and discuss the growth of the Internet2 Commons into more than an H.323 multipoint videoconferencing service. Hear what users say and see what surveys indicate are the collaboration preferences for higher education.

Participants will include Wave Three Software, inSORS, Marratech, VRVS, MS Conference XP

Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) is expected to allow us to build dynamic IP optical networks. To realize dynamic IP optical networks, the interaction between the measurement plane and the GMPLS control plane has to be considered for assuring total quality of service (QoS). From physical layer aspects, transparent transmission capabilities have to be considered. All-optical signal regeneration technology is essential for the transparency since the technology is able to provide signal regeneration capability only in an optical domain. National Institute of Informatics (NII) and Japan Telecom have been studying the next generation GMPLS applications and all-optical networking technology under SuperSINET Project.

In this talk, we present two talks regarding recent research results. One is regarding the GMPLS application for quality assurance in which the IP-level quality measurement and the optical-level GMPLS path control are integrated. The other is regarding the application of all-optical 2R-regeneration (regeneration and reshaping) and 3R-regeneration (regeneration, reshaping, and retiming) technology to the all-optical network for client signal quality assurance.

Learn about the latest developments in the ever-evolving, complex world of PKI for the Higher Education community including an update from the recent Research Workshop co-sponsored by NIH, NIST, and Internet2, details on the US Higher Education Root (USHER) and the Higher Education Bridge Certification Authority (HEBCA), two PKI initiatives designed to enable inter-institutional use of PKI, and information on the Federal Public Key Infrastructure, bridge to bridge issues and opportunities, and digitally-signed forms.

USHER and HEBCA each provide a specific set of benefits to Higher Education and this session seeks to detail what has been accomplished to date by each of these projects, and to outline future goals and development roadmaps. The following questions will be answered: 1) What services do HEBCA and USHER offer, and what are the differences between them? 2) Why is there a need for both and how do they complement each other? 3) What has each project accomplished so far? 4) What is planned for each initiative? 5) How do these two initiatives work together to maximize synergy? 6) Which initiative is right for your institution?

This presentation includes a live demonstration of PKI interoperability where an USHER-rooted end entity certificate will be used to sign an Education Department form that will be trusted via the HEBCA and its interaction with the Federal Bridge Certification Authority (FBCA).

Meeting of the Campus Expectations Task Force

This one-and-a-half day hands-on workshop will focus on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and how it can be used to build advanced campus communications services for instant messaging, video, presence, and voice. Attendees will work in small teams, each of which will configure a working campus/enterprise system in a testbed environment. Topics will include: a SIP tutorial, SIP proxy and registrar configuration, IP-TDM gateways, adding SRV and NAPTR records to DNS, emergency communications (911), debugging and quality monitoring, and the provisioning of SIP hard and soft clients. At the conclusion of the workshop, each attendee will have the necessary background to deploy an experimental campus SIP system that provides SIP.edu-connectivity and a platform for enabling exploration of advanced networked communications among Internet2 members.

This meeting is focused on bringing together organizations engaged in active projects to improve research and education network connectivity to and within Africa. A major goal of the meeting is to share plans and projects, and identify opportunities for collaboration between agencies and organizations. Participating organizations include the National Science Foundation, World Bank, Network Startup Resource Center, Rockefeller Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Internet2, IEEAF and others.

Presentations will focus on providing meeting attendees with insight into what infrastructure is needed to support international collaboration in research and education; currently available telecommunications infrastructure; and plans for commercial and R&E networking in African countries. The results of several recent surveys and studies about research and education networking and the state of African university information technology infrastructure and utilization will be presented. Organizations already working in the arena will discuss their projects, objectives and any current status. Finally, the meeting will conclude a discussion session with all meeting participants focused on identifying opportunities, areas for collaboration and next steps.

For registration and more information please click here.

This one-and-a-half day hands-on workshop will focus on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and how it can be used to build advanced campus communications services for instant messaging, video, presence, and voice. Attendees will work in small teams, each of which will configure a working campus/enterprise system in a testbed environment. Topics will include: a SIP tutorial, SIP proxy and registrar configuration, IP-TDM gateways, adding SRV and NAPTR records to DNS, emergency communications (911), debugging and quality monitoring, and the provisioning of SIP hard and soft clients. At the conclusion of the workshop, each attendee will have the necessary background to deploy an experimental campus SIP system that provides SIP.edu-connectivity and a platform for enabling exploration of advanced networked communications among Internet2 members.