Advisory Council Orientation

First meeting of the Architecture & Operations Advisory Council.

Applications, Middleware & Services Advisory Council Inaugural Meeting.

The External Relations Advisory Council Inaugural Meeting.

The Research Advisory Council Inaugural Meeting.

A cocktail reception for International attendees and other invited guests. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Giselle Trent (giselle@internet2.edu)

Dinner for new advisory council members, staff liaisons

This workshop will examine the idea of a national educational IPTV offering with shared infrastructure, technology and content agreements. IPTV, in this context, includes commercial entertainment channels as well as international channels, free content and local insertion by RONS and universities. A basic implementation plan will be presented with plenty of room for input by all interested parties. Topics will include: whether such a nationally scaled offering is desirable and viable; how such an offering would be structured; what possible business models might apply; and how the various roles align with one another will be addressed. This workshop is the result of a ground swell of member interest and considerable preliminary activity. Active engagement by participants is encouraged.

Working meeting for the K20 Advisory Committee. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact James Werle (jwerle@u.washington.edu).

Update and discussion on what the MACE-Dir Working Group is doing.

The mission of this Internet2 Special Interest Group (SIG) is to bring together the international community to address advancing the state of high-performance networking for research and education in under-served places around the world. Breakfast will be available from 8:00-9:00am outside the room.
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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 also include information about a variety of services that are available to the Internet2 membership and community. Some of the services that will be presented include: the Internet2 Commons, InCommon, Internet2 outreach resources, End-to-End Performance Tools, FiberCo Professional Services, to name a few. 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.

This joint Signet and Grouper Working Group meeting will focus on needs illuminated by recent adoption experiences, updates on latest releases, brief reports on new work, and prioritization of future work items.

Discussion on Disaster Planning and Recovery

Internet2 Economic Development SIG is focused on the role Internet2 members can play in regional economic development. The robustness and flexibility of the Internet2 network increases the potential for members to participate in economic development programs of their respective states and as such provides opportunities for mutual benefit. The group will continue to explore what Internet2 members bring to the economic development table and to discuss means that we might use to get the attention of our respective state and local governments.

The ability to manage diagnostic artifacts of distributed systems and networks has become daunting. Given the wide variety of log/event format types, access methods as well as privileges to the logs themselves, not to mention the scale of the data store needed, has led us to a different paradigm to bring value to the application, system, network, and security administrator. This BoF will be focused on discussing requirements for building a next generation diagnostic toolset using a framework built on the EDDY (End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY) - The Diagnostic Initiative and Developers Toolkit.

Is your institution a participant in the InCommon Federation? Interested to know more about who is doing what in the Federation and strategies for making progress on your campus? Join this informal, interactive discussion for current participants to network with your colleagues at other institutions and learn more about what's going on in the Federation.

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. CLICK HERE to see a detailed working agenda for this session.

Matt Zekauskas chairs the third meeting of the Performance Area Group (successor to the Measurement SIG). The focus of this meeting, as requested by the NTAC, is to review interesting developments in the area of performance and, when appropriate, recommend the formation of new working groups targeted as specific tasks within the general area of performance.

The ResearchChannel Internet2 Working Group is made up of members who have experience and expertise in advanced networking infrastructure. The group enables working partnerships with key technology innovators and brings together a substantial repository of high-quality video and high-definition content. The group actively develops, tests, experiments with and evolves the next generation of interactive and on-demand applications. The Working Group is open to all Internet2 members interested in multimedia applications. Current projects include DVTS, Interactive HD, streaming applications at all bandwidths from PocketPC to high definition, and multicast technologies. This session includes several demonstrations of applications, and we welcome new project ideas. We encourage Internet2 participants who are not ResearchChannel members to attend our meetings.

Rich Carlson will host the 14th Tools Tutorial session. First, Les Cottrell (SLAC) will give a presentation on TULIP: Trilatertion Utility for Locating IP hosts, developed by Les, Faran Javad, Shahryar Khan, and Umar Kalim. More information on TULIP can be found at: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip/ Rich will present the work of Jakub Slawinski, Internet2's 2007 Google Summer of Code Student, who developed a Java-based analysis tool that is now included in the NDT package. Jakub is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Gdañsk, studying at The Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics; he is working toward a Master of Science in Informatics.

This BoF will cover current developments in DNSSEC, including the Internet2 DNSSEC Pilot.

Advanced scientific applications abound. What of advanced BUSINESS applications? How can firms use Internet2 technologies to obtain competitive advantage? How are industries and marketplaces changed by the advent of Internet2? We will also discuss the proposed charter for the Advanced Business Applications (biz-apps) working group, moving it one step closer to official sanction.

This session will provide a status update on the Shibboleth 2.0 beta release, describing functionality in the new release. In addition, there will be demos of the prototype CardSpace support within Shibboleth, Shib-enabled access to Google Apps for Education, using Shibboleth as a Web SSO wrapped around PeopleSoft software, and the use of SecureID-based authentication in conjunction with a Shibboleth-based IdP. applications.

All meeting attendees are invited to the Welcome Reception on Monday night for an opportunity to socialize with collaborators, colleagues and friends. The Welcome Reception takes place at the Tiki Pavillion (poolside) at the Town & Country Resort. One drink ticket is included in the cost of your meeting registration; additional alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase (no charge for soft drinks).

Meeting open to SURA members - to exchange information, briefing on current activities. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Sue Fratkin (sue@sura.org).

Corporate Breakfast format will be a departure from past meetings. Doug Van Houweling will briefly talk about the critical role of industry moving forward; Program, Project, and Initiative leaders will briefly talk about the new network and related opportunities for industry member participation. David Lassner and Steve Hall will review the new Internet2 governance, impact to industry involvement, and importance of industry within the Internet2 community going forward. We will discuss mechanisms to provide input to the new councils. You may care to review the governance section of the Internet2 website: If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Karen Doemer (kdoemer@internet2.edu)

SA-SIG meeting to plan activities for Spring Internet2 meeting

Representatives of vendor organizations which participate in Quilt projects such as The Network Facilities Project and Commodity Internet Service Project will provide brief introductions and updates on products and community news.

Ethernet switch/routers work with Optical Networking transport to yield high bandwidth, low cost network systems. This panel discussion will present significant current technical characteristics and future evolution of combined Ethernet and wave-division-multiplexed (WDM) architectures with regard to Capacity, Reach, Flexibility and Reliability. As the distances which can be spanned by optical transport continue to grow and 10 GbE can be carried natively on WDM systems -- and DWDM optics (ITU-T gridded wavelengths) are now available for Ethernet switch/routers -- the options increase for Ethernet to be seamlessly extended beyond the data center and LAN to metro and WAN/Grid/Business Continuity applications.

In addition, Optical Add Drop Multiplexers (OADMs) are evolving to Reconfigurable-OADMs (ROADMs), and to Multi-Degree-ROADMs (MD-ROADMs), providing much greater flexibility.

The next generation of Ethernet is under development, with computing applications driving the 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) rate and core networking and aggregation requirements driving 100 GbE; the aim is to dovetail 40 GbE with existing 40G Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities and work toward complimentary 100G Ethernet & Optical Transport in the future.

Our panel will present the technical building blocks and new dimensions which are shaping the use of Ethernet switch/routers with optical networking.

Rick Summerhill will, as the interim Chief Technical Officer for Internet2, give an update on technological issues facing the community.

During March 2007, an extraordinary creative event took place that encompassed the work of three universities, four outstanding artist/administrators, over 100 student collaborators from seven academic departments, over 2,000 attendees, a Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist, and an unprecedented array of the most sophisticated rendering and communication technology ever assembled for a college theatre production. For this event, students, faculty, and staff from the Department of Theatre Arts and the Multimedia Program at Bradley University (USA) collaborated with cohorts over a thousand miles away at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and the University of Central Florida (USA) to develop and present a fully meditated production of Elmer Rice's expressionistic play "The Adding Machine" that integrated virtual scenery, DVTS broadcast video via Internet2, recorded video, avatar performers, photographs, graphics and sound (http://addingmachine.bradley.edu/). While a technological and artistic success, this production was also a significant interdisciplinary learning experience that transcended and exceeded national boundaries and academic disciplines. The convergence of interdisciplinary learning, collaborative problem solving, and creative production with multimedia and streaming video technologies created a dynamic experiential learning paradigm that opened students minds to new possibilities. This session will address many facets of this collaboration from the pedagogical and administrative to the artistic, dramaturgical, and the technical. ///// The Philadelphia Orchestra, the first professional orchestra to join Internet2, will transmit a series of live concerts, via MAGPI and Internet2 to educational and cultural institutions both in the U.S. and abroad starting in the 2007-2008 academic year. These concerts will be enhanced with both live and pre-recorded content during pre-concert, intermission, and post-concert periods. This presentation will discuss the technical challenges and solutions encountered with multi-national, multicast transmissions, with a particular focus on the visual and audio experience at the remote sites. Of additional interest will be the discussion of on-campus infrastructures, E2E performance issues, technical matters involving stage production aspects, streaming technologies and lessons learned during the 2006-2007 pilot multicast series. The Philadelphia Orchestra staff will also share the educational significance surrounding such a concert series, describing ?How to make Classical Music Content Compelling using Electronic Media? and the results of a ?Feasibility Study of Internet2 Digital Broadcasts.?

Across the globe, there are several exciting new initiatives underway to connect collaborators in new, robust ways leveraging web 2.0 and social networking sites. In the US, the Internet2 K20 Initiative has developed such a social networking system to help connect advanced network-enabled innovators across the K20 community to each other and to other communities around the world. In the UK, JANET Collaborate Pilot Project has been recently launched with the aim of allowing educators in schools, colleges and museums to find opportunities to collaborate with each other. And, elsewhere in the world including (Australia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland) similar efforts are underway to answer the perennial question of how to find resources, people, and collaboration opportunities for use in education. The panel on social networking sites will include James Werle, Co-Chair K20 Initiative; Jennifer Oxenford; Associate Director, MAGPI; and Tim Boundy, Project Manager for JANET Collaborate. In addition to presenting their case-studies, other issues to be covered by the panel include underlying architecture, multi-linguality, authentication, and data protection/privacy.

The LBNL campus has implemented a variety of systems to monitor and detect intrusions. This presentation will illustrate how these individual components add up to provide extensive, high-performance monitoring of both external and internal network traffic. The presentation will focus on the Bro NIDS, a powerful open-source network intrusion detection system and traffic analysis framework. Bro is LBNL's primary tool for monitoring the lab's 10G upstream link for security breaches. It is credited with countless attack detections and preventions, many of which would likely have gone undetected by more popular intrusion detection systems. We will start by giving an overview of Bro's philosophy and architecture, focusing on its ability to analyze high-volume network streams on a rich semantic level. We will then present a set of recent advancements of the system, such as the "Bro Cluster" and "dynamic protocol detection". The Bro Cluster is an adaptation of Bro to a cluster of commodity PCs that enables Bro to scale easily and incrementally as traffic volumes increase beyond what a single host can monitor. Dynamic protocol detection refers to Bro's ability to identify the protocol of a given stream regardless of port number, and then perform protocol-specific analysis. Supplementing the Bro setup, the LBNL campus has also implemented systems to detect intrusions that are only visible by instrumenting the internal infrastructure, such as illegitimate activity over encrypted SSH connections. These systems leverage a variety of technologies including NetFlow, Syslog, DHCP and others. We will conclude the presentation with an overview of this setup, which has proven to be a powerful and effective countermeasure to attacks opaque to traditional packet monitors.

This session will provide an update on the state of projects and technologies developed and promoted by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative in the areas of identity management, authentication, federation, authorization, and support for collaboration. As global uptake continues to grow, new software releases address requirements of scale, integration, ease of use, and interoperability, benefiting from feedback based on real usage and open-source contributions from the worldwide research and education community.

GÉANT2 delivers the next generation research and education network for Europe. With over 30 million users in 34 countries across the continent, GÉANT2 offers unrivalled geographical coverage and high bandwidth, combined with innovative hybrid networking technology and a range of user-focused services. Its extensive geographical reach allows the network to interconnect with other world regions, enabling efficient global research collaboration. GÉANT2 is the first hybrid network deployed on an international scale. The network provides routed IP connections alongside switched links on some routes. The switched circuits can provide dedicated point-to-point links for the most demanding applications and create “priority lanes” for data traffic flow, helping to avoid congestion on the IP backbone. Global research is increasingly common in topics with worldwide importance. European researchers in fields such as seismology, particle physics, weather forecasting, and climate change need to be able to work more closely than ever before with their global counterparts. GÉANT2 builds on the global connectivity established by its predecessor. The first GÉANT network established connections with research networks in North America (Abilene, ESnet and CA*net4) and Japan (SINET). GÉANT2 has complemented these by upgrading routes across the Atlantic and deploying new links to China, South Africa and India. In addition GEANT2 connects to its counterparts in Latin America, the Mediterranean and Asia Pacific. A major focus for GÉANT2 is to provide support beyond just installing network connections. The development of a service layer on top of the technology makes networking more transparent, and improves ease of use for the user. The project places specific emphasis on understanding and meeting user needs. In support of this, a number of research activities are taking place within the project. The GÉANT2 joint research programme uses skills and expertise from across the NRENs and within DANTE. Some of these activities aim to realise production services. Others further research into networking itself, helping to maintain Europe’s position as the global leader in research networking. Work is on the way in the areas of Security, Performance Monitoring and Measurements, Testing of new technologies, Network Allocation and Mobility and Roaming.

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Member Meeting Welcome Remarks
Douglas Van Houweling, President and CEO, Internet2

The Internet2 Network: Meeting the Cyberinfrastructure Challenge
Rick Summerhill, Chief Technology Officer, Internet2
Steve Cotter, Deputy Operations Officer, Internet2

2008 IDEA Awards Announcement

New Applications of SuperNetworks and the Implications for Campus Networks
Larry Smarr, Director Calit2

The OSTN meeting provides an opportunity for OSTN's Advisory Board members that attend the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting to meet F2F. The meeting also provides new OSTNers with a background on OSTN and what impact it may have on your campus or network from a legal, technical and policy perspective. The session is designed to help answer questions on this important issue through an active discussion format. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session, please contact Prashant Chopra (prashant_chopra@ostn.tv).

This is a regularly scheduled meeting of those interested in the Health Sciences to review and plan activities for the coming year. We will have a presentation about the Brazilian partnership and will discuss the work plan that will be developed.

This lunch BoF will focus on discussions and updates from the new USHER PKI Root service -- including the development of an Internet2-sponsored, freely-available, easy-to-install Certificate Authority from partner Dartmouth College -- as well as working group news from HEPKI-TAG (the Educause/Internet2 Higher Education Public Key Infrastructure Technical Activities Group).

Research and Education Networking BoF

This is a working meeting of the Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group. Topics will include updates on existing project work from the Teaching and Learning SIG members and special presentations on emerging opportunities for the Internet2 teaching and learning community. The working meeting will also include special presentations.

If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session, please contact Lisa Haanpaa (lisa@internet2.edu).

The Community Leaders Forum is an invitation-only session intended for the executive liaisons of Internet2 member institutions and organizations, designed as a high-level briefing and dialog on key priorities for the Internet2 community. The Community Leaders Forum is focused on helping IT leaders track and contribute to the community's work in developing, deploying and using advanced networking technologies, in their roles as the Internet2 Executive Liaison representing their organization. As the work of building the next generation of a secure, high-performance, integrated and globally connected R&E infrastructure unfolds, the forum ensures that the leadership in the community is involved and engaged. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Jill Arnold (jillar@internet2.edu)

The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research was launched in November 2006. The federation is one of the first and largest national federations to span both the schools and further/higher education sectors. Nicole Harris will describe the role of the Federation, provide an overview of JISC's current future plans for the Federation, and describe what the UK Federation is doing with international partners. Mark Tysom will cover some of the challenges faced by this project and give an overview of the design, operation, services, and development of the UK federation and experiences from the first year of operation.

This session will provide an overview of the Internet2 Network and the services Internet2 has deployed to meet the networking needs of the regionals, the campuses and their researchers. Discussed will be the final network topology, an overview of the dynamic services enabled on the network, the services (both production and non-production) that are deployed across the network, and our plans for evolving the network over time.

Delivering IPTV streams to large numbers of viewers is a bandwidth intensive undertaking. Each kilobit of bandwidth used to transmit video occupies a valuable resource, particularly when there is a long list of other potential services and limits to the capacity of the delivery networks. IPTV providers often spend a great deal of time and money to obtain the highest compression ratios with advanced video encoders. Curiously, in many of these systems the impact of video contribution quality is largely overlooked, even though the end-of-line quality of the signal delivered to viewers is affected by the quality of both the contribution (collection) and the distribution networks. In particular, many IPTV system head ends are fed with highly compressed HD and SD content from satellite feeds; these signals can fare poorly through the re-compression process required to prepare the video for IPTV distribution at low bit rates. This paper clearly shows how improving the quality of contribution networks through the use of advanced IP video transport technology can deliver better quality video to the viewer at lower bit rates, enabling a variety of other valuable services to be delivered over IPTV distribution networks. ////// Update and report out on the range of IPTV activities on national, regional, and campus levels/In a metro optical network node, aggregating multiple Gigabit Ethernet traffic into a 10G pipe can be carried out by using multi-port Ethernet switches and a DWDM line cards. The 10G pipe is then sent to a network operating center, in which a router connecting to multiple DWDM line cards is used to sort out the Gigabit Ethernet traffic. In this presentation, we show that by building a thin layer-2 functionality into DWDM line cards, Gigabit Ethernet aggregation into a 10G pipe can be achieved without using any Ethernet switches. Furthermore, the fiber management in the network operating center can be simplified by ten folds due to the fact that the router only needs to handle 10GbE interfaces. As a result, this newly developed DWDM equipment not only simplifies Gigabit Ethernet aggregation, saves capital expenses, but also significantly reduces manual patch-cord connections. ////// The University of Sao Paulo (USP), as the most important university of Brazil, launched its Experimental IPTV last August intending to improve the academic and scientific information dissemination to not only the university community but also the society. Nowadays, there is a huge amount of video that has been produced and is stored in different USP's units without public access by the community as a whole. The implementation of the USP Experimental IPTV has been done in two main phases. In the first phase, the IPTV programs have been generated by live streaming transmission from real time events such as conferences, art exhibitions, sport competition and video on demand transmission from the current university video archive stored in three distributed servers connected by the USPNet backbone network. Such IPTV programs can be accessed through personal computers. In the second phase, planned to occur in 2008, the IPTV content will be accessed not only through personal computers but also through TV equipment using a set-up box. The video servers network will be extended to all university campi spread in 6 different cities. The final system will offer on demand, live and scheduled video services that can be for public or private distribution. The delivery mechanism is optimized using multicast overlay platform that allows the management of the services and network performance. At the end we expect that the dissemination of this scientific, educational, cultural, and technological content can benefit not only USP's students, professors and employees but also people remotely located from the University. This project has been supported by RNP and CTI/USP.

Information and communications technologies (ICT) have undergone extraordinary advances in the past 5 years. Two aspects of these developments are discussed along with their implications for gerontechnology. First, international high speed Internet networks serving the academic community are poised to inform the public's computer networks of tomorrow. Second, computational systems that increasingly penetrate every facet of the built environment, for instance, transportation, clothing, furnishings, personal items, and home environmental control and security will be discussed. Over time such embedded systems are being integrated into large wired and wireless networks of devices which may extend over international boundaries. High bandwidth networked applications in development include multipoint videoconferencing using multicast IPv6 protocols, telepresence, virtual reality simulations and remote sensing for gathering data in built environments. Examples of how these developments create new applications for all four of the goals of gerontechnology - prevention, compensation, care and enhancement of quality of life - are provided. Enhanced technological services for the elderly will develop, including transportation guidance, nutritional monitoring, safety and security, mental health and healthcare, environmental control, and communications. International networks promise more uniform care standards for the elderly, increase the opportunity for collaboration among researchers and educators tackling the difficult problems associated with aging, including dementia, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Networks have the promise of enhancing outcomes by maximizing economies of scale by collecting research observations from multiple international venues. New educational approaches addressing the challenges of aging include virtual reality applications which simulate the impact of aging for young individuals. Monitoring individuals in their homes using ICT and computer networks can impose significant ethical responsibilities upon governing agencies.

Several universities are implementing large-scale group management extensions to their production identity and access management systems using Grouper, developed as part of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. Two of the largest are at Brown and Duke, where 10,000 - 100,000 groups and 370,000 - 850,000 memberships are being managed. Presenters will discuss the problems they are solving with group management, key aspects of the design of their group management solutions, issues encountered during implementation, and how they expect their group management services to evolve in the future.

This panel of three presenters will each give their perspective on lessons learned during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Two of these institutions were directly affected by Katrina while the third was called upon to help with recovery efforts. Discussions to include what worked and what didn?t while trying to return to normal university business. From a network perspective, what services need to be re-established, in what order and what were the costs involved. Attendees of this session should come away with a real understanding of how Katrina affected these institutions and hopefully gain insight into how to better prepare themselves for future disasters.

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Presenters: Paul Schopis, Associate Director, OSCnet and Jim Gerrity, Director, Enterprise Vertical Markets Development, ADVA Optical Networking

Along the continuum of storage area networking capabilities, higher education is forging its own category of solutions for its unique requirements. Colleges and universities are implementing "business resumption" strategies that cost-effectively support a wide variety of recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs).

The need was re-emphasized as colleges and universities in the southeastern United States rallied back to operation after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Higher-education institutions required storage capabilities to not only allow them to protect applications and data associated with collaborative research efforts with other schools, but also quickly resume business-side services such as managing payroll.

How are Information Technology (IT) departments at colleges and universities determining the appropriate level of protection to give to particular applications and cost-effectively building business-resumption solutions?

As Hurricane Katrina and other recent events have shown, the time to prepare a college or university for an emergency is now, and many higher-education institutions can leverage existing investments in WDM-enhanced optical networks as the foundation of their business-resumption solutions. The simple scalability and protocol-agnostic flexibility allow CIOs to cost-effectively, strategically align storage capabilities with the RTO and RPO requirements of the school's network services.

Internet2 has a variety of circuit capabilities and offerings that are available to its members on the Internet2 Network. These service offerings include: provisioning of 10G waves, provisioning of sub-rate circuits and access to the Dynamic Circuit Network and can be accessed and Layer 1 or Layer 2 depending on the service. While these circuit capabilities are made available on the Internet2 Network, Internet2 also has the ability to offer circuits that are off of the Internet2 Network and reside on the entire Level 3 Communications network. Please attend for a discussion on each of the new circuit offerings and how they may be beneficial to your organization.

ARCA is a system able to offer a consistent view of multimedia contents available at different institutions by means of a federated approach. It automatically collects all the information available at the participant sites, in the format of XML documents (RSS 2.0) built from the descriptions of the multimedia contents offered by those sites. This information is then consolidated by the portal and offered to users by means of different search and browsing interfaces, supporting different event ontologies. ARCA is in use by the RedIRIS community, and being deployed by TERENA. Ten institutions have joined the RedIRIS ARCA federation since its initial announcement in November 2006, and the portal offers access to more than 1000 content references, plus the live events available at the servers of the participants. ARCA is an open and collaborative project, led by the University Carlos III of Madrid, with the collaboration of RedIRIS and four other Spanish universities. The ARCA development site is at the University Carlos III of Madrid (http://arca.uc3m.es/), and the operational site for the RedIRIS content federation is at http://www.rediris.es/ (Please select "English" as the interface language at the main portal page)

Collegiate life is made up of many formal and informal organizations and individuals collaborating. Our community is seeing more and more of these relationships but finding a lack of infrastructure and applications to meet the needs of these activities online. This session will present and discuss the requirements of these organizations and environments, tease out common themes, consider possible mechanisms to move forward in supporting these collaborative organizations, and demonstrate a prototype tool that may help facilitate this new working environment.

Research1 is a web-based collaboration platform being developed by ResearchChannel. Its primary functions are to serve as a premier outlet for researchers and academics to fulfill their public outreach requirements, foster interaction and communication between scientists, educators, students and the public, and to provide a collaborative research environment for teams who could potentially be geographically dispersed. Individual researchers or teams can establish or enhance their outreach capabilities by creating their own Research1 "Project Hub" that offers digital media distribution/storage and community features, including blogs and forums, managed from one easy-to-use web interface. The speakers will describe the framework and deployment timeline, and extend an invitation to the global research community to become involved in the project.

The widespread adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology within telecommunications networks has empowered educational and research institutions to implement unique solutions to meet their overall communications requirements. As a result, these institutions are able to better control the cost of telecommunications, which at some institutions could be quite substantial. New business models are emerging within the telecommunications market that leverage the power of IP transport networks to provide service providers and their customers with higher quality and lower cost communications. One such emerging business model involves the peering of individual communications networks. Peering, or VoIP Peering, enables two or more institutional networks to connect to one another without having to traverse the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). There is an immediate opportunity to apply this new peering business model to the university telecommunications environment. Substantial amounts of inter-university and inter-research institution communications occur each day, with practically all of this communications traffic being handled by PSTN-based service providers. Leveraging the accelerating adoption of VoIP technology and the availability of the Internet2 backbone with state-of-the-art VoIP peering technology will allow universities and other research institutions to substantially reduce their long distance costs and support enhanced IP communications among community members. The session will describe the architecture and proposed benefits of the VoIP Peering Pilot program, as well as cover the implementation effort and lessons learned to date from the initial universities participating in the pilot.

Modern cyberinfrastructure (CI) creates a "distributed computer" with resources distributed in diverse geographic and administrative domains and the network providing the "backplane" for this computer. This session presents some of the major players in research and education (R&E) CI, and provides an overview of the "CI Days" program being developed to assist campuses in planning and implementing CI. The CI Days program is being conducted in coordination with a number of organizations. With funding from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, TeraGrid and Open Science Grid build upon advanced networking to provide leading-edge collaborative computing infrastructure. Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR) provide the enhanced network backplane infrastructure, and the National Science Foundation's International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program provides international extensions. Internet2 also develops middleware tools to enable end users to reliably access CI resources. EDUCAUSE addresses policy and funding issues involved with implementing and operating CI. Many universities struggle with the demanding and sometimes conflicting needs of researchers, faculty, students, IT service organizations, university administration, and funding sources. The CI Days program provides a forum to bring together campus faculty, researchers, and IT organizations with these national organizations to discuss requirements and strategies for advanced campus CI.

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Panel on Multicast HD production and Workflow. Topics to be covered include network multicast issues, computer platforms and software compatibility, HD Codecs and transcoding, cameras, and HD workflow.

Cyber Security policy within the Federal Government has become increasingly compliance-oriented since the passage of FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act, and the impacts of this are beginning to be felt within the R&E community through grant conditions, FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) rules, and more. At the same time, this focus has led to the production of voluminous cyber security policies, some of which are potentially useful to R&E and some of which are clearly detrimental. This presentation will focus on the history, context, and current state of Federal IT compliance as it impacts the R&E community. The presentation will include an analysis of the NIST and OMB guidance both in terms of how they can be potentially helpful in a university environment, and how they can be interpreted to be quite restrictive and potentially at odds with a research mission. The discussion will include examples of applying the NIST methodology at both UCSF and throughout the Department of Energy National Laboratories, with a focus on how to best utilize the concepts without undue burden. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the regulatory outlook with regards to Federal cyber security policy.

Matt Zekauskas will, as the new Network Research Liaison for Internet2, give an update on network research activities within the community, technological concerns, and proposed solutions under discussion.

Within fine arts higher education, the growing use of the Internet is fueling the creation of new ensembles and imaginative modes of presentation and performance. Over time, common issues pertaining to applications, techniques, resources and personnel have emerged. An increasing number of delivery, presentation and audio/visual applications require groups to determine which ones best fit the needs at hand. Techniques that have been developed over time to deal with classic issues related to latency, audio, lighting, and staging are enabling artists to tailor productions in accordance with aesthetic considerations. Coordination of participants and resources, both locally and remotely is critical to the success of a given production. This presentation will address these and other issues from the perspective of a working team that has engaged a broad swath of Internet-related performance activities. A comparison and contrast of the major Internet delivery modes including DVTS, Grid, H.323 and commodity will be discussed with recommendations on usage for each. Selected software applications will be assessed in the context of artistic and aesthetic considerations. Videos of recent examples will be drawn from educational master classes, clinics, dramatic plays, musical improvisation, as well as through composed, high-precision musical performances whose players span global distances.

A variety of international, national, regional, and campus-oriented grid infrastructure projects are developing ways to leverage a researcher's campus identity to gain access to grid services to better serve research computing needs. Panelists representing a range of grid infrastructure projects will describe their needs, assumptions, approaches, and issues in leveraging campus authentication and campus attributes for grid access.

This presentation will discuss how the new Internet2 network was built from start to finish. Areas of discussion will include: identifying needs of the R&E community, development phase, project scope and size of the network construction, challenges along the way, incremental benefits for new network users (VNOC, dynamic provisioning, etc.), the resulting business benefits generated by the new network, and more. Session will also have a Q&A session for Internet2 members to ask any questions about how the network was built or how best to use it going forward.

This a face to face meeting of the NTAC Group (Network Technical Advisory Committee), Paul Schopis - Chair, Linda Roos - Flywheel. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information regarding this session, please contact Paul Schopis (pschopis@osc.edu).

This session will introduce ADVA Optical Networking to the Research & Education community. A short presentation will feature ADVA’s future technology road map. A facilitated discussion will follow to solicit recommendations on which product line development features would be the most applicable for the R&E community. Heavy appetizers and beverages will be served. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session, please contact Victoria DiGiulio (VDiGiulio@advaoptical.com).

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. If you are interesting in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Ann Doyle (adoyle@internet2.edu).

The GigaPoP and RONs Coordination BoF has been organized as an affinity/communications session open to the Internet2 community. Managers from across the gigaPoPs and RONs and program managers from within Internet2 are welcome to attend the BoF. The purpose of the BoF is to provide a regular, ongoing forum for peer networking, information sharing, and generally fostering open communications. The BoF'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. We would also like to extend an invitation to members of The Quilt to join the meeting and welcome Quilt member contributions to the discussion. (NB: The Quilt will continue to hold a separate Quilt BoF that will focus on issues of specific relevance to Quilt members. See program for further details.) A tentative agenda and topics for discussion will be posted soon. For any questions about this BoF, please contact Heather Martinson or Ana Preston.

Closed Meeting for MACE and Salsa members. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Lisa Haanpaa (lisa@internet2.edu).

Regular meeting of TP2 over site committee

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 Special Interest Group devoted to promoting the successful adoption of advanced collaboration tools.

This session will focus on the current and future directions and focus for both the salsa-NetAuth and salsa-FWNA working groups. We will discuss both the near term We will also discuss the 'visiting scholar' problem, the activities of the FWNA working group and various related activities including eduroam. The primary focus will be continued development of the RADIUS-SAML profile. We will also review changes to the structure of the FWNA working group moving forward.

Local economics of access to content is a fundamental driver for starting statewide IdM initiatives for states where K12 is controlled at the local level. In considering this space, common questions include: Should we purchase these must-have content collections directly and avoid the IdM headaches? Or should we implement a statewide identity management standard in our districts to aggregate the licenses to save money? And once in place, can we leverage it for other things? Come participate in this timely discussion on the tradeoffs and issues.

This is an open meeting of the Internet2 Digital Video Initiative (I2DVI). The I2DVI is a Special Interest Group on the topic of Digital Video that is open to all. Bob Dixon will be talking about new enhanced videoconferencing technology that venders are introducing. These include enhancing the resolution of your video endpoint, providing a video receptionist, providing a collaboration tool built on video conferencing, and doing video conferencing with 30% packet loss and almost no latency. David Devereaux-Weber will be talking about the video groups in the higher-ed community, including Vide, the Research Channel, I2DVI, I2 Research Channel Working Group, and the Open Student Television Network. Dave will also report on the Big Ten Network. Jonathan Tyman will report outcomes of the IPTV pre-conference workshop which is focused on developing a coordinated educational IPTV offering on a national scale. He will outline some of the benefits and challenges--technical, financial and political--of delivering commercial entertainment, international, and locally produced television programming over Internet2. These presentations will be followed by a chance for the audience to present short status reports of activities in which they are involved.

This is an opportunity for the Humanities Advisory Committee to meet in person. The purpose of this committee is to work with Ann Doyle, Manager of Internet2 Arts & Humanities Initiatives, to plan high performance networking activities in the Humanities arena. Interest and activity are underway in the areas of museum education, language learning technologies, archaeology, and collections. The discussion will focus on current activities and brainstorming future ones that might take place in these arenas, as well as to explore other areas relevant to humanities studies that might be enhanced by advanced networking applications. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Ann Doyle (adoyle@internet2.edu).

During 2007 SICOT, GDLN (World Bank) and Internet2 have expanded the orthopaedic research and education to five countries in North Africa, five countries in Sub-Sahara Africa and five countries in the Middle East. There will also be discussion regarding the establishment of Cairo as the Education Hub of Africa and the Middle East. During the session presentations from Africa and the Middle East will be made. Last year we presented a program on the Latin America and the Caribbean and next year we will be able to present a program on Asia and the Pacifc. We will also report on the Global Forums on Road Traffic Trauma. We will have participants from the State Department, Health and Human Services Department, Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Regional and state networks play a critical role in the future of the national advanced research and education network infrastructure. Increasingly, R&E networks in the United States provide not just critical networking services, but their offerings and services require complex business and operations models. This session will provide insights into some of the models that R&E networks have in place, along with exemplary case studies, and a dynamic discussion on challenges and opportunities.

Presentation 1:
Title: R & E Network Business Models: A Summary of The Case Studies
Speakers: Carol Farnham -- MIDnet, Inc, Jen Leasure -- The Quilt
Abstract: In the spring of 2007, The Quilt and MIDnet, Inc, began a collaborative project to document the business models of research and education optical networks. Specifically, the two organizations were interested in collecting information on organizational structure, governance, management and operations, initial funding sources, cost recovery methodologies, services and service pricing strategies, outreach, lessons learned and future directions. A summary of the findings will be presented

Presentation 2:
Title: Converging Network Architecture, Governace and Operational Models
Speakers: Paul Schopis -- OSCNet
Abstract: In recent times, State Governments are eyeing the resources developed by the higher education community. For example, The Governor of Ohio has issued and executive order requiring all state agencies to use the OSCnet backbone. This presentation examines new network governance required to meet these demands, by fulfilling both the needs and requirements for the R&E community, as well as production network requirements for state agencies. This presentation will examine the strategy for mutual cooperation while protecting all party's interests.

Presentation 3:
Title: Extending the Facilities-based Network to the Last Mile: Collaboration, Community-building, and Creative Re-structuring
Presenter: Jim Moran -- Merit Network
Abstract: Merit Network, the research and education network in Michigan, operates a statewide backbone IP network that is increasingly built on Merit-owned dark fiber rather than leased circuits. This is an important evolution, providing improved cost control and the ability to upgrade bandwidth as needed. Merit is now working to extend this facilities-based model beyond the backbone to include last-mile connections. The goal is to replace leased circuits with owned fiber linking a Member site to the nearest Merit backbone interconnection point. Just as in the backbone, directly connecting organizations via fiber combines improved cost control with the ability to readily increase bandwidth as needed, allowing an ideal environment for advanced applications. This presentation will discuss Merit's strategy and findings in this area, including engineering considerations; lessons learned about the process of acquiring and building fiber; opportunities for organizations within a geographic community to aggregate demand and collaborate on network builds; and financial approaches to sharing expenses and amortizing construction costs. This is an approach with broad application for organizations using lease lines in their WANS as well as in their connections to state/regional networks/Gigapops.

Campuses are moving to integrate the Shibboleth System to support web single sign-on into their existing access control frameworks and manage the access to on- and off-site online services. University of California, San Diego will present the results of a multi-campus effort exploring the issues with integrating Shibboleth into their existing library-managed infrastructure that controls access to externally-licensed resources. Asbed Bedrossian, Director of Enterprise Applications & Operations at the University of Southern California, will discuss providing email and collaborative applications using Google Apps for Education to the USC student population. He will discuss USCs approach to the policy issues as well as the technical issues of user provisioning and SSO access via Shibboleth 2.0. Also discussed will be enabling the Plone Content Management System to use Shibboleth-provided attributes for authentication, role-based access, and content sharing.

Educators today face the enormous challenge of engaging and exciting students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math, and preparing them for a constantly changing, technologically advanced workforce. The demand for future workers skilled in these disciplines is very great, and educators will find many willing partners in helping to meet their challenge. In this session, the Missouri Research and Education Network (MOREnet), NASA and The Franklin Institute will share the partnerships they have developed, and the ones they are still exploring, to use Internet2 applications to create new and exciting learning opportunities for students in a new high-performance learning environment.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has implemented a new Linux cluster management infrastructure to address the increased demand for High Performance Computing and is working to extend this infrastructure to support research computing at the University of California, Berkeley. Whereas most cluster toolkits focus on the management of one cluster, this new infrastructure is designed to greatly reduce the effort required to provision new cluster hardware into production and provides a central administration point for managing several clusters. It sets up a framework for the sharing of compute node images, job scheduler, and applications binaries across all of the clusters and also allows researchers to easily migrate between computational resources. These new features facilitate the sharing of cluster computational resources across research groups and can provide greater capacity and increased utilization of existing resources. This session will discuss the architecture of the new HPC infrastructure and devote time to discussing the advanced networking and security challenges encountered in deploying a common cyberinfrastructure between LBNL and UCB

This session will review some of the recent security work within and affecting the Internet2 community. We will also cover proposed future work in the security space. This session will includes updates from Salsa.

NOTE WELL: This panel discussion spans two time periods. Each panelist will make a brief presentation during the 8:45 to 10:00 session. Part Two will begin 10:15am and be a moderated interactive panel discussion.

This panel discussion will provide an overview of the recommendation of the IEEE High Speed Study Group (HSSG) who have recommended that the IEEE form a Task Force to write a standard for 40G and 100G Ethernet to be called IEEE 802.3ba. This panel discussion will address the distinct market needs and underlying bandwidth drivers between: (a) server edge applications in a data center; and (b) network aggregation applications in carrier networks and large data centers that led to the definition of two data rates for higher-speed Ethernet.

There is divergence in bandwidth growth rates between the two applications, viz. server edge and network aggregation. The server edge bandwidth growth is driven by CPU I/O performance which is following a Moore's Law curve. On the other hand, network aggregation bandwidth requirements are driven by multiple factors such as the increase in access points feeding into the network and higher access data rates. This difference in the bandwidth drivers results in a steeper growth curve for network aggregation applications compared to server applications, thereby leading to the recommendation of different data rates and associated physical interface specifications; 40 GbE for data center server applications and 100 GbE for carrier network aggregation.

A specific objective of the group is to provide appropriate support for the Optical Transport Network (OTN). Possibilities for mapping of 40GbE and, in particular, 100GbE into the OTN will be outlined, together with a discussion for the need to support OTN efficiently, and the resulting benefit to the end user. This session also includes a discussion of several different modulation formats and transmission protocols that may be used in carrier transport networks and the total system capacity resulting from their use.

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Bringing Telepresence and Video Conferencing Closer Together
Telepresence is high-end video conferencing in which most aspects are completely automated, using new ideas and technology. These aspects will be described.

Video conferencing works fine, but sometimes provides too many and confusing options for the average user. Some of the telepresence good ideas can be applied to video conferencing to make it much easier to use. A few examples are simplification of the user's screen, and using perpetual video meeting rooms in MCUs.

A live comparison between "typical" and "simplified" video conferencing will be presented.


New Video Conferencing Developments
The video conferencing industry continues to provide new capabilities that did not exist before. We will describe and provide live demonstrations of these new capabilities:

-Scalable video conferencing based on the new H.264 Annex G standard. It automatically scales the resolution all the way from cell phone screen to high definition. It provides very low latency and works even with 30% packet loss. Provides better quality video with less bandwidth and cost. From Layered Media.

-Increasing the video resolution from a standard definition endpoint, to make it look almost like high definition. This seeming impossibility is done by ClearVision, from Codian.

-A video receptionist and help desk, which answers your video calls and directs you to the correct person to answer your question, in multiple languages. Entry Point, from Tandberg.

-A desktop collaboration tool which is tightly integrated with standard H.323 video conferencing. Scopia Desktop, from RADVision.

-How to stand in front of your illustrations and slides as you describe them. Using chroma key just like the weather person does, except with video conferencing instead of television. People On Content, from Polycom.

You can talk to some of these vendors in the demo room this afternoon.

This session will describe and demonstrate a rich interaction between instructors and students that recreates all of the features of a normal classroom session in addition and several new capabilities. It will be small group session, in which one or two instructors and eight students, each on individual video feeds, interact with one another and mark up common high quality medical images in real time.

This session will:
- Allow students from remote locations, and even different universities, to engage in real time discussions including the ability for the students to interact and ask questions from their own desks, with their resources and books in front of them
- Allow students to interact with images to an extent not possible in the classroom
- Easily lend itself to being recorded and archived for student review
- Eliminate the need to negotiate student schedules with classroom availability
-This could have a substantial impact on student interest groups, since inclusion would no longer be restricted by geography.

There are several benefits for educators:
-This allows students to interact with images to an extent not possible in the classroom
- Easily lends itself to being recorded and archived for student review
- Eliminates the need to negotiate student schedules with classroom availability

Internet2 is involved in several exciting projects related to performance and measurement. Eric Boyd will provide an update on the progress of: -perfSONAR, a network monitoring infrastructure that makes it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several networks; contributors to perfSONAR development include Internet2, GÉANT2, and ESnet members, among others. Demonstrations of perfSONAR included in the presentation illustrate the 'service-oriented' aspects of perfSONAR by showing how disjoint services such as Measurement Points (MPs), Measurement Archives (MAs), and the Lookup Service (LS) can interact via two graphical displays (an interactive map of utilization data and a configurable display of network traffic). -Performance tool development, including updates on OWAMP, Bandwidth Test Controller, Network Diagnostic Tool, and Thrulay, as well as the development of a Knoppix disk with downloads of these and other tools in an easy-to-use format. -Network Performance Workshops, which have been offered in 16 locations and are scheduled for several more in upcoming months. -Application community-specific performance efforts, including a series of workshops with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) community, the performing arts community, and state networks related to meeting measurement and performance needs.

By drawing upon persuasive technology, interactive computing systems and applications designed to change people's attitudes and behaviors, faculty at Univeristy of North Carlina - Chapel Hill are mapping, designing, and delivering new curriculum across Internet2 that promotes higher order thinking and improved student outcomes. One feature of this curriculum is its use of virtual worlds. An example of this includes developing experiential learning modules designed to provide developing health professionals and students the opportunity to immerse themselves in virtual clinics, pharmacies, and hospitals. Participant will gain valuable experience and become familiar with these facilities before they are actually assigned internships there. Similarly, faculty in the School of Information and Library Science are using virtual worlds and advanced networks to extend their classroom spaces and activities by providing "virtual labs" for small group work and experimentation. Virtual worlds are also being used in more traditional distance education applications as well. For instance, a certificate course that has traditionally been taught face-to-face in our School of Government will be taught over advance networks within Second Life this fall. Beyond delivering interactive content, these resources are being designed to facilitate the crucial networking component of this class. ////// Content furthering the pursuit of virtual worlds in the high speed networking community

In recent years, a significant new threat (Stolen Credentials) has emerged that has required the development of new detection, forensic, and remediation techniques, as well as requiring changes in threat assessment. This attack is especially difficult to combat with conventional methods, as attackers use valid credentials from known systems to compromise additional systems. LBL is a pioneer in the study of this new threat and will present actual case studies of international proportions covering detection, forensics, response, mitigation, lessons learned, and law enforcement involvement. /////// Enterprise Networks have internal monitoring and access control issues which are distinctly different from those which affect its relationship to the Internet as a whole. Internal traffic patterns and threat models are potentially of greater interest and concern to the network administrator than those of the internet at large, due in a substantial degree to the lack of understanding of internal traffic patterns, and the lack of tools to monitor and to enforce internal network policies. Lawrence Berkerley National Lab is addressing these issues and others via the deployment of extremely cost-effective COTS equipment within each broadcast domain in its enterprise network. This auto-configuring equipment not only passively monitors for network anamolies, such as intra-subnet scanning activity, but also allows for active traffic shaping and control within each broadcast domain. LBNL's implementation essentially slaves the monitoring and control equipment to central servers which thus have a centralized view and aggregation of the distributed data. Network access and control enforcement is also centralized in an elegant and natural manner due to the nature of the implementation.

Exciting new services are becoming available via the InCommon Federation. Recently, the National Instiutes of Health joined as a service provider to offer federated access to select NIH applications. A number of high-profile corporate service providers have also joined InCommon to enable federated access to their applications and services as well. Participants will hear from representatives of these new partners about the importance of federated identity, their service plans, and how to work with them to take advantage of these opportunities.

NOTE WELL: This panel discussion spans two time periods. Each panelist will make a brief presentation during the 8:45 to 10:00 session. Part Two will begin 10:15am and be a moderated interactive panel discussion.

This panel discussion will provide an overview of the recommendation of the IEEE High Speed Study Group (HSSG) who have recommended that the IEEE form a Task Force to write a standard for 40G and 100G Ethernet to be called IEEE 802.3ba. This panel discussion will address the distinct market needs and underlying bandwidth drivers between: (a) server edge applications in a data center; and (b) network aggregation applications in carrier networks and large data centers that led to the definition of two data rates for higher-speed Ethernet.

There is divergence in bandwidth growth rates between the two applications, viz. server edge and network aggregation. The server edge bandwidth growth is driven by CPU I/O performance which is following a Moore's Law curve. On the other hand, network aggregation bandwidth requirements are driven by multiple factors such as the increase in access points feeding into the network and higher access data rates. This difference in the bandwidth drivers results in a steeper growth curve for network aggregation applications compared to server applications, thereby leading to the recommendation of different data rates and associated physical interface specifications; 40 GbE for data center server applications and 100 GbE for carrier network aggregation.

A specific objective of the group is to provide appropriate support for the Optical Transport Network (OTN). Possibilities for mapping of 40GbE and, in particular, 100GbE into the OTN will be outlined, together with a discussion for the need to support OTN efficiently, and the resulting benefit to the end user. This session also includes a discussion of several different modulation formats and transmission protocols that may be used in carrier transport networks and the total system capacity resulting from their use.

This BoF will allow interested individuals to discuss Cyberinfrastructure and how it applies to a broad range of academic researchers and facilitate their entry, via campus-centered efforts, into data-sharing communities, with the goal of promoting progress of science and engineering. Currently, campus-centered efforts are being designed to bring together players from campus, regional and national CI projects to share information and plan how to provide CI functions for the campus.

This is a good chance to "meet the multicast experts" and exchange information about IP multicast.

The Program Committee will meet to begin the program planning process for the Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about the Program Committee, please contact Marianne Smith (melser@internet2.edu).

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.

This lunch BoF will focus on introductory issues. Bring your questions and we'll discuss federating software, what federations do, what's going on in InCommon, how to join InCommon and why, and any other topics that you'd like to discuss.

This is an opportunity for the Internet2 Archaeology Special Interest Group (SIG) to meet in person.The mission of the SIG is to increase awareness of and engagement in the uses of advanced networking technologies in support of archaeology teaching and research activities throughout the Internet2 member and international partner community.

This will be a regular meeting of the PIC working group. The main topic is expected to be plans for the PIC.edu project.

Our University of California, San Diego (UCSD) hosts have invited Fall Member Meeting attendees to participate in an afternoon of demonstrations and activities on the UCSD campus. The highlights include advanced applications demonstrations presented by Internet2 members at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and tours and demos at the Calit2 facility (requires ticket). The afternoon will culminate in a gala event at the Birch Aquarium, where attendees will enjoy drinks and an hors d'oeuvres buffet while exploring a stunning variety of Pacific marine life in more than 60 habitats. Bus transportation from the Town & Country Resort to the UCSD campus and from the UCSD campus to the Birch Aquarium will be provided.

Your Campus Itinerary

You are invited to plan your campus afternoon as best suits your schedule. Buses between the resort and campus will run between 1:15 and 5:00pm. The bus will drop you off at Calit2 on the UCSD campus. Starting at 5:45pm, buses will depart from Calit2 for the Birch Aquarium, with the last bus departing at 6:15pm.

Campus afternoon activities are available at the following times:

-- Advanced Applications Demos at SDSC, 1:30-5:00pm (light refreshments will be served)

--Calit2 Tours and Demos at 2:00 or 3:30pm (light refreshments will be served)
Due to limited capacity, please note that the Calit2 Tours require a ticket. Please obtain a ticket in advance from the Internet2 Registration Desk at the hotel.

Walking between Calit2 and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) provides the opportunity to explore the beautiful UCSD campus on your own. (Please note, limited shuttle bus service will be provided between Calit2 and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).) While touring the campus, we suggest you check out the following:

-- Geisel Library

-- Campus Bookstore

-- Stuart Sculpture Collection

Please refer to the following web page for transportation information and additional details: http://events.internet2.edu/2007/fall-mm/campus.html.

The Gala Event takes place Wednesday night at the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. This Gala Event culminates an afternoon of demos and other activities on the UCSD campus and is not to be missed! Attendees will enjoy drinks and an hors d'oeuvres buffet while exploring a stunning variety of Pacific marine life in more than 60 habitats. (One drink ticket is included in the cost of your meeting registration; additional alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase—no charge for soft drinks.) Be sure to explore the aquarium bookstore and watch the sunset from the bluff overlooking the Pacific. Bring a jacket, as evening temperatures are likely to be on the chilly side.

Transportation: Transportation for Internet2 guests will be provided from Calit2 on the UCSD campus to the Birch Aquarium beginning at 5:45pm with the last bus departing at 6:15pm. Transportation from the hotel to the aquarium will not be provided, but here are the Google Map directions if you plan to drive on your own. Return transportation will begin at 8:00pm with the last coach departing the Birch Aquarium at 9:00pm.

Continuation of discussions regarding the FCC Order for rural health care. Discussions on application development and demonstrating capabilities.

This meeting will provide an opportunity for Internet2 members to coalesce efforts in the content delivery arena. This may include sharing best practices, defining opportunities in the middleware arena, sharing work with our international partners, or forming partnerships across disciplines in this vital arena.

Recent years have seen an uptake in the incorporation of commercial identity and access management (IAM) solutions into higher education middleware environments. Presenters at this session will draw on their institution's experience to highlight some of the unique challenges and benefits of integrating vendor products into the IAM infrastructure.

This session will provide an update on the Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) and the HOPI network. The DCN Ciena infrastructure deployment is complete and the associated "service" allows users to request the dynamic provision of dedicated network paths between any DCN connected sites.

The available circuit end points will soon also include those on ESnet Science Data Network (SDN). ESnet SDN is a providing a similar service and "peers" with Internet2 DCN for the purpose of seamless setup of interdomain dedicated network paths.

This session will include a i) status of the DCN deployment and service, ii)an introduction to what a user needs to do to utilize this service(including an associated demonstration), iii) a status of the corresponding ESnet SDN deployment and service, and iv) a discussion of the plans for expanding the global "reach" of these types of services and the related plans for a SC2007 demonstration.

The Library of Congress and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) embarked upon a test in the 2006-2007 year to develop San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) data-cyberinfrastructure for use as a trusted data center component of the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). During this test phase, both organizations realized that for long-term data transmission for digital preservation, the connectivity between each organization via the Internet2 Abilene infrastructure would be critical to the success of this initiative. After preliminary transfer tests, the network optimization and monitoring for Internet2 connectivity became one of the deliverables as a best practice for use in the NDIIPP community. This session will discuss what was accomplished to provide the appropriate network monitoring and optimization for large-scale transfers of collections housed in the Library of Congress's American Memory Collection to the NDIIPP demonstration data-grid that was developed at San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) for the purposes of this transfer and storage test.

Many organizations today have conferencing requirements ranging from the room system deployment to the desktop including conference streaming and recording. Individually these applications are relatively simple to manage; however putting them together represents a unique challenge for systems administrators. Administrators need to provide their users simple methods to extend the room system conferencing application to the desktop for remote users such as those working from home or traveling. The mechanism to organize and join the conference must be very easy including seamless connectivity through firewalls. These mechanisms must integrate with a user's typical daily workflow using the tools and applications already available and in use today. Management, distribution, and installation of the remote clients must be considered as well. This session will focus on how to accomplish this with advanced middleware. When one thinks of video conferencing, middleware usually isn't thought of. We will examine how middleware can solve common video conferencing deployment problems. Middleware can facilitate call setup making it easy for everyone to get into the conference with whatever device they prefer (even providing the conferencing application), setup the conference on the infrastructure appropriate for the features of the meeting, and produce a recording if required. ////// The EVO (Enabling Virtual Organizations) system is based on a new distributed and unique architecture, leveraging the 10+ years of unique experience of developing and operating the large distributed production based VRVS collaboration system. The primary objective being to provide to the High Energy and Nuclear Physics experiments a system/service that meet their unique requirements of usability, quality, scalability, reliability, and cost necessary for nationally and globally distributed research organizations. The EVO system has been officially released during June 2007 includes a better-integrated and more convenient user interface, a richer feature set including higher resolution video and instant messaging, greater adaptability to all platforms and operating systems, and higher overall operational efficiency and robustness with full integration with H.323, SIP and POTS network. All of these aspects will be particularly important as we approach and then enter the startup period of the LHC (the world largest physics experiment located at CERN) because the community will require an unprecedented level of daily collaboration. There will be intense demand for long distance scheduled meetings, person-to-person communication, group-to-group discussions, broadcast meetings, workshops and continuous presence at important locations such as control rooms and experimental areas. The need to have the collaboration tools totally integrated in the physicists' working environments will gain great importance. Beyond all these user-features, another key enhancement is the collaboration infrastructure network created by EVO, which covers the entire globe and which is fully redundant and resilient to failure. The EVO infrastructure automatically adapts to the prevailing network configuration and status, so as to ensure that the collaboration service runs without disruption. Because we are able to monitor the end-user's node, we are able to inform the user of any potential or arising problems (e.g. excessive CPU load or packet loss) and, where possible, to fix the problems automatically and transparently on behalf of the user (e.g. by switching to another server node in the network, by reducing the number of video streams received, et cetera). The integration of the MonALISA architecture into this new EVO architecture was an important step in the evolution of the service towards a globally distributed dynamic system that is largely autonomous. The EVO system is intended to become the primary collaboration system used by the High Energy and Nuclear Physics community going forward.

Presence and Integrated Communications:
The Internet2 PIC working group is planning a project to deploy presence federation and interoperable IM and voice on Internet2 campuses. This session will describe the project, called PIC.edu, and review the results of a related survey.

ENUM:
Today most IP destinations for voice, data, and multimedia traffic are "known" only to a single provider, creating VoIP islands. Service Providers are forced use the PSTN as a bridge between these islands for two primary reasons: (1) the immaturity of key protocols that support IP applications, and (2) the lack of a structured approach to managing and sharing information about users.

In the future, all networks will interoperate using IP end-to-end to deliver on the promise of better cost and richer features, including those presently in development as a part of the next-generation communications architecture called IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). As part of this movement, the protocols and user data sharing mechanisms will be as stable and robust as in the PSTN.

Taking one step along the path towards independence from the PSTN, some Service Providers have deployed ENUM databases, also called Registries, to help IP-based Service Providers route calls to their destination without the unnecessary and costly detour through the PSTN. This track session will discuss the role ENUM registries will play in accelerating the movement toward a homogeneous IP multimedia network, reducing overall telephony costs, and setting the foundation for advanced applications.

Institutions cope with many different types of security incidents. Some incidents, such as viruses or other malware, represent chronic threats. Others, such as DDOS attacks, represent more acute threats. Today we'll talk about a third category, one which is potentially exceptionally painful, but also hopefully exceptionally rare -- incidents which can have catastrophic impacts not just on a single institution, but on an entire region or the country as a whole. We'll discuss two examples from this category: pandemic flu, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP). These are serious threats which have garnered substantial funding and ongoing attention at the federal level, but which many schools and other private sector entities have only begun to consider. We'll describe and explain these risks and their potential impact on the country and your institution, describe the unique challenges that "low probability/high pain" events potentially represent, and talk about cost-effective steps your institution can take to harden itself against these threats.

The 2007 Computer Security Awareness Video Contest was conducted by the Educause/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force, the National Cyber Security Alliance and ResearchChannel to raise awareness about and increase computer security at colleges and universities Six winners were chosen from a wide array of videos submitted by students at colleges and universities throughout the country. Using lively vignettes and campus-based scenarios, the short videos and public service announcements explain computer security problems and actions students should take to safeguard their computers and personal information. Since the largest group falling victim to identity theft is men and women between the ages of 18 and 29, it is important for college and university students to understand the risks of being online and how to protect their personal information, computer and campus networks. The contest gave student film makers an opportunity to learn about this problem and communicate it their peers. . This is a good case study of two organizations collaborating to organize and conduct the contest and using internet technologies to judge the contest and distribute the winners. The panel represents views from both the groups conducting the video contest and the students and their faculty advisors who participated in the contest.

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Cyberinfrastructure: The Way Forward

Jeff Boote will chair this regular meeting of the perfSONAR Working Group, a collection of individuals deploying the perfSONAR measurement infrastructure and/or developing tools for use with the International perfSONAR framework. The group meets regularly by phone and this is an opportunity for them to come face-to-face as well as include new potential WG members. More information can be found at http://www.perfsonar.net/

DVTS( Digital Video Transport System ) comprises a multi-platform video/audio streaming application and hardware solution using high- bandwidth, low-latency network infrastructure. it is possible to transmit DV quality video and audio across an IP network using DVTS using inexpensive consumer-grade video and audio equipment. DVTS is currently being used in the Arts and Humanities community for music Master Classes and other live performances. In addition, it has been used in many demonstrations and Internet2 events. It has many other potential applications where high-quality video and audio needs to be transmitted in real-time with low-latency.

The workshop covers theory, design, development and application of DVTS and other digital video applications. We will discuss and share technical, operational and management best practices for using DVTS, multicast distribution and practical media streaming.

Workshop pre-requisites.

Required:
- Laptop preferably running WinXP or Vista
- headphones that you can plug into your laptop
- Firewire support - either a laptop with a firewire (IEEE1394) port or a PCMCIA firewire card that can be plugged into the laptop.
- firewire cable(s) that will connect your firewire port to a HandyCam

Preferred:
- a DV camera with Firewire capability (or some compatible device) or a standard camera along with a digital video converter such as a Canopus ADVC 100.

The Globus Project is developing fundamental technologies needed to build Grids --persistent environments that enable software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information. This paradigm has become common in many application communities that use distributed resources in a coordinated manner. In this half day tutorial, we will give a brief overview of the components which make up Globus, a coordinated set of open source software that includes services and libraries for security, resource management, monitoring and discovery, file transfer and data management. We summarize future plans, and give details on how others can contribute to this effort.