Business Meeting for executive/principal representative for each network member or connector. If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Ana Preston (apreston@internet2.edu).

A gathering of those involved in the work of federations, to exchange information about recent developments, report on follow-ups to action items from the Federation Soup meeting, and identify how to best continue our common agenda. Topics will likely include national and international activities, state and system federations, interactions with major service providers, newly federated resources, technical futures, common problems, etc.

A cocktail reception for international attendees and other invited guests, the International Reception is sponsored by Internet2 corporate member Warner Bros. If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Heather Boyles (heather@internet2.edu)

The Strategic Planning Execution Committee (SPEC) will meet to discuss and refine the implementation plan to be presented to the meeting attendees at the first general session.

Learn everything you've wanted to know about the work of the Internet2 K20 community. The K20 Initiative Monday meeting is open to everyone. Come one, come all! A working lunch will be provided. Browse the meeting agenda HERE.

General gathering to discuss current issues/activities with regard to Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Planning at member institutions.

This session will discuss updates and upcoming work done by the Directories Working Group.

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. All those interested in learning about advanced networking around the world are welcome to attend. Click HERE to see a detailed agenda for this session.

This session is a working group meeting of the iHDTV development partners. The group will review status of assigned tasks from the iHDTV development roadmap, discuss interoperability with other HD conferencing platforms including UltraGrid and i-Visto, and consider next steps for ongoing work. The session is open to anyone interested in participating in the project.

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. 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.

All councils meeting for cross council discussions.

Internet2 is developing COmanage - a collaboration management platform. This BoF is for potential users, administrators and developers of COmanage and other collaboration management platforms to discuss what's needed to make collaboration management platforms desirable to users while keeping them easy to deploy and manage for administrators and easy to integrate with for developers.

A meeting for those interested in advanced networking development/issues in the Caribbean.

Matt Zekauskas will host this in-depth presentation on tools in use by the community. Users of the newly-released Network Performance Toolkit (a Knoppix disc) will report out on their experiences, how it was and was not helpful, and what they are looking for in future releases.

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 External Relations Advisory Council (ERAC) is responsible for advising the Board and management on matters of policy, standards, and strategies in the context of industry, government, and international relations. These include, but are not limited to, issues of technology transfer and engagement strategies between Internet2 and industry; the role of national-scale networks as a vital resource for the nation's economic, scientific, and cultural development; and maintenance of strong bilateral partnerships with international networking organizations and Internet2's leadership role in international collaborations. ERAC will also provide advice on membership growth and strategy.

Architecture and Operations Advisory Council (AOAC) meeting at the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting. Open to all attendees.

Open council meeting of the Applications, Middleware and Security Advisory Council.

Research Advisory Council (RAC) meeting at the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting. Open to all attendees.

Governance & Nominations Committee Meeting - open to attendees.

Working meeting of the K20 Initiative Advisory Committee

Presenters from key Research & Education networks around the world will discuss their plans for the next 2-3 years in this session. They will focus on domestic and external network infrastructure and network services they expect to provide, in addition to making recommendations as to how the Internet2 Network ought to interconnect with their region.

In our limited time we will not be able to hear from every network around the world, but hope to cover several large geographic regions. To learn more about emerging networks around the world, please attend the Monday morning Emerging R & E Networks Special Interest Group (SIG).

Closed Architecture and Operations Advisory Council (AOAC) meeting at the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting.

ERAC face-to-face meeting in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting.

AMSAC face-to-face meeting in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting.

Closed Research Advisory Council (RAC) meeting at the Internet2 Fall 2008 Member Meeting.

Discussion on Updates and direction for the Grouper and Signet working groups.

This tutorial will walk potential users through the steps they would need to take to connect their computer to the DCN. It will give an overview of what you would put into an API to make your existing application call the DCN and how to access the webservice interface to request circuits. The tutorial will include an overview of how to get from your location to another connected location and briefly describe other networks available to Internet2 members (AutoBahn, etc.). This session will include some hands-on opportunities so participants should bring their laptops!

Updates and discussion on the Shibboleth project.

Each registration includes one drink ticket redeemable for one alcoholic beverage. Cash bar prices for additional drinks are as below. Imported/Specialty Beer: $7 Domestic Beer: $6 House wine: $7

This is a meeting of the Southeastern Regional Optical Network - the SERON group. If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Gary Crane (gcrane@sura.org).

Doug Van Houweling will briefly welcome attendees at the start of the Corporate Breakfast. Program will begin at 7:30. Internet2 Advisory Council members and liaisons will offer remarks concerning participation in Internet2's governance structure which is now in place for a year. The breakfast forum provides an opportunity to provide input to the 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)

The Governance and Nominations Committee (GNC) will meet in closed session to discuss ongoing GNC activities and prepare for the upcoming election.

Russ Hobby will host a discussion on CyberInfrastructure.

Steve Senger (UWisc) and Chet Ruczyk (MIT Haystack) will co-chair this regular meeting of the Transport Working Group, a collection of individuals interested in alternatives to TCP and UDP for transporting large amounts of data. 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.

SA-SIG meeting to plan SANOG-related & Spring Member Meeting activities, as well as discussing advanced networking activity in South Asia

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

Representatives of vendor organizations with services of interest to Quilt members and other members of the R&E community will provide brief introductions, updates on products and community news.

Demonstrations during the day include:

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• C-SPAN Digital Online Video Library
• Cyber-Enabled 850MHz NMR Web-Portal
• DREAMS—Disaster Relief Emergency Medical System
• Enabling Virtual Organizations (EVO)
• The FACIT Approach to Cooperative Data Networks
• IOCOM Grid—Distributed Visual Collaboration in the Healthcare Industry
• IPTV over Internet2: Live!
• Nortel: Advanced Carrier Ethernet
• SCOPIA Desktop—Making it Easy to Fully Participate in Meetings
• Vidyo: a New Approach to HD Video Conferencing
• Weather and Coastal/Ocean Data Transport and Visualization

High-speed IP networks like Internet2 in the USA and GEANT2 in Europe are creating opportunities for new kinds of real-time applications that connect artists and audiences across the world. A new generation of audio-visual technology is required to deliver the exceptionally high quality required to enjoy performances over IP networks. There are three major challenges around transmission of high-quality live music performances over IP networks: true acoustic representation, efficient and loss-less compression / decompression that preserves the performance quality, and recovery from IP packet loss in the network. This session will analyze each of these three elements and provide an overview of the mechanisms developed by Polycom to deliver exceptional audio and video quality, and special modifications for the Live Music Mode in Polycom equipment. The session will also discuss how the Manhattan School of Music uses this technology for transmission of their live music performances over the high-speed Internet2 network.

The session will provide an overview of FiberCo and WaveCo services. Topics will include: - an overview of FiberCo fiber offerings in conjunction with Level 3, with a focus on the expiration of the current agreement; - an overview of WaveCo lit service offerings in conjunction with Level 3; - an overview of the expanded WaveCo static circuit services offered by Internet2 on the new network; these static circuits can be flexible in bandwidth (50 mbps to 10 gig) and duration (weeks to years). Special attention will be given to members of the community using the services provided by FiberCo and WaveCo.

The Internet2 Middleware Initiative and the InCommon Federation have been working with partners at US government agencies for quite some time. This year there have been significant breakthroughs in federated access to agency services, and prospects of more to come. This work has led to engagement with key campus sectors, in particular grants management, and a better understanding of complex agency application requirements. Representatives from government agencies and participating campuses will provide updates and discuss opportunities.

We've begun an effort to analyze research proposals for both CyberInfrastructure (CI) impact and needs. The anticipated benefits are: - To PIs: knowledgeable analyst may know unusual resources that could add to the competitiveness of a proposal or the success of a project. - To research administration: anticipating cost obligations related to research; more accurate estimation of direct costs of research. - To IT support providers: more lead time in preparing for new needs and more opportunity to point out better ways to accomplish PI's goals. - To research community as a whole: possibility of a more unified approach to campus cyberinfrastructure and more comprehensive attention to research support. A rubric for evaluating proposals has been developed, and "tested" on over 200 proposals. We are now analyzing the results and working to refine the rubric and approach. And we are working with our Sponsored Programs office to determine the best strategies for establishing CI evaluation as a standard part of the research proposal development workflow. We will report on the rubric, what we've learned so far, and the status of making this part of the standard workflow.

EDUCAUSE and Internet2 have an Effective Practice Guide that includes many valuable resources for schools of any size. This guide is an online resource that many institutions do not know that much about. This session will review the EP Guide and the many resources that are available.

The infrastructure of Internet2 and the regional optical networks has provided users with an unprecedented level of bandwidth and service quality for a range of applications such as videoconferencing and video streaming. These uses are valuable and important in their own right, but they only scratch the surface of the set of possibilities for delivering video across the network. This presentation will describe in detail a number of technologies that can be used to deliver live video signals for a variety of educational, scientific, commercial and entertainment purposes. Techniques for adapting uncompressed high definition, standard definition, and compressed video formats will be covered, including the latest SMPTE standards including 2022. Different forms of compression will be discussed, including JPEG 2000, MPEG, and H.264. Techniques that can be used for controlling a wide-area video network will be discussed, along with the architectures and topologies that can be successfully deployed. Session attendees will come away with an understanding of the current state of the art in transporting broadcast-quality or better video across IP networks, and gain a working knowledge of the key requirements for managing a successful video transport installation.

The Internet2 IPv6 Working Group has begun an IPv6 Challenge -- they are challenging people to become IPv6-enabled. At the recent Joint Techs Workshop in Lincoln, this Challenge sponsored a demo wherein Workshop participants configured their laptops to access a v6-only website. This talk will discuss the recent demo as well as many similar efforts at NANOG, IETF, and other conferences, some of which that have included IPv4-shutdowns.

This session will take a look at a rising application in the use of videoconferencing/streaming/Web 2.0 tools in the K12 realm. A true 21st century model of empowering students with the technology to create, connect and collaborate across their states and the world. The KC3 (Kids Creating Community Content) project was first inspired by work started in Texas by K12 schools on the TETN network. Classes across Texas and the U.S. could take “virtual fieldtrips” designed, developed and delivered by Texas students based on regional resources. The KC3 project expanded on this concept and opened it up to middle and high schools from across the U.S. Classes from Hawaii to New Jersey developed their own presentations covering topics such as Hawaiian aquaculture, Texas windfarms and Oklahoma’s mound builders. The teams delivered their content over live videoconference to student audiences. Streaming/archiving technologies were used to evaluate the projects. Educators from across the U.S. evaluated and rated the projects based on criteria such as student engagement, pre and post conference activities, and level of interactivity. KC3, managed by the Center for Interative Learning and Collaboration, was awarded first place in the ISTE Distance Learning Awards and will be expanding this year to include projects from other countries.

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Welcome
Douglas Van Houweling, President and CEO, Internet2 Charlie McMahon, Deputy CIO Louisiana State University & Executive Director LONI Terry Doub, NOC Director, Louisiana State University

Strategic Plan Implementation Update
Jeffrey S. Lehman, Internet2 Board of Trustees Ray Ford, Chief Information & Technology Officer, The University of Montana Peter Siegel, Vice Provost-Information and Educational Technology, University of California, Davis

The Tulane experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina
Scott Cowen, President of Tulane University

The C-SPAN Archives: An online, Indexed, accessible, digital video collection (demo)
Robert Browning, Director, C-SPAN Archive

The Community Leaders Forum is an invitation-only session intended for the executive liaisons of Internet2 member organizations, designed as a high-level briefing and dialog on key priorities for the Internet2 community. This Forum will focus on implementing the strategic plan as the community looks to move forward in developing, deploying and using advanced networking technologies. 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 Barb Nanzig (bnanzig@internet2.edu).

Martin Swany (UDel) and Jeff Boote will co-chair this regular meeting of the Information Services Working Group, a collection of individuals interested in Topology and Discovery. 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.

This BoF is open both for medical staff and network engineers, especially for those who would like to start high-quality telemedicine or to join our activity with DVTS. We will talk about how to set up DVTS, how to check if your hospitals are connected to broadband academic network or how to establish a new connection, how to find engineering people to work with, how to organize the first teleconference or live demonstration in the fields of surgery, endoscopy, cardiac intervention, basic science, nursing, and many others. To overcome the fact that healthcare providers and network engineers often do not know each other, which is one important reason why telemedicine has not gained much popularity yet, match-making to organize a good team of these two different group of people is essential. We will invite remote participants as well to expand our community.

This meeting of the IPTV SIG is intended to describe the activities of the SIG. Discussion will include an update and report out on the range of IPTV activities on national, regional, and campus levels. The meeting will include an update of the IPTV ITEC.

Discussion around PKI.

This is a regularly scheduled meeting of those interested in the Health Sciences to review and plan activities for the coming year

Closed Meeting of the Salsa Advisory Council. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Steve Olshansky (steveo@internet2.edu).

The emergence of high-speed IP networks such as Internet2 in the USA and GEANT2 in Europe are creating opportunities for new kinds of real-time applications in universities and schools around the world. Bandwidth is no longer limiting, but rather driving new applications that were impossible even few years ago. The most profound changes are in the area of bandwidth-hungry visual communication applications. Distributed visual communication will enable new levels of interaction among scientists, researchers and students. It will be easy to use and accessible anywhere and anytime. Telepresence - a new kind of visual communication that provides a ‘just as being there’ experience – will bring distributed teams closer together, and will be deployed by leading organizations to extend the reach of their higher education programs. Content sharing – an essential component of team collaboration – will go beyond sharing slides and spreadsheets, and allow for sharing video clips, animation, and three-dimensional images. Recording, content management, and streaming applications will emerge as a natural complement to real-time communication. These applications will make visual communication much more scalable and accessible from any computer and mobile device. This session explores the future of collaboration, and focuses on the applications for the education market. It introduces new technologies that led to the emergence of telepresence, and discusses how these technologies change and improve the user experience. The presentation also discusses on the impact of these new applications on the IP network, and the mechanisms IT has to implement in order to support them. It focuses on end-to-end quality of service, and introduces new technologies in the area packet loss recovery.

Representatives from higher education and a wide variety of their partner organizations met recently to discuss the rapidly growing instances of federations in the US and worldwide and the increasing need to interfederate. Federations will need to collaborate in areas such as levels of assurance, trust relationship, attributes, and privacy policies to realize this goal. Learn more about the findings and the subsequent activities to address some of these challenges.

This session is focused on highlighting lessons learned in the development of distributed collaborative research applications using advanced networks. Both collaborative academic research and partnerships with government and industry are poised to gain immeasurably with the enabling technologies provided by computational grids and advanced networking. To do so, researchers must “think outside the box” to develop innovative applications that take full advantage of these technologies. Current research efforts will be highlighted, with particular emphasis on the significance of creativity and vision when developing collaborative, geographically distributed cyberinfrastructure-enabled applications in order to achieve what previously would not have been possible with the commodity internet. The Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaborative (GoMRC) provides resource managers and policy-makers in the U.S. and Mexico with a broad understanding of the Gulf of Mexico’s marine and coastal environments through the use of an integrated Earth observing system. Activities such as coastal development, agriculture, fisheries, and oil and gas exploration drive the economic health of the Gulf of Mexico region, and have major implications for the economies of the U.S. and Mexico. These same activities place the Gulf ecosystem under tremendous stress. Our understanding of the Gulf’s ecological challenges has improved in recent years in localized areas, but our ability to view the entire Gulf as a dynamic ecosystem and make management decisions at this broader scale is limited by our ability to integrate existing knowledge, add new data, and develop innovative decision support tools. Noesis, a meta search engine and resource aggregator designed for Atmospheric Science, uses ontologies to guide users to refine their search query producing better search results, reducing the user’s burden to experiment with different search strings. Noesis also serves as an educational tool as it allows users to browse and traverse the different concepts in the ontology. The SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction (SCOOP) Program is developing a network of sensors and linked computers as a part of fully integrating several observing systems in the southern region. This network provides data, in real-time and at high speed, for more reliable, accurate and timely information to help guide effective coastal stewardship, plan for extreme events, facilitate safe maritime operations, and support coastal military security. Using a set of standards-based service-oriented interfaces and distributed resources that can behave as a single, autonomous, taskable, reconfigurable observing system, the resulting cyberinfrastructure provides observed and derived data along with the associated metadata in a coordinated, observation system. Bringing together strong expertise in coastal and marine sciences, information technology, and earth observation systems, as well as experience with regional-scale collaborations, these programs address critical challenges for coastal research. This session will demonstrate how an integrated IT platform supports decision-making and information-sharing for next-generation research and education. Following the presentations of example applications questions will be addressed, and the audience will be invited to participate in a discussion of developing successful collaborative research applications exploiting grid and advanced networking technologies. This discussion will be moderated to encourage active participation.

Around the world, regional and state networks play a critical role in the future of a country's advanced research and education network infrastructure. Trends of research and education networks around the world will be discussed with a focus on similarities and differences between the countries' R&E networks. Information for this session was collected during the last year by The Quilt/MIDnet Case Study Project, http://www.thequilt.net/business_case_project.html, The TERENA Compendium, http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/, and The APAN Compendium and will include organizational structure, network architecture, funding models, services and future directions.
This session is a follow up to sessions that have taken place at both the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Member meetings, and will include new insights into additional models that R&E networks have in place. We anticipate having a dynamic discussion on challenges and opportunities.

The goals of REN-ISAC include developing a trusted community for sharing information regarding cybersecurity threat, incidents, response, and protection, specifically designed to support the unique environment and needs of higher education and research organizations. The trust community provides a forum for sharing sensitive information, a source for trusted contact information, a meeting point for peers, a means to facilitate communications, and methods for improving cybersecurity awareness and response. This session will provide an update on REN-ISAC and impending changes to the membership model.

Since 2006 a group of interested parties have been assembling at I2 meetings to discuss issues related to disaster management and disaster recovery. Very quickly, emergency notification by cell phone and email, as well as web presence during an emergency, emerged as important subtopics. Panel participants represent universities in both urban and rural settings. They will discuss their experiences in emergency notification during a crisis as well as planning for and testing emergency notification systems. Discussion is encouraged.

In a time of resource scarcity, educational organizations are forming collaborative partnerships with other schools and other public organizations within their community to build an IP network mesh to leverage an optical connection to Merit’s Educational and Research backbone. This session will provide an opportunity to explore some current approaches to achieving a collaborative approach to building fiber in rural communities. In several parts of Michigan, key community organizations are collaborating to build jointly owned fiber that can benefit all of the organizations and help share costs. In some situations, Merit has helped finance the costs of building fiber laterals to Merit's network, helping to overcome a key hurdle to fiber connectivity.

Each speaker's institution utilizes Kerberos credential store and authentication service for identity and access management. Kerberos is decades old of course, but this use to, in effect, meld native Kerberized apps, LDAP authentication and LDAP-based CAS, Windows domain login, and others seems worthy of detailing as a strategy. Also worth considering is whether we're comfortable with this central role for Kerberos, or whether we need a migration strategy (say, to PKI)? Is Kerberos going to keep pace with needs? What are the pros and cons of underpinning IAM with an institution-wide single Kerberos realm? How effective is Kerberos in unifying authentication via LDAP, web trusted third party authentication service (CAS), Windows login, and RADIUS? Speakers agreed to participate, describing their institution's utilization, strategy, and challenges using Kerberos as core component of IAM: David Bantz, Chief Information Architect, University of Alaska Brendan Belina, Identity Services Architect, University of Southern California Klara Jelinkova, Sr. Director, Shared Services and Infrastructure, Duke Universtiy Barry Ribbeck, Director of Systems Architecture and Infrastructure, Rice University (combined with) Cornell University has recently rewritten its custom solution for web single sign-on as part of a larger project to migrate all authentication services to Kerberos 5 and retire Kerberos 4. The new version was designed to be released eventually as an open source package. It contains many features campus developers have relied on in the previous version, such as directives to check group membership for purposes of authorization, post data support, and the portability of credentials across multiple physical servers (single sign-on). New features include the ability to set the number of seconds a session can remain idle before a prompt for re-authentication is issued, support for multiple Kerberos realms and significantly improved performance. The speakers will describe the service architecture and approach to code design and testing, as well as the mechanisms deployed to manage releases.

The strategic planning execution committee will host 3 separate focus groups to allow the community to provide input into the implementation phase of the Internet2 Strategic Plan.

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Jeff Boote will host this panel of presenters on work in the community -- where is it is going? How are folks measuring performance? Special attention will be paid to the newly released Knoppix disk of various performance tools that allow a user to boot up a measurement point on demand. This tool was first implemented with the LHC community and a report on their experiences will be included.

Enabling CDP, the New Dimension in Remote Storage Management for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery With Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and optical networking technologies maturing, a wider array of research and education enterprises are able to cost-effectively implement sophisticated storage services at extended distances using various protocols. Today, disaster recovery and business continuity are strongly entrenched as essential capabilities in enterprise storage strategies. Continuous data protection (CDP) and new protocol standards like FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) represents the newest dimension in remote storage management. CDP relies on disk technology to continuously capture data updates in real time. As data is written to disk, it is simultaneously written in a second location and time-stamped. CDP’s most important innovation is in the area of data restore. This panel presentation would examine the best roles for CDP and how research and education enterprises are creatively leveraging different optical networking capabilities and protocols to deliver the benefits they require. While government regulations and competitive pressures have made implementing CDP and other storage services more of a business imperative, innovations in WDM and optical networking have made it more cost-effectively possible. Specific case studies will be presented by vendor, university and hospital participants.

Access to library online resources and services has skyrocketed as opportunities for distance learning and the user expectations for availability of online information have increased. Providing access to these resources requires substantial time and resources by libraries, as well as often being complex for the users. The InCommon Library/Shibboleth project was started in 2007 to explore the issues in implementing access to library services and electronic resources using Shibboleth authentication. This session will highlight the work done by the project since its inception.

Formal frameworks for identity assurance (such as InCommon Bronze and Silver) are being developed to support federated identity and agency-driven compliance efforts. But many campuses are working to support differentiated assurance methods in their identity management systems to meet practical local needs for support of diverse user populations and application needs. This session will highlight requirements and techniques for implementing identity assurance at selected universities, and consider how these activities relate to federation assurance profiles.

TThe Department of Veterans Affairs has recently joined the Internet2 community and launched a program to demonstrate advanced technologies and demonstrations that will help the VA better support the nation's veterans and their families. The VA has already begun to identify and plan the implementation of several demonstration projects. This session will provide an update of the VA's Internet2 program and will include panelists from various groups within the VA to discuss their projects.

This first of two virtual worlds panel discussions sponsored by the Teaching & Learning SIG and the K20 Initiative will bring together a diverse set of speakers across several sectors including Higher Education, K12, Informal Education, and Industry to discuss the current landscape of virtual reality environments for research and education. An examination of several worlds including Second Life, Active Worlds, and Lively will reveal the unique challenges and opportunities for using these and other emerging virtual worlds within the constraints of real world goals and outcomes. The panelists will also have an opportunity to present their vision for where these virtual worlds can take us, especially combined with the power of advanced networks and technologies and the development communities in support of advanced networking.

C-SPAN, the national television network, has deployed a complete digital archive of its extensive video coverage free through Internet2. We hope that as teachers and researchers throughout the U.S. become more aware of our collection, its extensive index, the video library of 80,000 hours of programming, and a video player that permits clipping, that use will expand. The HYPERLINK "http://www.c-span.org/videolibrary" C-SPAN Video Library ( HYPERLINK "http://c-span.org/videolibrary" http://c-span.org/videolibrary) is an online website containing every program recorded by C-SPAN since 1987. Currently all video back to 1998, about 60% of the entire 150,000 hour collection, is digitized and available online in Flash video with a player that allows the selection of clips. A search algorithm indexes speakers, subjects, sponsors, keyword, and words spoken. The Congressional Chronicle feature is a chronological organization of all speakers and actions on the floor of the U.S. House and Senate. Each speaker’s appearance is linked to the remarks as printed in the Congressional Record and to the video clip that can be immediately played the Flash video player. The Flash video player allows clipping, posting, and mailing of individual speeches. This presentation will address the design and delivery elements of the C-SPAN Archive and will showcase the many features and uses of this application.

he 100 Gigabit-per-second (100G) optical networks research center and testbed has been established at The Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This Industry-led center includes founding research members ADVA, Ciena, OFS, Stratalight, and Verizon. Supporting members include Avanex, IBM and Picometrix. The 100G Center allows academic and industry personnel to perform multidisciplinary research in all aspects of 100G transmission, supported by the diverse and complementary strengths of the industrial partners and faculty members. Research topics span from fundamental studies of 100G optical transmission with impairments characteristic of real fiber optic networks to assessment of technologies (both optical and electronic) supporting such high-speed optical networks. The new 100G testbed along with extensive supporting simulation capabilities enable rigorous and independent evaluation of optical and electronic signal processing strategies, new modulation formats, high-speed silicon CMOS based electronics and classical/modern forward error correction - all in realistic optical fiber transport and electronic transceiver environments. Representatives from GA Tech and participating industry partners will present their interests related to the 100G research project in light of their company goals and their vision for the evolution of optical networks.

The strategic planning execution committee will host 3 separate focus groups to allow the community to provide input into the implementation phase of the Internet2 Strategic Plan.

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The strategic planning execution committee will host 3 separate focus groups to allow the community to provide input into the implementation phase of the Internet2 Strategic Plan.

The heart of the statewide NJVid digital video portal is a sophisticated Shibboleth implementation that supports participation by any educational or cultural heritage organization, from the smallest museum and K12 to the largest university, and the statewide networking agency, NJEdge. Shibboleth and the service-oriented Fedora Commons repository architecture are used to create a sophisticated and flexible statewide cyberinfrastructure that provides trust, security and long-term preservation and access for video assets. NJVid is viewed as the first of many services that will ultimately provide a complete digital information infrastructure for the New Jersey education and cultural heritage community and users. This presentation will focus on the integrated architecture, the development philosopy, progress, and open source components currently available to the I2 community.

This session will provide an overview of recent activities with 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 current network topology, an operations update, services deployed, policies and governance direction for operations, and plans for evolving the network over time.

This 2-part session will include a presentation by Pankaj Shah and David Barber on the collaborative video conferencing efforts in Ohio and a presentation by Bob Dixon, Gabe Moulton, and Nicholas Thompson on low-cost telepresence solutions.


Part I
Ohio has approached video conferencing services in a collaborative environment. All videoconferencing assets from three major players - OARnet, eTech and State of Ohio OIT are being put together in the collaborative architecture. These assets also encompass high definition telepresence, collaboration tools such as Elluminate, broadcasting assets (satellite dishes etc.)
This collaborative approach has helped create a unified and cost effective service offering for various stakeholders in education, research and government sectors. We will provide some of the building blocks and best practices that we have created while coming up with this unified service.



Part II
A low-cost Telepresence kit is now available, and we will describe our experiences with installing and using two of them, including interoperability with other Telepresence systems and standard videoconferencing systems. The current capabilities of the Internet2 Commons for high-definition video and telepresence will be described.

With the social networking boom sweeping the connected world the K20 community worldwide is determined not to be left behind. This joint presentation is a one-year-on update on two collaboration-inspiring projects running simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK the JANET Collaborate Prototype provides a place for teachers to find others with similar interests as well as educational videoconference opportunities with Museums. Equipped with the findings of the user surveys and case studies from the recent Pilot phase JANET(UK) now hope to develop the site towards more integration with other JANET Communication Services, connecting the cultural content and the communications technology like never before. In the US, Muse was launched by the Internet2 K20 Initiative to significantly enhance collaboration, information-sharing and technology opportunities for the over 50,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries and museums in 38 U.S. states now connected to the Internet2 backbone network. User data and case studies will be provided to describe success to date and challenges as Muse considers expansion to other communities within the Internet2 consortium. Both teams will discuss the grand challenges and futures of social networking for the advanced networking community.

In the interest of online security and asset management, IT professionals may ask users to install agent-based tools that can help. Examples include asset management tools that are able to take an inventory of installed software, or virus protection tools and network access control tools that watch the activity on network interfaces and sift through stored file names and contents for signs of compromise or infection. The functionality is often achieved through the use of "agent" software that the users are asked to install. This agent software acts on the endpoint computer with at least the privileges of the primary user, and often with full administrator or "super user" privileges. In this session, we explore some of the security, privacy and related risks associated with such deployments.

This session would present experimental infrastructures in the US and Europe for trialling new networking technologies. These employ virtualisation techniques allowing network resources to be allocated amongst multiple users, whilst granting each user varying degrees of control over their resources. They aim to be 'technology-agnostic' and to allow disruptive testing to be undertaken without affecting other users on the network.

University of Southern California and Clemson University are putting together a DR solution between the two campuses using dedicated circuits and regional network facilities. This discussion will be about the pitfalls, gotchas and design of such a facility. We will discuss the technical as well as organizational issues of developing a relationship. An overview of the services each campus plans to install at the other site and the technology use for it will be shown.

As RONs and NRENs are increasingly being leveraged for transfer of large amount of storage between data centers for disaster recovery, new requirements must be met. Block storage transfer for synchronous and asynchronous replication place unique burdens on the network, including requirements for deterministic performance and support of high transaction applications. The speaker will provide a primer on the requirements of storage networking, relationship to RPO/RTO objectives, and considerations of network challenges of storage replication. Additionally an end user in the health care field will share experience and perspectives of their storage replication network.

This is a face to face opportunity for members of the Internet2 Network Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC). Chair is Paul Schopis, Internet2 liaison is Linda Roos.

To convey ADVA's technology road map and solicit product line development features from key individuals as to which features are most applicable for the R&E community. ADVA will also solicit suggestions for the R&E community as opportunities for future collaboration. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session, please contact Brian Savory (bsavory@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 events and education. If you are interesting in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Ann Doyle (adoyle@internet2.edu).

The Internet2 Network Members and Connector/RONs BoF is an open forum where issues and information are shared between organizations that provide aggregation, network connectivity and network services for the R&E community.

The BoF’s primary focus is on information sharing and open discussion on issues of relevance between Network Members and Connectors. The session is led by representatives from this constituency group. Today, the following individuals have kindly offered their time and expertise in leading this forum which meets during each Internet2 Member Meeting and Joint Techs Workshop:

• Dave Farmer, Northern Lights GigaPoP farmer@unm.edu
• Ron Hutchins, SoX
• Michael Lambert, 3ROX
• George Loftus, OSHEAN
• Greg Palmer, MAGPI

This will be a BoF about GENI and Internet2 and how regional and campus networks can be involved in the project. Internet2 has contributed a wave on the Internet2 Network to the GENI Project Office in support of the GENI project. How this might affect regional and campus networks will be discussed, along with the general goals of the GENI project. BoF leaders will be Rick Summerhill and Matt Zekauskas of Internet2 and Heidi Picher Dempsey of the GPO at BBN.

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. For more information please visit the Internet2 Collaboration SIG website/wiki

This is a long-standing group that meets regularly by phone and this is an opportunity for them to come face-to-face as well as include new potential WG members. They support the work of several high-energy physics sub-groups.

Open discussion for the PIC Working Group

This meeting of the VoIP SIG is intended to describe the activities of the SIG. Discussion will include VoIP activities that are ongoing and also set the VoIP direction for the rest of the year. The meeting will include an update of the VoIP ITEC.

A meeting for those interested in advanced networking development/issues in the Middle East.

This is the regular meeting of the Research Channel-Internet 2 Working Group. This is an opportunity for the list members (a universe of 450+) who attend the Internet2 meetings to get together face to face, give presentations, and share information in this popular group. New members and non-members welcome. We will discuss activities of members in video-over-IP, as well as new technology and new companies.

Continuing TP2 advisory committee meeting to discuss operational and policy TP2 matters. If you are interested in obtaining more information or attending this session please contact Jim Williams (williams@indiana.edu).

Demonstrations during the day include:

Click on demonstration for more detail
• C-SPAN Digital Online Video Library
• Cyber-Enabled 850MHz NMR Web-Portal
• DREAMS—Disaster Relief Emergency Medical System
• Enabling Virtual Organizations (EVO)
• The FACIT Approach to Cooperative Data Networks
• IOCOM Grid—Distributed Visual Collaboration in the Healthcare Industry
• IPTV over Internet2: Live!
• Nortel: Advanced Carrier Ethernet
• SCOPIA Desktop—Making it Easy to Fully Participate in Meetings
• Vidyo: a New Approach to HD Video Conferencing
• Weather and Coastal/Ocean Data Transport and Visualization

The Importance of Cyberinfrastructure for Higher Education
Ed Seidel, Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

An iHDTV Peek Behind the Scenes at the LHC
September 10 marked the first-ever circulation of a beam of protons around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), representing a major milestone along the path towards a new understanding of the fundamental nature of the physical universe. This is a major milestone for physics, and also an important milestone for the Internet2 advanced networking community in supporting research in the U.S.

The LHC will generate many petabytes during each year of operation, and will accumulate an exabyte of real and simulated data within the first decade of its estimated 20 years of operation. Internet2 and its regional partner networks, ESnet and USLHCNet will provide the critical national and transatlantic infrastructure linking U.S. LHC scientists to the data, and to their partners in Europe and Asia.

To celebrate and highlight our community’s work, Internet2 will present a live peek behind the scenes at the LHC using advanced iHDTV technology developed by the ResearchChannel and University of Washington to provide our community a first hand view of the biggest science device on the planet and discuss the importance the community’s investment in cyberinfrastructure to this work and in future research and discovery.

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After ten months of discussion and debate, and 4000 hours of development, USC implemented Google Apps For Education for over 47,000 students. The Google Apps at USC project began in the summer of 2007 after experimentation by the Law School and the School of Engineering with GA4E. During the next months a rapid development process began, with the original intent to offer GA4E to all students by the fall of 2007. Many decisions regarding service offerings, account management, Single-Sign-On integration, activation, and service support were made with little time to poll the student body, and with each week the scope altered as Google continuously and aggressively altered its offering. By the official launch date in January, 2008 the offering included all web-based and non-web-based Google services, with single-sign-on via a pre-release version of Shibboleth 2.0, with a self-service opt-in activation application offered to over 47,000 student account holders. In five months over 10,500 individuals, 22% of those eligible, have chosen to opt in to the service, with 67% using Google to host their USC email. This presentation will review the determining factors and decisions involved in this ground-breaking implementation, as well as the often hidden costs of this "free" service.

All disasters carry a health impact. The National Library of Medicine created the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) to serve as a national resource for collecting, organizing and disseminating health information related to disasters. This Center also researches and test technologies that can play a role in collecting, organizing, and maintaining the access to health information before, during and after disasters. Managing disaster information for health purposes is becoming increasingly complex as the volume and sources of information are constantly increasing. Providing the right health information, just when is needed, where it's needed is often challenging, but especially so during times of disaster. The availability of a proper information and communications infrastructure is always essential for successfully managing the health impact of disasters. NLM will present its view of the data networking needs of health care during disasters, and collect input from the Internet2 community about the role of advanced networks in this context. This interactive session is meant to stimulate the dialog between the disasters, health and advanced networking communities towards improving the information infrastructure for health care during disasters.

RAIDP.org is an Identity Provider with the primary mission of helping researchers, faculty, staff, and students from "non-shibbolized" institutions gain access to the tools and resources supporting collaborative projects based at Clemson University. Our session will showcase the successes, the challenges, and the resulting questions brought to light while building this tool. In addition to RAIDP.org we will also showcase some of the projects and collaborations involving federated authentication in South Carolina.

Bandwidth requirements for computing and core networking applications are growing at different rates, necessitating the definition of two distinct data rates for the next generation of Ethernet: 40GbE and 100GbE. Servers, high performance computing clusters, blade servers, storage area networks and network attached storage are looking toward 40GbE in the future; whereas core networking has demonstrated the need for 100GbE. The IEEE Higher Speed Study Group, led by John D'Ambrosia from Force10 Networks, has progressed to the IEEE P802.3ba Higher Speed Ethernet Task Force, working on the standard for both 40GbE and 100GbE, to be adopted together in a single standard. In this session, we'll discuss the reasons for two speeds of Ethernet, progress toward 40GbE and 100GbE standards, the technology challenges which are still to be overcome, the issues and tradefoff which need to be decided, and the timeframe for when these higher speeds of ethernet can be expected to be available.

This session will give an update on the 5 NSF-funded International Research Networks connections (IRNC) projects. The current program runs through the end of 2009. So, in addition to discussing the successes (and challenges) of the current projects, we hope to be able to have some NSF insight on where the program might be heading.

Museums, Science Centers, Zoos, Cultural Institutions and many other informal educational partners are taking advantage of Internet2 through SEGP opportunities and the K20 Initiative. How can we satisfy the unique needs of these communities and what are the best types of applications and programs they can offer? In the first half of this session we will look at some of the outreach programs to these organizations enabled by Internet2. In the second half, we will open the floor for a round-table discussion with our local and remote panelists to discuss the unique challenges, solutions and successes they have had working with their local SEGP partners.

How will cloud computing affect higher education? Should you believe the hype? How can you prepare your campus for the next three years? In this on-the-go, millennial environment, students want information at their convenience. Campus libraries are feeling the pressure and evolving how they do business—notably through campus collaborations with IT to create new information commons spaces: vibrant, technology-rich spaces designed for active learning and community building. What will today’s student require from the traditional research university library? What can be done to engage the university community with the needed changes to remain relevant in a digital world, as well as provide a successful transition scenario? A key part of these new spaces and services are robust network infrastructure and new ways of reaching students and accessing information. The network is also a potential disintermediation factor in offering technology services from the third-party providers in competition with traditional university-provided services. What are possible scenarios coming from “cloud providers” in the next three years? The presenters will discuss a successful information commons implementation and how it has moved beyond the library into the campus and the cloud. The discussion will bring some sense to the chaos by demonstrating what you need to be doing right now in order to prepare for the changes ahead. The presentation will highlight changes the research library will experience, how IT departments must change to maintain relevance, and the likely services that will be made available from cloud computing resources. (COMBINED WITH) As campus requirements for cyberinfrastructure come together, cloud computing is this year's hot topic. This executive-oriented panel session will touch on opportunities and risks in this fast-moving space. Topics include: understanding vendor offerings; investment models; role of central IT in support; privacy and security policy issues; contract practices; identity integration; and more.

Big science applications such as LHC, e-VLBI, and UltraGrid are here. These applications have the potential to drive network upgrades due to their large bandwidth requirements and the need to make scattered resources available over a network. This panel discussion: "Optical in the Core, Ethernet at the Edge," will concentrate on discussing two aspects of technologies that can help campus and regional networks satisfy the demands of these big science applications. Control Plane Development Status This panel discussion brings together corporate members working in the area of control plane development for dynamic circuit creation. Topics that will be covered are the state of various standards and the implementation of those standards. Example standards are the OGF's Network Service Interface; IETF's Path Computation Element and Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp); and ITU-T ASON G.8080. The panel will discuss the direction of these standards and their relationship to Internet2's DCN.

The Strategic Planning Execution Committee will meet to discuss the outcome of the Focus Group sessions.

Carla Hunt (MCNC) will chair this regular meeting of the Performance Working Group, a collection of individuals interested in performance and measurement. 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.

This lunch BoF will focus on introductory issues. Bring your questions and we'll discuss federating software, what federations do, the activities of the federation community, how to join InCommon and why, and any other topics that BoF participants find relevant.

The Program Committee will meet to begin the program planning process for the Spring 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting. If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Marianne Smith melser@internet2.edu.

The RENOG BoF allows for technical discussion of issues and challenges specific to the Research & Education world, particularly as it relates to global research. Network engineers from around the world can focus on coordinating routing and other operational aspects of interconnecting NRENs.

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.

Get together and discuss what's new with IP Multicast, current issues people are seeing and need help with, etc.

Emerging trends point to using Federated Identity to address challenging issues in supporting access to off-campus academic, administrative, and research services. Panelists will present how campuses can leverage the InCommon Federation to use Apple iTunes U and online resources offered by the National Student Clearinghouse and the TeraGrid.

The session will survey REN progress in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last three years. Ten National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) now exit as legally incorporated entities in Sub-Saharan countries. Active projects to form NRENs are underway in at least a dozen other countries of the region. At the regional level, in 2006 the NRENs of eastern and southern Africa formed the UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking to promote interconnections with each other and with RENs world-wide. UbuntuNet now operates a routing hub in London, where it interconnects with Géant. The Kenyan and South African NRENs connect to UbuntuNet, and hence to Géant and other RENs globally. Other NRENs will soon do likewise. A regional REN has been mooted for Central and West Africa. There are real prospects for much cheaper submarine cable capacity connecting Sub-Saharan African landings to other continents. However, affordable access to optical fibre capacity within and between countries remains problematical for most NRENs. REN developments in Sub-Saharan Africa are supported by many African and foreign organisations, including donors such as IDRC, IEEAF, Mellon, OSI and PHEA; African agencies such as the Association of African Universities, AfriNIC and AfNOG; and by national governments and telecommunications operators.

Eric Boyd will present an update on the research and development efforts of Internet2 staff and collaborators. This will include an overview of ongoing efforts to build distributed systems for network cyberinfrastructure, such as DCN, perfSONAR, and Middleware and a peak at the technical details behind the Wendesday and Thursday plenary demos.

Join us for a live (HD) video conference from Lake Michigan on board UW-Milwaukee's Research Vessel Neeskay! (Milwaukee weather permitting) Researchers Russel Cuhel and Carmen Aguilar have devoted their lives to studying invasive species in the Great Lakes. Learn about our outreach pilot programs, and the amazing wireless system that connects us to Internet2 more than 10 miles from shore in this interactive demo.

Data-intensive flow computing allows efficient processing of large volumes of data otherwise unapproachable. This paper introduces a new semantic-driven data-intensive flow infrastructure which: (1) provides a robust and transparent scalable solution from a laptops to large-scale clusters,(2) creates an unified solution for batch and interactive tasks in high-performance computing environments, and (3) encourages reusing and sharing components. Banking on virtualization and cloud computing techniques the Meandre infrastructure is able to create and dispose Meandre clusters on demand, being---transparently to the final user. This paper also presents a prototype of such clustered infrastructure and some results obtained obtained by the SEASR project (Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research) applied to the humanities domain.

How can advanced networks and multisite videoconferencing be used to engage students in sharing perspectives and promoting civic engagement? Join us for this panel discussion featuring speakers from MAGPI, the National Constitution Center and other organizations capitalizing on using Internet2 to support students' exploration of civic issues. Panelists from content organizations and advanced networking organizations will share how they formed their project partnerships, budgeted and developed innovative educational programming. Learn strategies for developing your own projects and how to participate in existing opportunities, including the National Constitution Center's Student Exchange Project and the Multicultural Youth Exchange's Global Youth Violence Student Film projects.

The information security community has seen several major paradigm shifts occur in the last several years. The first has been a fundamental shift in motivation of the attacker community, from fiercely independent vandals to organized criminals herding large groups of compromised systems to engage in illicit money-making activities. At the same time vendors have shifted their strategy, and most operating system, application, and database vendors now embrace the "secure-by-default" philosophy, leading to a sharp decline in the success of network-based attacks and automated worms that rely on such attacks. But other dimensions of this approach, such as limiting Internet access to two ports, are quite problematic, particularly to the advanced applications of the R&E community. This presentation will discuss this shifting landscape and its affect on strategies many IT security programs and network architectures in higher-ed have come to rely on. The presentation will focus primarily on defining the problem space, and secondarily on moving from operational to strategic thinking in this context.

Presenters from MCNC and North Carolina State University will share how a suite of integrated, collaborative tools is enriching collaborations between MCNC and members of its community such as NC State. The suite of tools that are used include Confluence, Jira and Footprints. Examples leveraging this integrated suite of collaborative tools include user portals, work spaces and project tracking capabilities. A demonstration will be given. The demonstration will highlight community user portals and working spaces such as the North Carolina Research and Education Network Architecture and Engineering Working Group space.

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Eric Boyd will host this panel of presenters of community DCN users -- in what innovative ways are campuses and RONs using this service? Panelists report on their experiences, bandwidth needs -- met and unmet, and how they see themselves using DCN in the future.

Brown University initially used the MACE Grouper software to manage a wide variety of course-related groups. In phase 2, community, demographic, and departmental groups were added to the mix. This session will describe the lessons learned -- the issues and problems that arose when working with these new types of groups, how they were addressed, and the business processes that are used to manage these new groups.

DNSSEC has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few years amongst DNS administrators worldwide. The recent DNS cache poisoning exploit caused this interest to skyrocket. The importance of DNSSEC is much more apparent now than it has ever been before. We, at LSU, were already on the way to exploring this topic and plan to have it implemented before the close of the New Year. An even better goal is to have something implemented before October. I plan to discuss why DNSSEC is so important to the internet community, how we tackled this seemingly daunting task, and the obstacles/successes encountered along the way.

In 2004 the Louisiana Board of Regents, the governing Board over all public higher education in Louisiana, began the development of a high speed network to support research and education within the State of Louisiana. Also included were the deployment of twelve supercomputing clusters ranging from .85 to 50 TFLOPs. This undertaking would become know as the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative or LONI. This session will focus on the implementation and deployment of these supercomputing clusters and, in particular, the tremendous level of cooperation between many levels of State government and Higher Education which makes this endeavor possible. Finally examples of present and future application use on the LONI clusters will be discussed.

The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) is a US national-scale facility for conducting network science and engineering research, now in its design and planning phase. This talk will go over the concepts behind GENI, and provide details on the first year's engineering plan, highlighting areas of interest to Internet2 members. GENI will include infrastructure with a national footprint, that researchers can utilize to build networking experiments without being tied to the technologies or protocols of today's Internet. GENI will allow organizations with varied resources to federate with other organizations in a global networked environment that includes academia and industry. The facility will be interconnected with the Internet at several places, both to allow researchers to access their experiments and to allow general Internet users to participate in experiments.

The costs of engaging (and not) in proper business continuity and disaster recovery planning are well documented. This session will explore the benefits, challenges, strategy, and process of launching your own statewide higher education business continuity/disaster recovery user group.

Current discussions of social networking technologies have focused almost exclusively on popular uses of these technologies to support informal relationships and interactions, especially among young people. However, these technologies also have powerful applications in professional communities. The purpose of this panel is to discuss the use of social networking to support communities of experts as they deal with some of the most significant challenges we face: combating terrorism, preparation for large-scale emergencies, and dissemination of medical and information and best practices. We will also discuss some specialized tools that can be used to coordinate and amplify expertise.

Image quality is a key in telemedicine, and transmission of moving images that preserve medical quality is particularly useful. Digital Video Transport System (DVTS) is a simple and cost effective system that preserves excellent video quality while maintaining a highly interactive,low latency connection between multiple sites. That is why DVTS telemedicine, first established between Japan and Korea, has been so well accepted by the medical community and has expanded rapidly throughout Asia-Pacific area over broadband academic networks. In this session, we would like to introduce our project, show how advanced networking and DVTS has enabled telemedicine, and discuss what the essential elements are to expand this capability into the US and the world. At the same time, we will connect 4 medical stations by DVTS for the first time in US, demonstrating a teleconference in which endoscopic movies are shown both to the engineers in the venue and to the health providers in the other three stations.

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COmanage is the Collaborative Organization Management Platform developed by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. It is intended as a demonstration of the capabilities offered by tying together federated identity management (Shibboleth), groups management (Grouper), privilege management (Signet), and “well-behaved” applications into a cohesive support infrastructure for a variety of collaborative applications. This session will talk about the use of COmanage in the field and upcoming plan for future development.

John Vollbrecht will present an update on the Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) architecture, use, and future plans. This will include an overview of the global community and collaborators who are developing and deploying interoperable instances of dynamic circuit networks. These interoperable domains are based on the InterDomain Controller (IDC) architecture and specifications in use to by Internet2, ESnet, GEANT, several regional networks, and others. Andy Lake will present the current status and enhancements available in the next IDC software version. This will include an overview of the mechanisms to allow integration between dynamic provisioning systems and management and monitoring systems like PerfSonar. Chris Robb and Eric Boyd will discuss the process to migrate DCN from its current proto-duction state to a Pilot service.

This second of two virtual worlds panel discussions sponsored by the Teaching & Learning SIG and the K20 Initiative will draw on widely disparate stories to spark a discussion of how virtual world projects can strengthen teaching and research. Robert Griffiths will talk about the development of TELRport Island, Ohio State's presence in Second Life. San Francisco's Exploratorium has begun using Second Life to prototype exhibits and present professional development trainings and has launched a Museum Virtual Worlds to collaborate with other museums using virtual worlds and share experiences and resources; Rob Rothfarb, the Exploratorium's Director of Web Development, will describe their experiences. Emily Gillespie, a graduate student from Wake Forest, will talk about the Phylogenetics Lab she is building on Second Life's Genome Island. And finally Doug Canfield will discuss the use of multi-user virtual environments for teaching foreign languages at the University of Tennessee.

Network architects must consider approaches to architecture that is able to deliver service to meet existing requirements but also can transition to new services that will be required over time. A classic example is how voice is being transmitted. In the circuit switched world, a sliver of bandwidth is allocated for a user across the network. But as the transition to VOIP is taking place, the sliver of bandwidth is now more represented in terms of queues, priority assignments and aggregated flows. This requires the network to be able to also handle such traffic. The choice of network design alleviates the risks associated with continued uncertainty of future service location, type and bandwidth and network solutions, allowing easy transition to a programmable bandwidth delivery platform. Ciena will introduce key concepts and technical building blocks associated with programmable network technologies.

A major western city recently found itself "locked out" from its own network for a multi-day period, allegedly as a result of actions undertaken by one of its own staff. Regardless of its cause, loss of network control for multiple days is clearly a "disaster," albeit not a traditional disaster (such as those caused by fire, extreme weather, earthquakes or other geo-environmental causes). In discussions of this incident on the Internet2 Salsa-DR (Disaster Recovery) working group, many important implications emerged. Some of those implications include the importance of having: (a) established procedures for password recovery/reset in the event that an administrator forgets, loses, or is otherwise unable to supply a privileged password when required; (b) offline backups (and any passwords which may be needed to access those backups, e.g., if they've been encrypted); (c) a well-documented and up-to-date written system configuration, in case a system needs to be re-built from scratch; (d) procedures for handling human resource issues which may arise in conjunction with individuals working in sensitive positions; (e) the value of periodic security audits; and (f) the risks of running thinly staffed in key technical IT areas, among other things. This presentation will review that incident, and discuss the lessons which we might apply to our own campus networks and systems.

VOD represents a great opportunity for Operators, it imposes several challenges, and the most significant is the build-out of a cost-effective and scalable VOD infrastructure to support the explosion in growth of VOD services. Operators are faced with a dilemma: Unicast delivery is personalized but not scalable and cannot support growing peak time bandwidth requirements, while alternatively Multicast delivery is scalable, network efficient, however not personalized. The purpose of this session is to present an alternative approach to tackle this dilemma. Intercast Networks deploys a Multicast-To-Storage (M2S) solution to enable the delivery of massive amounts of personalized, high quality and on-demand content to storage equipped devices creating broadcast-like network scalability with economic efficiencies. With this approach, Operators can scale-up their existing VOD infrastructure by leveraging investments in next generation STBs/PVRs and the dropping cost in storage, to migrate from a server- to a storage-enabled video service. As a result, Operators experience significant reduced delivery cost in an order of magnitude. In this session we will present a business model that compares the TCO of M2S versus Server Centric Architecture.

This panel will address the activities of the participants and the support organizations that are working on the FCC Rural Health Care Pilot Program. The session will provide an overview by members of the community on their activities and a brief overview by Internet2 of efforts to support the group and make this a successful program.

LONI provide a full-rate 1000Mbps between UNO and LSU after Hurricane Katrina. The link is using MPLS Ethernet Private Line aka Pseudowire to provide duplicate IP network services in LSU as is UNO. This allowed UNO to operate at LSU as a full backup data center site while the main site in New Orleans was begin rebuilt.

Linda Winkler (ANL) will chair this regular meeting of the Performance Working Group, a collection of individuals interested in performance and measurement. 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.

Jeff Boote will chair this meeting where anyone interested in the perfSONAR architecture and current deployments can come and discuss current topics. Likely topics will include the architecture of the now fully deployed Global Lookup Service as well as architecture and deployment details of the recently released "perfSONAR Network Performance and Measurement Toolkit CD"

Dynamic Circuit Networking-enabled HD UltraGrid Videoconferencing (Demo)

Thomas Sterling, LSU

Charlie McMahon, LONI

In addition to leading-edge research, high-performance networking and cyberinfrastructure more generally enable new modes of collaboration and education. This demonstration will highlight how dynamic circuit networking and HD videoconferencing technologies can work together to support international learning. Dr. Thomas Sterling of Louisiana State University and Charlie McMahon of the Louisiana Optical Networking Initiative will lead a discussion with colleagues at Masryk University in the Czech Republic about how they used HD videoconferencing in Sterling's class, “Introduction to High-Performance Computing."

Internet2 Strategic Plan Implementation Update

Ray Ford, University of Montana

Based on extensive community feedback, the Internet2 Strategic Planning and Execution Committee has developed an updated framework for implementing the community-driven Strategic Plan. The implementation plan aims for a balance between community input and nimble process, consistent with the interplay between Internet2 governance, community, and staff used throughout the strategic planning process, and incorporates the efforts of numerous groups already at work in the related communities.

As SAML/Shibboleth-based federation advances, so do other new methods of Internet-scale authentication. OpenID is showing up at more sites and is gaining more adoption from big companies. Information Cards are becoming more usable and may be ready for prime time. Foundations have been established for both technologies. Meanwhile, the SAML community is not standing still. This session will provide updates on all these technologies, speculate about how they might compete or cooperate in HE environments, and report on deployment experiences.

When NYSERNet's Syracuse-based Business Continuity Center opened in June 2007, it signaled the end of two-year effort by NYSERNet’s staff and member institutions to enhance the disaster recovery capabilities of NYSERNet’s members. The ideal disaster recovery solution requires duplication of mission critical information systems at a location sufficiently removed from campus that a disaster affecting the primary data center spares the backup. Systems so mirrored are available instantaneously should they be called upon, without loss of continuity. However, while ideal, mirroring is typically expensive and difficult to accomplish. It relies on duplicate computing systems and software, and expensive remote data center and telecommunication services, all of which require remote management. Due to the complexity and cost of mirroring, most NYSERNet members were, until June 2007, relying exclusively on cold-site services and offsite backups as their primary disaster recovery resources. This presentation offers a high-level perspective on the project from concept to feasibility review to implementation, focusing on the challenges encountered and the strategies employed to reach the successful conclusion.

Follow along as we track down the source of JavaScript injection into web pages through the use of ARP flooding and router impersonation on the Indiana University network. How did it happen, what tools did we use to track it down, and what can we do about this type of attack?

The University of Akron has partnered with the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget through a Department of Education grant to develop electronic delivery methods for An Exercise in Hard Choices, an interactive federal budget exercise. Previously, it was shown that participation in both face-to-face and electronic formats increased college students’ knowledge of the federal budgeting process and their interest in learning about politics, government, and the federal budget. The current study focuses on delivery to high school students in four different states, most of whom received delivery over Internet2. While students who experienced the Exercise exhibited significantly better knowledge of the federal budget process than those who had not experienced it at all, those who received delivery without Internet2 demonstrated significantly lower knowledge and interest than those who received delivery over Internet2. Findings suggest that the availability of Internet2 for can make a significant impact on both learning outcomes and attitudes toward the subject matter.

Big science applications such as LHC, e-VLBI, and UltraGrid are here. These applications have the potential to drive network upgrades due to their large bandwidth requirements and the need to make scattered resources available over a network. This panel discussion: "Optical in the Core, Ethernet at the Edge," will concentrate on discussing two aspects of technologies that can help campus and regional networks satisfy the demands of these big science applications. Data Plane Development Status This panel will discuss implementation of various technologies for data plane development including such things at Packet Optical Transport Systems, Wave switching, dynamic bandwidth allocation, Optical Transport Network, Provider Based Bridging - Traffic Engineering and others. The panel will discuss these various technologies, compare and contrast them, and discuss their sense of future directions in this area.

Many universities deploy room-based video systems to connect lecture rooms and auditoriums, and to enable remote participation in classes and lectures. This equipment is usually provided by video equipment manufacturers such as Polycom. At the same time, universities often use home-grown (meaning ‘internally developed’) software for desktop computers that provides some elements of video communication. Major challenge for home-grown applications is their long-term maintenance and user support which universities are not structured to provide. In addition, the lack of licensing and marketing around these home-grown implementations does not allow mass deployment across many universities. Finally, the disparity of networking protocols leads to incompatible systems, i.e. video soft clients cannot talk to room-based systems, and vice versa. This presentation will introduce a new technology that we refer to as Distributed Video which allows video soft clients to seamlessly communicate with room-based systems and even with immersive telepresence systems. The technology delivers High Definition video, audio, and content sharing across video soft clients and video endpoints while all media is encrypted for security. For universities that already have room-based video systems, this technology will enable expansion of their video services to students’ desktops. For schools that do not deploy any video today, the new technology provides an easy entry into video applications without the heavy initial investment. It allows them to start small internal trials with limited number of users, and then expand gradually to include more users and video rooms. The presentation will focus on functions such as the auto-provisioning, presence, and directory access, all of which allow seamless integration of the video equipment into the university’s IT network.

Even as video communications have become more integral to enterprise applications over the past few years, the limitations of the current crop of video communications solutions have become uncomfortably apparent. Beyond the expense of the systems and solutions themselves - not to mention the special rooms and dedicated networks these systems require - users have been forced to bear with decidedly marginal performance, choppy frames, long delays, blurred motion, broken pictures, and the like. Given the expense of these systems, people have had good reason to expect more. VidyoConferencing products deliver higher-quality experiences and greater deployment flexibility over general-purpose IP networks and are built on top of a better technical foundation than all those other video conferencing solutions - namely, the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard.

This is a regular meeting of the IPv6 Working Group.

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