Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel
New Orleans, LA
October 13-16, 2008
The Internet2 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for track sessions at the Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting in New Orleans, LA. You are encouraged to circulate this Call to others in your organization, and elsewhere within the Internet2 member community.
Below is information on:
The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, July 18th 2008. The track session submission form is available here.
Areas of Focus for the Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting
The U.S. research and education community relies on cyberinfrastructure (CI) to conduct their research and fulfill their instructional goals and are key stakeholders in its successful deployment. At the fall meeting, we encourage our members to share the challenges they face in developing, deploying, and maintaining the many components of cyberinfrastructure and discuss how we can work as a community to support members in meeting this challenge. In addition, there are three focus areas where submissions are especially encouraged. The New Orleans site for the fall member meeting is the consummate setting for disaster recovery, or rather, Business Continuity Planning (BCP) topics. Presentations about BCP challenges and/or approaches are of interest to all members of the Internet2 community The second area of interest is in the Health Sciences, and in particular, the Rural Health Care Pilot Program. Proposals that address progress, innovative uses and the incorporation of significant communities are encouraged. Finally, there is a lot of community interest in Teaching and Learning and K/20 programs and initiatives. Case studies across all of these focus areas, as well as all of the tracks (described below), are encouraged.
Proposal Track Titles and Descriptions
Cyberinfrastructure and Advanced Applications in Action: What's working? What's not? What's needed? Sessions in this category will focus on case studies of how advanced networking—broadly defined—has succeeded (or failed) in enabling research and education, why, and what others can learn from this success (or failure). Representatives from higher education, health care, government and industry are invited to submit their examples and perspectives on these issues related to using advanced networking.
Middleware: Sessions in this category will focus on the on-going development, deployment, and policy work in the areas of identification, authentication, authorization and federated identity management. Within these general categories, examples of session topics might include: Identity and Access Management, Shibboleth (in general and in use within federal agencies and research communities), federations and inter-federation group (i.e., Grouper) and privilege management systems (i.e., Signet), PKI (especially for government, research, and education), middleware for wireless networking, middleware diagnostics, middleware infrastructure for video and for virtual organizations, and integration of these middleware services into applications, especially middleware-enabled collaboration and collaboration management platforms.
Network Planning and Engineering: Sessions in this category will provide an opportunity for discussion of advanced network services, network infrastructure developments, end-to-end performance and performance measurement, disaster recovery, cyberinfrastructure, wireless networks and solutions and next generation networks. Examples of topics that might be considered include: sensor networks, experimental network testbeds, mesh network coverage, regional optical networks (RONs) and optical regional education networks (ORENs), national or international research and educational networks (NRENs), and the drivers of the next-generation Internet.
Security for Advanced Networks: Sessions in this category will focus on the technical, policy, and management issues in network security—addressing immediate term to longer range planning and research. Suggested topics include: critical infrastructure protection, SALSA initiatives, homeland security, VoIP security, secure ad hoc collaboration, balancing security and performance, and the national strategy to secure cyberspace. Policy and management issues might include end user education, funding for basic security R&D, funding for security software tools, and cross-network cooperation (at the campus, national, and international levels).
Teaching and Learning/K20: Sessions will focus on initiatives and projects that explore ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools and digital content enhance teaching and learning. Suggested topics might include: K20 partnerships, K20 and the national agenda, the role of advanced networking to further international initiatives, student and teacher experiences in using Internet2, assessment and accountability of pedagogical outcomes, interactive educational gaming environments, and the transformation of libraries, museum, science and cultural center projects through uses of advanced networking. Particular focus will be given to introducing promising practices and highlighting case studies in Teaching and Learning/K20.
What's Next for the Net? Sessions will examine key technology trends; with special focus on developing and evolving applications. Presenters are encouraged to describe new technological breakthroughs—and what they might mean for universities and the Internet2 community. Proposed topics for this area could include collaboration and social network tools, emerging demanding bandwidth services, video and multi-media services, etc.
Please Note: specific technology or application sessions that address issues and impact in more than one category (e.g. how Business Continuity Planning is affected by middleware, security and collaboration) are encouraged.
Criteria for Evaluation of Proposals
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- Demonstration of the value of Internet2 (the community and network) to members
- Extent to which session supports the track topic and theme
- Extent to which a project or initiative will provoke discussion and interaction
- Presentation of significant achievement (i.e. promising practices) rather than status updates
- Engagement of the Internet2 community
- Degree of interaction and information sharing among participants at different levels of engagement
- Focus on new technological breakthroughs, developing and evolving applications
- Degree to which session itself utilizes and/or demonstrates advanced and innovative technologies
- Overall proposal quality and balance of topics
- Vendor agnostic presentations (for Corporate Members)
The Program Committee will select approximately 70 proposals that represent a balance of topics to fill track session slots, and may also select some proposals for inclusion as poster sessions.
Track sessions are either 60 or 75 minutes in length, depending on the number of speakers and the session content. If you have a short talk (10-15 minutes), please submit it with a note indicating that if selected, it should be part of a larger session rather than standing on its own.
Track sessions will be scheduled for the mornings and afternoons of Tuesday, October 14th and Wednesday, October 15th, and for the morning of Thursday, October 16th. More information on the meeting schedule will be available soon on the Internet2 Member Meeting website.
Each proposal must contain the following:
- Title
- Session abstract of no more than 200 words
- At least one speaker name
- Primary track
- Intended session format
- Audience information (who you're targetting and what level of understanding they should have coming into the session)
- Permission to netcast your session if it's selected for the program
- Permission to allow members of the media to attend your presentation
- Contact name and email address
Deadlines & Contact Information
Submission deadline COB on Friday, July 18, 2008
Notification by COB on Friday, August 8, 2008
For additional information, please contact:
Brian Savory – Program Committee Chair
Director of Business Development. ADVA Optical Networking
bsavory@advaoptical.com
Marianne Smith – Internet2 Staff Support
Associate Director, Member and Partner Relations
melser@internet2.edu
