Summer 2008 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop

Saturday, July 19, 2008 to Thursday, July 24, 2008
All Times CST (UTC -5)

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Saturday, 7/19		Location
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Network Performance Workshop    Rich Carlson , Internet2    Jason Zurawski , Internet2 This is a 1.5-day hands-on workshop with separate registration	Heritage
	Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Workshop    Andrew Lake , Internet2    Tom Lehman , University of Southern California    Chris Tracy , Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) This is a 2-day hands-on workshop with separate registration	Regency B/C
Sunday, 7/20		Location
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM	MPLS Workshop    David Farmer , University of Minnesota This is a 1-day hands-on workshop with separate registration	Crib
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Network Performance Workshop    Rich Carlson , Internet2    Jason Zurawski , Internet2 This is a 1.5-day hands-on workshop with separate registration	Heritage
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Workshop    Andrew Lake , Internet2    Tom Lehman , University of Southern California    Chris Tracy , Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) This is a 2-day hands-on workshop with separate registration	Regency B/C
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM	Registration Desk Open	Fischer Lounge
	Laptop Bar	Ballroom
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Bulk Data Transfer Tools and TCP Tuning    Brian Tierney , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  [pdf] This tutorial will cover a range of bulk data transfer tools for both MS Windows and Unix-based systems. It will also cover TCP tuning techniques, and overview some network diagnostic tools.	Georgian
	Collaborative Use of Confluence    George Brett , Internet2    Carla Hunt , MCNC Introduction to Wiki Concepts and usage of Confluence installation at Internet2 and MCNC. Examples from each will be shown, basic usage skills will be reviewed. Material for this session can be found at Internet2 Wiki Tutorial and MCNC EdSpace Wiki Help Pages.	Auditorium
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	perfSONAR Developers    Jeff Boote , Internet2    Martin Swany , University of Delaware Martin Swany (UDel) and Jeff Boote (Internet2) will co-chair this regular meeting of the perfSONAR Developers, a collection of individuals deploying the perfSONAR measurement infrastructure and/or developing tools for use with the International perfSONAR framework. The group meets regularly by phone and this is an opportunity for them to come face-to-face as well as include new potential WG members. More information can be found at http://www.perfsonar.net/	Heritage
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Break	Ballroom
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Using DCN: A Brief Tutorial    Andrew Lake , Internet2  [pdf] 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 1-hour session will include some hands-on opportunities so participants should bring their laptops!	Georgian
	Using IPv6 at JointTechs    Dale Finkelson , University of Nebraska, Lincoln    Paul Love , NCO and NOAA    Chris Masullo , Brookhaven National Laboratory    Kevin Oberman , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)    Michael Sinatra , University of California, Berkeley    Matt Zekauskas , Internet2 Short tutorial to help attendees connect to and use the IPv6 connectivity at JointTechs. The basic IPv6 configuration on popular operating systems will be covered.	Auditorium
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	GigaPoP Geeks BoF    Caren Litvanyi , Global Research NOC at Indiana University  [pdf]    Dan Magorian , Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)  [pdf]    Brent Sweeny , Indiana University  [pdf] Open discussion.	Embassy Suites - Regents D/E
Monday, 7/21		Location
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Desk Open	Fischer Lounge
	Laptop Bar	Ballroom
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM	Welcome    Eric Boyd , Internet2  [pdf]    Phil DeMar , Fermi National Accelerator Lab Welcome to 2008 Summer Joint Techs Workshop.	Auditorium
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM	Local Host Welcome    Barbara Couture , University of Nebraska, Lincoln	Auditorium
9:00 AM - 9:20 AM	ARIN Update    Richard Jimmerson , American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)  [pdf] Current status report.	Auditorium
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM	IPv6 Experiment/IPv6 Challenge    Michael Lambert , Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center  [pdf] This talk will describe the IPv6 wireless experiment being conducted at Joint Techs as well as the IPv6 Challenge with its fabulous prizes.	Auditorium
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM	Internet2 Update    Eric Boyd , Internet2  [pdf] An update on Internet2 activities, services, and collaborations (national and international) will be provided. Information on the progress of standards efforts with the IETF, GLIF, and DICE will be included.	Auditorium
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Break	Ballroom
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM	Running NDT Speed Tests with BroadbandCensus.com    Drew Clark , BroadbandCensus.com BroadbandCensus.com, a new free Web service focusing on local broadband data, was launched in January 2008. The mission of BroadbandCensus.com is to provide the public with information about local broadband availability, competition, speeds and service quality. The Web site is made available under a Creative Commons license, allowing researchers and others to make non-commercial use – for free – of the content. While there are other public and private efforts to map out the availability of broadband in the United States, BroadbandCensus.com brings a consumer-oriented focus to this task. Consumers need to know whether broadband is available within their ZIP code and their neighborhood. But they also need to know the names of the broadband companies. They may also want to rate their service and to compare actual to promised Internet speeds. For the beta version of its speed test, BroadbandCensus.com uses NDT (Network Development Tool) the open-source software created and under active development by Internet2. We have also worked with the eCorridors program at Virginia Tech to modify NDT for best application in conducting speed tests. BroadbandCensus.com Executive Director Drew Clark will talk about the challenges and opportunities in utilizing NDT in BroadbandCensus.com.	Auditorium
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM	Changing Roles of Regional Networks    Paul Schopis , OSCnet  [pdf] Regional Networks roles have traditionally been the "glue" that holds together the campus and national networks. Additionally RONs have taken on roles of making national network access available to other related research and healthcare entities. Another role and the focus of this presentation is the state mandating state agency use. This talk focuses on the Broadband Ohio initiative in which the Governor has mandated the use of the network by state agencies. It has created a situation where the client base is swelling from 90 colleges to several thousand agency offices. This presentation discusses how these operations and architectural changes will be addressed.	Auditorium
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM	Network Access for the Remote Data Center    William Owens , NYSERNet  [pdf] NYSERNet operates a data center in Syracuse for our members' use as a disaster recovery and business continuity facility. This talk will discuss the ways in which the NYSERNet optical and IP networks influenced the data center design, and integrate with and support it.	Auditorium
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Recent SAP storms - description, analysis, and how to proctect your network    Caren Litvanyi , Global Research NOC at Indiana University  [pdf] In recent months, the R&E networking world has been hit with "SAP storms" -- multicast session advertisement protocol packets in high volume. This has caused some subset of R&E routers around the world to experience high cpu, link flaps, and other stresses and failures. This talk will explain some background about SAP - its implementation and uses, review what happened during the recent SAP storms, why it affected some devices and links worse than others, and go over some of the ways being discussed in the network engineering community to combat the problem and protect our networks. This talk assumes a fairly decent technical familiarity with multicast protocols and their implementations on routers/switches, and Cisco and Juniper router configuration and commands.	Auditorium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch	Ballroom
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	New Options for Campus LAN & Wiring Closet Switches    Debbie Montano , Force10 Networks, Inc.  [pdf] Campus networks must support ever changing and growing sets of applications and devices including Voice-over-IP (VoIP), wireless access points, video cameras, not to mention all those PCs and workstations. Campus networks need cost effective power-over-ethernet (PoE) enabled 10/100/1000Base-T wiring closet aggregation; high density GbE aggregation for distribution into a multiple Gbps or 10 GbE backbone; and inherent reliability, network control, and scalability to create a high performance Ethernet environment. This session is intended to be interactive, with a short presentation on the Force10 C-Series switches, and then a discussion to exchange information about the specific challenges and requirements the participants are seeing in their own campus network infrastructures.	Colonial
12:30 PM - 1:50 PM	SX Transport (TLPW) Instrumentation    Alan Whinery , University of Hawaii  [pdf] This session is for anyone interested in TLPW/SX-Transport point to point measurement, testing, validation. The goal is to identify or plan resources for users to use in solving performance problems. The SX-Transport system is a transpacific 10 Gigabit transport which interconnects Australia, Hawaii, and North America. Everyone is welcome, especially persons with particular interests in inter NA/AU/HI networking.	Heritage
	DCN Working Group    Linda Winkler , Argonne National Laboratory Linda Winkler (ANL) will chair the first meeting of the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) Working Group. To date, the DCN effort has been focused on the requirements for inter-domain control plane provisioning. The DCN Working Group is being formed to examine uses and track development of the DCN service, as well as provide best practices and expectations for RONs and campuses. By participating in the DCN WG effort, participants will help shape how the DCN service takes shape for the R&E community.	Regency B/C
	DNSSEC BoF    Joe St Sauver , Internet2 & University of Oregon Open discussion of this topic. Will be netcast.	Auditorium
	Information Services Working Group (IS-WG)    Martin Swany , University of Delaware Recently, the Internet2 community and its counterparts around the world have been actively engaged in developing new network services, including dynamic circuit networking capabilities and performance tools. Both dynamic circuit allocation using the Internet2 DCN and network performance tools like perfSONAR use an "Information Services plane" that allows users to discover network topology and the location and capabilities of network services within that topology. As global federation of network services occurs, the standardization and flexibility of the nework-centric Information Services becomes even more critical. In order to help catalyze and focus the development of these common information services, the Internet2 Network Advisory Committee (NTAC) has commissioned the creation of a new Information Services Working Group (ISWG). The group will work to further define the role and functionality of Information Services as well as drive design and development. Since these services will require specialized communications protocols, the group will work with and contribute to standardization bodies such as the OGF, GLIF, and the IETF. Discussions regarding the operation and exchange of information in organization federations will also be an important consideration.	Georgian
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM	How Much Headroom Do You Need? Bandwidth and High Performance Networks    Joe St Sauver , Internet2 & University of Oregon  [pdf] During discussions on the Internet2 Network Technical Advisory Committee(NTAC) mailing list, there has recently been discussion of an interesting topic: how much bandwidth "headroom" should you have on a healthy high performance network connection, and why? Are high bandwidth research and education network connections the same as commodity transit links when it comes to appropriate loading levels? Is there some "magic" utilization level that one should strive not to exceed? Is there a systematic analytical approach which can be applied to calculating an appropriate utilization level? How do utilization targets impact decisions about upgrading existing connections, or decisions about shifting traffic to the Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN), or decisions to participate (or to not participate) in the Commercial Peering (CP) Service?	Auditorium
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM	Lambda Station Network Model for End-To-End Circuits Service at Fermilab    Phil DeMar , Fermi National Accelerator Lab  [pdf] Fermilab hosts USCMS Tier1 facility for the LHC/CMS experiment. To support high demands for data movement the Laboratory has established End-to-End WAN circuits to various Tier1 and Tier2 centers within and outside of the US. These circuits, dynamic and static, are aimed to provide higher and more predictable bandwidth capabilities as well as minimize an impact of LHC related data movement on campus networks at universities. Using circuits requires steering of selected traffic flows from local area networks into circuits on demand of applications or other control systems. In this talk we are going to discuss the network model used by Lambda Station project for abstract representation of network elements and End-to-End circuits by XML schema. This model is used to describe network infrastructure of Fermilab and peering networks. Based on that model site's Lambda Station server is configuring local network infrastructure for selected traffic flows dynamically. An example of XML description of Fermilab circuits service, local area networks of peering sites is going to be presented.	Auditorium
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM	Recent experiences with wireless 802.11n draft 2.0.    Andy Rader , Fermi National Accelerator Lab  [pdf] Fermilab has recently rolled out Cisco 1252 dual radio wireless access points. Many lessons have been learned along the way.	Auditorium
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM	Overview and comparison of wide area file transfer tools    Brian Tierney , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  [pdf] Ever wonder what the is best tool to use to copy a terabyte of data between sites? It depends on many factors, including what OS you are using, what security model you require, what your bandwidth is, and so on. This talk to give an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of several common file transfer tools.	Auditorium
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM	Polarization mode dispersion; its behavior, concerns, and mitigation    Youichi Akasaka , Fujitsu Laboratories of America  [pdf]    Matt Davy , Indiana University Increasing total capacity of Internet backbone requests us to implement higher bit rate signals. Higher bit rate pulse would be degraded severely by fiber impairments, such as Chromatic dispersion and Polarization mode dispersion (PMD). PMD is an only optical fiber characteristic having statistical behaviors over time. Even though recent installed good quality fibers, total PMD amount on specific routes and wavelengths would prevent higher bit rate signal transmissions such as 40Gbps and 100Gbps due to the temporal changes. As the whole physics of PMD has not been well figured out, Indiana University and Fujitsu laboratories of America have been jointly investigating PMD behaviors of installed fibers owned by Indiana University (on going). This presentation will discuss PMD behaviors of installed fibers, concerns on high bit rate transmission, and highly PMD tolerable transmission technologies.	Auditorium
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM	Break	Ballroom
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM	The New Alphabet Soup    Brian Carpenter , University of Auckland  [pdf] This talk will be a personal view of the open issues surrounding the future of wide-area (BGP4-based) routing in the Internet, and its relation to multihoming and IP address management. It will include a personal overview of ongoing work in the IRTF Routing Research Group.	Auditorium
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM	DCN Implementation Panel Discussion    Eric Boyd , Internet2  [pdf]    Dale Finkelson , University of Nebraska, Lincoln    William Owens , NYSERNet  [pdf]    Brent Sweeny , Indiana University    Chris Tracy , Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) This panel will discuss DCN deployment issues and strategies.	Auditorium
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM	Connectors/RONs and Network Members BoF    Ana Preston , Internet2 Open discussion.	Embassy Suites - Regents A
8:15 PM - 10:45 PM	JET Meeting (invitation only)    Paul Love , NCO and NOAA The Joint Engineering Team is concerned with the engineering coordination of the various US Federal R&E networks, joined by invited academic networks. While this is a by-invitation meeting, the JET is receptive to requests to attend. Please send a note to Paul Love at love@nitrd.gov if you'd like to attend. As a reference point, the JET's typical event horizon is fairly short (6-12 months) but on occasion it looks out to the mid-term.	Embassy Suites - Alumni
Tuesday, 7/22		Location
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Desk Open	Fischer Lounge
	Laptop Bar	Ballroom
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM	DREN IPv6 Update    Ron Broersma , Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)  [pdf] DREN and its community of DoD research organizations have been deploying IPv6 in its testbed and production networks for a number of years. There have been many challenges and lessons learned from these efforts. Lack of parity with IPv4 along with scarcity of IPv6-enabled security components has hampered deployment. Recent events and upcoming deadlines are resulting in a resurgence of interest in IPv6 deployment, and we are about to see increased activity in this area. This presentation will provide an update on these activities, challenges, lessons, and trends.	Auditorium
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM	Managing Data for CMS    David Swanson , University of Nebraska, Lincoln  [pdf] Presentation on how the local CMS team has achieved the data rates they have and how they manage the large data resources for the project.	Auditorium
9:10 AM - 9:50 AM	Campus IPv6 Addressing Plan    Bruce Curtis , North Dakota State University  [pdf]    David Farmer , University of Minnesota  [pdf]    Joe Nasal , The Pennsylvania State University  [pdf]    Michael Sinatra , University of California, Berkeley  [pdf] An IPv6 site block, a /48, has 16 bits for addressing subnets, that´s a lot of addresses!" But is it? “640K is enough memory” are famous last words. How should you organize all those subnets? A panel of network engineers will discuss options for campus IPv6 addressing plans, some of the advantages and disadvantages of the options.	Auditorium
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM	Networking for Research Challenges    Russ Hobby , Internet2  [pdf] It is no secret that the US does not have the lead in research and technology development it once had. There are research projects that are inhibited by the cost of networking in the US. This presentation will challenge the network engineers to think about ways to provide networking to those researchers. As an example the requirements for projects in hard to reach locations, radio astronomers in particular, will be examined.	Auditorium
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Break	Ballroom
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM	Northern Tier Update    Bruce Curtis , North Dakota State University  [pdf]    David Farmer , University of Minnesota  [pdf]    Claude Garelik , South Dakota Board of Regents The Northern Tier is a regional network consortium attempting to provide robust research network connections for the educational institutions in the northwestern two-thirds of the United States. In addition the initiative will create a national backbone route from Chicago to Seattle across the Northern Tier, providing additional robustness for the national backbones. This session will provide background on the initiative started in 2003, and an update on the significant progress being made toward its goals.	Auditorium
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM	DNSSEC Deployment - Early Lessons Learned    Scott Rose , NIST  [pdf] The talk will be a short update on DNS Security (DNSSEC) deployment on US Federal campuses. Some examples of difficulties encountered during deployment and training classes held at NIST will be discussed. A list of pointers and considerations for network administrators to consider when deploying will be given at the end.	Auditorium
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM	Security and Privacy Are NOT Mutually Exclusive    Joe St Sauver , Internet2 & University of Oregon  [pdf] Security and privacy are sometimes cast as mutually incompatible objectives, with security being described as attainable only if privacy can be sacrificed. This talk will reconsider that proposition, asserting that true security is actually built on -- and in fact *requires* -- substantive privacy. A number of potential privacy exposures will be considered, along with technical strategies for mitigating those risks.	Auditorium
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM	ESnet Update    Joseph Burrescia , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  [pdf] I will present progress ESnet has made in the last 6 months including the IP and SDN network deployment, work on the ESnet MANs and various operational issues.	Auditorium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch	Ballroom
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	Cost Effective Networking using Metro WDM    Rob Adams , Ekinops This session is a joint Session between Ekinops and the University of Nebraska. This session provides an overview of the solution used by the University of Nebraska to aggregate 200 Terabytes of data weekly onto the Internet 2 backbone. After looking at many other potential solutions, the University of Neraska determined that building their own network provided for the greatest flexibility in increasing their bandwidth and was extremely affordable. This solution allowed the University of Nebraska to cost effectively transport this massive amount of data in order to enhance its participation in CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).	Georgian
12:30 PM - 1:50 PM	Performance Working Group    Carla Hunt , MCNC Carla Hunt (MCNC) will chair the first meeting of the Performance Working Group. The group will be ironing out its charter and determining the focus for the next few years; currently, the chair has determined that the group focus will be on end to end performance, with encouragement of WG participants to be the test user group/integrators of Internet2 tools (as opposed to developers). The group is also encouraged to provide coordinated community input into the roadmap for Internet2 tools and examples of implementation. At this meeting, the chair will discuss an idea for a "pilot" and NC (and any other state/connector with interest) that would involve deploying Internet2 tools. (MCNC has a matrix that captures latency between RPoPs in NC. This is currently driven by tavve e-probes at each of our RPoPs. They are in the process of rolling out servers with the Internet2 toolkit to each of the RPoPs. The 'pilot' would be using perfSONAR and the servers at the RPoPs to re-produce the matrix, creating a higher quality, more extensible solution (in term of the number of end-points in the matrix).	Regency B/C
	IPv6 at Joint Techs - Try it, You'll Like It (we hope)    Dale Finkelson , University of Nebraska, Lincoln    Paul Love , NCO and NOAA    Chris Masullo , Brookhaven National Laboratory    Kevin Oberman , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)    Michael Sinatra , University of California, Berkeley    Matt Zekauskas , Internet2 Discussion and help to get attendees up and running on the IPv6 network.	Auditorium
	NTAC Peering Group Meeting    Jeff Bartig , University of Wisconsin-Madison The NTAC peering group will hold their regular monthly meeting and will hear the Internet2 quarterly peering report.	Colonial
	Geocaching    Steve Weidner , University of South Dakota What is Geocaching? Some of you already know, but for those who are looking for a new hobby, or just a fun evening... Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for GPS users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a GPS unit. The basic idea is that individuals and organizations have set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache. If some of the attendees have their GPS along and we have enough people, we may split into groups, arrange a time limit and see how many caches each group can find.	Heritage
	Inter-Agency Communication and International Projects  [Session Evaluation]    James G. Williams , Indiana University Several NSF founded projects, such as OSG, as jointly funded by multiple agencies. Moreover, some NSF projects use resources funded by different agencies (such as sites funded by DOE labs). during a security incident, the inter-agency communication and collaboration is essential for such projects. This BoF is a discussion of recommendation #6 of the Information-sharing Across Communities and Incident Response Containment report presented at the NSF Cybersecurity Summit this past April.	Centennial
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM	Extending Storage Networks over the WAN    Jim Archuleta , Ciena  [pdf] Storage traffic transport over the WAN continues to grow in support of network based research and replication for disaster recovery between data centers. In many cases high bandwidth, high performance networking is required to support large volumes of stored data. In many cases the barrier to deployment are high costs of network connectivity and maintaining consistently high throughput. Solutions will be discussed which can optimize network infrastructure to lower cost and maintain performance in transport of storage traffic across the WAN.	Georgian
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM	Getting involved with ARIN    Lea Roberts , Stanford University  [pdf] Presenting the public policy process of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which relies on participation from the networking community. There are a number of reasons that legacy address holders should also be involved with ARIN and be aware of, if not actively participate in, the public policy process. That process could benefit from the viewpoints of long time IP address users. The ARIN Board of Trustees has recently proposed to make the ARIN Advisory Council more active in developing IP address policy. The impending depletion of the IANA IPv4 address free pool has resulted in a variety of proposals for how IP address policy, and the role of ARIN itself, should change in the future. ARIN has also developed a special Legacy Registration Services Agreement to encourage an active connection with holders of legacy address resources and which also secures the legacy holder's continued rights to ARIN's services. Additionally, some mention will be made of the current status of international political efforts in the area of IP governance.	Auditorium
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM	P802.3ba Higher Speed Ethernet : 40 GbE & 100 GbE    Debbie Montano , Force10 Networks, Inc.  [pdf] 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.	Auditorium
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM	Application Network Monitoring: ClassScape Case Study    Carla Hunt , MCNC  [pdf] Description of an approach for assessing the application readiness of a K12 school system in NC. The challenge in NC is to be able to identify whether a K12 school system has the capacity to deploy another application on its existing network infrastructure. In addition, the ability to monitor an application once deployed is desired to assist with problem determination for performance problems associated with applications. The ClassScape Case Study is an approach to this challenge that collects and analyzes flow data. Future work will build on this case study and will need to address scalability challenges with instrumenting a number of statewide K12 applications.	Auditorium
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM	TeraPaths: Managing Flow-Based End-to-End QoS Paths through Modern Hybrid WANs f    Dantong Yu , Brookhaven National Laboratory  [pdf] TeraPaths is a Department of Energy funded network research project to support efficient, predicable, and prioritized peta-scale data replication in modern high-speed networks. This talk presents the TeraPaths end-to-end network management framework, which enables the dedication of network resources to specific data flows across multiple administrative network domains. The primary motivation behind this work comes from the world of modern high energy and nuclear physics (Large Hadron Collider - LHC, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - RHIC), where extremely large quantities of experimental and analysis data need to be shared across the globe among scientists participating in various international experiments. The default best-effort behavior of these networks may easily cause users/applications to suffer interruptions and other adverse effects. New network resource management capabilities are necessary to guarantee the success of long-term transfers and ensure the timely delivery of priority data. The TeraPaths framework utilizes Differentiated Services-based QoS and Policy-Based Routing techniques in combination with automated invocation of WAN domain control services to create and manage on-demand, true end-to-end QoS-aware network paths dedicated to data flows of authorized users/applications in a transparent and scalable manner. Such flows are steered into their “own” virtual network paths via dynamic reconfiguration of network devices. This ensures that flows receive a pre-determined level of QoS in terms of bandwidth, jitter, delay, etc.	Auditorium
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM	Phoebus: Network Middleware for High-Performance Data Transfer    Martin Swany , University of Delaware  [pdf] Phoebus is an infrastructure for improving end-to-end throughput in high-bandwidth, long-distance networks by using a "session layer" protocol and "Gateways" in the network. This talk will discuss the architecture of Phoebus, the current experimental prototype deployment, and describe how it can be used.	Auditorium
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM	Break	Ballroom
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM	LHC Monitoring Requirements    Joe Metzger , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  [pdf]	Auditorium
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM	perfSONAR LHC related deployments    Jeff Boote , Internet2  [pdf]    Brian Tierney , Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)  [pdf] This session will describe the perfSONAR based monitoring infrastructure that is being designed and deployed in support of US-LHC participants.	Auditorium
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM	DCN/perfSONAR shared infrastructure    Tom Lehman , University of Southern California  [pdf] This session will describe how the development plans of perfSONAR and DCN are converging in some spaces. Specifically, there are a number of pieces of shared infrastructure that both development efforts will use: topology services, discovery, authentication and authorization. This session will show how these infrastructures will be used together to implement end-to-end monitoring of a circuit.	Auditorium
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM	Reception	Embassy Suites - Regents C/D/E/F
7:15 PM - 7:45 PM	PGP Key Signing For more information Click here before 4:30PM day of event	Embassy Suites - Lobby of Regents C/D/E/F
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM	Pilot Bar BoF    Alan Whinery , University of Hawaii At Buzzard Billy's Armadillo Bar and Grillo, 247 N. 8th St., after the Welcome Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Tuesday Night. For former/current pilots, prospective pilots, non pilots, former/current/prospective aircraft passengers, others.
Wednesday, 7/23		Location
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Desk Open	Fischer Lounge
	Laptop Bar	Ballroom
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM	NLR Update    David Reese , CENIC  [pdf] An updated on NLR activities, including the upcoming NLR backbone upgrade will be provided.	Auditorium
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM	Campus Network Peer Review    Richard Machida , University of Alaska  [pdf] This year we asked network engineers from other education/research institutions to evaluate the long term directions for the Fairbanks campus network as well as the systemwide core and WAN. In other words, are we headed in the right direction?	Auditorium
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM	Layer 2 automated network blocking of vulnerable systems    Vladimir Bravov , Fermi National Accelerator Lab  [pdf] Computers with unpatched critical vulnerabilities need to be quickly found and blocked from the network to avoid compromise. In an open campus environment with 10,000 nodes and hundreds of visitors on any given day, an automated system is required to detect vulnerable and compromised machines, notify the system managers, and block the machines from the network with no human intervention. Detectors, databases, workflow and blocking tools are integrated into a product called NIMI to send notifications, implement Layer 2 blocks, and provide a user interface to request automated unblocking. This talk will focus on the automated blocking and unblocking technology.	Auditorium
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Campus 802.11n Deployment    Dan Westacott , University of Minnesota  [pdf] The University of Minnesota is replacing its first generation wireless solution. The previous solution had mostly 802.11b APs from multiple vendors, no real security, limited ability to roam within small areas of campus, and a home-brewed web portal for authentication. A new fourth generation wireless solution will include; multi-radio 802.11n APs, WPA2 security, rouge AP detection and countermeasures, 802.1x and web portal based authentication, and controller based campus-wide fast hand-off roaming. This prepares UMN’s wireless infrastructure for future new applications like voice, emergency location, and bandwidth hungry rich media.	Auditorium
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Break	Ballroom
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM	Internet2 DCN Architecture, Status, Community Developmnent Activities    Tom Lehman , University of Southern California  [pdf]    John Vollbrecht , Internet2  [pdf] This talk will present the status of the Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) architecture and deployment. This includes an overview of technology, services, and capabilities of the current deployment. A description of the topology of connecting regional and peering wide area networks is provided along with an overview of how to access DCN services. The first part of the talk will focus on the Internet2 DCN, with special emphasis on the technology and features of the underlying Ciena CoreDirector infrastructure. A major component of accessing and using the emerging global reach of dynamic lightpath services, is extending these services across regional networks and into campus environments. This talk summarizes techniques for deployment of a regional dynamic circuit network based on Ethernet technology. This includes connecting the regional network to the global dynamic lightpath infrastructure. This is a summary of the information taught as part of the DCN Workshop, with an emphasis on the architecture and design aspects of these types of deployments. The talk also describes community efforts to create global dynamic circuit infrastructure, some of the issues in doing that, and efforts to standardize interfaces to dynamic network service providers.	Auditorium
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM	Fermilab WAN Performance Analysis Methodology    Matt Crawford , Fermi National Accelerator Lab  [pdf] The computing models for HEP experiments are globally distributed and grid-based. Obstacles to good network performance arise from many causes and can be a major impediment to the success of the computing models for HEP experiments. Factors that affect overall network/application performance exist on the hosts themselves (application software, operating system, hardware), in the local area networks that support the end systems, and within the wide area networks. Since the computer and network systems are globally distributed, it can be very difficult to locate and identify the factors that are hurting application performance. In this talk, we present an end-to-end network/application performance troubleshooting methodology developed and in use at Fermilab. The core of our approach is to narrow down the problem scope with a divide and conquer strategy. The overall complex problem is split into two distinct sub-problems: host diagnosis and tuning, and network path analysis. After satisfactorily evaluating, and if necessary resolving, each sub-problem, we conduct end-to-end performance analysis and diagnosis. The paper will discuss tools we use as part of the methodology. The long term objective of the effort is to enable site administrators and end users to conduct much of the troubleshooting themselves, before (or instead of) calling upon network and operating system “wizards,” who are always in short supply.	Auditorium
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM	Lightning Talks    Eric Brown , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  [pdf]    Clark Gaylord , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University  [pdf]    Dave Hartzell , NASA  [pdf]    Derek Morr , Pennsylvania State University  [pdf]    Tom Zeller , Indiana University  [pdf] A Lightning Talk is a very short (no more than 5 minutes) talk on a topic of your choice - anything interesting or timely, or even a bit off the wall. Submissions will be solicited during the workshop. Please send proposals for Lightning Talks to jt-lightning-talks@internet2.edu. Slides are optional. All slides must be pre-loaded on the podium laptop - you will not be permitted to use your own laptop, as there just won't be time for swapping. Slides must be received by the beginning of the afternoon break on Tuesday. Remember, the 300-second limit will be strictly enforced! Some tips on how to do a successful Lightning Talk are at http://perl.plover.com/lt/osc2003/lightning-talks.html.	Auditorium
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM