A cocktail reception for International attendees and other invited guests.

If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Jocelyn Gerich (jgerich@internet2.edu)

Discuss issues emerging from the growth of multiple federations serving the research and education community.

Strategic Planning Steering Committee meeting

this half day workshop will help those who are interested in working on the open-source iHDTV code to get started. come meet the core developers, learn about the software design, and have your questions answered. The iHDTV developer's roadmap will be presented

Come learn everything you've wanted to know about the K20 Initiative but were afraid to ask. This year the K20 Initiative Monday meeting is open to the entire Internet2 community. Come one, come all! Browse the meeting agenda Here. A working lunch will be provided to give people an opportunity to catch up with old colleagues and engage new ones. For more information on the work of the Internet2 K20 Initiative Click Here.

If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Terry Moore (tmoore@eecs.utk.edu).

REDDnet Development, Deployment and Operations

The Research and Education Data Depot Network (REDDnet, 'ready net') wide area storage network that is being created to support data intensive collaboration among researchers, teachers, and students on Internet 2 and other research networks. Launching in 2007 with funding from the NSF, it will provide its users with at least 700 TB of 'work space' in disk storage and 200 TB of tape storage for more long term and archival purposes. It uses Logistical Networking (LN) middleware, based on the Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP), in order to maximize easy and scalable deployment, freedom and flexibility for application developers, and sustainable interoperability. This one day REDDnet Development, Deployment and Operations meeting will bring together leaders from REDDnet's different application communities (e.g. Particle Physics, Geospatial Data, etc.), technical support team, software developers, and LN researchers in order to showcase this new national cyberinfrastructure's capabilities, share user experiences, and chart the directions for the future development of the software technology and the growth of the infrastructure.

Directories Working Group Meeting where the latest happenings in the Directory Space will be discussed.

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.

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This session provides a basic overview of Internet2, covering the concepts and terminology in advanced network services, middleware and applications. It will also provide information to help attendees understand how to engage with the Internet2 community, with a focus on current projects, initiatives and working groups. The session will also include information about a variety of services that are available to the Internet2 membership and community. Some of the services that will be presented include: the Internet2 Commons, InCommon, Internet2 outreach resources, End-to-End Performance Tools, FiberCo Professional Services, to name a few. The session is open to all Internet2 member representatives and meeting attendees, and those new to Internet2 member meetings and the Internet2 community are particularly encouraged to attend. There will be plenty of time to ask questions of and interact with Internet2 staff and other attendees.

A discussion on CoManage.

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

This is a face to face meeting for the members of the Architecture and Operations Advisory Council. Chair: Dave Jent, Vice Chair: George Loftus, Internet2 Executive Liaisons: Cheryl Fremon and Rob Vietzke, Internet2 Staff Support: Terri Saarinen

Face to face Research Advisory Council (RAC) Meeting

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.

Face to face meeting of the AMSAC Council.

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

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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!

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

This is the regular meeting of the ResearchChannel-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.

If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact James Werle (jwerle@u.washington.edu).

Working meeting of the K20 Initiative Advisory Committee.

This discussion session of the International Task Force (made up of representatives of Internet2's international partners) will focus on the relationship between the emerging network research and innovation facility efforts (such as GENI in the US, FEDERICA in Europe, and others) and existing National Research and Education Networks. Various NRENs in different countries and regions around the world are examining how they should be involved in, supporting or otherwise paying attention to the network research facility efforts in their own countries, regions and in others. The session will consist of short presentations by innovation facility efforts followed by a more focused discussion amongst NRENs from different countries. It will provide an opportunity for NRENS and innovation facility efforts to share information, strategies and plans.

To facilitate the use of federated identity in managing access to applications where a false identity may pose a significant risk, the InCommon Federation is working on a new identity assurance profile, commonly known as InCommon Silver. The framework and accompanying profile describe the rationale and processes involved in certifying an InCommon Federation Identity Provider as capable of providing identity assertions grounded in defined business and operational practices and credential technologies.

This birds-of-a-feather session will present the proposed framework and profile and discuss possible campus impacts and next steps.

Rich Carlson will host the 15th Tools Tutorial session.

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 FCC's new Rural Healthcare Broadband Network Initiative affords all of us exceptional opportunities to develop advanced networks with direct public benefits as enabling infrastructures. All too often in the past, however, our best efforts to develop such enabling infrastructures have not enabled as much as we had hoped. We believe that immersion and experiential learning for the principals and beneficiaries are the keys and that top-notch demonstration applications in health care and education are the doorways to success but that we now depend primarily on old-boy networks that cannot be scaled for setting them up. Those of us who will meet hope to start what promises to be a long experimental search for an as yet unknown scalable method for brokering such demonstrations wherever they may be needed, nationally and globally. We hope this project will bring together similar interests from several Internet2 interest domains, at least including Healthcare, Education, and Emerging NREN's. This will be the first kick-off meeting.

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

If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Heather Boyles(heather@internet2.edu)

Strategic planning update with international partners.

We will be discussing the new Shibboleth v2.0 release.

This will be the first face-to-face meeting of the DCN Working Group. They will discuss the current status of projects, software, tools, and deployment efforts as well as an overview of the international development efforts currently underway. More information on the group can be found at: http://www.internet2.edu/dcresearch/

The Corporate Breakfast Forum will be a continuation of the Fall 2007 Forum. The agenda will include discussion on the critical role of industry moving forward; Program, Project, and Initiative leaders will briefly talk about community activities. Council Chairs and Council participants from industry will have been invited to be on hand to talk about their council experiences and process.

If you are interesting in a attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Karen Doemer (kdoemer@internet2.edu).

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

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We will be discussing the general state of IPv6 in research and education networks. Specific topics might include IPv4 address depletion and campus and GigaPoP/RON IPv6 deployment issues.

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. We will be joined at this meeting by colleagues from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session please contact Ann Doyle (adoyle@internet2.edu).

Discussion on EDDY and diagnostics.

PIC Working group will gather to discuss current developments and issues.

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.

Many campuses are faced with the issue of supporting aging analog cable television plants with limited capabilities. While IPTV looks promising, there are four things that have to come together before we can make it work. The four pieces are: buyin from the content owners, a system of aggregation that leverages our investment in high speed networks cost effectively, effective last mile (on campus) distribution and a model that support campus based high quality content contribution. This panel made up of campus distribution experts, video distribution equipment manufactures and content aggregators will discuss strategies to make IPTV a reality in higher education.

More and more state and regional consortiums are looking to share their scarce resources to make everyone's dollar go a bit further. To do this, though, requires the management of multiple accounts and passwords and a staff nightmare that doesn't scale. Federated identity and Shibboleth System can alleviate this by leveraging local identity systems for authentication and pass information needed for authorization to the organization managing the service. In addition to this technology solution, each institution must have an understanding that the others in the consortiums are following agreed upon policies and procedures and not, for instance, handing out accounts on the street or using personal information for other purposes. These three legs of technology, policy, and process support the idea of trust among a collaborative group. This session will provide case studies of how and why consortiums are leveraging the InCommon Federation to build and support this trust and what others can do to start.

Through a partnership with Georgia’s Board of Regents, Barrow County Schools has implemented a network connection to the Regents’ PeachNet® statewide network, becoming the first K-12 school system in Georgia to connect to Internet2. The connection enables Barrow County Schools to execute a host of innovative services. Over the past year, Barrow County School officials have established the Direct to Discovery (D2D) program designed to engage middle and high school science students in the excitement of science discovery by connecting them directly to research labs and science centers across the state. Students interact with state luminaries in fields as diverse as nanotechnology, marine biology, astronomy and life science. Recently the D2D program expanded beyond math and science to include the performing arts. The district is currently working with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestra’s Global Concert series, the human genome research labs at the University of Georgia, the nanotechnology clean room at Georgia Tech and is participating in a five year study with Georgia State into why 40% of America’s public school teachers leave the field in the first 3 to 4 years of their career. The system continues to expand D2D and plans to include interactive programs offered by The Atlanta Center for Puppetry Arts, live interaction between students and researchers on the sea floor at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, and calculus classes from Georgia Tech utilizing a virtual-whiteboard application that fosters close interaction among students and teachers connected remotely. The district also promotes connection to PeachNet® and Internet2 to other districts across the state.

This panel will frame the challenges and advances in on-campus networking to support research and implementation of cyber-infrastructure initiatives. The panelists represent a range of perspectives including the CIO, researcher and implementation. CIO issues will include areas such as campus commitment, planning, funding and strategies. They will explore the perspective of the researchers and faculty including their expectations and needs. The third element of the discussion centers on practical needs and integration of applications from different parts of a campus. Providing multiple perspectives will illustrates the importance of integration and communication among various levels on the campus.

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

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.

Through its international R&E network organization partners, the NSF-funded International Research Network Connections program and other initiatives, the Internet2 community has use of advanced research and education network capabilities in over 80 countries. This session will provide an overview and update on how the Internet2 community is connected with counterparts around the world; hear from members engaged in utilizing Internet2?s international connections and provide a forum for discussion on the future of Internet2's international connectivity.

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Welcoming Remarks
Douglas Van Houweling, President and CEO, Internet2

IDEA Awards Announcement
Jack Suess, Internet2 IDEA Awards Chair
Randy Brogle, Senior Director, Offer Management, Level 3

Internet2 Strategic Planning
Ray Ford, Strategic Planning Committee
Bill Decker, Facilitator - Strategic Planning Committee
Peter Siegel, Strategic Planning Committee

The Community Leaders Forum is an invitation-only session for the executive liaisons of Internet2 member organizations, designed as a high-level dialog on key priorities for the Internet2 community. This Forum will focus on strategic planning 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, this 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).

"The Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) represents a distinct shift in thinking about end-to-end connectivity. Along with the technical implementation of the dynamic cloud comes a host of operational issues to be challenged. This BOF will explore and help identify both the technical barriers and operational responses to those barriers. BOF participants should come armed with their own questions about local implementation of the DCN, interoperability with the larger national DCN network, and first-hand experiences to share."

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. Lunch will be available near meeting room.

US LHC Tier2 and Tier3 sites need to continue discussing how campus Physicists will gain access to LHC data sets. Preliminary studies show that Terabyte size datasets will need to be routinely transfered over the network between the LHC Tier1 centers (both US and EU) and the various T2/T3 sites. These data sets must be moved in a timely manner (2-4 hours) with larger demands occurring several times a year. These transfers will impact national backbone, regional, and campus networks. This SIG provides a form for the discussions on how this impact will be mitigated.

Salsa Advisory Group

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

Come discuss and share information about current PKI events including PKI implementers survey information.

Optimizing the overall power efficiency of high performance computing and data centers requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices, and networking equipment. In addition to measures that maximize power efficiency for hardware devices, there are also software strategies, such as server virtualization, that can play a significant role in reducing power consumption. There are a number of potential benefits that can be derived from an increased focus on power consumption and power efficiency: Extending the life of existing data centers and HPC centers and minimizing retrofits; Gaining at least partial control of growing expenses for power and cooling; Optimizing new data center designs to be more energy efficient.

Science in the Cinema, in its original form, is a free film and lecture series intended for a broad range of individuals who enjoy the cinema and have an interest in science and medicine. Selected films touch on a variety of medical and scientific topics. Following each film, an expert discusses the science depicted in the film and takes questions from the audience. These discussions also include the ethical implications raised by the film. Science in the Cinema programs, in this form, was only available to live audiences. Through the use of videoconferencing our Science and the Cinema program uses technology to accomplish the same goals. It allows students to interact directly with scientists and researchers in their respective fields of expertise without leaving their school. These projects also challenge the students by engaging them in discussions on the ethical and moral issues that the advancement of science and technology places on the world community. Projects are being developed that will include experts in the fields of medicine, genetics, anthropology, cellular biology, ecology, and toxicology. View a Science in Cinema videoconferencing program in progress based on the movie, Jurassic Park and the Nova program, The Real Jurassic Park. Talk to the participating students, teacher, and expert via videoconferencing to gain additional insight in the program. We would end the session with a survey and discussion on such issues as how to expand the project and overcoming some of the roadblocks we've experienced, etc.

Faculty are asking central IT departments to simplify access to a wide range of remote services, ranging from agency grants management sites, to local LMS access for cross-registered students, to access to collaborative applications being used by a research group with multi-campus international membership, to commenting on the faculty member's blog. How are the access management requirements of these situations similar, how are they different? When is a lightweight approach sufficient? When is a heavyweight approach required? What criteria might a site use when deciding on an approach? And what technical options are available to a site? What questions need addressing when crossing Federation boundaries? What criteria will a campus IdM process need to meet ("InCommon Silver") in order to access Federal agency websites (eg NIH grants management)? This session will review current thinking, and offer suggestions on how to approach these questions.

John Vollbrecht will host a panel discussion of how dynamic circuit networks around the world are implemented and being used. IP networks provide always-on services with no quality guarantee for data transfer. Researchers often need dedicated channels to transport data at higher bandwidth and guaranteed quality. Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) balances use of the network by highly demanding applications, and prioritises traffic so a faster and better level of service is received. The network supplies the ability to transfer large amounts of information quickly and effectively, with the capacity available whenever needed. The GN2-JRA3 AutoBAHN system provides a BoD service by configuring on-demand circuits across heterogeneous transmission domains. These circuits can be reserved in advance. The domains ? and AutoBAHN systems ? participating in this demonstration are those of HEAnet, GÉANT2, PIONIER, and GRNET. Clients are connected to each of the domains with the exception of GÉANT2.

Video conferencing is transforming global collaboration. This transformation is creating new opportunities for research, teaching, and learning. During this session, three recipes for achieving success through the use of these technologies will be presented. Recipes will discuss both business models and options for deployment and management. Presented solutions will consider mobile audio and video, desktop and room based video conferencing, up to and including managed high definition and telepresence solutions. Time will be available to discuss how these solution can be applied to the challenges you face today.

Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI) is envisioned as a national-scale research facility for network science and engineering, which may then grow and federate worldwide to support millions or perhaps billions of devices. It will allow controlled end-to-end experimentation, at large scale, of new global computing / communications architectures. The GENI Project Office (GPO) has been formed by a Cooperative Agreement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and BBN Technologies, and has assumed responsibility for project management in GENI's planning phase. We will discuss issues related to facility design and implementation, and associated ongoing work on prototyping and risk reduction.

Focus group meetings to review/discuss the Internet2 Strategic Plan Document.

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The proper use of High Definition Video brings a new kind of tool for knowledge transmission. The detail obtained in a sequence of images in High Definition offers a new dimension in media productions. For instance, during earthquake engineering research at LanammeUCR lab, the detail of the fissures in a fracture of concrete isn't captured by a video camera with standard definition, but using a high definition camera is possible to record and transmit tests in a useful manner. The strong floor area and the apparatus used for testing are unique in Central America and using high definition video and other technologies brings the possibility to give a new tool to students and researchers across the country, avoiding physical presence during testing. Another example is the use of high definition video in surgery, where this technology provides to the audience an experience near to immersion. Comparing the format of video between standard definition and high definition we have more than twenty times more pixels, displaying the sharpness necessary to see tiny details that were not visible before. A low cost solution can be built with a HDV camera and a PC running software like hDVTS, VideoLAN or Microsoft ConferenceXP.

Internet2 members are involved in several exciting projects related to performance and measurement. This session will provide an update on the progress of: - perfSONAR, a network monitoring infrastructure that makes it easier to solve end-to-end performance problems on paths crossing several networks; contributors to perfSONAR development include Internet2, GÉANT2, and ESnet members, among others. - Performance tool development, including updates on OWAMP, Bandwidth Test Controller, Network Diagnostic Tool, and Thrulay, as well as the development of a Knoppix disk with downloads of these and other tools in an easy-to-use format. - Network Performance Workshops, which have been offered in 23 locations and are scheduled for several more in upcoming months. - Application-community-specific performance efforts, including a series of workshops with the HENP Large Hadron Collider community, NOAA, and state networks related to meeting measurement and performance needs. More information on all of these topics can be found at http://www.internet2.edu/performance/.

Research1 is a web based collaboration framework being developed by ResearchChannel. Its primary functions are to serve as a premier outlet for researchers to fulfill their public outreach requirements, foster real-time interaction and communication between scientists, educators, students and the public, and to provide a collaborative research environment for teams who could potentially be geographically dispersed. To facilitate community development and collaboration services within Research1 the project team is exploring integration of COmanage as a middleware platform supporting federated identity, group and access management. The speaker will demonstrate Research1 and discuss the middleware requirements to enable federated collaborative communities.

When talking with users about cyberinfrastructure and advanced applications, security is a topic which often comes up -- but not for the right reasons. More often than should be the case, some security practices and some security-oriented network architectures hinder rather than help users to do their work. What can be done to avoid this? How can we have both secure cyberinfrastructure and an application-friendly online environment at the same time?

Larry will lead the panelists in a discussion of the evolution of Ethernet services in the Optical Domain; circuit switching in the Metro with special focus on the RHCPP environment. This topic is being discussed by another set of panelists on Wednesday, April 23 at 3:00pm

Bandwidth Virtualization is the use of digital technology to decouple the service layer from the underlying optical transmission infrastructure. It allows any transport service (e.g. GbE, 2.5G, 10G, 40G, etc) to be immediately provisioned to any network location without regard to optical engineering and without hardware modification inside the network. Bandwidth Virtualization enables a common pool of service-ready optical bandwidth to be used for mix of service types and service data rates. Bandwidth Virtualization also enables new service offerings such as Layer1 Optical VPNs and true on-demand IP capacity as well as new carrier business models based on service activation speed as a competitive differentiator. This presentation will discuss the following examples of the service flexibility enabled by bandwidth virtualization. (i) Seamless migration from 10G services to 40G services - Highlights a simple evolution path for introducing 40G services on a network that is carrying predominantly 10G services, without any changes to the optical transmission network. (ii) Layer 1 Optical VPNs as a new service offering - L1 Optical VPNs offer the end-customer control, security, and flexibility of a customer managed network, while allowing the service provider customer retention and a new source of revenue. (iii) Rapid service provisioning and reconfiguration - Bandwidth virtualization enables a just-in-time service activation model as the network is pre-engineered with service-ready bandwidth that is activated by simply inserting service cards at the end-points. / As bandwidth intensive research and experimental applications proliferate in R&E networks, scaling IP router trunk capacity while optimizing IP and optical transport network architecture is becoming very important. This talk will review key IP over Optical network architecture options that can affect the network operators? ability to cost-effectively scale network capacity. This talk will highlight methods of cost reduction of core IP/Optical networks by optimizing the overall IP and optical network architecture rather than designing independent IP and optical networks. Key topics to be discussed include migration to 40G and 100G router trunks, increasing IP router bypass, implementing reconfigurable digital optical networks (ROADMs), implementing UNI-based IP-optical inter-working using GMPLS and exploring optimal system architectures for integrating packet bandwidth management with reconfigurable multi-wavelength optical transport.

Application-level innovation and infrastructure-level innovation are known to propel one another in a virtuous pattern of feature push and pull. Computing Grids, Supercomputing Centers, large data warehouses breed new paradigms suitable for research, healthcare, military applications. Their value grows as they get interconnected by wide-scale infrastructure with deterministic high throughput and/or low latency. At the same time, healthcare applications such as streaming media and 3D imaging are seeing dramatic expansion and requirement for increased resolution. A single interactive video session can generate network traffic rates as high as 6 Gbps. Our philosophy is to present high-value applications with the opportunity to directly drive a set of virtualized network resources within a range of policy-sanctioned behaviors. Through a mediation layer, the network?s ?knobs?, ?dials?, and ?levers? are abstracted and exposed to the applications in the form of virtual capabilities. The diversity of environments in which this approach may be used, and the resultant benefits, are best illustrated through representative use studies. Four such studies are therefore considered: Creation of an On-Demand service model; Introduction of Time-Value curves into Quality of Service based networks; Applying knowledge of healthcare workflows; Dynamic and Distributed Data Centers mobilize applications and virtual machines. Radiology networks have an interesting challenge when interconnecting several hospitals in a rural region to provide a comprehensive diagnostic imaging service. The challenge arises due to several technological, workflow and organizational factors including: Continuous increase of image data generation; Increase in image size and number of images per case; More pervasive use of radiology images across the region by healthcare providers; Medical practice sub specialization that locate specialists in certain centers probably; and Ad-hoc, emergency retrievals that require immediate response. Consequences of a poorly designed and implemented network could cause delays or no access at all when healthcare providers try to retrieve medical cases resulting in limited diagnostic services to patients. The solution proposed in this paper is a new type of dynamic network that is workflow-aware, namely Workflow Engaged Network (WEN), can greatly improve MAN network performance by ensuring that the critical image transfers experience minimal delay. Our analysis shows that a 155 Mb/s MAN with WEN performs virtually equal to a non-WEN enabled 622 Mb/s MAN. Additionally, due to implementation of application-specific QoS capabilities and personalized SLA?s, this presentation proposes a re-optimization of other key resources such as storage and PACS systems for more effective and efficient workflows involving Radiologists. This will tend to relieve the shortage of such key personnel resources in rural areas.

Focus group meetings to review/discuss the Internet2 Strategic Plan document.

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It is common today to have H.323 and SIP videoconferencing equipment deployed behind firewalls/NATs in campus and enterprise networks. Although a variety of network security-policy reasons drive these deployments, network planners continually face challenges that involve balancing network security for data traffic and end-user Quality of Experience (QoE) for voice and video traffic. Improper decisions could result in vulnerable networks, slow data transfers as well as video frames freezing and audio dropouts. Recently, several new standards and vendor solutions have emerged that aim at solving the challenges for secure videoconferencing deployments. The purpose of this talk is to familiarize the audience regarding these recent developments, and discuss the limitations and caveats that exist in their adoption. The first-half of this talk will focus on state-of-the-art solutions, and corresponding signaling-and-media flow architectures involved in deploying secure videoconferencing systems. The solutions include the Polycom V2IU, GNU Gatekeeper Proxy, and the Cisco PIX with H.323 fixup. The second-half of this talk will discuss the interoperability, load and vulnerability testing of these solutions conducted at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. The talk will conclude with a discussion on the best-practices for deploying small-to-large scale secure videoconferencing deployments in campus and enterprise networks.

This session will describe the ResearchChannel+Open Source group's efforts to date integrating iHDTV's N-Way interactive HD capabilities with the OptIPortal's SAGE graphical environment, and some discussion as to where this might be going. The roadmap for further development, enhancement, and interoperability with other platforms of the iHDTV platform will also be presented.

Today, network operators are changing the infrastructures of their fixed and mobile service networks in anticipation of a new breed of services that will be driven by the convergence of applications over IP. This requires a network that is able to provide service in the existing requirements but also is capable of transitioning to the changes that new services will be requiring. 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 success of the I2 network is its inherent ablility to accommodate such changes because of the platform its built on. Thus this 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.

Collaborations increasingly involve participants from multiple institutions and collections of web-based applications to address the needs of their community. Wikis, blogs, photo sharing, reference managers, and home grown web applications combine to complete the on-line toolbox. Shibboleth is among the most promising solutions to integrate web applications into a common identity and attribute framework. What rules should an application follow to fit into this integrated landscape? What do you do when your application doesn't know the rules? And how do you manage the groups and permissions for all these web applications so they act as a unified collaboration suite? Join us for an overview of emerging developer best practices, work arounds, and management interfaces to help cope with our new on-line paradise.

More universities are implementing advanced enterprise access management systems built on Internet2's Grouper Groups Management Toolkit to solve problems using distributed control and granular access information. This panel session will describe the problems being addressed and the access management services being developed at several US and UK based universities, and the policy and technical issues they're surmounting.

This session will provide an organizational update for The Quilt; an independent non-for-profit organization that supports the activities of the nation?s R&E regional networking organizations. The session will include a current status of the recent organizational change within the Quilt to an independent organization as well as a current update on projects and committees. Current themes of interest to the regional networks will also be discussed.

There are many security tools and devices already deployed in our IT infrastructure. Some are a little more helpful in fighting botnets than others. However, they can all make a difference in our war against botnets if they are adequately equipped with good actionable intelligence. I will describe a set of botnet intelligence that are useful for controlling a botnet throughout its life cycle, from initial infection to bot installation and botnet activities. I will explain four requirements on the quality of botnet intelligence: available, timely, accurate, and complete. Then, I will present a system solution that detects botnet infection/installation events using a VM based method, extracts further intelligence from the VM instrumentation, and qualifies and shares the intelligence across a global network of deployments. Example pcaps and intelligence data will be shown at the end.

Focus group meeting to review/discuss the Internet2 Strategic Plan document.

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 suggestion for the R&E community as to opportunities for further collaboration. If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about this session, please contact Brian Savory (bsavory@advaoptical.com)

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

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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.

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

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

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

MACE and Salsa Advisory Groups dinner.

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

The Internet2 Digital Video Initiative is a Special Internet Group of Internet2. It holds open meetings twice a year at the fall and spring Internet2 Member Meetings. Presenters at the I2DVI meeting present topics of interest on the subject of digital video. At this meeting:

* Bob Dixon (Ohio State University and Ohio State Supercomputer Center) will discuss "The Internet2 Commons- its status and plans for new service offerings".

* Larry Amiot (Northwestern University) will talk about "Developing software to schedule, manage, and handle content management for a Codian MCU/IP-VCR".

* Dan Hague (Carnegie Mellon University) will be discussing "Videoconferencing in Education City in Qatar".

Following the presentations, there will be a short time for the audience to talk about activities going on at their campuses.

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

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

Internet2's review of 2007 Budget.

Administrative and technical meeting for TransPAC2.

If you are interested in attending or obtaining more information about this session, please contact Jim Williams (william@indiana.edu).

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

The Internet2 staff and community are engaged in a wide range of technical efforts. This talk will give an overview of ongoing efforts and the process by which the community can help set the strategic vision for such efforts going forward, with a particular focus on the networking component of cyberinfrastructure.

This session will describe the Internet2 Commercial Peering Service. Topics will include: - Reducing connector's need for commodity Internet - Maintaining Net-Neutral R&E commodity connectivity - Strengthening IPv6 and IP multicast ties to the commodity Internet - Offering network researchers a greater range of network telemetry - Leadership via the Internet2 Network Technical Advisor Committee In addition the current status of the service and perspectives from its users will be shared.

The UABgrid collaboration environment is a high performance computing and web application environment being constructed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as part of our school, system, and state-wide CyberInfrastructure investments. This construction is leveraging Shibboleth and Globus to provide a uniform identity infrastructure, GridWay metascheduling to harness resources distributed on campus and throughout the region by leveraging 10GigE and NLR connectivity. This presentation is an overview of progress after more than a year of development. It will address the successes and short comings of our infrastructure, provide a live tour of the environment highlighting the identity management components and areas in progress, and the utility of middleware authorization bundles like myVocs box that provide the identity infrastructure of UABgrid

This panel session will describe the role that state and regional networks play in national networking initiatives including: aggregating traffic from the research and education community; delivering ultra-broadband last mile connectivity to Internet2 member institutions; operating Gigapops to deliver bandwidth in a cost-effective manner and providing value-added services such as peering and dynamic waves. Regional Optical Networks (RONs) are now providing sufficient bandwidth to support fundamentally new classes of service including statewide: Video-on-Demand learning object repositories; aggregation and sharing of federated research repositories; content and learning management systems supporting K-20 education initiatives; Telepresence; and federated Identity Management. Internet2 provides the national infrastructure that interconnects state and regional networks making new forms of collaboration, resource sharing and interdependence possible. The panel will include members of the Quilt and StateNets organizations and will also discuss what institutions and researchers need to be prepared for when bandwidth is virtually unlimited and affordable.

There are many traditional drivers for the deployment of identity management services as a key IT infrastructure. Recent security drivers including legal and regulatory compliance (PCI-DSS, data disclosure laws), data classification and management needs, and minimizing exposure of sensitive data have raised IdM as a key information security component also. This session will investigate aligning these technologies to mitigate the exposure of sensitive data, help ensure regulatory compliance, and improve practices in both areas.

The Internet2 Teaching and Learning community continues to express increasing interest in educational uses of virtual worlds and gaming simulation environments. Today's panelists will provide an overview of emerging applications in this realm, a discussion of educational uses of the virtual world Second Life, and the status of the development framework Croquet as a platform for future virtual world and simulation applications.

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Welcoming Remarks
Douglas Van Houweling, President and CEO, Internet2

Strategic Planning Summary
Bill Decker, Strategic Planning Committee

IPv6 and the American Registry of Internet Numbers
John Curran, Founder and Chairman at American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)

Blue Print for Big Broadband
Tim Lance, NYSERNet/University at Albany
John Windhausen, Telepoly Consulting

DNSSEC uses cryptographic methods to prevent a variety of attacks against the integrity of DNS traffic.

This BOF will provide an opportunity for those interested in DNSSEC to meet and share information about the status of DNSSEC deployment, challenges they may be encountering, and promising new approaches.

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

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.

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.

Meeting of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee.

This is a working meeting and mini-workshop for the Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group. Topics will include updates on existing work from the Teaching and Learning SIG community and the workshop will focus on educational uses and hands-on experience with virtual worlds and gaming environments. If you are able, please bring your laptop and have signed up for a Second Life account. If you are unable to arrange for this, we will pair you accordingly with colleagues who have access and welcome "in-world companions" during the training.

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Enterprise authorization requires the management of group, role and privilege information to ensure consistent access policy across applications. This session will compare and contrast how multiple institutions have implemented this infrastructure and offer an initial view into shared practices for access management.

Regional networks are essential to the success of the FCC's Rural Health Pilot program and provide the access to Internet2. The 69 recipients of the FCC awards are all unique and provide challenges and opportunities for the Regional Network. This session will present the approaches that 4 of the Regional Networks are taking. This will include the challenges of dealing with multiple award winners and needing to comply with the strict government regulations. The speakers represent significantly different parts of the country, have dramatically different rural health needs and resources and yet share the same goals of ensuring the success and interoperability of the members of the rural health consortia.

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.

?48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube.? ?The daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.? Pew Internet Survey, 2008 How can we teach these students? We need to answer this now because digital video is increasing in usage as never before. NJVid, New Jersey?s state-of-the-art video access presents a scholarly alternative and fully takes advantage of the new broadband capabilities of today?s technology. It is a statewide digital video commons, with collections and services that address the wide-ranging needs of lifelong learners, educators and students. NJVid was begun with an IMLS (Institute for Museums and Library Services) grant to set up the infrastructure and access for New Jersey?s K-20 educational institutions, museums and libraries to share and manage digital video content. We?ll start with three collections: Commercial Video, Locally Owned Content and Lectures-on-Demand. Using the collaboration between three major New Jersey Consortia: VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment), NJDH (New Jersey Digital Highway) and NJEDge.Net, the statewide Technology consortium, NJVid provides a model for all states to take advantage of digital video content across broadband networks of I2 users.

Presenters will give talks on how they are using Internet2's Dynamic Circuit Network and what developments are being made in software and implementations. Three presenters will give brief statements about their current and projected uses for dynamic circuits as well as how applications that use the user interface to the Internet2 DCN actually work. After these talks, each presenter will respond to three questions posed by the moderator. Two presenters will discuss the challenges facing Internet2 and ESnet in software development to meet constituent member needs. There will also be an open Q&A discussion period.

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.

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Hybrid networks incorporating dynamic circuit-switching technologies enable researchers to implement exciting and innovative new applications on a highly configurable, bandwidth-rich infrastructure. Such a rich and dynamic infrastructure however also presents an increasingly tempting target for unauthorized mischief. As circuit-switched networks are blended with existing IP networks, the traditionally isolated transport networking domain becomes increasingly subject to similar attacks as those mounted against the default routed IP infrastructure. This talk briefly examines some existing threats in context of emerging circuit-switched networks, identifying possible vectors for attack and the various techniques used to combat them.

Larry will lead the panelists in a discussion of the evolution of Ethernet services in the Optical Domain; circuit switching in the Metro with special focus on the RHCPP environment. This session is a continuation of the discussion from Tuesday, April 22 at 3:00pm with a different set of panelist.

NJVid is an IMLS grant-funded project that will provide a statewide digital video portal to meet the wide ranging needs of educators, students, and lifelong learners in New Jersey. NJVid is a collaboration among three consortia: New Jersey's Virtual Academic Library Environment (VALE), NJEDge - New Jersey's State Research and Education Network, and New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) (www.njdigitalhighway.org) - the statewide digital cultural heritage portal. An academic video-on-demand portal for the state of New Jersey will support diversity of information and cultural heritage institutions of which there are over 600 including libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. Video collections to serve New Jersey citizens are the core of NJVid. Collections will focus in three areas: Video Commons will be publicly available including history, lectures from notables, and video documenting research and scientific advances. Commercial videos will be available through educational consortia and accessible based on the rights of participating institutions. In a special application, lectures on demand will be supported by enabling faculty to create virtual clips that can be used for the duration of a course. This track session will focus on the storage architecture, networking, authentication, and related services required to make NJVid a reality.

The timely management of identity and access information is a real impediment to collaboration, particularly in light of the increasing variety of tools commonly used facilitate group work. Do you wiki, blog, moodle, IM, chat, videoconference, audioconference, webmeet, calendar, listserv, share file space, etc.? COmanage is a prototype platform that moves identity and access management out of the individual tools and into the collaboration itself. This session will describe early experimentation with this approach in both campus and virtualorganization contexts and its implications for the COmanage roadmap.

Regional and state networks play a critical role in the future of the national advanced research and education network infrastructure.Increasingly, R&E networks in the United States provide not just critical networking services, but their offerings and services require complex business and operations models. This session will provide a follow up to the session that took place during the Fall 2007 member meeting, and include new insights into additional models that R&E networks have in place. We will have different case studies from the Fall meeting, and anticipate having a dynamic discussion on challenges and opportunities.

Whether originating from DDoS attacks, malicious code, unauthorized access, or inappropriate usage, incidents impacting computer security policies are steadily increasing in frequency and risk. IT and security professionals need a highly effective counterattack plan to defuse potential damage to the organization, and network forensics is fast becoming the critical link in incident response. With network forensics IT can preserve critical and contextual data surrounding a particular activity to more quickly and accurately address violations of security and use policies. This presentation is designed to help IT and security professionals avoid common incident response errors by leveraging network forensics best practices, policies and procedures. The discussion takes into account restoral versus forensics approaches to incident response; security, business and compliance trends; and current best practices to support incident response initiatives.

Quarterly meeting of the national Board of Trustees.

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