DRAFT CCIRN AGENDA
Montreal, CA - Holiday Inn Select
June 29, 1996
7:30 - 8:00 REGISTRATION
8:00 - 8:30 OPENING - Walter Wiebe/Vincent Taylor, NACCIRN
8:30 - 10:00 INTERCONTINENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVES (5-10 min.
each)
Issue: Intercontinental Connectivity - Cost sharing of
links - Kees Neggers / Tadao Takahashi
- U.S. - George Strawn
- Canada - Doug Hughes / Vincent Taylor
- Asia - Kilnam Chon
- Europe - Kees Neggers
- Latin America - Saul Hahn
- Africa - Mike Lawrie / Tarek Kamel
- Global (Teledesic' satellite infrastructure) - Hans-Werner Braun
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 COLLABORATIONS - High Performance Internetworking (10 min. each)
Goal: Share information and identify common interests and potential collaborations.
- High Performance Information Infrastructure (U.S. initiative) - G.
Strawn
- Interconnection of Testbeds (Asian initiative) - Kilnam Chon
- TEN-34 Consortium/James (EU Initiative) - Karel Vietsch
- Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks - GIBN (G-7) - Stefano
Trumpy
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH
Goal of Afternoon Sessions: To facilitate global collaborations in areas relevant to strengthening
and promoting continued growth of the global Internet infrastructure -- particularly those related to Internet
measurements; caching; privacy and
security; and Mbone topologies.
- identify common objectives, needs, and POCs wrt these Internet collaborations
- develop action plans for followup and participation by CCIRN members
1:30 - 3:00 COLLABORATIONS - Roundtable Technical Discussions
- Statistics / Metrics Overview - Kimberly Claffy / Tracie Monk
- International Caching Hierarchy - Duane Wessels
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 5:00 COLLABORATIONS - Roundtable Technical Discussions
- Internet Security & Privacy - Walter Wiebe / Tracie Monk
- MBONE -- topologies and visualization - Kimberly Claffy
- Other -- open discussion
5:00 - 5:30 REVIEW OF NEXT STEPS
Issues:
- How can multilateral information sharing / direct collaborations among CCIRN members be improved?
- Should providers be invited to participate in the CCIRN, given their importance to global networking?
- How should the CCIRN ToR be revised to reflect current objectives / membership?
Background materials, include:
Country/Continental URLs
Other Related Information
International Collaborations
Country/Continent URLs:
U.S.
Canada
CA*net http://www.canet.ca/canet/index.html
Canarie Nethttp://www.canarie.ca/ntn
Asia
Asia-Pacific Networking Group - http://www.apng.org
Europe
Dante - http://www.dante.net
Terena - http://www.terena.nl
Latin America
OAS/RedHUCyT project - http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/RED/cov ere.htm
Africa
African connectivity - http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa
South Africa connectivity - http://greg.csurf.co.za
Other Related Information
NSF Connections Program
NSF's Domestic Connections Program solicitation was issued in April 1996.
The domestic Connections solicitation provides for: a) connections for K-12
institutions, libraries, and museums that utilize innovative technologies
for Internet access; b) new connections for higher education institutions;
and c) connections for research and education institutions and facilities
that have meritorious applications with special network requirements (such
as high bandwidth and/or bounded latency) that cannot readily be met through
commodity network service providers. For more information, see: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/ncri/.
With respect to The solicitation for NSF's International Connections Program
is scheduled to be issued later this year. An extension to the current agreement
with Sprint ICM is anticipated. For more information on the domestic solicitation,
contact Mark Luker at mluker@nsf.gov. For more information on the international
solicitation, contact Steve Goldstein at sgoldstein@nsf.gov
High Performance Information Infrastructure
The High Performance Information Infrastructure (HPII) working group was established
in early 1996 and tasked with formulating recommendations on the R&D required
to move networking technologies toward the next generation architecture /
applications. The HPII may soon be merged with a proposed Large Scale Networking
working group. This working group would be a part of the U.S.' high performance
computing and communications (HPCC) initiative. For more information on the
HPII, contact George Strawn at gstrawn@nsf.gov.
Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN)
Many of the organizations active in the CCIRN are also active in identifying
applications or infrastructure to assist with high performance networking
over the Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN) testbed. For
more information on the GIBN, see: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/GIBN/.
Contacts include: Steve Goldstein, US at sgoldstein@nsf.gov, and Stefano Trumpy,
EU at s.trumpy@cnuce.cnr.it
International Collaborations
GOAL: To facilitate global collaborations in areas relevant to strengthening and promoting
continued growth of the global Internet infrastructure -- particularly those related to Internetmeasurements;
caching; privacy and
security; and Mbone topologies.
Statistics / Metrics Measurements
Throughout the lifetime of the NSFnet Backbone Service, Federal agencies and
various user communities were engaged in the development, operation and ultimate
transition of the Internet to the commercial sector. The involvement of many
of these groups was channeled through the Federal Networking Council (FNC) and
its Advisory Committee (FNCAC), which consists of representatives
from the higher education and research communities, service providers and industry.
Following the April meeting of the FNCAC, its members distributed a set of recommendations calling for the...
- initiation of efforts to expand the collaborative development of
performance measurements and trouble ticket tracking on the
Federally-sponsored segments of the Internet, with specific attention to
factors relating to the privacy of Internet users and providers and security
of Internet facilities and usage.
- Increased funding / prioritization of research on measurements and
measurement techniques that can be employed by ISPs and users (or their
representatives) to quantify Internet quality of service (packet loss, packet
delay, route availability, etc.).
- Identification of critical networking metrics and tools which could be run
over R&E networks, including defining the characteristics of an
"ideal" measurement tool which could gather data on both end-to-end
performance and workflow characterization.
These recommendations resulted from concerns expressed by the members' communities
(such as the High Energy Physics community) about the current state of
the Internet as well as briefings from researchers such as Hans-Werner
Braun (Teledesic - previously NLANR), Kimberly Claffy (NLANR), and Mark Garrett
(Bellcore). The most recent presentation before this body concerned results
from statistics gathering efforts over the FIX-West facility and the conclusions
of the Internet Statistic and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshop. A summary
of current activities and tools related to Internet statistics and metrics
is available at http://www.tomco.net/~tmonk/metrics.htm.
Internet Security & Privacy
Research and education networks in North America place great significance on
networking security and privacy and the relationship between these factors and
the growth and usability of the Internet. In early 1996, the Federal Networking
Council (FNC) initiated a multi-agency effort known as
"Collaborations in Internet Security" (CIS).
The CIS project aims to test and validate various Federal agency / private sector
approaches to security. It seeks to develop a sustainable process for developing,
integrating, and deploying security technologies that are interoperable throughout
the Federal government and within the commercial and academic sectors. DCE/Kerberos,
PKI, authentication/privacy, secure email/web are some of the technologies that
will be explored.
Greater collaboration in these technical initiatives is warranted at an international level. In addition,
international networks might work toward promoting a common privacy / security infrastructures
and policies. Avenues for such cooperation include:
- agreements among research networks wrt incidence response handling;
- agreements among research networks to promote the development of computer emergency
response organizations, along the lines of CERT and CIAC, and to encourage cooperation among
these groups through the FIRST and other entities;
- agreements to encourage adoption of international principals such as those outlined in the
OECD privacy and security guidelines.
RELEVANT URLs:
FISP - http://www.fnc.gov/fisp.html
CIS - http://www.fnc.gov/cis_page.html
CERT - http://www.cert.org
CIAC - http://ciac.llnl.gov/
FIRST - http://www.first.org
OECD Guidelines: http://www.oecd.org/ dsti/iccp/legal/priv-en.html and http://www.oecd.org/dsti/iccp/legal/secur-en.html
Caching:
For information on the global hierarchy for Information Resource Caching, see
http://www.nlanr.net/Cache or contact Duane Wessels at wessels@nlanr.net
Mbone Topologies/Collaborations:
For information on Mbone topologies, visualizations, and other collaborations,
see http://www.nlanr.net/Mbone or contact Kimberly Claffy at kc@kasina.nlanr.net
Last updated - June 20, 1996