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 oflinks - 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

10:30 - 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) - StefanoTrumpy

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 andsecurity; 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

3:30 - 5:00 COLLABORATIONS - Roundtable Technical Discussions

- Internet Security & Privacy - Walter Wiebe / Tracie Monk
- MBONE -- topologies and visualization - Kimberly Claffy
- Other -- open discussion

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?

Country/Continental URLs

Other Related Information

International Collaborations

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Country/Continent URLs:
U.S.

FNC networks

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

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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

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International Collaborations
GOAL: To facilitate global collaborations in areas relevant to strengthening and promotingcontinued growth of the global Internet infrastructure -- particularly those related to Internetmeasurements; caching; privacy andsecurity; 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 infrastructuresand policies. Avenues for such cooperation include:

• agreements among research networks wrt incidence response handling;
• agreements among research networks to promote the development of computer emergencyresponse organizations, along the lines of CERT and CIAC, and to encourage cooperation amongthese groups through the FIRST and other entities;
• agreements to encourage adoption of international principals such as those outlined in theOECD 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

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