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International Track Sessions
Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting
Brought to you by Internet2 International, the following sessions will
be taking place during the meeting in the Relationships and Partnerships
track:
Supporting research with collaborators
in hard to network parts of the world
Monday, October 28, 2002
4:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Room TBD
Wilshire Grand, Los Angeles, CA
This session will .feature presentations from three projects working
to connect researchers with data, facilities and other researchers in
Africa, southeastern Asia, southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Technology used, lessons learned and how we can continue to expand advanced
networking connectivity for the worldwide research community will be
discussed. Presenters include:
- Julia Royall, National Institutes of Health
- Cathrin Stover, DANTE
- Suguru Yamaguchi, WIDE Project, Japan
A follow-on BoF to
further discuss will be held Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m.
where breakfast will be provided. Location details will be posted soon.
Taking advantage of global connectivity
and leveraging global collaborations
Tuesday, October 29, 2002
8:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location: Room TBD
Wishire Grand, Los Angeles, CA
This session will highlight exemplary collaborations between Internet2
members and international partners that are taking advantage of international
connectivity to support research and education. In the format of 3 case
studies, the focus of this session will be on IPv6 and advanced networking
technologies deployment on a global scale. After the case studies, we'll
have an informal question and answer session between presenters and
audience.
- Case Study 1
6NET: Europe's Native IPv6 Backbone Research Project
Less than Best Effort: Europe Deploys Scavenger
Tim Chown, University of Southhampton, United Kingdom
The 6NET project is one of the European Commission's largest network
research initiatives, encompassing 15 National Research and Education
Networks and as many university testbed sites. The initial goal of
deploying a pan-European IPv6-only backbone running on Cisco routers
was achieved in May 2002. The focus now lies in specification, development
and testing of IPv6 services to run on the infrastructure, including
IPv6 QoS (both better than and less than best effort), Mobile IPv6,
IPv6 DNS, IPv6 Multicast (PIM-SM and SSM), IPsec and VPNs. There is
also significant effort in determining best practice for IPv6 transition
and integration for academic scenarios, from both the ISP (NREN) and
end site (university) perspective; recent changes in the IETF ngtrans
(v6ops) area are important in this regard. The project is also porting
and deploying many applications, including the Globus Toolkit (v2)
and the VOCAL VoIP package. We hope to make these packages available
to the IPv6 community as a whole, and to be able to test IPv6 applications
between 6NET and Abilene, using a native link between the networks
(most likely to be sourced from SURFnet by Fall 2002). See: http://www.6net.org/
The ideas for a less than best effort service that originated in the
IETF diffserv working group have recently been given sharp impetus
within the Internet2 community as the QBone Scavenger Service (QBSS).
In this presentation we describe the service definition for an LBE
(Less than Best Effort) service for the European GEANT community that
is based upon the Scavenger work and designed to be wholly interoperable
with it. We list a number of potential usage scenarios for LBE, including
data mirroring, GRID traffic, support of new transport protocols,
student dormitories, network backups and non-disruptive estimation
of available bandwidth. The presentation includes results of work
done to date in verifying LBE operation on the GEANT backbone in the
presence of BE and Premium IP traffic, and describes planned trials
of LBE at edge networks (the results of which may be availbel in time
for the Fall Meeting).See: http://www.cnaf.infn.it/~ferrari/tfngn/lbe/
- Case Study 2
IPv6 Global Deployment and Peering Issues: deploying IPv6
for iGrid2002 and lessons learned
Matt Zekauskas
Internet2 Measurement Working Group Chair
- Case Study 3
iGrid 2002 Debrief
Tom DeFanti and Maxine Brown
Principal Investigators, NSF StarLight
University of Illinois at Chicago
With 25Gb of bandwidth available over the Atlantic Ocean, a 250% increase
in bandwidth available at iGrid two years ago, iGrid 2002 in Amsterdam
challenged scientists and technologists to utilize multi-gigabit experimental
optical networks, with special emphasis on e-Science, LambdaGrid and
Virtual Laboratory applications. The result was an impressive, coordinated
effort by 28 teams representing 16 countries, that showcased how extreme
networks, combined with application advancements and middleware innovations,
could advance scientific research. As a conference, iGrid 2002 demonstrated
application demands for increased bandwidth. As a testbed, iGrid 2002
enabled the world's research community to work together briefly and
intensely to advance the state of the art by collaborating on new
network-control and traffic-engineering techniques; new middleware
to bandwidth-match distributed resources; and, new collaboration and
visualization tools for real-time interaction with high-definition
imagery. Much of the iGrid 2002 infrastructure between North America
and Europe is persistent and is available for long-term experimentation.
This presentation provides a brief look at the experimental platforms
upon which future e-Science and large-scale distributed-computing
experiments will take place.
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