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International Task Force Meeting, Part I
Monday, 24 April 2006
8:30 a.m. to 12:00pm EDT
Location: Crystal Gateway Marriot - Arlington, VA
Session Summary: The ITF is made up of representatives from each of the organizations with whom Internet2 has partnered through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The ITF serves as the forum for discussion of international issues relevant to the development of a high-performance, leading-edge network infrastructure, advanced technologies and applications for research and education.
AGENDA (in Eastern Daylight Time)
7:30 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast
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8:30 - 8:35 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Heather Boyles - Internet2 (USA)
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8:35 - 10:00 |
Enabling Health Sciences through National Research and Education Networks
Session Description
Around the globe, advanced research and education networks are being used to support health science, medical training and clinical practice. Advanced networks are reshaping these health sciences both within national boundaries and between countries. This panel will explore how various national research and education networks (NRENs) support their health science communities.
Specific questions to be answered include:
- What are the opportunities that advanced research and education networks hold for the health sciences? Are these activities revolutionary or simply technology use for technology sake?
- What benefits do advanced networks provide to the health science community?
- What challenges keep practitioners and researchers from using these advanced networks in their work?
- What international collaborations in health sciences are enabled through NRENs?
Panelists include:
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10:00 - 10:30 |
BREAK
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10:30 - 12:00 |
Global Research and Education Network Routing Issues
Session description
As the connectivity between national research and education networks increases, routing complexity has also increased. More networks have multiple paths between one another; there are new regional network aggregations with their own routing policies (e.g. TEIN2); and more major backbone networks are providing transit across their networks for peers. This is a good problem to have: more connectivity between NRENs means more capacity to support collaborations; and increasing transit providers means an NREN can connect to one or two other NRENs and achieve broad connectivity to other research and education networks.
Routing policy decisions will clearly continue to be made by each network. However, there may be things we can all do as NRENs to provide better information about our own routing policy decisions that will help others make better decisions. Secondly, there may be usefulness in coordinating routing policy to the extent possible to better serve our respective research, teaching and learning communities and their needs for well-designed, high-performance global networking.
This panel will lay out the issues; provide information about tools that might be used to help address the information sharing problem; and provide NREN managers and operators a forum to discuss how to address these issues. Presentations topics will include: information about the University of Oregon Route Views project and its use insight into global routing for NRENs; information about other tools, including the NLANR AMP project, and how they might be used by NREN engineers to solve routing issues; and a case study by the GLORIAD and TransPAC2 projects looking at routing issues between the US and Asia and how they are using Route Views and other tools to clarify routing and identify issues.
Panelists include:
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| 12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
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