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Advanced Networking and Internet2: The Role of Regional, State and Local Participants
Laurie Burns
Director of Member Activities
EDUCAUSE Gathering of State NetworksApril 18, 2000
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What is Internet2?
A project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)
An umbrella term for many activities, such as Abilene, various working groups, the middleware initiative, etc.
The organization its staff work for
The member community as a whole
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What’s UCAID?
The official corporate entity that takes in member dues and governs Internet2 activities
A 501(c)(3), non-profit organization
A less sexy name than Internet2
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How and when did Internet2 begin, and how has it grown? Fall 1996 - Internet2 project is created as a collaboration among 34 leading research universities
Fall 1997 - University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development is incorporated
April 1998 - Membership totals 123 regular University members, 30 Corporate members, and 22 Affiliate members
April 1999 - Membership totals 154 regular University members, 54 Corporate members, and 27 Affiliate members
March 2000 - Membership totals 176 regular University members, 72 Corporate members, and 36 Affiliate members
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How does Internet2 do its work?
Through its members• Regular
– US Colleges and Universities
• Affiliate– Non-profit and other research or education organizations
• Corporate– Members
– Sponsors
– Partners
• Collaboration Site Status– Applies to Affiliate and Corporate members; allows designation of
research and development site
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Where does Internet2’s revenue come from?Members pay dues
• Regular - $25,000/year• Affiliate - $10,000/year• Corporate
– Members - $10,000/year
– Sponsors - member dues plus up to $100,000 in-kind contribution
– Partners - member dues plus up to $1,000,000 in-kind contribution
• Collaboration Site Status– Applies to Affiliate and Corporate members; allows designation of
research and development site
– Increases dues to $25,000/year
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What activities and initiatives are underway?Working GroupsIPv6MeasurementMulticastNetwork ManagementNetwork StorageQuality of Service
InitiativesMiddlewareHealth Science Applications
RoutingSecurityTopologyDigital VideoResearch TVInternet Economics
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What are Internet2 Goals?
Enable new generation of applications not supported in current commodity Internet
Characteristics:Collaborative or group process support, with high degrees of
interactivity among participantsAccess to remote resources, such as online research instruments,
databases, digital libraries, and the movement of resources to other sites
Distributed computation and data handling, for aggregated cluster computing, data mining, and resource sharing
Immersive data visualization and virtual reality, for exploration of simulated environments
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Internet2 Goals
Re-create leading edge R&E network capability
Examples:
Core Middleware: Access Management
Performance measures
Multicast, QoS, Bandwidth brokers, IPv6
Testbed network environment for networking research use
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Internet2 Goals
Transfer technology and experience to the global production Internet
Work in partnership with corporate membership and partners
Facilitate cross-vendor collaborations
Facilitate vendor-researcher collaborations
Facilitate engagement of corporate labs
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What is the Abilene Network?
OC48 (2.4 gbps) national backboneSupported and operated by a partnership among Qwest, Cisco Systems, Nortel, and Indiana UniversityPeering agreements with 30 international networks History:
• April 1998 - Abilene Network announced• February 1999 - Abilene Network launched• April 2000 - 150 signed Participation Agreements
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What are Abilene Participants?
Primary Participants• Regular members • Affiliate and Corporate members who also have Collaboration Site
Status
Secondary Participants• Educational institutions (including both not-for-profit and for-profit K-
20, technical, and trade schools), museums, art galleries, libraries, hospitals who are sponsored by a Regular University member
• Other non-educational, not-for-profit or for-profit organizations, sponsored by a Regular member, that require collaboration on instructional, clinical and/or research projects with Primary participants or with other Secondary participants
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What are Abilene Participants?
Network Participants• Research and/or instructional networks that have substantially
the same purposes and limitations as Internet2 and that subscribe to Abilene under arrangements approved by the UCAID Board
Connectors (not participants)• Connectors establish and manage the physical connections to
Abilene, and together with the Abilene Network Operations Center and campuses manage all the subsequent operations of the end to end network
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How does participation differ from membership?
“Membership” represents the official relationship organizations have with Internet2 and UCAID
“Participation” applies specifically to use of an Internet2 network, such as Abilene
Primary participants must also be members
Primary participants also pay an annual participation fee to Abilene ($20,000)
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What is the Abilene Conditions of Use Policy?
• Governs types of organizations that can connect• Governs types of traffic that can be sent/received
• Promotes traffic that primarily and clearly serves the teaching, learning, research, and clinical missions of US higher education
• Promotes traffic that is primarily the result of collaboration and other related work on instructional, clinical, and/or research projects and services
and
• Seeks to advance Internet2's goal of encouraging and enabling the development of advanced network applications
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Why was the CoU revised?
Rising interest in connecting others...• by Internet2 University members• by gigaPoP organizations• by corporate members
Evolution of the CoU to foster and support...• benefits to primary participants• existing or planned collaborations between and among members
and other organizations• direct relationships between the sponsor and the secondary• sponsorship responsibilities on the part of University members
Revised CoU approved by the Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council (NPPAC) on 11/29/99
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What is the process for secondary nominations?
• Implemented with a simple nomination and approval process through a standard letter of sponsorship that indicates agreement to
– provide and maintain information about the means of connection
– ensure the secondary upholds the CoU
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What is the process for secondary nominations?
• Implemented with a simple application and approval process• Requires a description of the kinds of projects and collaborations
enabled by the connection (planned or existing)– outline of plans that the proposed Secondary participant has for
collaboration on instructional and/or research projects with other Abilene participants during the coming year
– annual submission of a written summary of the contributions made to Internet2
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What is the process for secondary nominations?
• Implemented with a simple application and approval process• Requires a description of the kinds of projects and collaborations
enabled by the connection (planned or existing)• Corporate lab nominations require a relatively greater degree of
description and justification than do educational organizations– “Traffic to and from educational and most non-profit sites is assumed to be the
result of collaboration and other related work with Primary and Secondary participants on instructional, clinical, and/or research projects and services.”
– “Traffic presented to Abilene from corporate sites is expected to be the result of appropriate partitioning of their respective corporate networks and to be similarly focused on collaboration and related work.”
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What is the process for secondary nominations?
• Implemented with a simple application and approval process• Requires a description of the kinds of projects and collaborations
enabled by the connection (planned or existing)• Corporate lab nominations require a relatively greater degree of
description and justification than do educational organizations• Requires no fees to be paid to Abilene or Internet2 (but may
involve fees paid to a gigaPoP or other connector organization)
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What’s the experience to date?Six approved secondaries
• Seattle Community College Association, sponsored by the University of Washington
• Visual History Foundation, sponsored by the University of Illinois-Chicago
• The Oregon Institute of Technology, sponsored by the University of Oregon
• Eastern Oregon University, sponsored by the University of Oregon• Western Oregon University, sponsored by the University of Oregon• Southern Oregon University, sponsored by the University of Oregon
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What’s the experience to date?
Several potential secondaries• Other 2-year and 4-year institutions in state systems (Georgia
and Nebraska)• State or local K-12 systems (Oregon, Florida, Oklahoma, Rhode
Island)• K-12 science museum (Georgia)• Federal labs (multiple locations)• State agencies (Oregon)
Significant issues with state-wide networks of K-12
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What issues have come up?
For state networks:• Network engineering efficiencies• Political realities• Concern that a different standard is being set for domestic
networks than for international networks with which Abilene peers
For Internet2• Dilution of Internet2’s primary mission• Potential to put Abilene in apparent competition with other ISPs
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What are the challenges?
• Fostering research into K-12’s use of high-speed connections and maintaining a principle focus on higher education
• Preserving the ability of gigaPoPs to maintain efficiency in routing and network management and creating flexible network architectures
• Strengthening the ability of state and regional networks to serve their diverse education constituents and preserving the focus on advanced applications and advanced networking technologies
• Maintaining consistency between US networks and international networks and ensuring that Internet2 peers with networks that have a shared purpose
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It’s not “if” It’s “how?” and “when?”
How can we, as a community, proceed in such a way as to preserve our focus on research and education while opening up capabilities to a wider variety of users and uses?
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What happens next?
Letter from NPPAC to membership FAQWork with gigaPoP community to find architectural solutions Review and refine CoU language and applications processReview terminologyPost applications on webBring forward your nominations!
