Draft Agenda for Fifth Internet2-CANARIE-DANTE-GÉANT2 Strategic/Technical Meeting, 18-19 January 2006

Wednesday 18 January

11:00 am Introductions, logistics, agenda review/revision

11:15 am Interconnection of production network infrastructure (e.g. Abilene, GEANT, ESnet, CANARIE - current, planned, and related configuration, routing, etc. issues)

  • Quick updates from all - CANARIE, GEANT, ESNET, Internet2
  • Specific planning/configuration for Washington, DC - ESnet, GEANT, Abilene interconnections
  • Next steps in reconfiguring IRNC NYC-AMS link in NYC - Rick
  • Planned maintenance and outage tracking - Joe Metzger

1:00 pm Lunch (working)

1:30 pm Collaboration on development of hybrid network services and interconnection of testbed/production capabilities

  • Plans for the London circuit and future work to be accomplished between testbeds - Rick
  • Co-ordinated operations support for hybrid network services - Roberto
  • GN2 SA3, BRUW, OSCARS updates - Anand Patil, Bob Riddle
  • Use of GN2 AMPS within ESNET and Internet2 - Anand Patil
  • JRA3 report - Aphrodite

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm Update on authN/Z/trust federation developments and implications on security, access to performance measurement infrastructure and access to hybrid network services

  • Update on authentication/authorization support for performance data and capacity allocation - Ken (remote)
  • Update on GEANT2 authentication/authorization developments - Juergen(?)

5:30 pm Adjourn

Thursday 19 January

9:00 a.m.  Performance measurement and monitoring development and infrastructure interconnection (e.g. perfSONAR, other?)

  • Update on GN2 JRA1 - Loukik Kudarimoti (remote)
  • Update on perfSONAR progress - Eric, Jeff
  • Update on perfSONAR in ESnet - Joe Metzger
  • Collaboration on "lightpath measurement" - Eric

12:00 Lunch

12:30 pm Network security interoperations and security tools development activities

  • Update about the new (light) security coordination plan for JRA2 - Claudio
  • Update on Internet2 security work progress - Charles
  • Discussion of Abilene security exercise and discussion of collaboration with other networks on future security exercise - Charles, Steve Cotter
  • Update on Internet2 use of Arbor boxes - Steve Cotter and Doug Pearson (remote)

3:00 pm  Wrap-up, next steps

4:00 pm Adjourn