NTAC
1/4/11
David Crowe, PJ Clayton, Cas D'Angelo, Rodger Hess, Akbar Kara, Tom Knoeller, Michael Lambert, John Moore, Matt Nocifore, Dave Pokorney, Chet Ruszczyk, Jeff Schiller, Paul Schopis, Joe St Sauver, Steve Wallace, David Wood, Matt Z
1. Topics for Discussion
a. Reports from groups formed based on CAI document
- Operations (Marianne Chitwood)
Marianne was unavailable for the call.
ii. Services (Dave Pokorney)
The services group met on 12/16/10 with Mike McGill and Michael Sullivan to discuss health care. There are existing aggregators that want to be involved in networking and perhaps services for health-related CAIs. There is a program in every state. There is concern that Internet2 connects students. On 12/17/10, John Moore called a meeting to coordinate efforts in reaching out to anchors.
iii. Policy (Steve Wallace)
Steve will provide a report on the next call.
b. Layer 2 service (Cas D'Angelo or TBD)
A call will occur later this week and a plan for moving forward will be created on that call, based on Dave Jent's bullet points. Cort Buffington will join the group.
2. Updates
a. Working Groups
- Information Services (Martin Swany)
Martin was unavailable for the call.
- ION (Linda Winkler)
Linda was unavailable for the call.
- IPv6 (Michael Lambert)
The FCC released a paper on IPv4 address exhaustion (google for it).
- Multicast (Richard Machida)
Richard was unavailable for the call.
- Peering & Routing (Jeff Bartig)
Steve Wallace indicated that through the upgrade to the T640 routers, MX routers will become available and will be used for TR-CPS. The T640 router installation will begin in January and another will occur about every two weeks. This will free up a router for the Dallas node by spring of 2011.
- Performance (Carla Hunt & Chris Hawkinson)
Carla and Chris were unavailable for the call.
vii. Transport (Steve Senger & Chet Ruszczyk)
Chet indicated that they postponed last month's meeting but they will be conducting some experiments. The work of the group is moving along although more slowly than anticipated.
b. Internet2 (Dale Finkelson)
Dale reported that a fourth 10G was lit between Chicago and KC. It has been quiet because of the holidays.
c. AOAC (John Moore)
The AOAC met once since the last NTAC, on December 8, 2010. During the December 8th call, John Moore, NTAC Chair, provided updates on the three subgroups investigating policy, services and operations as outlined in the NTAC CAI document (http://www.internet2.edu/network/documents/NTAC%20CAI%20Service%20Attributes%2010-25-10.pdf) and also provided an update on the work of the group investigating a layer 2 service. Also, during the December 8 call, the AOAC discussed 2xN connections, in response to a request from the Connector/Network Member business meeting for review. After considerable discussion, the AOAC decided to table the discussion until the larger fee discussion occurs.
d. ARIN (Dave Farmer & Michael Lambert)
The counter for available slash 8's is down to seven. Two more are to be distributed before the end game begins. The estimate on IPv4 exhaustion is 45 days. For any new IPv4 allocation has to be put on an interface with an IPv6 capability (those on the call noted that this would be difficult to enforce).
4. Other business
February NTAC meeting moved from 2/1/11 to 2/8/11, 4:00 EST, due to conflict with Joint Techs.