Transitional NTAC meeting
October 3, 2006
In the call:
Paul Schopis
David Wood
John Streck
Joe St Sauver
Cort Buffington
Leo Donnelly
Matt Davy
Matt Zekauskas
Rick Summerhill
Ana Preston
ACTION ITEMS:
1. Group will reconvene the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, 4 pm ET/3 pm CT/2 pm
MT/1 pm PT until things get more organized.
2. Ana Preston will send minutes from the call and next call reminder
3. Paul will be doing more outreach to others in old Abilene TAC and will also contact those
that had expressed interest in joining
4. Ana Preston to get web page/central page for this group set up.
5. During next call, we will discuss new mailing list (currently have abilene-
tac@internet2.edu )
Next call: Tuesday, October 17 at 4 pm ET
Notes from the call:
Chair opened meeting with suggested agenda to recap phone calls up to this point and receive
input from those attending the call.
Paul provided background on the NAG and the proposed framework delivered to Internet2 back
in August. Please refer to http://networks.internet2.edu for the report all the notes and minutes
from the Network Advisory Group
Mentioned that main goal right now is to put forth a temporary/transitional New Internet2 Network
Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) that could then put forth the eventual NTAC.
Reviewed proposed framework, highlighting the desire for an open nominations process. Paul
provided background on how initial network advisory group had suggested that eventual NTAC
members would have 3-year terms, after 2 consecutive terms, sit out for a year. Keep historical
perspective.
On behalf of Internet2, Ana Preston thanked members of the Abilene TAC for their participation
and service to Internet2 and the community. Their contributions and help have been very valuable.
More time pressure to get group going. Plan is to have a provisional NTAC (inviting all Abilene
TAC members to continue to serve) but with the goal of also working as a nominations group that
could then also not just select members but articulate selection criteria and process.
Paul also mentioned that Internet2 Technical Staff also needed group to be put in place for
particular areas where input is greatly needed. For example, in the area of dynamic services and
provisioning. Suggestion from Rick Summerhill about trying to get this working group and
established soon.
Rick covered some background on HOPI and proposed some ideas regarding the involvement of
the HOPI design team and also areas of work such as integration of dynamic services (and the
work going on in this space) with IP. Rick suggestion to the group on the call was to have the
involvement of 1-2 people involved on this already within the HOPI team and have them be
involved on the NTAC
Rick may have someone in mind and was going to be talking to them about them being involved
on the dynamic services "group" while remaining in the HOPI team and also participating in the
NTAC.
Some discussion about how Internet2 and previous TAC interacted with other working groups.
Rick also provided some background on how in the past, as area director, he would ask for
reports from each of the working groups. Suggested that moving forward, he could ask all the
technical working groups to provide a report on status and specifically highlight how the new
pieces of the new network would relate to the work of each of the groups. This information could
then guide process for what groups should remain for the new network (with NTAC vetting) or
dephased.
Group did a quick review of current technical groups. Some were identified as likely to be
dephased (topology) while others will remain (measurement, IPv6, multicast). Discussed other
areas that may be added like:
- middleware (AA, security)
- Layer 2
- Layer 1
John Streck offered to participate and lead the layer 1 group.
Strong endorsement from the call participants in having a layer 2 group. Chris Griffin was
identified as someone that could be asked to participate (from Florida).
During the call, Cort Buffington offered to serve and get the layer 2 group off the ground.
Group discussed make up of the group and particularly number of participants/members. Not
counting ex-officio/non-voting/observers (which may include Internet2 staff and/or NOC) group
agreed that number should no more than 20 participants.
Role of Internet2 staff will be to have a facilitator (Ana Preston) and two key people involved with
the network (Steve Cotter/Rick Summerhill) and Cheryl Fremon as the Internet2 Executive Staff.
Other staff may be asked to participate and provide updates as needed in the NTAC but will only
be able to participate as observers.
Ana Preston will work with chair to get regular phone calls (as planned) scheduled as well as start
process to get a web page ready for the NTAC.
Respectfully submitted,
Ana Preston
Internet2