NTAC
9/7/10
In attendance: Jeff Bartig, Cort Buffington, David Crowe, Cas D'Angelo, Michael Lambert, Chris Robb, Linda Roos, Chet, Paul Schopis, Shannon Spurling, Steve Wallace, Linda Winkler, Matt Z
Cas D'Angelo led the call.
1. Topics for Discussion
a. NTAC projects related to US UCAN
i. Add/drop locations
Chris Robb shared pop locations and mentioned the comment from David Crowe about adding a site in Eugene OR. The only other feedback was from IU about their preferred location and that is being considered.
ii. Service attributes document
iii. Architecture review committee (subcommittee of the NTAC Peering/Routing WG)
The review committee has had several calls and has reviewed the proposed Internet2 network architecture. The new network will be100G and there will be an upgrade from 10G to 100G routers. There will be a new node in Cleveland. The backbone design also has 21-10G routers that can be used for a low latency layer or an aggregation layer (east-west aggregation without having to backhaul further) or as a research layer. The10G routers are a replacement for Ciena (circuits adding and dropped at layer 3). The group is working on a document that will summarize what has been discussed and the document will be presented to the AOAC.
b. Nominations for NTAC Vice Chair
The NTAC Vice Chair elections will be held during the Internet2 FMM. Nominations are welcome now. Please send to Linda Roos (lroos@internet2.edu). The NTAC Vice Chair serves for one year, beginning in January following the elections and automatically becomes NTAC Chair after serving as Vice Chair for a year. Information regarding the duties of the chair and vice chair may be found on the NTAC wiki: https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/ntac/NTAC+Documents
2. Updates
a. Working Groups
i. Information Services (Martin Swany)
Martin Swany was unavailable for the call.
ii. ION (Linda Winkler)
Linda Winkler reported that there has been no activity in the ION wg.
iii. IPv6 (Michael Lambert)
Michael engineering calls---IPv6 lite training; need outside input on how to make that work and asked for input.
iv. Multicast (Richard Machida)
Richard Machida was unable to join.
v. Peering & Routing (Jeff Bartig)
Primary focus on US UCAN. Consolidation proceeding. Router for NY has proceeded and Internet2 and CENIC are working on implementation plan. Utah has three peering sessions over MPLS backhaul tunnels---first migration from CPS-only to the combined infrastructure.
vi. Performance (Carla Hunt & Chris Hawkinson)
Neither Carla nor Chris was available for the call.
vii. Transport (Steve Senger & Chet Ruszczyk)
Chet reported that they are trying to reach out to a wider community and will be working on that at the next Internet2 member meeting.
b. Internet2 (Chris Robb)
Chris Robb reported the migration of 3ROX to 10G Ethernet interface in DC has been completed. He also mentioned that he hopes to have Drexel migrated to a 10G Ethernet interface by the end of the week. Having been proceeding with shutting down of the Cienas.
c. AOAC (Paul Schopis)
The AOAC met on 11 and 25 August. During each call, the AOAC members heard an update on the BTOP US UCAN project, from both Internet2 staff and John Moore on behalf of the NTAC (similar to the updates that have been provided on these NTAC calls) During the August 11 meeting, the AOAC heard reports on three additional 2011 Internet2 staff priorities including:
Deployment of a performance service that converts the investment in PerfSonar in to a service for the general membership
Rationalization of a commodity services model, including commodity services and peering services
Support Cloud Computing experiments being planned within the community
The committee to review the TR-CPS service includes Paul Schopis (chair), Steve Hess, Dave Jent and Brian Savory. At the August 25 meeting, the committee presented a report on the activities of the committee. The committee is continuing their work and expects completion by November.
d. ARIN (Dave Farmer & Michael Lambert)
Several ARIN proposals are active right now.