Mailing ListPlease visit subscription site for membership and also contact the co-chairs, Deniz Gurkan (University of Houston, dgurkan at uh dot edu) and Dan Schmiedt (Clemson University, willys at clemson dot edu). Collaborative TeleconferencesWe have started to use the EtherPad at https://wg-sdn.etherpad.mozilla.org/ during our conference calls starting February 14 2013. Calls are every two weeks on Thursdays at 1:30 pm EST. Please become a member of the site if you have not done so already... Call in information: +1-734-615-7474|#|||||\ (Please use if you do not pay for Long Distance), +1-866-411-0013|#|||||\ (toll free US/Canada Only), access code 0146776 # CharterThe workgroup has been formed under the Network Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) of the Internet2 to explore how SDN deployments at campuses and regional optical networks (RONs) may interface with the core SDN developments planned, ongoing, and deployed at I2. We have three main goals: 1. Academic institutions represent a unique environment that brings together production and research networking resources together. In this respect, this workgroup will collect feedback from the community on the innovative use cases with SDN through fostering of relationships between academic and IT personnel. 2. The workgroup will exchange information on and present use cases where SDN provides value to campus production networks, RONs, and researchers. 3. There are many venues to collect information on SDN technologies, standardization efforts with OpenFlow, and vendor offerings. Most prominent such venue is the Open Networking Foundation since it is based purely on industry participation and contribution. This workgroup will keep the community abreast with the state of SDN as it applies to the nationwide research backbone and campus/RON connections to the backbone. These goals will help in providing feedback to the I2 on SDN deployment plans, interfacing requirements, and usage scenarios This is the Software Defined Networking (SDN) collaboration space. The workgroup has been formed to share information and educate each other in the community at large on: How campuses would achieve connections to the emerging SDN backbone provided by the Internet2 How regional optical networks would enable such campus connections or connections of their own interfacing with the I2's SDN core SDN is expected to enable significant convergence in the networks for experimentation and production traffic to co-exist (with almost no isolation). Therefore, the WG is open to anyone from academia, industry, and IT personnel to discuss how we can enable such convergence. |