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- To start a U.S. team, we can't do things exactly the same way that Geant does things. They have a more hierarchical org structure, and they are more centrally funded.
- However, we can work together and get a rotating on call person to help with multi domain issues.
- Lesson learned from the PERT team: At first, they had the responsibilities rotating thru member countries. That was not a successful model. Need a system where group that opens the ticket sticks with it.
- Possibliity of getting NSF or DOE funding.
- There are not a lot of people with experience for analyzing the longer latency paths.
- Physics organizations already have people on staffs dealing with this. ESnet has about 3-4 engineers focusing on performance problems. Smaller scientific groups don't have the experience. We could address needs there.
- A large part Much of the community doesn't realize the bad performance is not acceptable. They don't know what they should be getting. We should get folks educated on expectations and get them to complain if they don't get it.
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