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Background

Internet2 held its first Community Design Workshop in June 2006 to discuss the design of its proposed next generation network and to solicit community input. One outcome of those discussions was the creation of a temporary advisory group called the Internet2 Network Advisory Group (NAG). This group was charged with outlining recommendations for a new technical advisory structure to facilitate the design, deployment, and development of the new Internet2 network (NewNet). As part of its charge, NAG was asked to provide recommendations on the makeup of a new Network Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC), how its members should be selected, NTAC's relationship to the overall structure of Internet2, and how to ensure efficient and effective communications between NTAC and other facets of Internet2's advisory structure. NAG was also asked to ensure its recommendations encouraged and accommodated ongoing community input and involvement and provided transparency into technical advisory processes and decisions.

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6. NTAC should retain the same basic relationships to its functional area directors and working groups as does the current Abilene TAC. Relationships and communication channels surrounding NTAC should be bidirectional with the overall advisory structure, the functional directors, and with working groups and initiatives, as characterized in Figure 1: Relationships.

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7. NTAC should be able to charter short- and long-term working groups associated with various NewNet-related projects and activities. Initial working groups should include Multicast, IPv6, Measurement, Security, Hybrid Networking, the NewNet Observatory, and CALEA. 8. The community should have convenient, consistent, transparent, and systematic means to provide input and recommendations to NTAC and Internet2. Toward this end, NTAC should adopt an IETF-like RFC mechanism for idea and/or proposal propagation and review. NTAC would then review submissions and dispatch them accordingly—e.g., back to the authors for refinement, to the community for comments, or to Internet2 for subsequent consideration, as characterized below in Figure 2: Community Input.

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