NTAC
October 5
In attendance: PJ Clayton, Cas D'Angelo, Dale Finkelson, Michael Lambert, John Moore, Chris Robb, Linda Roos, Steve Senger, Shannon Spurling, Scott Taylor, Steve Wallace, Linda Winkler, David Wood, Matt Z
1. Topics for Discussion
a. NTAC projects related to US UCAN
i. Service attributes document
Bill Owens and John Moore have been working on the document. A small group of NTAC members is reviewing the document and then the document will be sent to the entire NTAC with an October 15 deadline for comments. John indicated that a discussion regarding the document will be held at the FMM.
ii. Architecture review committee (subcommittee of the NTAC Peering/Routing WG)
The subcommittee has held several meetings. Dale has created a summary document describing the conversations and David Crowe is going to work on some recommendations on the work of the group.
Dale mentioned that Internet2 staff sent out an RFP for optical equipment. Responses are due October 7, 2010. A team from the community is being assembled to review the RFP. If NTAC members are interested in being part of the review team, please contact Dale Finkelson.
Dale also mentioned that the new architecture will contain nine core nodes. In order to meet the NTIA timeframe, the core nodes will be T-series Junipers rather than MX series.
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)
From Martin Swany: We are trying to get things back on track and I hope that the upcoming OGF meeting, and developments in GENI, will catalyze that.
ii. ION (Linda Winkler)
Linda sent an inquiry to the WG asking how to proceed. She received four responses and there was general encouragement for continuing the WG with some slight modification in focus. Linda is considering next steps.
iii. IPv6 (Michael Lambert)
Michael indicated that there is not much news to report. A workshop planned at UPenn will be rescheduled in the first quarter of 2011. There will be a meeting on Monday, November 1 at 1:00 at the FMM.
iv. Multicast (Richard Machida)
From Richard: A meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 1, 2010, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM in the Hallmark Room during the FMM. A request for agenda items, questions, problems, etc. went out today.
v. Peering & Routing (Jeff Bartig)
Jeff was unavailable.
vi. Performance (Carla Hunt & Chris Hawkinson)
Carla and Chris were unavailable.
vii. Transport (Steve Senger & Chet Ruszczyk)
Steve reported that they are making slow progress with the core group of 4-5 people. Steve is continuing phoebus experiments and the group is looking at the design document that was created several years ago. The document is being updated to include current technology. There is a meeting on November 2 at 7:30 a.m. during the FMM.
b. Internet2 (Chris Robb)
Chris indicated that the Drexel circuit was migrated from the Ciena to a 10G wave. The route engine in the Chicago T1600 has been replaced.
c. AOAC (John Moore)
The AOAC discussed the following at their September meetings:
-At each of the meetings, they heard a BTOP project update; on October 13, they will have an extended meeting to discuss the AOAC role in the infrastructure project
-They reviewed the seven staff priorities for 2011. Four of the seven are associated with the BTOP project so will be undertaken. The other three (cloud computing project, performance service and video conferencing) were discussed. The cloud computing project has funding provided by the CIOs participating in the project. The performance service project is in the early stages and, as there is no significant budgetary impact, the AOAC recommended that Internet2 staff continue to collaborate with the NTAC performance WG. They asked to test the desktop collaboration tools and that will occur during their October 13th meeting and the discussion re: the video conferencing item will continue.
-The AOAC chair asked for discussion item ideas for the open and closed meetings to be held during the Internet2 FMM. The closed meeting is typically used for planning. Plans for the open meeting will be discussed during the October meetings.
d. ARIN (Dave Farmer & Michael Lambert)
There is an ARIN meeting this week in Atlanta. The meeting is open to remote participation.
4. Other business
John asked for agenda items for the f2f meeting in Atlanta.