Below in text (without formatting) and in the attachment (Word for MacIntosh) are Draft minutes for the July 26 meeting of the CCIRN. I would appreciate any suggestions, comments or corrections you might have. A summary of the action items appears at the end of the text. Please review these action items to assure they are correct. Regards, Grant Miller -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Draft CCIRN Meeting Minutes 6/26/99 San Jose, California, USA I. Meeting Attendees Asia-Pacific delegation: Kilnam Chon (Co-Chair) KAIST KR chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Tan Tin Wee (Info. Coord.) APNG SG tinwee@irdu.uus.edu.sg Shoichiro Asano NACSIS JP atobe@rd.nacsis.ac.jp Shigeki Goto Waseda Un./APAN JP goto@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp Yasuichi Kitamura APAN JP kita@jp.apan.net Xing Li CERNET CN xing@cernet.edu.cn European delegation: Kees Neggers (Co-Chair) SURFnet NL neggers@surfnet.nl Karel Vietsch (Info. Coord.) TERENA Eur. vietsch@terena.nl Roberto Sabatino Dante UK roberto@dante.org.uk North-American delegation: George Strawn (Co-Chair) NSF US gstrawn@nsf.gov Grant Miller (Info.Coord.) NCO US miller@ccic.gov Heather Boyles Internet2 US heather@internet2.edu David MacNeil Canarie/U.of NB CA dgm@unb.ca Latin America and the Caribbean delegation: Luis Elicer Cadenas (Co-Chair) ENRED VE ecadenas@reacciun.ve Saul Hahn OAS US shahn@oas.org Jose Luiz Riberio-Filho RNP BR j.ribeirofilho@nc-rj.rnp.br Nelson Simoes RNP BR nelson@cr-df.rnp.br Gabriela Vazquez ENRED VE gvazque@reacciun.ve Guests: Chris Buja Cisco US cbuja@cisco.com R.P.H. Chang Northwestern U. US r-chang@nwu.edu Jim Chen ICAIR/NWU US jim-chen@nwu.edu Tarek Kamal IDSC/RITSEC EG tkamel@idsc.gov.eg Joe Mambretti ICAIR/NWU/MREN US j-mambretti@nwu.edu Khaled Sellani ITES TN ites@ites.rnrt.tn Lance Tower NSF ltower@nsf.gov Meeting Co-Chairs: Jose Luis Cadenas (Latin America and the Caribbean), Kilnam Chon (Asia-Pacific), Kees Neggers (Europe), and George Strawn (North America) II. Proceedings 1. Opening The meeting was chaired by the North American Co-Chair, George Strawn who welcomed the representatives. Review of the Action Items from the 1998 CCIRN Meeting identified that: 1. Several CCIRN members attended the spring meeting of GIBN that resulted in a decision to discontinue GIBN. 2. A joint CCIRN/UCAID dinner meeting was held in conjunction with the September, 1998 UCAID meeting in San Francisco 3. A Quality of Service Working Group meeting took place at the August 1998 IETF meeting in Chicago. 4. Shigeki Goto chaired a meeting of the CCIRN Working Group on Measurement. The minutes of this meeting will be distributed to the CCIRN mailing list. 5. The CCIRN Working Group on Multicast will meet at the July IETF meeting in Oslo, Norway. 6. Kees Neggers recommended to ISOC to have a Digital Libraries track at INET'99 7. Each Working Group is to elect a chairman and secretary and to draft Terms of Reference. This is a continuing Action Item. 2. Continent Reports 2.1 Asia-Pacific Shigeki Goto presented the Asia Pacific report that discussed the APAN initiative. APAN has been developed in phases. Phase 0 in 1996 provided preparation for the APAN initiative. Phase 1 (current) deployed a network providing 45 Mbps on its primary links. Phase 2 (2000-2002) will deploy a 155 Mbps backbone architecture. APAN holds meetings at regular intervals. An APAN meeting was recently held in Osaka in February 1999. The next APAN meeting is scheduled in Canberra. TransPac is an APAN/NSF joint initiative that provides a 70 Mbps backbone architecture. This initiative promotes the cooperative development of applications using the network structure, e.g. agriculture support. APAN architecture is described at www.apan.net. The architecture includes an exchange point in Japan, APAN national networks and links to CA*Net3 and European networks. Major nodes on APAN are maintained in Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore. APAN has an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that enables research and development and prohibits commercial traffic. Funding of the TransPac links is provided 1/4 by the US National Science Foundation and 3/4 by the APAN participants. An APAN link to Europe is planned for 1999-2000. The physical routing of this link (possibly through the US) will be dictated by costs. The Japan Inter-Ministerial network (IMnet) maintains a link of 73 Mbps to the United States. SInet maintains a 2 Mbps link from Japan to Thailand. A Singapore/US link is currently at 14 Mbps. A Japan/Korea link is currently at 8 Mbps. APAN working groups include an APAN member committee, a network operations center, and engineering teams (IPv6, measurement, multicast, and Qbone). An Earth agricultural monitoring group focuses on agriculture data access, weather data access, and Earth monitoring (e.g. wildfires in Indonesia). Other applications groups include bioinformatics, high-energy physics, space science, and TV/digital video. The applications groups are intended to foster international science collaborations. The APAN IPv6 group is developing the use of Firewire and working on multiscript DNS for IPv6. The APAN initiative provides outreach and presentations to Indian organizations but the Indian organizations to date have not followed through with participation in APAN. 2.2 Europe Kees Neggers presented the European report. The TEN-34 network became congested. Europe has implemented TEN-155 that is currently uncongested. Several European countries are installing 155 Mbps links to the US. STAR-TAP is providing an international connectivity point for many international networks and country connectivity including Nordunet, Surfnet, and the Israeli research network. TERENA and DANTE are the primary European agencies working on European research networking. The European Commission is moving to the Fifth Framework Program that provides a budget for infrastructure funding. Consequently, support for connectivity should be easier. Ten-155 funding is currently scheduled to end in May 2000. Future EC support for Ten-155 is not yet clear. However, since European institutions need the capabilities of Ten-155, it is likely to continue with some form of funding. European national sources currently pay seventy percent of the link costs of Ten-155. Since European link costs are falling rapidly, national funds may be able to afford an increased share of the Ten-155 link costs. Native multicast into STAR-TAP is supported over Ten-155. The EC is preparing meetings for Asian cooperation and joint research. Roberto Sabatino presented the report on DANTE. DANTE was established by the European research networks community and provides European research network backbone service. Initially it supported Ten-34 and it now supports Ten-155. Most national networks connect to Ten-155 at 45 Mbps. Q-MED connects Israel and Cyprus to TEN-155. Discussion is being held with the Russians on connectivity to TEN-155. Connectivity exists to the Asian-Pacific region. Connectivity to Africa and South America is not currently provided. TERENA's Task Force TF-TANT is a joint TERENA-DANTE activity that works, among other topics, on multicast (implementing a native multicast PIM infrastructure). They will participate in the CCIRN Working Group on Multicast. TF-TANT also works on IPv6. Karel Vietsch provided the presentation on TERENA. TERENA activites include running a European technical program of projects and task forces, lobbying governments, organizing conferences, and starting new services and initiatives. David Williams, previously of CERN, is the new President of TERENA. Kees Neggers is Vice President of Technical Programs. TERENA is running technical task forces providing European cooperation in technical areas. Additionally, TERENA cooperates with Internet2 in technical areas. Activities directly address European interests and include a next generation caching hierarchy, data streaming, and caching replications. TERENA cooperates with Cisco and IBM on several topics including caching and mobile technical topics. National activities in Europe are very diverse now. Countries are at different stages in their programs. Germany is tendering for new backbone service for a 10 Gbps infrastructure. Surfnet is taking part in the Dutch government's large Gagaport project for next generation Internet infrastructure and applications. European centric working groups and studies are being developed to complement cooperative activities with Internet2. Bandwidth is generally in place and applications to use this bandwidth are an important issue. Last mile performance (getting to the desktop) is a critical issue. In many cases campus networks and end user links are not sufficient to support the new applications being developed. DSL is available in some places in Europe but not always at 2 Mbps, often at 384 Kbps. Currently ADSL is only slightly less expensive than a cable connection in Europe. Although cable modems are available in many European locations, the European experience has been that performance is generally not available over cable. 2.3 South America Jose Luis Cadenas provided the South American report. Brazil has connected 79 universities to support telemedicine and other applications. A 155 Mbps network is being established but not enough optical fiber is available. In Venezuela, 70 institutions are connected with approximately 12 Mbps total throughput. Chile has OC3 links to connect university and research sites. Argentina is working to connect schools to support education and health applications. Saul Hahn discussed Central American networking activities. Guatemala is installing a network Earth station connecting to the US infrastructure. The project is impeded by a lack of cooperation by the phone company. Mexico has signed an agreement to connect to Abilene. The phone company is providing an OC3 link free of charge. A Guatemala/Mexico/US link provides a Central American networking backbone. Currently there is a lack of exchange points within the countries of Central America. Emphasis has been on connectivity to the US. Tycho is laying a new undersea fiber link that will use Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM). It is scheduled to be fully operational in July 2001. This link will dramatically alter the available bandwidth. Pricing of links is a major issue in Central America and generally responds to competition. Prices are dropping but not as fast as in the US and Europe. Central American countries would like to foster collaborative programs but collaboration requires connectivity. Satellite technology may offer an alternative network technology for use in Central America. To make this an effective alternative, research on high bandwidth satellite networking technology is needed to address the latency and delay problems. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites offer promise for the future. ENRED is being established in Central America. ENRED fosters research to use and apply technology in critical areas such as health and education. They are carrying out political lobbying to affect policies to promote technology development. They have had eight meetings in eight years and expect to become an official organization this year. 2.4 North America David MacNeil presented a report on Canadian networking. Canarie is federally funded and led by the private sector. They spent $100 Million over six years. Future funding has been approved. CA*net was their original Internet backbone. CA*net2 provides 11 Mbps links across Canada and currently has 13 GigaPops operational that include 30 universities. Qbone is provided at five sites and native IPv6 is implemented at some sites. CA*net3 is the Canadian national optical network. It is deploying ATM and WDM optical networking across Canada, initially at OC48 with planned transition to OC192 service. The OC48 links are partly installed with most of the links scheduled to become operational over the next few months. Multiple path diversity is provided. Some Coarse WDM (CWDM) links are being installed. Gigabit Ethernet is provided to St. Johns. Canarie is trying to get Canadian providers interested in implementing a Seattle to Los Angeles link in the US. Experience on the CA*net2 has indicated that interfaces between different providers are difficult to implement. Canarie is currently interested in implementing IP over Sonet and over WDM to avoid the overhead on ATM circuits. Information on Canarie and CA*net3 may be found at: www.canarie.ca and www.canet3.ca. Heather Boyles discussed Internet2 activities that are focused on trying to improve campus networks and performance to end users. Internet2 users rely on the use of the vBNS, vBNS+ and Abilene networks for backbone network services. Internet2 has a Qbone Working Group. Their Qbone Interoperability Group (QIG) has received many proposals for implementing Qbone interoperability. The QIG is currently writing architecture documentation, focusing on bandwidth, and defining parameters. They expect to select applications for testing shortly. Information on this project is available at: www.internet2.edu/qbone. The QIG is open to observers as well as participants. The Internet2 San Francisco meeting addressed issues relating to middleware for key technology. Internet2 has hired Ken Klingenstein to address these areas. He is working with the National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI). They expect to issue a call for participation by institutions to commit to deploying some of the middleware solutions currently available. Information on this initiative is available at: www.internet2.edu The Abilene network is a consortium between Nortel, Cisco, Qwest, and the University of Indiana that maintains the Abilene Network Operations Center (NOC). Abilene connects to the STAR-TAP, Ames Research Center, and the Chicago Network Access Point (NAP). Peering at these points has been implemented with international networks, vBNS, NREN, ESnet, and DREN. Abilene soon will implement peering in New York City and Seattle. Mexico has signed an agreement to peer with Abilene in San Diego at T1 service. No agreements have been reached for peering in South America but discussions are underway with Brazil and Chile. Nordunet and Surfnet peer in New York City (60 Hudson Street site). Renater2 will peer in Chicago. Israel is expected to peer soon. Discussions are ongoing with DANTE and UCERNA. Abilene peers with Singaren at the STAR-TAP and is expected to also peer at the Seattle GigaPoP. SINET also peers with Abilene at the STAR-TAP. Internet2 is holding a meeting in Seattle October 17-18, 1999. The Internet2 Working Groups will be meeting there. International participants are invited to those meetings. Internet 2 also holds three meetings per year to discuss engineering issues. The next engineering meeting will be held in Florida in December 1999. Additional Internet2 meetings are described at the Internet2 website: www.internet2.edu George Strawn described the US Federal Next Generation Internet (NGI), National Science Foundation, and Information Technology for the Twenty =46irst Century (IT**2) Initiatives. The US has a Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) that reviews US Federal technology programs in information technology and provides recommendations to the President. They found that the US government is underinvesting in Information Technology (IT) programs. They recommended a doubling of funding for IT programs over the next five years. The Federal government responded to these recommendations with the IT**2 initiative. The PITAC also reviewed the NGI program and provided recommendations for the continuation of this initiative. The NGI initiative has provided interconnections among US research sites. Next Generation Internet Exchange Points (NGIXs) have been established at Ames Research Center in California and Chicago, Illinois. A third exchange point is expected to be established in the Washington, DC area, possibly the University of Maryland. AI: George Strawn agreed to discuss at the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Working Group the European interest in connecting to US Federal research networks at an East coast location, e.g. the NGIX-East. The NGI initiative has three goals: Goal 1: Fundamental research, Goal 2: Two testbeds, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and Supernet Goal 3: Development of science applications requiring the use of advanced networks. The NGI testbed network, providing approximately 100 Mbps performance to end users, has been established with participation by the vBNS, ESnet, NREN, Abilene, and DREN A second testbed, Supernet is being implemented by DARPA to provide Gbps networking to applications. Supernet has a West coast network, the National Transparent Optical network (NTON), and an East coast network (Monet) connected by OC48 Qwest transcontinental service. Emphasis in Supernet is on optical networking, implementing IP over Sonet and IP over WDM. The US President's Information Technology Advisory Council (PITAC) recommended increased emphasis on applications, implementing 100 Mbps service to increased numbers of end users, and implementing Gbps performance to a small number of end users. The NSF supports the STAR-TAP program. Steve Goldstein, who has been coordinating this program, is taking new responsibilities at the NSF. The NSF will provide an orderly transition to a new Point of Contact (POC) for STAR-TAP. George Strawn invited suggestions by the CCIRN members on personnel to fill this position. The STAR-TAP program provides modest cost sharing for international connectivity. STAR-TAP was a three-year program. The program is expected to be continued for an additional three-year period. The NSF High Performance Connections Program had a goal of connecting 100 universities to the NGI testbed. Over 150 universities will be connected by the end of this year. Additional awardees from a January 1999 request for proposals will be announced soon. The vBNS cooperative agreement will end March 31, 2000. NSF is considering follow-on activities. Alternative services will be available including Abilene and an MCI vBNS+ service that offers connectivity from fractional T1 service to 45 Mbps and above. Workshops with vBNS users provided recommendations that follow-on vBNS programs should address: - Middleware - Support of the network research community - Wireless access (high performance, broad-based) - PACI should continue to support user needs The IT**2 program focuses on fundamental research, not infrastructure and includes: - Software - Scalable Information infrastructure (network based, billions of nodes including embedded devices) - Human/Computer interface development - Simulation and modeling of complex systems - Terascale computing: Initially five teraflops increasing to 40 teraflops The US Department of Energy requires 100 Gbps support by the networks in their implementation of IT**2.. IT**2 is expected to foster close cooperation among science disciplines including life sciences, information sciences, and physical sciences/engineering. 2.5 Africa Tarek Kamel provided a discussion of African network programs. An R&D initiative has been initiated involving the University of Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt. An Egypt/Cyprus link is being implemented.. Another initiative is developing a gateway in Turkey and Israel. A third initiative is developing connectivity between Europe and Africa. UNEP provides some connectivity in Africa. Africa has a total of approximately 150 Mbps in connectivity. South Africa has the largest portion of this connectivity. Egypt and Kenya are the next largest users followed by Nigeria, Somalia, Mauritius, and others. Network links in Africa are expensive, approximately $60K/mo for T1 access. Deregulation is coming in some countries such as Morocco and Egypt. Inter-country network links are very expensive in Africa. Costs are driving users to asymmetric connectivity. Outgoing traffic is 1/6th of incoming traffic. The African countries are considering satellite communications. Landsat2 will cover the Saharan region. Most African connectivity is to the East coast of the US with some links going to London. Africa is interested in cooperation with Internet2 and STAR-TAP but they can not afford 155 Mbps. They would be interested in participation at much lower bandwidth requirements. An African Internet Group (AIG) was initiated at the Geneva, 1998 INET conference as a discussion and coordination group. 3.0 STAR-TAP Joe Mambretti discussed the STAR-TAP program. STAR-TAP provides full Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) mesh provisioning. It implements IPv4 routing, network statistics, router engineering, and services including multicast and quality of service. The STAR-Light program is moving toward providing IP over lightwave. Quality of Service (QOS) programs are being carried out in coordination with the Internet2 Qbone program. They plan to implement persistent videoconferencing and videoconferencing dialtone. Other STAR-TAP programs include web caching, Globus, and IPv6. John Jamison has joined the STAR-TAP program to increase management capabilities. STAR-TAP may potentially move to multiple locations with dedicated links between those locations. 4.0 CCIRN Working Groups 4.1 Measurement Working Group (MWG) The CCIRN Measurement Working Group met at the 1998 IETF Chicago meeting. There was a presentation by Japan describing their experiment on one-way delay. The MWG will meet in Oslo, Norway. Internet2, TERENA, and other organizations interested in network performance measurement have been invited to participate in this meeting. Mr. Kitamura was named by the CCIRN as Chair of the MWG. AI: Yasuichi Kitamura was appointed permanent chairman of the CCIRN Working Group on Measurement. He will organize the next meeting of this Working Group in Oslo in July 1999. Kilnam Chon indicated that there is a window of opportunity for the MWG. OC3Mon is being implemented. Internet2 has donated Surveyor and the Skitter tool to many sites globally. These systems are available worldwide to provide international standardized measurement. 4.2 Multicast Working Group (MuWG) Kilnam Chon described the MuWG activities. The MuWG was started about 1.5 years ago. Their current emphasis is on the Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP) system. Their next meeting is in Oslo in July, 1999. MBGP is being deployed globally and the MuWG is needed to coordinate deployment across the CCIRN networks. AI: Kevin Meynell will organize the next meeting of the CCIRN Working Group on Mbone/Multicast in Oslo in July 1999. This meeting is requested to elect a permanent chairman of the Working Group. If no permanent chairman is elected, Kevin Meynell will continue to act as chairman. 4.3 Quality of Service Working Group (QOSWG) The QOSWG met in Chicago and at the Orlando Internet2 meeting. The Chicago meeting focused on discussion of issues. Kevin Meynell gave a presentation on the Quantum project. Ben Teitelbaum of Internet2 discussed the Internet2 Qbone activities and RSVP. He described increased emphasis on DIFserve at the edges with RSVP in the core of the network for implementation of cross provider QOS. He invited European participation in the Internet2 activities. In the Orlando meeting Europeans offered concrete proposals for participation in Qbone but these were not included in the Qbone project. SURFnet and TERENA are partners in the iCAIR project that has been accepted for Qbone.. AI: The purview of the CCIRN Working Group on Quality of Service (permanent chairman: Kevin Meynell, permanent secretary: Ben Teitelbaum) can be limited to the exchange of information on QoS activities in the various continents. 4.4 Caching Working Group (CWG) Kilnam Chon described CCIRN interest in a CWG to coordinate cache implementation. Emphasis should be on storage applications including cache. Existing cache working groups do not adequately address this issue or CCIRN interests. Kilnam Chon suggested calling a meeting on the issue of storage and caching. AI: The purview of the CCIRN Working Group on Caching is extended to the entire area of Storage. Kilnam Chon will ask Micah Beck to become the permanent chairman of this Working Group and to organize the next meeting of the Working Group in Seattle in October 1999. Internet2 has a distributed storage initiative. One node is in APAN. If CCIRN does not express an interest in coordinating with this Internet2 initiative, then Internet2 will contact European networks separately to determine if they wish to establish a storage node in the Internet2 architecture. The European contact is Valentino Cavalli at TERENA. 4.5 Television and Video Working Group (TVWG) Discussion was held on the need for a TVWG. Issues for coordination by the TVWG include coordination on distributed storage, high bandwidth, MPEG1, and MPEG2. Internet 2 currently has an activity in this area. Their activities are open and well coordinated. A CCIRN TVWG could coordinate with Internet2 and provide an international focus. Joe Mambretti has been working on these issues with Internet2. Cooperation on video to Mexico and Canada has been initiated. Internet2 is addressing the establishment of nodes and global international prototyping. Their goal is to establish a permanent capability to support multicasting, QOS, and video. AI: The CCIRN established a new CCIRN Working Group on Digital Video and appointed Joe Mambretti as permanent chairman of this Working Group. He will organize a first meeting of the Working Group in Seattle in October 1999. 4.6 Working Group Management Issues and Direction The CCIRN discussed the need to oversee working group management and to coordinate development of Terms of Reference (TORs) for the working groups. Creation of a position to manage the working groups was suggested. It was decided to urge working groups to identify chairs, secretaries and to develop TORs. The CCIRN will assess progress at the next meeting to identify if a new position is needed to manage the working groups. AI: Each CCIRN Working Group should have a permanent chairman and Terms of Reference. A Working Group that has not found a permanent chairman within one year or has not drafted Terms of Reference after two years, will be automatically disbanded. All current permanent chairmen of CCIRN Working Groups are requested to draft and submit Terms of Reference of their Working Group before the CCIRN meeting of July 2000. 5. Intercontinental Connectivity and the Relationship to new Initiatives (Oxygen, Global Crossing,=8A) This issue was deferred and will be placed on the agenda of the next CCIRN meeting. AI: Kilnam Chon volunteered to prepare a paper for the next CCIRN meeting on global interconnectivity issues and CCIRN's role in this area. 6. Cooperation with the Materials Science Community Bob Chang of Northwestern University provided a presentation on the needs of the materials science community for support in networking to foster collaboration and improved communications. The Materials Science community is forming a materials world net. They need Internet services to support videoconferencing, large data base transport (access to data, data mining, data warehousing), real-time modeling and remote control of equipment. Global materials research programs focus on natural resources and the environment and education. Issues they address include: - Optimizing use of natural resources - Global pollution problems - Use of conservation to address these issues - Education to promote conservation and environmental protection. The International Union of Materials Research Societies promotes these goals. It has 11 regions worldwide and includes Argentina, Australia, China, European countries, Mexico, India, US, and Japan. They have held several workshops to discuss how to improve global collaboration. They recommended improving communications links and establishing a Materials World Net. To implement this capability they need help on Internet connectivity and performance to improve communication and collaboration among the materials science researchers. In particular they would like help identifying existing networking resources that they can potentially use. They request Points of Contact (POCs) that they can consult on connectivity and improving performance for materials science researchers at international sites. Discussion identified that: - CCIRN representatives can act as POCs AI: The Materials Science community (and other science discipline communities) can use CCIRN members as points of contact for information on network connectivity and services to support collaboration and research services. - Outreach has to work both ways. A materials scientist should attend the CCIRN meetings and a CCIRN representative should attend the materials science meetings AI: Materials Research scientists will be invited to observe CCIRN meetings. - APAN invites a materials science community representative to the APAN meetings - CCIRN provided outreach to the science community in the past. With the increase in networking resources CCIRN outreach to science communities should continue - NSF is funding interdisciplinary research which raises awareness of scientists and promotes applications development - STA in Japan is a encouraging applications development 7. Next CCIRN Meetings The next CCIRN annual meeting will be in Yokohama, the day after the INET meeting in Yokohama. This meeting will focus on policy and information exchange. AI: The annual CCIRN meeting in 2000 will take place in Yokohama on Saturday 22 July 2000. It will be organized and chaired by Luis Elicer Cadenas. There are other potential opportunities for CCIRN meetings. These meetings could promote progress in the CCIRN working groups and motivate the working groups to address technical issues. Opportunities include CCIRN meetings in conjunction with the October Internet2 meeting, and in conjunction with the Cisco engineering meeting in February 2000. Discussion identified that a 2 hour CCIRN meeting will be held during the Seattle Internet2 meeting in October 1999. A teleconferencing capability for this meeting will be provided. AI: The CCIRN Co-Chairs will confer by email to arrange a date and time for an open, two-hour meeting of the CCIRN in Seattle in October 1999 in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall Meeting. A teleconference will be arranged. This meeting will be organized and chaired by Luis Elicer Cadenas. III Summary of Action items 1. George Strawn agreed to discuss at the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Working Group the European interest in connecting to US Federal research networks at and East coast location. 2. Yasuichi Kitamura was appointed permanent chairman of the CCIRN Working Group on Measurement. He will organize the next meeting of this Working Group in Oslo in July 1999. 3. Kevin Meynell will organize the next meeting of the CCIRN Working Group on Mbone/Multicast in Oslo in July 1999. This meeting is requested to elect a permanent chairman of the Working Group. If no permanent chairman is elected, Kevin Meynell will continue to act as chairman. 4. The purview of the CCIRN Working Group on Quality of Service (permanent chairman: Kevin Meynell, permanent secretary: Ben Teitelbaum) can be limited to the exchange of information on QoS activities in the various continents. 5. The purview of the CCIRN Working Group on Caching is extended to the entire area of Storage. Kilnam Chon will ask Micah Beck to become the permanent chairman of this Working Group and to organize the next meeting of the Working Group in Seattle in October 1999. 6. The CCIRN established a new CCIRN Working Group on Digital Video and appointed Joe Mambretti as permanent chairman of this Working Group. He will organize a first meeting of the Working Group in Seattle in October 1999. 7. Each CCIRN Working Group should have a permanent chairman and Terms of Reference. A Working Group that has not found a permanent chairman within one year or has not drafted Terms of Reference after two years, will be automatically disbanded. 8. All current permanent chairmen of CCIRN Working Groups are requested to draft and submit Terms of Reference of their Working Group before the CCIRN meeting of July 2000. 9. Kilnam Chon volunteered to prepare a paper for the next CCIRN meeting on global interconnectivity issues and CCIRN's role in this area. 10. The Materials Science community (and other science discipline communities) can use CCIRN members as points of contact for information on network connectivity and services to support collaboration and research services. 11. Materials Research scientists will be invited to observe CCIRN meetings 12.. The annual CCIRN meeting in 2000 will take place in Yokohama on Saturday 22 July 2000. It will be organized and chaired by Luis Elicer Cadenas. 13. The CCIRN Co-Chairs will confer by email to arrange a date and time for an open, two-hour meeting of the CCIRN in Seattle in October 1999 in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall Meeting. A teleconference will be arranged. This meeting will be organized and chaired by Luis Elicer Cadenas.