Draft CCIRN Meeting Minutes
6/22/02
I.
Meeting Attendees
Asia-Pacific delegation:
Shigeki
Goto(Co-Chair) 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
Simon
C Lin Sinica TW sclin@sinica.edu.tw
George
McLaughlin AARnet AU george.mclaughlin@aarnet.edu.au
Yong-Jin
Park(Info,Coord) APAN KR park@hyuee.hanyang.ac.kr
Sures
Ramadass USM/TEMAN MY sures@cs.usm.my
European delegation:
Kees
Neggers (Co-Chair) SURFnet NL kees.neggers@surfnet.nl
Agnes Pouele Dante UKEU Agnes.Pouele@dante.org.uk
Karel
Vietsch (Info. Coord.) TERENA EU vietsch@terena.nl
North-American delegation:
George
Strawn (Co-Chair) NSF US gstrawn@nsf.gov
Grant
Miller (Info.Coord.) NCO US miller@ccic.gov
Heidi Alvarez AmPath US heidi@fiu.edu
Alan
Blatecky NSF US ablatecky@nsf.gov
Heather
Boyles Internet2 US heather@internet2.edu
Maxine Brown IGRID US maxine@uic.edu
Tom DeFanti STAR-TAP US tom@evl.uic.edu
Dick
desJardins NASA US rdesjardins@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Steve Goldstein NSF US Goldstein@note.nsf.gov
Tom Greene NSF US tgreene@nsf.gov
Julio Ibarra AmPath US julio@fiu.edu
Joe
Mambretti NWU/MREN. US j.mambretti@nwu.edu
Mike
Nelson IBM US mrn@us.ibm.com
Don Riley Un.
Of Md US drriley@cio.umd.edu
James
Williams Internet2 US williams@iu.edu
Latin America and the Caribbean delegation:
Saul
Hahn OAS --shahn@oas.org
Meeting Co-Chairs: Shigeki Goto
(Asia-Pacific), Karel Vietsch (Europe), and George Strawn (North America)
II. Proceedings
1. Opening
The meeting was co-chaired by the
attending and acting Continental Co-Chairs, Shigeki Goto, Asian-Pacific
Co-Chair, Karel Vietsch, European Acting Co-Chair, and George Strawn,
North-American Co-Chair. The
attendees introduced themselves.
Kees Negers and George McLaughlin attended via H.323 videoconferencing.
2. Venue of Future CCIRN Meetings
Traditionally
CCIRN meetings have been held in conjunction with INET meetings. However, attendance at the INET
meetings has been falling and European attendance has fallen
significantly. Discussion among
the CCIRN participants identified that the CCIRN meeting should still be
rotated among the three continents of North America, Europe, and Asia. Appropriate meeting venues should be
sought for each CCIRN meeting.
Asia is scheduled to hold the next CCIRN meeting. Professor Goto indicated that the fall
2003 APAN meeting will be held August 27-29 at Cheju in South Korea. He suggested that the 2003 CCIRN
meeting be held Tuesday, August 26 in conjunction with this meeting in Cheju,
South Korea.
AI:
Professor Goto will work with Kilnam Chon to inform the CCIRN membership of the
possibility of holding the 2003 CCIRN meeting on August 26 in Cheju, South
Korea.
European
representatives could be invited to give presentations at the APAN to provide
increased justification for their attending the APAN and CCIRN meetings in
Cheju.
Subsequent CCIRN meetings in Europe could
be held in conjunction with European meetings such as the TERENA meeting conference in
2004. North American meetings
could be held in conjunction with the spring meeting of Internet2 (in
Washington, DC) and Canarie meetings.
STARLight
is an optical point of connectivity for international research networks and is
located in the Chicago area. It
provides GbE and 10 GbE services and provides collocation space for equipment
and lambda connectivity. A Point
of Contact for coordination of applications using STARLight is Maxine
Brown. Joe Mambretti is a Point of
Contact for STARLight physical media.
STARLight also provides an opportunity to work on security issues
internationally.
The
National Science Foundation has an initiative in middleware and the Grid to
develop better resources and tools for scientists. The initial software release for this initiative was in May
2002 and is available worldwide.
It includes Globus, Condor, object classes, directory services, and
security.
The
Large Scale Networking Coordinating Group of the U.S. Federal agencies has
initiated a Middleware And Grid Infrastructure Coordination (MAGIC) Team. It includes participation among Federal
agency, commercial, and university representatives. It has identified an extensive list (over 100) of Grid
applications worldwide. Since the
science community is international we should identify means for international
cooperation. International cooperation
on the Grid is carried out through the Global Grid Forum (GGF). GGF meets three times a year. There is also an Asia-Pacific Grid (ApGrid)
coordination. Dr Satoshi Sekiguch
is the director of GRID center at AIST, JAPAN. It would be good to establish a forum where the Asia-Pacific
community could coordinate with Europe and the U.S. on Grid applications,
resources, and issues. In addition
Internet2 has a middleware effort funded, in part, by the NSF.
Discussion
among the CCIRN representatives identified that Grid is largely an
implementation issue and enabling developing applications, whereas CCIRN is
largely focused on research issues.
The existing organizations for Grid coordination should be relied on to
provide the cooperation needed on Grid implementations.
The
National Science Foundation has an initiative in security research. A trusted computing program at the NSF
received $5 million in funding this year.
Congress is considering additional funds to increase U.S. research. Since security and trusted computing
are global issues, the U.S. will look to cooperate internationally.
The
Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) program receives $30 million annually to support
global physics experiments. It
will be distributing a petabyte of data per month among international physics
analysis sites.
The
European Community (EC) has an Ipv6 project that istwo large projects that are
deploying Europe-wide Ipv6
testbeds. The CCIRN members have
each implemented Ipv6. Abilene is
running Ipv6 with CUDI, WIDE, and Surfnet. GEANT is running Ipv6 as a dual stack. Korea will be joining the internet2
6net. The Chinese government and
Japanese companies (NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi) are building a native Ipv6
testbed in Beijing. (OC48). The
backbone networks are generally supporting Ipv6 but end users need to support,
and use Ipv6. Testing is needed
for large numbers of users providing chaotic routing. Ipv6 is needed more in European and Asian countries where
Ipv4 addresses are more limited.
The increasing use of mobile Internet access and addresses for large
arrays of distributed sensors also provides a strong incentive for migrating to
the use of Ipv6.
4.1 Asia-Pacific
The
China, Japan, Korea hub is providing central coordination of Asian
networking. The TEIN network
provides a Europe to Asia link to the CJK hub at 45 Mbps. The TransPac network provides a 2 x 625
Mbps link (total 1.2Gbps) form the US to the CJK
hub. A new Korea to Japan link
(KJCN link) will provide 1 Gbps of capacity
without repeaters between Korea and Japan.
Japan
Within
Japan the SINET network connects Japanese universities in a single high
performance network. IMnet is
combining with the SINET. WIDE
will remain as a separate network.
SuperSINET is an upgrade to the SINET network that provides
10 Gbps to 12 nodes from Jan 2002.
The number of nodes will increase within FY 2002. Additional universities will
participate at lower speeds.
Australia
Australia
maintains three international unprotected research network links, Sydney to
Hawaii to Seattle, Seattle to Los Angeles to Auckland to Sydney and Australia
to Singapore.
CERnet,
the Chinese education and research network has nine million users out of a
population f 320 million students.
They have 20,000 Km of dark fiber deployed. They have OC48 deployed with high usage so an upgrade is
needed. NSFCnet is a network
providing 10 Gbps links operated by the Chinese NSF.
International
connectivity was 10 Mbps to STAR-TAP.
Multicast Ipv4 is provided among 40 universities. This will eventually be increased to
100 universities.
An
Ipv6 testbed is being operated at 2.5 Gbps
The
next APAN meeting will be August 25-28 in Shanghai.
Malaysian
networking connects to Wide. TEMAN
is a Malaysian network formed in 1997 that provides a 155 Mbps network
testbed. In addition, Malaysia
maintains a 2.5 Mbps Internet backbone for commercial service. Working groups in Malaysia support:
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Ipv6
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Multicast
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Remote
monitoring
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Digital
libraries
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Agriculture
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Satellite
Further
information may be found at: http://www.nrg.cs.usm.my
TANet
is moving to a GbE MAN structure.
TANET-2 provides reserved bandwidth between universities. It provides a link to STAR-Tap and the
Abilene network.
ASnet
connects research and education facilities to the U.S. They are building the Taipei GigaPoP
infrastructure to provide IP service over dark fiber. They provide Asia Pacific research network connectivity with
two STM1 links to Japan.
Korea
maintains a link to STAR-TAP at 45 Mbps.
They maintain a connection to Europe via a sea route t 2 Mbps. They are upgrading to 42 Mbps by the
end of this year.
TERENA
has 35 country members and GEANT participation is approximately the same. Each countries country¡¯s research
network provides between 2.5 and 10 Gbps.
Connections between country research networks are provided by
GEANT. Some country research
networks maintain their own transatlantic links. For example, Surfnet maintains a lambda service to the
Chicago STARLight (provided by Level 3).
Lambda service was planned to CERN by KPN-Qwest. They are looking for an alternative
provider.
GEANT
is an international Gigabit network.
Its first links were initiated in October 2001 and the network became
operational in December 2001. In the context of GEANT
also transatlantic links
are provided, which lands in New York City. Deutsche Telecom provides current
connectivity. New initiatives
include:
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EUMed EUMEDCONNECT connecting
Europe to the Southern Mediterranean.
It is expected to be operational soonbefore the end of 2002
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CAESAR:
Latin American connectivity.
Planning will end in September after which the implementation phase will
begin.
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NeDAP:
Connectivity to Northwestern Russia from Scandinavia supported by the Nordic
Council
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TEIN-II:
A study led by Malaysia
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CERnet:
Studying Europe China connectivity.
The 6th
European Framework provided will provide $300 Million
Euros for deployment of GEANT and implementation of Grids.
TERENA
maintains a technical program focusing onwhich covers among others:
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Testing
of MPLS
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QoS
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Multicast
monitoring
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Ipv6
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Flow-based
monitoring and analysis
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Optical
networking (ASTON)
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Videoconference
and streaming
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TF
streaming
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IP
telephony
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emergency response
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Middleware
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Mobility
SERENATE is a joint TERENA/Dante project
that involves both
TERENA and DANTE, studying the strategy for European research networking
for the next five years. Some of
the issues to be addressed are:
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Some
national research and education networks are moving to own their own
fiber. Is this a good development?
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Where
are the borders of Europe?
SERENATE
will maintains a Website at: www.serenate.org
Europe
has seen the failure of several network providers lately. Most transitions to new carriers have
gone smoothly and have often resulted in lower costs to the users. Fiber is very cheap now where multiple
providers are competing. However,
local loop costs may be high if there is only one local provider.
The
Global Crossing network provides links to many South American countries. Despite its bankruptcy it is still
providing reliable service.
Another large South American network is provided by Emergia owned by
Telefonica of Spain. 360
Networks-360 Americas provides networking to the U.S., Brazil, Venezuela and
Bermuda. The AmPath project uses
donated links of Global Crossing to connect Brazil, Chile and Argentina. They have negotiations underway for
additional links in Mexico and Venezuela.
The Retina network in Argentina connects 25 institutions. REUNA in Chile connects about 20
universities. RNP in Brazil
connects about 27 Brazilian states at 155 Mbps. ANSP in Sao Paulo maintains a separate link to AmPath. CUDI in Mexico is connected to Abilene
and it also has a connection to the University of California SuperComputer
Center in San Diego. Costa Rico
operates the Maya network providing 1-45 Mbps to its users.
ARCOS-1
is a Caribbean ring system connecting 15 countries to the U.S. and Mexico.
ALCUE is a South American, Caribbean, and
Europe study group including Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. They are studying the possibility of
interconnecting and peering within South America.
South
American links provide a capability for science cooperation including Chilean
telescopes, Atacoma array, Gamma-Ray Observatory, and the Brazil Institute for
Global Change Research. In
addition, Japan and Chile are testing radio telescope arrays connected by
networking.
AmPath
is working with Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico to form a regional
backbone. Each of these countries
is currently connected to AmPath via a star architecture. They are studying SDH and MPLS
architecture to connect and peer within South America.
AI:
Grant Miller will distribute Julio Ibarra¡¯s slides on AmPath to the CCIRN
participants.
4.4 North America
Abilene
currently maintains a 2.4 Gbps IP over Sonet network with 53 direct connections
with 4 OC48c connections to users and an additional 23 connections at least
OC12 speeds. The number of ATM
connections is decreasing and ATM support will end in September 2003. The next generation of Abilene is now
being planned. It will provide 10
Gbps service with native and high performance Ipv6. Measurement will be provide ubiquitously over the network
with Ipv6 native peering with Cudi and Wide. MPLS will probably be used.
Internet2
is a GTRN participant. They
encourage international peering at several U.S. landing points including
STAR-TAP/STARLight, Seattle, Miami, New York City, and Los Angeles.
Starlight
is the optical evolution of the STAR-TAP.
It connects production networks at 1 Gbps, experimental networks at 1.,
2.5, and 10 Gbps and research networks at 10 Gbps. STARLight is funded by the National Science Foundation. It uses a Cisco 6509 to provide a GbE
exchange point, soon to be upgraded to 10 GbE. It provides a 15454-bsed lambda exchange point for the U.S.,
Europe and Canada. It is a
backplane of the TeraGrid.
STAR-TAP and STARLight will be bridged by an OC12c transit link. STARLight will have a link of 367 fiber
strands to Qwest (I-Wire dark fiber).
STARLight will participate in a CA*net4, Amsterdam Netherlight, CERN
optical testbed. STARLight
cooperates with the State of Illinois Iwire project that provides dark
fiber. Each new 10 GbE costs
approximately $15,000 to install.
IGrid2002
will be held in Amsterdam from September 24-26. Maxine Brown is coordinating Igrid demonstrations.
Naukanet
is negotiating with providers to initiate 2 x 155 Mbps service with one link
going to Europe and one link going to STARLight.
U.S.
Federal agency research networking is coordinated by an Interagency
Coordinating Group on Large Scale Networking LSN). The LSN initiated interagency cooperation on middleware and
grid technology through the MAGIC Team.
Grid projects in the U.S. include:
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GriPhyN,
a grid physics network to coordinate major nuclear physics facilities within
the U.S.
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NEES:
an earthquake analysis collaboratory
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NEON:
a biological network
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TeraGrid:
a cooperative project to implement the Distributed Terascale Facility
(DTF).
The
Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF) is this year¡¯s implementation of the
DTF. It provides a 40 Gbps
backbone service (a stripe of 4 x 10 Gbps). It interconnects high performance computing, data storage
and other facilities using high performance networking to transport huge data
files.
The
U.S> is significantly increasing funding for cyberinfrastructure including
networking, compute power, huge data sets, and sensor arrays. The cyberinfrastructure integrates
these resources to support revolutionary science computation and research. Science is currently limited by the
tools available to support it.
Cyberinfrastructure will develop the tools to enable new science
capabilities.
NASA
networking is driven by the need to support agency missions including the Earth
Observation Grid and the National Virtual Astronomy Laboratory. Security and Quality of Service are
critical tools for supporting these networking missions.
Internet
Equal Effort Access Foundation (IEEAF).
The
IEEAF is developing the Manhattan Landing (MANLAN). It is providing collocation rack space at Tyco, 32 Avenue of
the Americas and collocation space at GEO, 60 Hudson Street. The Tyco facility has connectivity at
622 Mbps to Europe and from the West coast to Japan. The global Quilt Initiative will provide connectivity for
international research and education agendas. This effort is free of conditions of Use.
Global
Terabit Research Network (GTRN)
The GTRN is building a global
cyberinfrastructure to support digital science and sharing of digital
data. High-speed research and
education networks are the glue that will tie resources and collaboration
together. The GTRN is intended to
provide peering within a region, using a global backbone. It will enable a stable network service
supporting production traffic.
AI:
CCIRN representatives should send their comments on the GTRN to Michael
McRobbie at the University of Indiana or Jim Williams at william@indiana.edu
Digital Video Working Group
(DVWG)
The
activities of the DVWG are project oriented rather than meeting oriented. Projects related to modalities include
video conferencing, live transmissions, and visualization. Specific projects include VRVS that
incorporates thousands of nodes, is highly scalable, supports multiple protocols,
is global and has an easy-use interface.
Access Grid, H.323 and the Internet2 Digital Video project are
additional examples.
Digital
media technologies include encoding standards, transmission standards, content
management protocols, digital object identifiers and digital multicast
middleware.
Enabling
network technologies include appropriate provisioning, IETF DifServ QoS and
multicast for small groups. The
ICAIR Digital Video Portal allows direct access to resources, enables easy
searches and enables easy viewing
Measurement Working Group
(MWG)
The
CCIRN MWG did not hold any meetings during the last year. However, several meetings provided a
venue for collaborating on international performance measurement including the
APAN meetings, AI3, Genkai, Joint Techs meeting of Internet2/NLANR, Salt Lake
City IETF, and PAM 2002 at Fort Collins in March 2002. Collaboration on international
measurement included the AMP project between Korea and NLANR.
Quality of Service Working
Group (QoSWG)
The
QoSWG did not hold meetings over the last year. DIFServe DiffServ is an important enabling technology
for end users. The bandwidth
between Japan and Korea is close to saturation so that QoS is important. They have implemented BGP routing
information and Eclipse live transfers.
Quality of Service is in deployment now and has progressed beyond the
research stage. Consequently the
CCIRN decided to discontinue the QoS Working Group.
The
CCIRN Website has not been maintained for a long time.
AI: The CCIRN representatives should determine if they can support
the CCIRN Website
AI: Shigeki Goto will hold discussions with the APAN Secretariat
to determine if they will support the CCIRN Website
6.
List of Action Items Resulting from this Meeting
1.
Professor Goto will work with Kilnam Chon to inform the CCIRN membership of the
possibility of holding the 2003 CCIRN meeting on August 26 in Cheju, South
Korea.
2.
Grant Miller will distribute Julio Ibarra¡¯s slides on AmPath to the CCIRN
participants.
3.
CCIRN representatives should send their comments on the GTRN to Michael
McRobbie at the University of Indiana or Jim Williams at william@indiana.edu
4. The CCIRN representatives should determine if they can support
the CCIRN Website
5. Shigeki Goto will hold discussions with the APAN Secretariat to
determine if they will support the CCIRN Website