Transcript Issues Raised During CENIC Mtg

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Westnet Meeting
January 14, 2004
Tempe, AZ
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• Contracts and Funds Flow
• IRS Application for 501c3
• Network Research Aspects
• SURA Initiative
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• CENIC,
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– CMU joining
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– Oak Ridge National Lab
– Cornell in conjunction with NYSERnet and NOX
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Tom
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Election of
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• About 10-12 people interviewed and 2-3 on short list as
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• Debbie Montano accepted position starting January 1st
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• Member payments sent so NLR cash positive
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• Original
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• Appeal for expedited ruling approved, with
determination expected late February
• Most NLR members who had tax
exemption “out-clause” rescinded it.
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• MCNC–(and
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• Each party is developing SoW’s and budgets that
are still to be negotiated since initial input process
underway with use communities to define
requirements better
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• PSC to Chicago path up and passing packets
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Cisco optics ordered for all paths
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and Install issues resolved
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• Test & Turn-up Crew now bottleneck
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• Seattle to Denver path underway
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– Equipment delivery late Feb 04
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– Install by late
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– Test and Turn-up July 04
• Denver to Chicago path
– Equipment delivery March
– Install by late April
– Test and Turn-up late August
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Cisco appointed 2 faculty to the NLR Board
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– Dan Blumenthal, UC Santa Barbara
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– Leading
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• Focus now– on
naming
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• Performing “outreach”
to researchers as to NLR’s capabilities
– Planning an NLR Research Workshop to solicit input
• Will follow "researcher model" as on federal grant proposals with set of
categories for use of NLR infrastructure at different networking layers.
• Based on notion of NSF 1 year "exploratory" grant funds to better specify
piece of work to be done. Help leverage additional grant requests from
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terms very sketchy even to SURA technical committee
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Claim is 10level
year IRU for 6K miles of fiber “at no cost”
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AT&T fiber to be used (at least) for Atlanta to
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IRU time lengths have “revenue targets” so problematic
Fiber paths have “breaks” that need fixing
Desired SURA PoP and NLR PoP locations are different
Layer 2/layer 3 equipment, interconnect, and remote hands costs
yet to be factored in to get from AT&T to Level 3 facilities
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Richardson, Chris Robb, Jerry Sobieski, Steven Wallace, Linda Winkler
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– Cees de Laat, Rene Hatem
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– Guy Almes, Heather Boyles, Steve Corbato, Chris Heermann (Facilitator),
Rick Summerhill (Co-Chair), Christian Todorov (Scribe), Matt Zekauskas
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architectures. The initial plan to be written
during 1Q04 (probably unrealistic).
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