Middleware Announcements

["Lee Perlis" <>]

***Internet2(R) Members Update***
       January 2003

<> Joint Techs Workshop Winter 2003
<> Virtual Briefings
<> Board of Trustees and Advisory Councils Nominations Open
<> Member Activities Update
<> Applications Update
<> International Update
<> Middleware Update
<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi)
<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
<> Member-to-Member Announcements
<> Future Internet2 Events
<> New Members
<> Internet2 Days
<> Showcase Opportunities
<> Internet2 Related Events

Member updates are now archived at:
http://members.internet2.edu/memberupdates/index.html

<> Joint Techs Workshop Winter 2003
The next Joint Techs Workshop, hosted by Florida International University
and jointly sponsor by the ESnet Coordinating Committee & Internet2, will be
held in Miami, Florida 2-5 February 2003.  The focus areas for the workshop
will be security, optical networking, and IPv6.  Registration and additional
information can be found at:
http://www.ncne.org/training/techs/2003/0202/jt-miami.html

Attendees are responsible for making their own room reservations. To
schedule a BoF, contact one of the co-chairs, Janet Brown 
<>,
Paul Love 
<>,
 or Bill Wing 
<>

<> Virtual Briefings
+  January 15th Virtual Briefing  -“Virtual Performance Events: The Bing
Technical Environment”
Speakers will discuss video switching, projection, audio engineering, and
network and netcast engineering used to create the virtual environment for
the “Cultivating Communities” Performance Event held during the Fall 2002
Internet2 Member Meeting in Los Angeles. Ann Doyle, Internet2 Arts and
Humanities Initiative Manager will moderate the Briefing.  Speakers will
include: Christianne Orto, Director of Recording & Videoconferencing,
Manhattan School of Music; Louis Brown, Chief Audio Engineer, Recording &
Videoconferencing, Manhattan School of Music; Alan Crosswell, Director of
Network and Computing Systems, Columbia University; Christian Todorov,
Network Engineer, Internet2;  Bob Riddle, Lead Technologist, Internet2. For
background information on the Internet2 fall performance event refer to
http://arts.internet2.edu/fall2002-perfevent.html

The Briefing is scheduled from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm EST (UTC-5).  For more
information about this Briefing, see
http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/200301.html

<> Board of Trustees and Advisory Councils Nominations Open
Nominations for the UCAID Board of Trustees and Advisory Councils are now
being accepted. Any member of Internet2 may nominate a candidate as a Board
or Council member. There are 17 openings on the councils: Applications
Strategy Council (ASC), five openings; Industry Strategy Council (ISC), four
openings; Network Planning and Policy Council (NPPAC), four openings; and
Network Research Liaison Council (NRLC), four openings. In addition, the
Nominating committee will recommend a slate of two Trustees for the Board of
Trustees. The Nominating Committee will meet to review the nominations and
make their recommendations to the Board. The new Council and Trustees will
be announced at the Spring 2003 Member Meeting April 9-11. Nominations may
be submitted on the web or sent to 
<>
 or by fax at
734-913-4255. All nominations must be received by February 3, 2003. For more
information see: http://www.internet2.edu/about/nominationinfo.html

For the nomination form, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/about/nominationform.html or email Barbara Nanzig
<>.

<> Member Activities Update
+ Spring 2003 Member Meeting: Call for Proposals/Demos
The Call for Proposals for the Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting has been
issued. Submission deadline is Friday, January 24.  Submitters will be
notified by Monday, February 10 regarding their proposals. For detailed
information about the Call for Proposals, see :
http://events.internet2.edu/2003/spring-mm/callforproposals.html

Schedule and registration information for the Spring Meeting will be
available on the Internet2 web site the week of January 27.

+ Fall 2002 Survey Winner Announced
All Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting attendees who completed the Meeting
Survey were eligible for a prize drawing.  Greg Petrowich of the University
of Alaska, Fairbanks was selected in the drawing, and will receive a
global-positioning watch.

<> Applications Update
+ Call for Demos at the Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
A call for demos for the Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting (April 9-11 in
Washington, DC) will go out on Monday, January 13. For the spring member
meeting we are looking for demos that show scenarios of Internet2
high-performance networking applications in use in a variety of real-life
settings, including offices, residence halls, laboratories, and the home.
The deadline for submitting demos for consideration is January 31.
http://apps.internet2.edu/spring2003-demos.html

+ Use of Internet2 Commons Videoconferencing Service Growing
The use of the Internet2 Commons H.323 videoconferencing service increased
significantly in adoption and use during 2002. There are now over 70
registered site coordinators within the Internet2 member community. The
Commons MCUs (Multipoint Control Units) saw peak usage last year of 90 sites
and 32 hours per week of videoconferencing. In addition, the Commons was
delighted once again to host multiple cascading MCUs for the December 10
Megaconference! Over 200 sites participated in Megaconference IV,
representing every continent in the world. For a participant map, see:
http://www.mega-net.net/megaconference/maps.htm

+ Astronomy and Physics Meetings at AMPATH and Joint Techs
The Internet2 High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) Working Group will meet
in conjunction with the AMPATH High Energy Physics Working Group in Miami on
February 1. This meeting will focus on finding common ground with the
Astronomy community since they have very complimentary modes of utilizing
the network. In addition, the AMPATH Astronomy Working Group will meet on
January 31 and will feature presentations by Steve Corbato on
Networking/Transmission Support and Infrastructure Support; Micah Beck
(Internet2 chair for the Digital Storage Initiative) on Data Management; and
Harvey Newman and Shawn McKee (Internet2 co-chairs for the HENP Working
Group) on areas of collaboration with the HENP community.
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/wg/HEP_wg.htm
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/wg/astronomy_wg_agenda.htm

+ Orthopedic Surgery Working Group Forming
Internet2 is forming an Orthopedic Surgery Working Group under the
leadership of Dr. Chad Smith.  Smith is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and
Biomedical Engineering at USC and the president-elect of SICOT (the
International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology). Membership in
this working group is open to all individuals who are affiliated with an
Internet2 member institution and who have an interest in Internet2
applications to orthopedic surgery. Contact Chad Smith at 
<>
if you would like to join this working group.

+ Orthopedic Surgery Research Network Expands
Following the launch of the California Orthopedic Research Network (CORN),
held in conjunction with the Internet2 Fall 2002 Member Meeting, there has
been growing interest and increasing engagement in the uses of
high-performance networking throughout the telemedicine, telerobotics, and
other medical research communities.  An expansion of CORN, whose original
membership comprises four California universities, will be announced at the
annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in New Orleans
on February 5.  The expanded network, Western Orthopedic Research Network
(West ORN), will now include California plus 13 additional western states.
Further expansion to include Canada and six South American countries will
follow in the coming months. A number of demonstrations and activities
relating to orthopedic surgery are also in the planning stages, including a
Forum on the Applications of Telemedicine, Simulation, Imaging and Robotics
to Orthopedic Surgery (planned for August in Los Angeles) and a live virtual
hand surgery demonstration for the SICOT/SIROT (the International Society of
Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology) meeting in Cairo in September. For more
information, or to become engaged in any of these activities, contact Mary
Kratz, Internet2 Manager for Health Science Initiatives
<>.
http://health.internet2.edu/news/HSnews.html#CORNLaunch
http://www.sicot.org/
http://www.aaos.org/

+ Workshop on Producing Performances and Distance Education and National
Schools of Music Internet2 Day
Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a two-day event. The first
day is an audio/video production workshop, designed to help members create
successful interactive digital video/audio productions for performance and
distance education. The second day is a National Schools of Music Internet2
Day designed to help school of music administrators and faculty from
Internet2 member institutions understand the power of high-performance
networking for distance education. This two-day event will take place in
Miami on March, 28-29. http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html

<> International Update
+ New Connection for Peer Network SINET
SINET (Science Information Network)- a national research network connecting
together the universities of Japan, has upgraded its connection to Abilene's
New York City PoP to 2.5gbps per second. SINET previously peered with
Abilene in Sunnyvale, CA at 155mbps. SINET plans to connect in New York City
to the Manhattan Landing international peering exchange point in order to
peer with Abilene, Ca*net, ESnet, GEANT and other networks.

SINET connects numerous Japanese universities and research centers together
at speeds ranging from 30mbps - 1gbps. SuperSINET - launched in 2002 -
provides a subset of those institutions a 10gbps backbone throughout Japan.
http://www.sinet.ad.jp/english/index.html

For more information about Manhattan Landing, see:
http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/manlan.html

+ Australian Government Allocates $42.5 million for Bandwidth Infrastructure
for Universities
On December 20, 2002, Australia’s Ministry for Education, Science and
Training and the Ministry for Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts announced that the Australian Government will invest $42.5 million over
the next two years in bandwidth infrastructure for Australian universities
and establish the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN).
http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_4-2_4008-4_112715,00.html

<> Middleware Update
Registration for the Base CAMP (Campus Architectural Middleware Planning) to
be held in Tempe, Arizona, February 5th - 7th, 2003, is now open.  For more
information go to: http://www.educause.edu/conference/nmi/camp031/

+ Shibboleth
Shibboleth version 0.7, released in November, has proven to be significantly
easier to install than the previous version.  Version 0.8 is scheduled for
release in March with version 1.0 to follow in April.   A growing number of
schools are using Shibboleth in concert with EBSCO for content provision.
With the recent break into JSTOR, the capabilities of Shibboleth have
received additional attention .  With assistance from the University of
Cincinnati and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), an
inter-institutional pilot will begin which will use Shibboleth in accessing
remotely hosted web courses for medical information such as OSHA compliance
training. http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

+ Directories
The MACE-Dir working group is undergoing a major review of eduPerson to
integrate global inputs, in particular from Europe and Australia, and an
examination of how to properly use the entitlement field.
http://middleware.internet2.edu/core/directories.html

+ CREN
As many of you have read, CREN is in the process of dissolving.  Internet2
has agreed to provide a home for the existing Certificate Authority services
and will be launching a discussion about the status and likely development
of digital certificates in higher education in the future.

<> End-to-End Performance Initiative (E2Epi)
+ Performance Measurement Workshop
A Performance Measurement Workshop is scheduled immediately following the
Joint Techs in Miami from noon on Wednesday, February 5 to noon on Thursday,
February 6, 2003. The workshop includes presentations on work in progress in
the areas of measurement data collection, data repositories, and data
analysis followed by discussion groups to help define coordination,
direction, and goals for future work.  Registration:
http://events.internet2.edu/2003/E2EMeasWksp2-03/E2EMeasWksp2-03-index.html

<> Internet2 K20 Initiative Update
+ Washington's K20 Network Named SEGP of the Month
This month we are featuring two fascinating projects, NEPTUNE and Cell
Systems Initiative/Labscape.  For more information on these projects and
Washington's K20 Network please see the Internet2 K20 website
http://k20.internet2.edu/segp/index.html

<> Member-to-Member Announcements
+ Information Sharing Guidelines
Periodically members are interested in sharing information about special
activities or opportunities with the Internet2 community such as technology
symposiums, workshops, donation programs, product offerings and or grant
opportunities. In an effort to facilitate information sharing we are adding
a Member-to-Member section to this monthly update. Members interested in
contributing notices should review the guidelines at:
http://members.internet2.edu/InformationSharing.html or email
<>
 with proposed announcements.

<> Future Internet2 Events
+ Hands-On IPv6 Workshop
1-2 February,  Miami, FL
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/miami03_hands-on.htm

+ Hands-On Multicast Workshop
5-7 February Miami, FL
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/miami03_hands-on.htm

+ Internet2 Member Meetings
  - Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, Arlington, Virginia, April 9-11
  - Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 13-16

<> New Members
+ Corporate Members
   - Ceyba, Inc

<> Internet2 Days
Hold an Internet2 Day for your Internet2 member organization. Technical
support for live demonstrations and informational materials are available.
For more information contact Marianne Smith 
<>or
 see:
http://apps.internet2.edu/Internet2-Days.html

Upcoming Internet2 Days
+ Case Western Reserve University
3 March, Cleveland, OH

+ University of Notre Dame
13 March,  Notre Dame, IN

+ University of New Mexico
28 March, Albuquerque, NM

+ National Schools of Music Internet2 Day
29 March, Miami, FL

<> Showcase and Spotlight Opportunities - Projects and People
Internet2 would like to showcase our members' efforts on our homepage. We
encourage Internet2 members to share advanced networking milestones, as well
events, collaborations and efforts in the advanced networking community.
Members are also encouraged to submit a profile of anyone in the Internet2
community whose efforts merit notice.  Include a brief description (less
than 100 words), all appropriate links and images, and contact information.
If you have suggestions about projects, people or news that might be
featured, please contact Adam Csillag 
<>.

<> Internet2 Related Events
+ Online Calendar
For a complete listing of events for and of interest to the Internet2
community, see the online Internet2 Calendar. Be sure the Internet2-related
event you are holding or know about is listed at:
http://events.internet2.edu/calendar/main.php

ACUTA
12-15 January 2003
Tempe, AZ
http://www.acuta.org

globusWORLD
13-17 January 2003
San Diego, CA
http://www.globusworld.org

AMPATH Workshop
29-31 January
Miami, FL
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/Miami2003.htm

A Gathering of State Networks
5-6 February
Tempe, AZ
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/events/sn031/

NANOG 27
9-11 February 2003
Phoenix, AZ
http://www.nanog.org

Windows on the Future 2003
3-4 March
Columbus, OH
http://www.oln.org/conferences/

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