Transport protocols and bulk file transfer

[stanislav shalunov <>]

* Call started: 12:05

* Attending:

        Stanislav Shalunov (scribe)
        Chester Ruszczyk
        Larry Dunn
        Yunhong Gu
        Injong Rhee
        Cesar Marcondes
        Ivan Beschastnikh

> * Review of action items:
> 
>   a. All (except Stas, Jeff, and Chet): Review the draft API Steven
>      sent out (v.6.) and get comments to Steven.  [Ongoing.]

Ongoing.

>   b. Injong: track the COMNET call for papers and keep the group
>      posted when a date has been published.  [Ongoing.]

The call has not come out yet.  Injong will ping the person who's to
issue it.

>   c. Stas: further review UDT Protocol as a starting point -- Steven
>      will also consider the protocol with reference to his
>      application/API needs.  [Ongoing.]

Done.  Stas has looked at UDT and will try to have two students build
an implementation of bulk transport API on top of it as part of Summer
of Code.

>   d. Injong: draft the CFP (by end of May).  [Ongoing].

Done.  Injong drafted the call, Stas inserted legalese, Injong will
assemble final version now.

>   e. Chet: send David Lapsley's comments on UDT to the list.

Done.

> * Google's Summer of Code
> 
>   - Internet2 as a mentoring organization received summer funding for
>     10 students to work on open-source projects
> 
>   - Seven of the students working on transport-related matters

Stas: Google has a new open-source relationships initiative, which, as
one of its first programs, has given 400 small summer grants to
students to work with mentoring organizations that produce open-source
programs.  Internet2 was one of 40 such mentoring organizations, and
is mentoring 10 students.  Of these, one will work on something
completely unrelated to transport (a rich presence project), two will
work on thrulay (Stas's measurement tool) and the remaining seven will
work on transport-related matters: two are building a TSC-based
timekeeping library, two are working on noise calibration for
delay-based transport tool, two are implementing bulk transport API on
top of UDT, and one is working on his own user-space transport-related
project he started before the Summer of Code program (adapting the
program for bulk transport API).

* Additional:

Injong: The results of the NSF NeTS proposal haven't come to us yet.
Has anyone heard anything about other proposals?  No-one.

Stas: When was UDT license changed to LGPL?  Gu: about three months
ago, so that any improvements anyone makes would be released back to
the community.  Stas believes this to be a mistake---anyone who would
be inclined not to release source code for changes to a BSD-licensed
program would be very unlikely to make those changes to an
LGPL-licensed one in the first place.  The change can hamper adoption
of UDT, and anything built with UDT as its foundation, because
commercial entities would be reluctant to include [L]GPL-licensed
software into their distributions.

* Action items:

a. All (except Stas, Jeff, and Chet): Review the draft API Steven sent
   out (v.6.) and get comments to Steven.  [Ongoing.]

b. Injong: track the COMNET call for papers and keep the group posted
   when a date has been published.  [Ongoing.]

c. Injong: Run CFP for congestion control protocols  past the
   transport list and send it to the general public (e.g.,
   e2e-interest).

d. Gu: to talk to Bob about license.

* Next call: July 15.  Chet won't make it, OK for the rest.

* Call ended: 12:56

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Stanislav Shalunov              http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/

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