All things related to multicast

["Joe St Sauver" <>]

Hi,

[Depending on what Internet2 working groups you participate in, 
you may see multiple copies of this note; if so, please accept my 
apologies]

Some of you may recall that we've been working on getting a draft
interim IPv6 Netflow Anonymization Policy created for Internet2, 
and we really appreciate all the feedback and helpful suggestions 
we've received, both from this working group and from other parts 
of the Internet2 community.

Earlier this week, I was able to participate in a 2nd Internet2 
Network Research Review Committee ("NRRC") conference call, 
discussing the v0.5 draft of the IPv6 Anonymization Policy.

During those discussions, members of the NRRC expressed an interest 
in having a paragraph added to the draft explicitly addressing two
additional points:

    (a) if the default IPv6 anonymization policy (as described in the 
    interim draft) doesn't work for the research that someone wants 
    to do, the researcher can (as always) request access to data in 
    an alternative format, 

and 

    (b) should the researcher desire to do so, the channel by which 
    that person would make such a request would be via 
    <insert contact here>. 

In considering those two points, let me emphasize that:

-- this sort of request for an alternative format is not expected to 
   be a common occurence, and 

-- the new paragraph doesn't really put a new stake in the ground since
   Internet2 has always been happy to talk about how it can best meet 
   its community's needs; this new paragraph just makes that philosophy
   explicit (and explains how one can pratically goes about making a 
   request)

With that for background, and striving to keep things as short as possible,
the new text that I've added to the draft reads:

  Alternative Access

  A researcher who's data access needs are not met by this draft 
  interim policy may ask Internet2 to consider releasing data in
  an alternative format. Requests for exceptions to this default 
  policy should be sent to 


See the v0.6 draft at http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/ipv6-mask.html 
[HTML format] or http://www.uoregon.edu/~joe/ipv6-mask.pdf [PDF]

I'm now circling back around with y'all, as one of the groups that 
earlier reviewed and provided input on the draft interim proposal, 
to make sure that you all can live with this latest addition, as 
I'm sincerely hoping you all can. (I think/hope we're *very* close 
to convergence and getting this policy approved, if we can just 
work through what I hope is this final issue)

If you have any concerns or questions about the new paragraph, 
please feel free to drop me a note at either 

 
or 


Thanks for your continued patience and all your help in drafting and 
moving this policy along,

Sincerely,

Joe St Sauver