Internet2:
Plans & Progress
Member Meeting
April 28, 1999
Douglas E. Van Houweling
DVH@Internet2.edu
Councils
Nominating Committee
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Molly Corbett Broad, UNC -- Chair
Cheri Pancake, University of Oregon
Carole Barone -- EDUCAUSE
Sid Karin -- UCSD
Graham Spanier -- Penn State
Steven Sample -- USC
Douglas Van Houweling -- UCAID
26 openings and 115 nominees
Applications Strategy Council
 Tom DiFanti, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago (Chair)
 Catherine Ball, Georgetown University
 YT Chien, Harvard/NSF
 Donna Cox, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana/Champain
 Jack Dongarra, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxvile
 Mark Ellisman, Univ. of California, San Diego
 Stuart Feldman, IBM
 William Graves, Collegis
 Robert Kibrick, Univ. of California, Lick
Observatory
 Cliff Lynch, CNI
 Joel Tohline, LSU
 Glen Wheless, Old Dominion Univ.
Industry Strategy Council
 Erich Bloch, The Washington Advisory Group
(Chair)
 Gerry Butters, Lucent
 Vint Cerf, MCIWorldcom
 John Evans, Evans Telecommunications Co.
 Geoff Goddard, Nortel
 John Hart, 3Com
 Kim Jones, Sun Microsystems
 Raman Khanna, Stanford University
 Richard Liebhaber, Qwest
 Marian Moore, UNC Chapel Hill
 Irving Wladowsky-Berger, IBM
Network Policy & Planning
Advisory Council
 James D. Bruce, MIT (Chair)
 J. Gary Augustson, Pennsylvania State
 Earving L. Blythe, Virginia Tech
 Ira H. Fuchs, Princeton
 Gregory A. Jackson, University of Chicago
 Ronald Johnson, University of Washington
 Mark Luker, EDUCAUSE
 Michael McRobbie, Indiana University
 Bonnie Neas, North Dakota State
 Scott Perry, AT&T
 Sharon Strover, University Texas at Austin
Network Research Liaison
Council
 David Meyer, Cisco (Chair)
 Scott O. Bradner, Harvard
 David J. Farber, University of Pennsylvania
 Alexander (Sandy) Fraser, AT&T
 Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
 Lawrence H. Landweber, Univ. of Wisconsin,
Madison
 Edward D. Lazowska, University of Washington
 Allison Mankin, USC/ISI East
 James H. Morris, Carnegie Mellon University
 Craig Partridge, BBN/GTE
 Ben Yoo, University of California at Davis
Board of Trustees
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David Ward, (Chair) University of Wisconsin
Henry S. Bienen, Northwestern University
William G. Bowen, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Molly Corbett Broad, University of North Carolina
Larry R. Faulkner, University of Texas at Austin
Steven B. Sample, University of Southern California
Graham B. Spanier, Pennsylvania State University
Erich Bloch, The Washington Advisory Group
(Chair, Industry Stratgy Council)
Jim Bruce, MIT
(Chair, Networking Policy and Planning Advisory Council)
Thomas A. DeFanti, University of Illinois at Chicago
(Chair, Applications Strategy Council)
David Meyer, Cisco & Univ. of Oregon
(Chair, Networking Research Liaison Council )
Douglas E. Van Houweling, President & CEO
Business Plan
UCAID
• A member organization
• Motivates, facilitates, and coordinates
• Focused on advanced networking applications
and infrastructure
• Project based
 Internet2
 Abilene
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Business Plan
Revenue -- $13M
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Member fees -- $4.4M
Joint project fees -- 8.3M
Grants & Contracts -- $.1M
Member contributions --$.1M
Business Plan
Expenses -- $10.6M
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Network Operations -- $4.4M
Personnel -- $3.3M
Office Support -- $1M
Equipment -- $.8M
Travel -- $.8M
Meetings -- .7M
Printing & Publishing -- $ .1M
Contingency -- $.2M
Internet2:
The Challenge Ahead
Member Meeting
April 28, 1999
Douglas E. Van Houweling
DVH@Internet2.edu
Overview
Goals
Where We Stand
Campus Feedback
Challenges
What We Must Do
Barriers to Progress
What’s at Stake
Internet2 Goals
Enable new generation of
applications
Re-create leading edge R&E
network capability
Transfer technology and
experience to the global
production Internet
Where We Stand -Applications
Steady stream of demonstration
applications
Applications Initiatives:
• Digital Video
• Distributed Storage
• Middleware
Where We Stand -- Network
vBNS connected to 19 gigaPoPs, 59
members
Abilene connected to 11 gigaPoPs,
14 members
Peering in place with vBNS, ESNet,
DREN
Canarie, NORDUnet, SingAREN,
SURFnet, TRANSPAC
Qbone launched
Multicast capability planned
Where We Stand -- I2
Everywhere
Corporate membership and
participation continues to grow
Corporate members providing high
speed connections and bandwidth
GigaPoPs beginning to deploy high
speed connection to non-member
community
International collaboration and
connectivity growing
A familiar pattern
More
raw performance
of technology
hype
Performance
“reality gap”
“real performance”
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Campus Feedback
Faculty Access
Faculty support for applications
development
Expectations exceed experience
Challenges
Desktop to desktop network
deployment
Visibility and transportability of
applications effort
Applications don’t scale
What We Must Do
Insure access to Internet2
Support faculty leading applications
development
Build interoperable middleware:
• Scalability
• Inter-campus collaboration
Deploy interoperable middleware
On each campus, by each campus
Barriers to Progress
Resource availability
• Competition with Y2K
• Expense of rewiring campus buildings
• Competition for required staff
Faculty relations
• Distributed computing technology has resulted
in research faculty independence from
campus IT oreganization
Internet2 Response
Communications with Presidents &
Chancellors
Bringing the excitement back to
higher ed networking
Supporting information sharing in
the technical community
Internet2 Days
Communicating through
disciplinary conferences
What’s at Stake
An Internet which meets the needs
of the education and research
community
• Open
• Ubiquitous
• High performance
An Internet capable of supporting
the new world of distributed
virtual organizations
What More Should We Be
Doing Together?
Your suggestions are vital
To all of us, and members of the
Councils
Don’t forget:
Advanced Networking
Demonstrations at Highway1
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
at 2:15 and 4
Reception at the Air and Space
Museum 7:15 to 10:00
Welcome
Sandy (Sandford) Brown
Vice-President, AT&T Global
Business Internet Services
Please join us at the
Internet2 Fall Member Meeting
October 11-13, 1999
Seattle, Washington