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From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 10:58:04 -0400
From: mmr (Mike Roberts) Subject: Update on Internet II meeting Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 21:19:40 PDT For NTTF Members - At the CIO meeting in Chicago earlier today, representatives of the thirty- four universities attending agreed unanimously to endorse the goals of the project, committed their institutions to finding the resources necessary to participate in the project, and pledged initial funding to enable current intensive planning efforts to proceed without delay. Five working committees were formed, and chairs appointed as noted below. The committee chairs will comprise an interim steering committee while a permanent project organization is formed and staffed. Gary Augustson of Penn St. has agreed to chair the steering committee in order to maintain good coordination with the NTTF, whose steering committee he also chairs. Members of the steering committee will attend next Tuesday's NTTF meeting in Philadelphia and make reports on their initial work. It was agreed that charter membership in the project will remain open for a limited time for additional institutions who are in a position to commit the resources necessary for participation. The current draft of the project charter statement and list of members is appended below. --------------- Internet II Project working committees Applications - Bill Graves (UNC), Chair Engineering - Greg Jackson (Chicago), Chair Goals & charter - Raman Khanna (Stanford), Chair Organization - Stuart Lynn (UC), Chair Search - Doug Van Houweling (Michigan), Chair - Mike Roberts ------------------ Draft v.1.3 10/1/96 INTERNET II PROJECT SUMMARY Building on the tremendous success of the last ten years in generalizing and adapting research Internet technology to academic needs, a number of universities (see list at end of this document) are now joining together with government and industry partners to accelerate the next stage of Internet development in academia. The Internet II project, as it is known, will bring focus, energy and resources to the development of a new family of advanced applications to meet emerging academic requirements in research, teaching and learning. The project will address major challenges of the next generation of university networks. First and most importantly, a leading edge network capability for the national research community will be created and sustained. For a number of years beginning in 1987, the network services of NSFnet were unequaled anywhere else. But the privatization of that network and the frequent congestion of its commercial replacement have deprived many faculty of the network capability needed to support world class research. This unintended result has had a significant negative impact on the university research community. Second, network development efforts will be directed to enabling a new generation of applications that fully exploit the capabilities of broadband networks - media integration, interactivity, real time collaboration - to name a few. This work is essential if new priorities within higher education for support of national research objectives, distance education, lifelong learning, and related efforts are to be fulfilled. Third, the work of the Internet II project will be integrated with ongoing efforts to improve production Internet services for all members of the academic community. A major goal of the project is to rapidly transfer new network services and applications to all levels of educational use and to the broader Internet community, both nationally and internationally. SCOPE OF INTERNET II PROJECT The project will be conducted in phases over the next three to five years, with initial participation expected from fifty to one hundred universities, a number of federal agencies, and many of the leading computer and telecommunications firms, including IBM, Cisco Systems, AT&T, MCI, and Sun. The overall project technical plan and architecture is contained in a companion document to this statement entitled "Internet II Architecture." In the initial project phase, end to end broadband network services will be established among the participating universities. On a parallel basis, applications design will commence using teams of university faculty, researchers, and industry experts. It is expected that within approximately eighteen months, "beta" versions of a number of applications will be in operation among the Internet II participating universities. INTERNET II PARTNERSHIP & FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS In most respects, the partnership and funding arrangements for the Internet II project will parallel those of previous joint networking efforts, of which the NSFnet project is a very successful example. Industry partners will work with campus-based and regional university teams to create the advanced network services that are necessary to meet the requirements of broadband, networked applications. Federal R&D agencies will provide grant support in their areas of program interest, such as the NSF vBNS meritorious high performance networking initiative. Funding for the Internet II project will include both financial and in kind services and products of various types that will be necessary for the project. Since most of the project effort will occur on or near university campuses, it is anticipated that the majority of funding from government research agencies and industry partners will be in the form of grants to the participating universities. --------------------------------------------------------------- Internet II Project Charter University Members (as of 10/1/96) Arizona State University California State University Univ of California System Univ of California - Berkeley Univ of California - Davis Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University of Chicago Colorado State University University of Colorado Cornell University George Washington Univ University of Illinois-UC Indiana University University of Iowa Harvard University MIT Michigan State University University of Michigan University of Minnesota Northwestern University University of North Carolina Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Purdue University Stanford University Vanderbilt University Virginia Tech University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin Yale University
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