Meetings

EVENTS AND MEETINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONFERENCE

TERENA MEETINGS

TERENA Task Force Meetings (open to all)

TERENA Technical Advisory Council (closed meeting)

TERENA General Assembly (closed meeting)

OTHER MEETINGS

6NET Workshop

The 6NET project is organising a workshop co-located with the joint TERENA Networking Conference. This will be an open event that anyone may attend. Participants of the conference may attend the workshop as part of their conference registration and need not register separately.

6NET is a large project in the Information Society Technologies programme of the European Union that is deploying a native IPv6 network at Gigabit speeds. It is also developing advanced services and applications that will run on this infrastructure.

The workshop will discuss various aspects of IPv6 deployment and how to make the transition from legacy networks. It will focus on the current state of the technology, with particular reference to multicasting, security and mobility. In addition, it will consider the leading role that 6NET and related projects such as Euro6IX are playing in the development of the next generation of networks.

For people not registered for TNC 2004, there will be a registration fee of € 30 for the workshop.

To register for the workshop (non-participants of TNC) please see: 6register

Teleglobe is a sponsor of this Workshop.

IPv6 Cluster Meeting

6NET/EURO 6IX Meeting (closed meeting)

H.323 Videoconferencing: Service Coordinator Training (supported by imageflow)

This full-day workshop will cover the provision of H.323 videoconferencing services as part of a global higher education community. It will cover national videoconferencing services operating today; the standards and technologies involved in establishing multi-site videoconferences, including numbering plans; best practices in videoconferencing, including video, audio, and room set-up; and video streaming and data collaboration services that complement videoconferencing.

The workshop will include hands-on time spent setting up videoconferences using equipment from different vendors.

The target audience consists of people with hands-on experience with H.323 videoconferencing who have or plan to have a support role at their institution in facilitating national and international videoconferencing.

The presenters, Egon Verharen, Ted Hanss and Jill Gemmill have worked with videoconferencing and international collaborations for many years.

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• Introduction to National Videoconferencing Services, H.323 Standards Overview
• The Network Overview, Endpoint Overview, Multipoint, Gateways, Numbering Plans, Configuring Gatekeepers
• Campus & Classroom Site Support, Room Set-up, Environmental Considerations and Videconferencing Etiquette
• Scheduling, Streaming Video Conference, Data Collaboration
• Hands-on with Equipment (setting up a zone, connecting to the ViDeNet and GDS)
• Wrap-up

Registration

Please send an e-mail to tnc2004@terena.nl stating your job function, background and experience in videoconferencing. Please note that this is a training session for people already familiar with the technology, and not a beginners' course.

A maximum of 30 participants will be chosen for the training session.

More information about H.323 training can be found at http://commons.internet2.edu/

Participants of the H.323 Videoconferencing Service Coordinator Training that are attending the TERENA Networking Conference 2004 should pay their registration fee along with their conference registration and accommodation payment, using the registration form(s) for the conference.

Participants of the H.323 Videoconferencing Service Coordinator Training that are not attending the TERENA Networking Conference 2004 should register for the training by registering via e-mail at tnc2004@terena.nl. They may pay the € 50 registration fee at the conference Registration and Information Desk prior to the training course.

Cisco Systems invites you to attend the "Next Generation Internet" Symposium on 10 & 11 June 2004 in Rhodes, with leaders of National Research Networks, Universities and Research Institutes.

The program features the exchange of best practices and challenging issues including the future of Internet Technologies, Architecture and how it applies to Research and Higher Education.

Agenda

Cisco Systems is pleased to invite you to be our guest on 10 & 11 June 2004. Remaining costs to attendees will include your hotel accommodation, round-trip airfare and transfers, and entry VISA if required.

Online Registration for the "Next Generation Internet" Symposium will open soon. Please note places are limited.
Event website: https://programs.regweb.com/cisco/ngi_symposium_rhodes/generalaudience/index.cfm .

Juniper is proud to announce the 2004 R&E Summit

The Juniper Networks Technical Summit is a unique opportunity to learn about Juniper Networks solutions for the R&E community, from European scale networks up to universities and research labs. The session will cover the products and services provided by Juniper Networks that are required by the R&E community in order to move to the next generation network.

Join us for a half day technical seminar updating you on our latest hardware and software technologies including the perfect campus edge box - the new M7i with built-in adaptive services module providing integrated ASIC-based NAT, firewall, attack detection, IPsec and J-Flow accounting - and the newest JUNOS features such as prefix-specific policers, logical and virtual routing and IPv6 multicast.

The seminar is free, but space is limited. Please register at: https://www.juniper.net/terena-seminar

Session on the MOME Project

MOME is a coordination action in the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the European Union that is offering a platform for knowledge and tool exchange and for coordination of activities in the field of IP monitoring and measurement between IST projects and other European partners.The platform will contain information on interoperability testing of monitoring and measurement components of different projects and afterwards collecting monitoring and measurement data in a common format in a measurement database.

More about the project and the conference session can be found at: http://www.ist-mome.org/events/tnc-2004/

MOME Project Meeting (closed meeting)

SEEREN (closed meeting)

SEE-GRID (closed meeting)

EUMEDCONNECT (closed meeting)

Middleware Assembly

Convenors: Ken Klingenstein, Internet2 and University of Colorado at Boulder and RL 'Bob' Morgan, University of Washington)

The assembly is planned as a forum for anyone involved in the definition, development or deployment of middleware infrastructures to exchange experiences on middleware initiatives and look for possibilities of global collaboration.

• Trust links. Extending the scope of federations, PKIs, VOs, and national services
• Authorization and authority syste
• International eduperson
• Integration of/with Grids
• Diagnostics
• New initiatives and services: GN2, P2P, Chandler, Salsa,...

BoF on Product Management

NRENs offer various services that mostly have emerged in an evolutionary and techno-driven development process. In the current, more stable (?)situation it has come time in many NRENs to try to better manage the service portfolios.

The following aspects will be tackled as well as sketches for future co-operation:

Portfolio management

• service portfolio of each NREN
• how customer satisfaction is checked

Life-cycle management

• how new services are introduced
• how the estination of the life span is done
• how services are shut down

New product development

• what the role of technical possibilities is, what the role of customer needs
• what the mechanisms for decision making are
• development project vs. new product launch

For more information contact Pekka Linna

BoF on the Proposed new Task Force - TF-VVC (Voice, Video and Collaboration)

BoF on Lower Layers (Research Activities)

BoF on Structural Funds

Beyond Lightpaths-BoF
Hybrid networks, IP and optical, will have the future. But, what are the possibilities?

The intention of this BOF-session is to discuss the functionality of a hybrid network: Which types of services can one think of in a network with both IP and Lightpath functionality?

Prior to the discussion there will be a short overview of the proposed SURFnet-6 network. SURFnet 6 will be designed as a hybrid network and will be built starting from Januari 2005.

The speakers panel consists of a mix of people from SURFnet and Nortel Networks:

• Maurice van den Akker - SURFnet Account Advising
• Jan Willem Elion - Nortel Networks
• Dennis Paus - SURFnet Network Management
• Jacques Schuurman - SURFnet Account Advising
• Adrian Sparks - Nortel Networks