APAN Application Technology Area report

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APAN Application Technology Area report

• Honolulu, Jan 2004

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Reports (or not) from

• P2P
• Grid
• Education
• HDTV (proposed)

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P2P

• Ongoing minor projects, regionally focussed
• No large-scale p2p applications on APAN (yet)
• Lot of intersection and interest with Grid WG
  activities
• Propose to wind back to mailing list only,
  increase if new activities appear
• Chair Hyunchul Kim to continue support

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Grid WG, Grid Activities Committee

• GAC developing position paper
• Targeting release by Cairns, may wind up then.
• Chaired by Chris Elvidge and Seishi Ninomiya
• Input from PRAGMA, APGrid, Nat.Res. Area, Net.
  Tech. Area, and discussions with eScience and p2p
  groups
• Guidelines to APAN, to deliver testbed, GOC,
  implementations, training (guidelines and
  education),
• Grid WG chairs Kento Aida, Putchong Uthayopas
• Focussed on GAC and its deliverables

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Education

• Did not meet in Hawaii

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HDTV WG proposal

• Chair JongWon Kim
• Involving
• USC, ResearchChannel, KJIST, KAIST, ANF,
  Kyushu/Hiroshima Uni, ETRI, I2-BV, AARNet, ANU,
• 20 members to start with
• Focus on requirements and implementations and
  guidelines
• High bandwidth issue
• Only some countries can participate
  internationally
• Other countries may be able to participate
  domestically, and pressure for international
  upgrades

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Area chair

• Markus retiring from chair after 6-7 years
• Dr Koji OKAMURA, Kyushu Uni is the newly
  nominated chair, approved by Area
• Markus will help for a while ?