The cultural aspects of networking

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The cultural aspects of networking

• A random walk through Europe and the (research)
  networking world
• by Karel Vietsch
• TERENA Secretary General
• NATO Advanced Networking Workshop
• Ohrid (MK), 16 June 2000

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The Netherlands and this part of the world

• tourism
• romantic fiction
• old history

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TERENAthe Trans-European Research and Education
Networking Association

• TERENA is an association consisting of
• 35 national members
• (the NRENs of 35 countries in and around Europe)
• 3 international members
• (CERN, ECMWF, ESA)
• 7 associate members
• (including industries)
• 1 observer
• (the European Commission)

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National research and education networks

• have a manageable size
• speak the language of their end-users
• cover the same geographical area as their funding
  bodies
• follow the traffic patters
• form natural units independent of network topology

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RARE membership up to 1992
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TERENA membership 1995
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TERENA membership 2000
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TERENA Activities

• The four pillars of TERENA
• representation of members interests
• the Technical Programme
• conferences, workshops and seminars
• providing a cradle for new services

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Representation of members interests

• Lobbying/advising governments and agencies
• European Commission, national governments,
  funding bodies
• Collaboration with sister organisations of other
  continents
• UCAID/Internet2, CANARIE, APNG/APAN, ENRED
• Collaboration with industry
• Cisco, IBM, Teleglobe, MCI Worldcom, ...
• Liaison with other Internet organisations

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TERENAs Annual Conferences
Luxembourg 1985 -- Copenhagen 1986 -- Valencia
1987 -- Les Diablerets 1988 -- Trieste 1989 --
Killarney 1990 -- Blois 1991 -- Innsbruck 1992 --
Trondheim 1993 -- Prague 1994 -- Tel Aviv 1995 --
Budapest 1996 -- Edinburgh 1997 -- Dresden 1998
-- Lund 1999 -- Lisbon 2000 -- TERENA
Networking Conference 2001 Antalya, 14-17 May
2001 www.terena.nl/tnc2001/
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TERENA Workshops

• DESIRE II Web Caching Workshop 2000
• Budapest (Hungary), 2-3 March 2000
• DESIRE II Web Indexing Workshop 2000
• Delft (Netherlands), 13-14 May 2000
• European Middleware Workshop
• Leiden (Netherlands), 19-20 June 2000
• NATO Training Workshop on High-Speed Networks
• Tartu (Estonia), 25-29 June 2000

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A cradle for new services
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TERENA Technical Programme
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Some of the main areas of the TERENA Technical
Programme

• Lower Layers and QoS etc.
• Videoconferencing and streaming
• Caching and network storage
• Indexing and searching
• Security and directories Middleware
• Others

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Lower Layers and QoS etc.TF-TANT

• TF-TANT succeeded TF-TEN in November 1998
• Joint activity with DANTE
• Carries out the QUANTUM Test Programme and other
  lower-layer testing
• Large participation ( 40 people at 5-6 meetings
  per year)
• Very successful
• Topics include
• MPLS
• Differentiated Services
• RSVP to ATM mapping
• ATM signaling

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TF-TANT (cont.)

• Topics (cont.)
• Policy Control
• IP over ATM
• Flow Measurement and Analysis
• Multicast (IP and ATM)
• IP version 6
• According to TF Terms of Reference agreed in
  1998, TF-TANT would finish 31 May 2000, and
  could be extended only by approval of TTC. TTC
  has agreed to extend lifetime of TF-TANT
  till October 2000
• TAC and GA have discussed activities and their
  organisation after October 2000

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Videoconferencing and streamingTF-STREAM

• One-year mandate January-December 2000
• Deliverables include
• TF-STREAM information site on TERENA Web server
• Glossary of terms for audio/video streaming and
  conferencing
• 2nd Europe-wide videoconference
• Agreement on network infrastructure for
  distribution of life streaming events based on
  the common availability of Real G2 servers
• Policy document for publishing audio-video
  material in the public domain
• Web repository and index of publicly available
  audio/video material

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TF-STREAM (cont.)

• Deliverables (cont.)
• Recommendations on best practice for generating
  metadata in audio/video content creation
• Best-practice guidelines for streaming
  experiments
• Clearinghouse for multicast monitoring tools
• DiffServ experiment
• Second Europe-wide H.323 Videoconference, 4 April
  2000
• www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-stream

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Caching and network storageTF-CACHE

• TF-CACHE was established in 1996
• TERENA has excellent reputation and track record
  because of its caching activities
• Web caching well-developed and increasingly
  commercial activity
• Now need to redefine scope of the work
• Storage of streaming media now initially to be
  taken up under TF-STREAM and later to be
  developed into separate activity
• www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-cache

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Indexing and searchingThe TERENA Portal Concept

• Idea launched October 1999
• Combines expertise of TERENAs community in
  indexing/searching, caching/storage, streaming
• Project plan February 2000
• Currently being discussed with potential partners

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Security and directoriesTF-CSIRT

• Collaboration between CSIRTs in Europe
• cert-coord meetings on 24 September 1999
  (Amsterdam), 21 January 2000 (Amsterdam), 11-12
  May 2000 (Vienna)
• Participation by CSIRTs of 20 NREN CSIRTs and
  some commercial CSIRTs
• Vienna meeting combined with one-day seminar on
• current practice in CSIRTs
• incident taxonomy
• TF leader Gorazd Bozic (ARNES)

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TF-CSIRT (cont.)

• Deliverables include
• Regular meetings (2-3 times per year) with
  adjacent seminars
• Trusted Introducer. Subcontracted to
  MI/Stelvio (Stikvoort, Kossakowski) initially
  for 1-year period
• Incident Description and Registration Framework.
  Subgroup led by Andrew Cormack (UKERNA) and Jan
  Meijer (SURFnet). Collaboration with CERT/CC and
  Aus CERT
• Security contact entry in RIPE database. Subgroup
  led by Wilfried Wöber (ACOnet).
• Clearinghouse for Incident Handling Tools
• Training of new (staff of) CSIRTs
• Assistance to the establishment of new CSIRTs
• Raising awareness about network security issues
• CSIRTs contact information
• Liaison with FIRST
• www.terena.nl/cert

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OthersGNRT

• 2000 Edition published in October 1999
• New version currently being worked on
• To be published on the Web towards the end of the
  year
• Possibly afterwards also to be published again as
  book
• Translations in other languages

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• Geert Mak
• De eeuw van mijn vader
• (The century of my father)
• Amsterdam 1999

• Samuel Huntington
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
  World Order
• New York 1996

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Huntingtons Europe
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• Arne Moi
• An Open Letter to the European Research
  Networking Community by a Citizen of Norway
• Oslo 1992

• Arne Moi
• If you could build European academic networking
  from scratch, how would you do it?
• Trondheim 1993

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Lessons from COSINE(by Arne Moi)

• 1. Never let the prophets run a project or a
  service
• 2. Commit the necessary funds first
• 3. Have the necessary organisation in place
  before you start the activity
• 4. Never let the other side sit and watch your
  internal infighting
• 5. Define a clear division of responsibilities,
  and stick to it
• 6. If you want to do something strategic, impress
  the strategic importance firmly in the minds of
  the authorities
• 7. If you want to do something, do it on a grand
  scale
• 8. Be vague enough to leave yourself options

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• Let us be proud of our diversities, keep them and
  see how we can benefit from them, and turn them
  to our advantage. Let us not waste our time on
  fighting each other, region by region, national
  state by national state, NREN by NREN, but see
  how we can facilitate and ease co-operation with
  each other, respecting our differences by
  defining what is good for us and let the rest be.