Internet2 Applications Strategy Council Monthly Meeting
September 19, 2005

Internet2 Applications Strategy Council Meeting
Wyndham Philadelphia at Franklin Plaza
Logans 2 (Lobby level)
Monday, September 19, 2005
11:30 AM – 4:30 PM Eastern

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Participants: David Lassner, Bill Decker, Alan Blatecky, Alan Whitney, Cliff Lynch, Cheryl Munn-Fremon, George Brett, Russ Hobby, Laurie Burns, Jill Arnold, Ann Doyle, Vijay Kumar, Doug Van Houweling, Jacqueline Brown, Steve Corbato, Terri Saarinen - scribe

Unable to participate: George Thoma, Egon Verharen

11:30 AM                  Lunch Buffet and Settling

11:45 AM                  Welcome and Introductions (David Lassner)

12:00 PM                  Informal Conversation with Doug Van Houweling

Doug joined the ASC for lunch and spoke of efforts to respond to the community's desire for NLR and Internet2 to merge.  There is a team of eight (four representing NLR and four representing Internet2) investigating and working toward this goal.  In addition to the merger, Doug also commented that an even more important issue for the national education and research community is the evolution in the fundamental infrastructure and capabilities of the network.  He noted that lack of scalability is beginning to show and that efforts are underway to investigate the use of an optical infrastructure along with packet switched architecture. This is a big challenge that is critical to our future.

1:00 PM                  RTC AG Update (Tyler Johnson by phone)

Tyler recognized that the RTC AG got off to a slow start, but said the group has been meeting aggressively since July.  They are using collaborative tool sets and have made a fairly comprehensive technical vetting effort to investigate the components that make up a RTC system.  Tyler asked for ASC feedback.  He wants the RTC to look at the best of the proprietary tools available and determine what would work best in an open environment.  Tyler will plan to update the ASC at Spring 2006 Member Meeting or sooner if he has something new to report or needs ASC input.

1:20 PM                  CETF Update (Bill Decker)
Bill presented a set of ideas in a number of different areas that represent issues the Campus Expectations Task Force (CETF) is trying to understand and document.  The CETF group met in Chicago in August and was presented this information.  Bill also gave a similar presentation at Snowmass.  He asked the ASC for their comments, input, or reactions.

3:05                   Break

David shared the vision for moving applications from demo to production.  Alan W. commented that early support, encouragement and incubation from Internet2 is important and that support should not be underestimated.

The ASC discussed possible scenarios post merge and wondered if the ASC would continue to exist in the neworg. 

TO DO:  revisit this topic.  A poll or vote was suggested to determine the top 3 – 5 priorities. 

4:15 PM                  Matters Arising and Closing Remarks         (David Lassner)
Next ASC call is Wednesday, October 26 at 1:00 PM EDT.

**The monthly ASC call scheduled for September 28th is cancelled.