ASC 12/4/06 Face-to-Face
Monday, December 04, 2006

Access code: 187508#

Participants: David Lassner, Jacqueline Brown, Parvati Dev, George Thoma, Alan Whitney, Alan Blatecky (on the phone), Jill Arnold, Ann Doyle, Russ Hobby, Cheryl Fremon, Terri Saarinen – scribe

Additional participants: Tyler Johnson, Jonathan Tyman, Ted Hanss, Greg Wood

Buffet Lunch and Settling

Welcome and Intro (David)

Informal Discussion with Doug Van Houweling
Doug shared his excitement about all of the changes underway.  There are changes underway in Governance, Membership, Network Infrastructure that Internet2 is developing in collaboration with regional networks, changes in uptake in Middleware activities.  And more.  All activities are in support of Applications.

Starting with Governance, change is being done to refocus governance so that individuals who we require to be heavily engage so Internet2 can deliver to the campus are actually involved in governance.  CIOs, people with responsibility for network and research community, while maintaining the traditional strength of Internet and having university chief execs on the board. Internet2 is also trying to make sure there is focus in governance structure in the various activities Internet2 needs to work together on to deliver.  And Internet2 is more than ever focused on making sure it's members and those served by the members get what they need.  Pending board approval, this governance is designed to focus us back to the needs of the campus.

The Internet2 Network - Internet2 is now in process of replacing backbone internet structure. More and more campuses and researchers need significantly more effective network capabilities than they have had.  The new network provides a whole new set of capabilities we haven't been able to provide.  Expect it to be very exciting for the next five or ten years. 

Middleware - We are just about to hit the inflection point.   Owe credit to colleagues around the country under Ken Klingenstein's guidance to move this forward.  This is exciting interaction.
  
Membership - Plans are underway to creating a membership category for regional networks and inviting those to become members.  Regionals who are connectors will be automatic members.  We want the regional networks to be represented in the governance as soon as possible. 

While there is no applications council planned in the new structure, Laurie explained that there is a Services council for layers five and up.  There is a council for researchers and networks that will have members from throughout the community.  Doug hopes people participate in the discussion groups and pay attention to what Jeff Lehman says.

Doug also spoke about the FCC call for health network. 

IDEA Award Update
Ted  Hanss and Greg Wood shared information about the upcoming to the second round of IDEA awards.  Idea is to recognize those applications that have made impact.    Deadline is December 15.  A panel discussion is planned at FMM06  Tuesday morning for awardees to talk about experience and knowledge transfer. If you have questions, ask Greg, Ted or David.  David added that IDEA awards were to recognize applications that have made it into production and have made it.  Panel tomorrow is to explain how application made leap to practice and not remain a one-off demo. 
  
Realtime Communication and Collaboration – RTC (Tyler and Jonathan)
What was delivered:
Final report
Exec Summary – which is meant as a tool to share with CIOs to talk about value of RTC with use case and suggested timelines.  Idea here is to read and understand direction and to pass creation of detailed deliverables to those tasked with implementation. 
Reference Architecture (meshes with CETF)

Tyler is excited about VoIP, VC, Unified Messaging, IM, Data Collaboration and it all works within SIP. Emerging tools.  What it means, didn't give ASC exactly what it wants - not use this tool, but use this environment.  There is a lot of flexibility here but management resources and deployment project resources are needed to take this further.  David thanked Tyler for the “great piece of work.” 
  
Teaching and Learning T&L Update
Good things are happening in this arena, but being a co-chair is a lot of work and a little clarity may be needed. Current thinking is that T&L in research community is a good focus.   Ann suggests a phone call to brainstorm and capitalize on interest but also reduce confusion.  She doesn't want to stop something that gets 50+ each meeting.

CETF –
Chaired by Bill Decker (since retired) and Final report has been received. Council chairs have talked about this.  They are thinking, based on reticence, to use the term aspirational checklist.  A list of the things members aspire to do to enable faculty to take advantage of resources.  Everyone is paying for connection to campus, we need the list of other things campus needs to do to make it usable for scholars. 
  
ASC call schedule for 2007:
Wednesday, January 24th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, February 28th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, March 28th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Monday, April 23rd  Face-to-Face at Spring 2007 Member Meeting - exact time and location TBD
Wednesday, May 23rd at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, June 27th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, July 25th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, August 22nd at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, September 26th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Face-to-Face at Fall 2007 Member Meeting, date - time and location TBD
Wednesday, October 24th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern
Wednesday, November 28th at 1:00 PM US/Eastern