ASC 2007 January 24, 2007

Applications Strategy Council (ASC)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
1:00 PM Eastern

Participants: (No Jacqueline Brown, no David Lassner - APAN) Cliff Lynch, Alan Blatecky, George Thoma, Parvati Dev, Vijay Kumar, Alan Whitney

Internet2 Staff: Russ Hobby, Laurie Burns, Cheryl Fremon, Jill Arnold, Terri Saarinen -scribe.

Standard ASC Agenda items include:
Review of Agenda
Board Update
Updates from ASC Members
Update/Discussion of Ongoing ASC Agenda for Action
Updates from Internet2 Staff

Getting started: (Laurie for David) Internet2 Board met in Chicago in January.  Larry Falkner stepped down, and Jeff Lehman is new board chair.  New GNC chair is Steve Hall. David Lassner is Vice-Chair.  Board adopted the GNC report. Two other resolutions passed:  Internet2 to begin engaging in strategic planning, and resolution directing Internet2 staff to bring Communication plan to the board.

Board established new state and regional networks category.  In all of these cases, there is much follow-on activity now getting under way.  Resolutions are posted on the Internet2 board wiki. https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/I2BoardTrustees/Home
  
Laurie said transition of councils is next important next step.  Four new councils will be populated through member elections. GNC will reform and continue this work. Also there will be work to transition current members of councils who still have time to serve to transition those terms to the new structure - taking advantage of existing council membership, continuity, and move this forward quickly. Goal to have this in place by SMM07.  It is important to point out that each council has heterogeneous membership. Board also passed resolution to extend council terms until the end of May 2007.

Updates from ASC Members:
Alan B. mentioned CTI meeting and Educause following up on task force for Campus Infrastructure. 

Cliff talked about issues about data curation and data preservation and report out in October about a workshop Assoc of Research Libraries for NSF looking at research library roles for curation and preservation of escience.

Parvati mentioned newly formed Healthgrid.US, still in the very preliminary stage.  Still trying to figure out structure, individual organizations, Internet2 governance, backbone services Internet survives without the financial capabilities. 

George mentioned creation of a South Asia workshop at the SMM07.  He is going to have a teleconf planning meeting tomorrow at 3:00 PM Eastern.

Alan W. is engaged in reviewing the IDEA applications, ten have been received and they are quite impressive.
  
Laurie, with SMM07 rapidly approaching, mentioned track proposal deadline submission is Friday, January 26.  Program committee meets today.

ASC Agenda for Action:
Update on T&L SIG at the FMM06.  Group met at fall meeting.  George Brett and Ann Doyle are involved.  There is quite a lot of activity and interest and ideas circulating are growing.  They also provided feedback to GNC to reflect the T&L interest of Internet2 Membership.

Council Chairs - met prior to FMM06, discussed task force report extensively and how to move that report forward.  Current thought is to form a short term working group, a group with specific charge, deliverable and timeframe.  Aspirational checklist in concert with CETF recommendations. A core group of generals who can call on larger pool of area experts (Middleware, Security, Tools, Applications). That idea is still being talked about internally due to the resource implications of supporting such an effort.  Everyone believes the task force report was good work, but real effort is needed for aspiration and for campuses to take action.

Laurie – spoke of the increased interest coming out of Regional category to look at RON expectations.  Tim Lance (NYSERnet) volunteered to get that effort started.

Updates from Internet2 Staff: work of the board.  Also in the midst of working with NPPAC on the 2007 priorities for Internet2.  NPPAC face to face meeting in Tempe Feb. 2 and will give a comprehensive review (planning and resource allocation).

Implementation of the new Internet2 network is consuming enormous amounts of time from many staff because of the enormity of the task.  First phase NY to Chicago demonstrated at FMM06. East to west plan to transition from Abilene to the new network.  Cheryl added that it is going well and keeping up with the schedule.  Juniper router moves out of NY this week and moves to begin Phase 2.
  
Meeting ended. (1:53 PM)

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 noon - 4:30 pm
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