Internet2 Membership Application Examples
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University Membership Application
Affiliate Member with Collaboration Site Status
Corporate Membership Application
Association Membership Application
Membership Representative Role
Definitions
University Membership Application
Dear Dr. Van Houweling,
The University X wishes to become a member of the Internet2
collaborative effort to develop advanced Internet technology.
Membership in this collaborative will empower University X to
achieve its goal of providing an advanced education and research
network for the Gulf South. The University X has made a commitment
to developing an advanced networking infrastructure for its
campuses. This network plan and the fiscal budget for its implementation
have been approved by the technology and governing boards of
the State of X. According to the plan, the campus network is
being completely upgraded to an ATM network. The campus core
will support OC-12, with OC-48 capabilities, in a highly available
and redundant configuration. The core will also support OC-3
to the edge and incorporate support for 10/100 Mbps and, where
necessary, gigabit Ethernet. High-speed access (i.e., 25 Mbps
to the desktop) will be supported in order to provide visualization
and high-performance computing capabilities in the Polymer Sciences
and for atmospheric modeling at NASA's Stennis Space Center,
where University X's Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Modeling
is located. University X is committed to the mission of Internet2
to facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment, and
operation of a network for advanced network services and applications.
Internet2's efforts at other universities and University X's
involvement will enable the State of X to provide services and
leadership to higher education in the Gulf Coast region. Additionally,
this partnership will allow University X to service the collaborative
technology needs of its campuses and other research universities
and centers.
As part of its Strategic Plan, University X has defined additional
objectives that align themselves with the Internet2 goals and
objectives: to provide enhanced delivery of programs, classes,
and educational materials by the utilization of virtual teaching
and learning through multimedia and advanced networking tools;
to facilitate the development of a QoS infrastructure capable
of supporting voice, data, and video; and
to provide for the collaboration of University X's visualization
and learning capabilities with those of other universities and
organizations.
The University X understands the seriousness of this commitment
and will be able to meet the responsibilities that come with
Internet2 membership.
Respectfully,
President
The University X
Proposal for Internet2 and Internet2 Membership
The University X
A primary area of focus for The University X's technology initiative
is its focus on the infrastructural elements of the campuses.
This includes the development of a high-speed network that will
allow for the transmission and support of quality of service,
QoS capabilities to the multiple campuses and the research groups
at NASA, Stennis Space Center, SSC, and The Gulf Coast Research
Laboratories in Ocean Springs. The network planning and expansion
program has been designed to enable members of the University
community to utilize technology productively and effectively
from anywhere on or off campus. The network, designated University
Xnet, is designed as a multi-campus network that will support
the voice, data, and video requirements of the campuses of University
X. This will be based upon a centralized/distributed concept
of technology, whereby the whole campus from a centralized location
will share the distributed systems, based upon functionality.
The network will be capable of supporting the IP requirements
of the various sub-networks (i.e., local area networks) in each
building, and the integration of department, college, and campus
resources into a campus-wide network for instructional support.
It is University X's intention to become a major University
of the Gulf South: this requires a state-of-the-art communication
infrastructure for voice, data, and video.
University X Networking Initiatives: - The University X campus
network is in the process of being upgraded to a high availability
ATM network, including WAN capabilities. This will link the
five campuses with high-speed, broadband capabilities capable
of support QoS for all teaching and research. University X has
selected FORE systems as its partner in this venture. The main
core switches will support OC-12 and OC-48 throughput of 622
Mbps and greater with edge capabilities at OC-3 of 155 Mbps.
The university has committed to 10 million dollars of infrastructural
upgrades to its network. The core electronics and the single
and multimode fiber are in the process of being installed. In
addition, researchers in the College of Science and Technology,
a core building, will be supported at either OC-3 to the desktop
or at gigabit speeds for the visualization and immersive technology
centers being developed to support the oceanographic modeling
and simulation requirements of the University X Center for Oceanographic
Modeling (COAM). A core team involved in this project is located
at SSC and works jointly with the Naval Research Laboratory,
NRL, and the Naval Oceanographic Office.
In addition, over the past several months, The State of X has
expanded and upgraded its state backbone to OC-3. This will
connect all of the institutions of higher learning, community
colleges and the K-12 school districts, as well as X ETV. The
emphasis will be placed upon collaborative efforts in education
with respect to the delivery of educational services that take
advantage of video streaming, audio, and multimedia.
The University X will join a consortium of universities within
the state that will access a gigaPOP presence in Jackson that
is provided by Qwest Communications. Monies will be provided
to connect the main campus in Hattiesburg with OC-3 capabilities
to access this POP. The Center for Higher Learning, CHL, a University
X subsidiary, at NASA, SSC will have access through the OC-3
connection and DREN.
The following represent several of the target areas that will
benefit from the Internet2 capabilities and that are aligned
with specific objectives of Internet2:
1. Online Capabilities: University X has dedicated it technology
resources to the development of on-line capabilities that will
allow the manipulation of oceanic modeling and the remote manipulation
of experiments associated with the Marine Education Center,
MEC, in State X. These experiments, manipulated from any of
the campuses will be expanded to include K-12 education in the
marine sciences. The MEC is associated with the University X
Institute of Marine Sciences.
Online capabilities will be developed to enhance the delivery
of education to the regional campuses, and to the K-12 environment.
University X, through its College of Education and Psychology,
is interested in the development of and use of media in all
of its forms to deliver programs to the school districts in
Southern X.
2. Scientific Collaboration and Visualization: University X's
College of Polymer Science, which is world renowned, is interested
in the development of collaborative research and visualization
capabilities with universities and companies throughout the
world. It would allow scientists to collaborate remotely on
polymer synthesis and modeling, using the capabilities of high
performance computing.
The Institute of Marine Sciences has been active in environmental
and aqua cultural projects related to the X Gulf Coast, its
estuaries and the X Sound. Collaboration between the various
government and state agencies will allow for the visualization
and the monitoring of chemical, biological, and geological parameters
in real time, similar to the San Diego Bay Project.
3. The Program in Scientific Computing of the School of Mathematical
Sciences is engaged in the development of a terabyte Beowulf
cluster for parallel computation and modeling, and in the development
of remote sensing capabilities in collaboration with NASA, SSC.
The Program in Scientific Computing of the School of Mathematical
Sciences has expressed interest in joining a project regarding
the global solution of multidimensional wave equations on a
distributed network. This will involve collaborative high performance
computing and advanced internetworking capabilities.
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Affiliate Member with Collaboration Site
Status
Application Letter
Dear Dr. Van Houweling:
The X Data Center has a strong interest in establishing a formal
working relationship with Internet2 and hopes that this application
for Affiliate Membership and Collaboration Site status will
be approved.
The X Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a data management,
information systems development, and research field center of
the X GS. The X Data Center develops and operates advanced systems
for receiving, archiving, processing, and distributing land
remotely sensed and associated spatial data acquired from satellites,
aircraft, and other information gathering systems.
During its 25 year history, the X Data Center´s archive
has become a vital resource for a growing, increasingly sophisticated
community of earth science data users. With the launch and operation
of the Earth Observing System (EOS) and Landsat 7 missions,
the X Data Center will process and produce increasing quantities
of earth science data products from a variety of land observing
satellites. Production of data products from EOS and Landsat
data sources in near-real-time will open new opportunities for
scientific uses and applications of these data. Eventually,
the X Data Center-managed digital data archive will explode
from its current size of 215 terabytes to over 2,000 terabytes
by 2005.
A critical element that supports the X Data Center's mission
is the need to advance networking applications development and
research. Internet2 provides an unique opportunity to partner
with educational institutions in the development and exploratory
use of advanced networking technologies and applications. The
X Data Center has a history of participation in the research
and development of advanced networking applications such as
the Multi-dimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetworking
Consortium (MAGIC). MAGIC was a Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) sponsored and funded Gigabit Wide Area Network
Testbed. MAGIC was used as beta development for "proof-of-concept"
research applicable to high speed, high capacity data delivery
and data serving. MAGIC demonstrated high-performance access
to the large earth science data sets that are permanently housed
at X Data Center. In this project, the X Data Center was able
to leverage the expertise of partners such as Sprint for high
bandwidth networks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for
high performance data servers, and Stanford Research International
for data visualization.
The X Data Center has been actively participating in several
Internet2 related activities including co-location of the northern
routing node with the Great Plains Network, demonstrations at
Highway One, demonstrations at the Nebraska EPSCOR annual meeting,
co-location of a web-caching manager in support of the DSI (distributed
storage initiative), demonstrations at the February 1999 Abilene
Kickoff, demonstrations at the NGI/NREN Bridging the Gap Workshop,
and participation in several of the Internet2 Working Groups.
The X Data Center is maintaining a strong alliance with the
Great Plans Network, who will be serving as the X Data Center's
GigaPOP with Abilene. The X Data Center partnered with several
of the great plain states and participated in the development
of the NSF EPSCOR proposal, which focused on collaborative means
of doing earth system science. The funding from this proposal
was instrumental in creating the Great Plains Network, and the
X Data Center continues to provide technical support to ensure
the success of this network.
The X Data Center has a strong interest in continuing its role
in educational support. The X Data Center was contacted by the
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
(GLOBE) program to assist in the preparation of remote sensing
data sets for use in a K -12 educational program. The X Data
Center's initial responsibility was to provide remotely sensed
satellite data for select schools as a prototype. This responsibility
has expanded yearly to where the X Data Center now supplies
Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite data to approximately 3,000 additional
schools worldwide each year. Another example has been the X
Data Center's participation in the Kidsat Program with the Patrick
Henry Middle School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This pilot
project demonstrated how students can actively make observations
of the Earth by using mounted cameras onboard the Space Shuttle
to conduct scientific inquiry in support of the middle school
curriculum.
Sincerely,
President of X Data Center
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Corporate Membership Application
Please complete the following Corporate Membership Application
1. Name of Organization: Company X
2. Date: 9/24/2000
3. Please identify the level of corporate membership that
organization is seeking.
_X_ Corporate Member
(Annual dues as noted in Dues Structure below.)
__ Corporate Sponsor
(Dues as noted below, plus $100K+ in goods & services over
the course of
the project, 3 years)
__ Corporate Partner
(Dues as noted below, and $1M+ in goods & services over
the course of the
project, 3 years)
4. Dues Structure (for all levels):
Please check the appropriate box.
Membership Dues
__ $11,500 annual dues for those companies with annual revenues
under $1B.
_X_ $28,500 annual dues for those companies with annual revenues
over $1B.
(Please note annual revenues and indicate your fiscal year below)
5. Profile of Company
a. Name of Organization: Company X
b. Headquarters and # of locations: More than 190 operating
companies, in 51 countries around the world, selling products
in more than 175 countries.
c. Revenues: for fiscal year: 1999: $27 billion
d. Description of your company/core business, etc.:
Company X, employing approximately 99,000 people worldwide,
is engaged in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of products
in the health care field in many countries of the world. Company
X´s primary interest, both historically and currently,
has been in products related to health and well-being.
Company X is organized on the principles of decentralized management.
The Executive Committee of
Company X is the principal management group responsible for
the operations of Company X. In addition, certain Executive
Committee members serve as Worldwide Chairmen of Group Operating
Committees, which are comprised of managers who represent
key operations within the group, as well as management expertise
in other specialized functions. These Committees oversee and
coordinate the activities of domestic and international companies
related to each of the Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Professional
segments of business. Operating management of each company
is headed by a Chairman, President, General Manager or Managing
Director who reports directly to, or through a line executive
to, a Group Operating Committee. In line with this policy
of decentralization, each international subsidiary is, with
some exceptions, managed by citizens of the country where
it is located.
e. Describe your corporate interest in Internet2: At Company
X we often take a proactive approach to new computing technologies.
As part of Interent2 we hope to gain a better understanding
of the next generation network technologies and architectures
to better design and grow our own network. We plan on taking
full advantage of technologies such as IPv6 to improve our network,
provide more functionality, and reduce costs. Being a decentralized
organization, and with over 190 operating companies in 51 countries,
communications is a key part of our culture and a necessity.
We are currently researching ways to improve network performance,
communication, and collaboration content. We also are part of
the research community of many pharmaceutical initiatives, including
the genome projects. We collaborate often with many universities
already part of the Internet2 community.
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Association Membership Application
1. Name of Association: XXX Higher Education organization
2. Date: Today's date
3. Profile of Association organization:
a. Headquarter location: 1234 K Street Washington, DC 20004
b. Dues structure: Annual dues for member organizations of $2000.
c. Description of the Association purpose: Serves a membership of more than 2,500 colleges, universities, and higher education service providers across the country. XXXX represents chief administrative and financial officers through a collaboration of knowledge and professional development, advocacy, and community.
d. Describe the interest of your Association in Internet2: University administrators and CFOs are interested in learning about the importance and use of advanced networks in their respective institutions as well as learning about the possible uses of advanced networks in their own discipline. By becoming an Association Member in Internet2, the XXXX members can participate in the semi-annual member meetings, engage with existing special interest and working groups and be exposed to the various applications and future network design plans that will help with the financial planning for their institutions.
Association URL: www.xxxx.org
4. Contact information for individual completing this application:
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
Email:
The following contacts are required for Internet2 Association membership (see member-roles for role descriptions):
EXECUTIVE LIAISON CONTACT:
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
BILLING CONTACT
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS CONTACT
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONTACT
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
In addition, the following (optional) contacts can be provided if the appropriate Association staff members are interested in receiving the related communications and in engaging with the particular segments of the community (see member roles for role descriptions):
APPLICATIONS CONTACT:
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
ENGINEERING CONTACT:
Name:
Title:
Address (Street, City, State, Zip):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Please send the completed application to: membership@internet2.edu.
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