Second QBone Interoperability Group (QIG) Meeting
January 26th, 1999
MCNC, Research Triangle Park, NC
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Schedule

January 25th, 1999 (Auditorium, Building 1)
QBone BB Advisory Council
5:00 - 5:30 Buffet Dinner
6:00 - 9:00 QBone BB Advisory Council Meeting

January 26th, 1999 (Meeting room, Building 3)
QBone Interoperability Group
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Buffet Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome - Ben Teitelbaum
  - project status
  - summary of last meeting
  - goals/agenda for this meeting
  - agenda bashing
9:15 - 9:45 QBone Architecture - Ben Teitelbaum
  - short overview of architecture
  - changes since last time
  - discussion: "Can we approve the architecture?"
9:45 - 10:15 QBone Bandwidth Broker Advisory Council - Sue Hares
  - progress report
  - discussion
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:15 Layer 2/ATM Interworking Challenges - Rudiger Geib
  - Discussion: "Need the QIG say anything about these issues?"
  - Should we set up a BOF for these issues?
11:15 - 12:15 Deployment Status Reports (~20 minutes each)
  - Michigan - Andy Adamson
  - vBNS - Chuck Song
  - PSC - Joe Lappa 
  - NCNI - John Collins
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Deployment Status Reports (continued)
  - MREN/iCAIR - Joe Mambretti
  - NREN/NGIX-West - Vishy Narayan 
  - ESNet - Bob Fink
2:15 - 3:00 "Next Steps" Discussion
  - Focus on minimal, mostly-static initial deployment
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee
3:30 - 4:00 Vendor Survey Report - Phil Emer
  - draft survey presentation
  - discussion
4:00 - 4:45 "Next Steps" Discussion
  - Identify some short-term goals.
  - Identify action items and who is responsible for them.
  - Next meeting
     -Suggestion: meet March 10-11 after the Joint NLANR Internet2 Techs Meeting
4:45 Adjourn

January 26th, 1999 (Auditorium, Building 1)
Joint QIG/I2-DVN/I2-DSI Working Session (more info)
5:00pm - 5:05pm Statement of Purpose of Meeting, expected results
5:05pm -5:30pm Presentation of the QIG effort to QoS component of I2-DV Steering
Committee
5:30pm - 5:55pm Presentation of the I2-DV initiative and the I2 DVN project to the
QIG participants
5:55pm - 6:15pm Presentation of the I2-DSI initiative
6:15pm - 6:30pm  Identification of areas of intersection and potential overlap
6:30pm - 6:45pm Identification of specific action items that should be addressed (and
by which group) with appropriate priorities and timelines
6:45pm - 7:00pm Identify an optimal means of on-going communications among efforts
7:00pm - 8:30pm Reception hosted by Nortel Networks

January 27th- 28th, 1999
Internet2 Digital Video Steering Committee Meeting
(This is a separate meeting that may be of interest to QBone participants.  It is cross-linked here because of the close relationship between digital video applications and the QoS work of the QBone.)


Last Updated Wed Mar 31 20:00:00 MST 1999 by Ben Chinowsky