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Retreat Committee Report

Jianping Wu

Jan.24, 2003

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Report• Short History• Mission Statement• Revised Strawman Documentation• Editorial Task Force• Proposes Schedule• Review of Retreat Committee Members• Next Meeting

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Short History• APAN Retreat Meeting in Phuket (Jan.2002)

– Informal Charter for APAN Retreat Committee

– Focus on the Next Phase of APAN: 2003-2006

– Informal Discussion Conclusion

• APAN Retreat Committee Meeting in Shanghai (Aug.2002)– Establish APAN Retreat Committee

• APAN Retreat Committee Meeting (Nov.2002)– Drafted a Strawman Documentation

• APAN Retreat Meeting in Japan (Jan.2003)– Revised the Strawman Documentation

– Editorial Task Force

– Proposed Schedule for the Next Step

Mission Statement

Advanced Networking for Asia-Pacific- Research & Development for Advanced Applications and Services

- Advanced Networking Environment for Research & Education Communities

- International Collaboration

- Outreach in Asia Pacific

- Outreach in other User Communities

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Strawman : Output Document of 2002.11 Seoul Retreat Committee Meeting

- Presentation Material -

APAN Retreat Committee

21 January 2003

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Contents1. Network

1-1. Engineering/NOC1-2. Network Infrastructure & Topology (backbone)

2. Technology and Application 2-1. R&D Activities3. Operation and Management

3-1. Management3-2. Funding3-3. External Relationship3-4. Outreach

4. Others

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1.1 Engineering/NOC

• Recommendation– Funded operation

• North cluster, South cluster, Oceania cluster

• Issue – Harmonisation of cluster operations, which are

substantially different as of now

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1.2 Network Infrastructure & Topology (backbone)

• Recommendation– (Update and) Endorse APAN position paper on the 3+ cluster model

• Have good inter-cluster links, and good links through Eurasia.

• Issues– How to build south(-east) cluster (TH-MY-SG)– How to build north cluster (CN-KR-JP)– How to build inter-cluster and intercontinental links– Exploiting Trans-Siberia link– Exploiting IEEAF (topology, usage)

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APAN MAP with Proposed Cluster

Southeast Cluster(MY, SG, TH,…)

North America(Internet 2)(CA *net)

Exchange PointAccess PointCurrent status2003 (plan)

Australia

KoreaJapan

Thailand

Malaysia

Singapore Indonesia

USA

Vietnam

Sri Lanka

North Cluster(CN, JP, KR, …)

Europe(Geant)

Oceania Cluster(AU,…)

Taiwan

China

Hong Kong

Philippines

Russia

South Asia

West Asia

Central Asia

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2.1 “Expertise Areas…”

• Recommendation– Maintain lead in areas of expertise:

• Natural Resource, IPv6, Video, …..

– Collaborate with other regions more closely to build critical mass in other areas

• Issue– How to coordinate with non-ICT R&D communities?

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2.2 Advanced Technology Deployment

• Recommendation– Major deployment of native IPv6 network

– Continuing support and development of advanced services, • multicast, QoS,

• middleware, …

• Issues• lambda switching (OBGP, GMPLS, …)

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2.3 Support for Advanced User Applications

• Development of Solution Centre

• Grid Technologies: – BioGrid, AgriGrid, CEOSGrid, GriPhyN, DataGrid/Archives

• Collaboration Technologies– Access Grid

• Video Technologies: – HDTV-based applications, 3D-TV,

• Multimedia: Animation, Games, Visualisation, VR

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3.1 Management• Recommendation

– Full-time-equivalent staff increase to 20 or more

– Distributed operation (north, south, Oceania)

– Advisory Board (industry, government, users, non-AP)– Add more events (in addition to 2 conference/meeting, such as

training workshops)

• Issue - Incorporation

• Remark– Current staffing

• APAN HQ Secretariat: 1 4 fte

• APAN NOC and Secretariat

• 4 fte in JP, 1 in KR, 2 in CN, 1 in AU, others: 1 ~ 4

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3.2 Funding• Recommendation

- Funding (APAN primary members, industry, contribution, potentially workshops)- Industry membership of national consortium, with maximum fee the same as primary members

• Issues-Raising membership fee limit ($10k?)

-Current funding•Secretariat $150k/year in 2003 (4 FTEs)

•NOC (XP – Tokyo) $500k/year (4 FTEs)

•NOC (XP – Seoul) $100k/year (1 FTE)

•International links (non-Govt funded)

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3.3 External Relations

• Recommendation– Have formal working relationships with various

organizations including user communities and industry

– Have formal working relationships with various international “treaty” organizations and governments

– Represent all R&E networks

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3.4 Outreach • Recommendation

– Expand user communities to K12, non-profit, humanity, social science, …

• Issue– How to encourage non-member countries in AP to participate &

facilitate the links to these countries

• Remark– Countries to outreach

• North: Russia, Mongolia• South-East: Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Laos, …• South: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal…• Pacific: Papua New Guinea, NZ, Fiji, …• Central: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, …• West Asia/Africa: ?

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4. Others

(1) Primary (voting) Members

- Do we want to keep the current scheme of the link owners as primary members?

- Or, do we want to change, such as country/economy as the primary member?

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Editorial Task Force• Chief Editor: Markus Buchhorn• Executive Editor: Kyoko Day

– Send all of the documentation for comments

– Collect all of the responses and comments

– Maintain the information on APAN Web Site

• Editor: Jie An

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Proposed Schedule• (1.21) Strawman doc-list of recommendation/issue• (2.15) List of Recommendations, turn into word document and submit it to

the retreat committee (merge the Phuket doc with the slides and add comments)– Proposed Mission Statement– A list of recommendation/issue & priorities– Outline of the final doc– references, including the Phuket doc

• (2.15) Send out the draft to the committee and request comments by the mid March

• (3.15) Start drafting the official doc, policy document• (4.30) Complete the first draft and send to the committee• (5.31) Receive comments from the committee and finalize the second draft• (6.18) The committee approves the second draft• (6–8) Send the second draft to the members of APAN for comments and

revise• (8.25) The final draft should be ready by this time

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Retreat Committee Members• Primary Member

– Australia George McLaughlin,Markus Buchhorn– China  Jianping WU,Hualin Qian,Xing Li– Japan Kitamura Yasuichi,Katunori Konishi,

Seishi Ninomiya– Korea Yongjin Park,Kilnam Chon,Dae Yong Kim– Malaysia  Sureswaran Ramadass– Singapore Bu Sung Lee– Taiwan Simon C Lin

• Associate Member – Sri Lanka– Thailand Royol Khitradon,– USA James Williams,Heather Boyles

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The Next Steps• APAN Retreat Committee Meeting (June 2003)

– Draft APAN Retreat Documentation should be approved by the Retreat Committee

– June 17 or 18, 2003 during CJK Broadband Conference

• APAN Retreat Meeting in Kyushu (Aug.2003)– APAN Retreat Documentation should be approved by the

Member Meeting

– APAN Retreat Committee should be closed