APAN Annual Report : 2003

2003. 12

APAN Secretariat

As of 2004.1.26

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. APAN Status

3. Progress Report in 2003

Appendix : Plan for 2004

Reference

1. Introduction

APAN's Mission:

- to coordinate and promote R&D activities on networking including technology, applications and services. - to provide an advanced networking environment for research and education communities in the Asia-Pacific region. In order to carry the APAN's mission, APAN will put effort on - collaboration with regional and domestic organizations in Asia-Pacific. - collaboration with other regions (Africa, Americas, and Europe) to provide global advanced network environment and to facilitate research and education activities. - expansion of APAN user communities to include various research disciplines, and non-research communities.

2. APAN Status

2.1 Organization

APAN Member Committee

Committees Secretariat

Technology

Regional Net

Natural Resource

APANMeetings

IPv6TaskForce

NOC

http://apan.net/home/aboutapan/organization.htm

2.2 Members

Primary Member

APAN-AU Consortium http://www.au.apan.net APAN-CN Consortium http://www.cn.apan.net

HARNET(HK) * http://www.jucc.edu.hk/jucc/harnet.html APAN-JP Consortium http://www.jp.apan.netANF(KR) http://www.anf.ne.krAPAN-MY Consortium http://www.my.apan.netSingAREN(SG) http://www.singaren.net.sg/start.phpAPAN-TW Consortium http://www.sinica.edu.tw

ASTI(PH) * http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph BAERIN(BD) ** http://www.baerin.net

LEARN(LK)* http://www.ac.lkAPAN-TH Consortium* http://www.th.apan.net

Associate Member

TransPAC/Indiana University http://www.transpac.org

* : joined in 2003** : joined in 2004

2.2 Members (cont.)

Affiliate MemberACFA * http://www.acfa-forum.net/acfa/ APBioNet * http://www.apbionet.org APNG * http://www.apng.org APRTC * http://www.aprtc.org APRU http://apru.nus.edu.sgCIGRA http://www.cigra.orgIDRC * http://www.idrc.org.sg Pacific Wave http://pacificwave.netPRAGMA * http://www.pragma-grid.net

Liaison Member CANARIE http://www.canarie.caDANTE http://www.dante.netTERENA http://www.terena.nlInternet 2 http://www.internet2.edu

Industry MemberCisco * http://www.cisco.com

Juniper * http://www.juniper.net

* : joined in 2003

2.3 Link Information

Countries Network Bandwidth(Mbps) Availability AUP/Remark

AU-US AARNet 340 Now R&E,

CN-HK CERNET/HARNET 2 Now R&E

CN-JP CERNET 10 Now R&E

CN-JP CERNET 45 Now Native IPv6

CN-UK CERNET 45 Now R&E

CN-US CERNET 10 Now Research

CN-US CERNET 200 Now R&E

HK-US HARNET 45 Now R&E

HK-TW HARNET/TANET 10 Now R&E

JP-HK APII 45 Now R&E

JP-ID AI3(ITB) 2/1.5 Now R&E

JP-KR APII 2Gbps Now Research (APII)

JP-MY AI3(USM) 1.5/0.5 Now R&E

JP-PH AI3(ASTI) 1.5/0.5 Now R&E

JP-PH MAFFIN 2 Now Research

JP-SG AI3(SICU) 1.5/0.5 Now R&E

JP-TH AI3(AIT) 1.5/0.5 Now R&E

JP-TH SINET (ThaiSarn) 2 Now R&E

JP-US TransPac 5 Gbps Now R&E,

JP-VN AI3(IOIT) 1.5/0.5 Now R&E

KR-CN APII 45~155 ? R&E

KR-FR KOREN/RENATER 34 Now Research (TEIN)

KR-SG APII(KOREN) 8 Now R&E

KR-US KOREN/KREONet2 155 Now R&E

As of 2003.12.26

2.3 Link Information (cont.)

Countries Network Bandwidth(Mbps) Availability AUP/Remark

LK-JP LEARN 3 Now R&E

MY-TH TEMAN/ThaiSarn 8~45 　 R&E

SG-US SingaREN 90 Now R&E

TH-US Uninet 155 Now R&E

TW-HK ASNET/TANET2 155 Now R&E

TW-JP ASNET/TANET2 155 Now R&E

TW-US ASNET/TANET2 622 Now R&E

TW-UK ASNET/TANET2 155 Now R&E, through US

Non APAN Links

Countries Network Bandwidth(Mbps) Availability AUP

IN-US/UK ERNET 16 Now R&E

JP-(US)-EU SINET 2.5Gbps +155 Now R&E / No Transit

JP-US SINET 5 Gbps Now R&E / No Transit

Proposed Link in APAN

CN-HK CSTNET (Gloriad) 155 Now R&E, 2.5Gbps in 2004

CN-US CSTNET (Gloriad) 55 Now Research

CN-RU-US Gloriad 10 Gbps 2004 R&E (through Amsterdam)

JP-HK APII 45 Now R&E, (2.5Gbps in 2004Q2)

JP-LK AI3(ICT) 1.5/0.5 (plan) R&E

JP-SG 　 1Gbps (plan) R&E

JP-US TransPac 5 Gbps Now R&E, (20Gbps in 2004)

KR-CN APII 45~155 2004Q1 R&E

MY-TH TEMAN/ThaiSarn 8~45 (plan) R&E

US-JP IEEAF 10.6Gbps 2003 Q4 R&E

IN-CH LHC 155 2004 Research (HEP)

2003.12.26

3. Progress Report in 2003

3.1 Committees

Closed Committees (in 2003.8) IEEAF Committee : merged to Backbone Committee Retreat Committee

New Committees (in 2003.8) Event Committee Chair: Akira Mizushima/NARO Training Committee (pending) Co-chairs: Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT

John Barlow /AARNET 5 Ad hoc Committees (shown below) Current Committees Backbone Committee Chair: Daeyoung Kim/CNU (elected in 16th Meetings) Event Committee Chair: Akira Mizushima/NARO Fellowship Program Committee Chair: An Jie/CERNET (elected in 16th Meetings) Resource Allocation Committee Chair: Kimihiko. Saito/JST Training Committee (pending) Co-chairs: Kanchana Kanchanasut/AIT Ad hoc Committees eScience Committee Chair: Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC Grid Activities Committees Co-chairs: Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC

Kento Aida/TITECH Election Committee Chair: George McLaughlin/AARNET Bylaws Committee Chair: Lowrence Wong/SingAREN Structure Committee Chair: Shigeki Goto/Waseda U.

John Barlow /AARNET

3.2 Secretariat

The staff lineup of APAN Secretariat is as follows:

Bok-Gyu Joo Deputy DirectorEunjin Seo               Administrative Manager Jane Zhu   Administrative Staff Chin Hooi            Technical StaffAn Jie Administrative Manager (in Beijing Branch)Chunyan Wang Administrative Staff (in Beijing Branch) 

The detail contact information of APAN Central Secretariat and APAN Member Secretariats was currently listed at http://apan.net/org/sec.htm 

3.3 APAN Meetings

15th APAN Meetings

APAN 2003 Fukuoka Meetings were held at SRP Center in Fukuoka, Japan, cooperated with

the 3rd PRAGMA Workshop during 2003.1.20 - 1.25.No. of Participants : 264

Reference : http://apan.net/meetings/fukuoka03/index.htm

16th APAN Meetings

The 16th APAN Meetings were held in conjunction with Advanced Network Conference at Busa

n Marriott Hotel in Busan, Korea during 2003.8.24 - 2003.8.29.

No. of Participants : 325

Reference : http://apan.net/meetings/busan2003/

3.3 APAN Meetings (cont.)

Date Name Place

2003.1.20~25 15th APAN Meetings Fukuoka, Japan

2003.4.9~11 APAN Related Meetings Arlington, USA (during I2)

2003.6.21 APAN Retreat Meeting Beijing, China

2003.7.24~26 APAN South Asia Net Meeting Colombo, Sri Lanka

2003.8.24~29 16th APAN Meetings Busan, Korea

2003.9.25~26 China-Japan Link Meeting Hong Kong

2003.10.23 APAN Chairs Meeting Indianapolis, USA (during I2)

2003.10.24~25 Japan-Korea Meeting Sapporo, Japan

2003.10.28~31 China-Korea Meeting Beijing, China

2003.12.5~6 APAN IPv6 Task Force Kick-off Meeting Beijing, China

2003.12.18~19 APAN Related Meetings Bangkok, Thailand

3.4 IPv6 Task Force

Goal : 10% of R&E Network Traffic as Task Force’s Goal

Chairs : Jianping Wu / Hiroshi Esaki / Kishik Park

Subgroups IPv6 Engineering & Technology Group (IPv6 WG)

Yan Ma / Hiroshi Esaki / Seungyun LeeOperation Group (NOC)

Li Xing / Yoshinori Kitatsuji / Jaehwa LeeApplication Group

Nan Kai / Hiroshi Esaki / Yo-Jung Kim

Meetings 2003.8 APAN Meetings, Busan Formation of IPv6 Task Force2003.10 Global Joint Gigabit IPv6 Meeting, Indianapolis APAN, Internet2, CANARIE and DANET

2003.12.5~6 APAN IPv6 Kickoff Meeting, Beijing (2004.1.14 2nd Global Joint Gigabit IPv6 Meeting, Brassels)

http://apan.net/org/ipv6.htm

3.5 Natural Resource

Closed Working Group : BioInformatics WG ( closed in 2003.4)

New Working Group : Earth System WG (proposed in 2003.8)

Current Status Director: Seishi Ninomiya/NARO-NARC Deputy Directors: Shinichi Sobue/NASDA-SPPD

Pitsuth Paiboonrat/NECTEC Byong-Lyol Lee/KMA

Secretary General : Shuhaimi Napis/UPM

Agriculture WG Chair: Pitsuth Paiboonrat/NECTEC Co-chairs: Ronnie S. Natawidjaja/UNPAD

Jeong-Jae Lee/ Seoul National U Earth Observation & Disaster Monitoring WG

Co-chairs: Chris Elvidge/NOAA-NGDC Hiromichi FUKUI/Keio U Earth System WG (pending)

Co-chairs: Jai-Ho Oh/PKNU Yihui Ding/NCC/CHINA

http://apan.net/org/nr.htm

3.6 NOC (Network Operations Center)

Director : Kazunori Konishi/KDDI Deputy director : John Barlow/AARNET Jaehwa Lee/Korea Telecom Secretariat: Yoshinori Kitasuji/KDDI

The main activities were classified as follows: (1) Coordinate network operation activities - 24 x 7 basic operation - Common tools for the basic operation - Information sharing for the operation - Promotion of the collaborations

(2) Joint works between researchers and NOC folks for advanced services and experiments

- Experiments on advanced technologies - Design of the networks with advanced features - Performance tuning with advanced operation & measurement tools - Evaluation of experiments & demos

http://apan.net/org/noc.htm

3.7 Regional Net

TWHK

Russia

Central Asia Net China

PH

AU

MYSG

CN

KR

Oceania Net

South East Asia Net

North Asia Net

CentralAsia

WestAsia

LK

SouthAsia Net

JP

TH

North Asia Net Group (formed in 2003.8) Co-chairs: Shigeki Goto/Waseda U. Daeyoung Kim/CNU Jianping Wu/CERNET North Asia Net Cluster (formed in 2003.1) Chair: Kazunori. Konishi/KDDI JP-KR Group (G-H/H-G) Co-chairs: Araki / YJ Park South East Asia Net Group not formed yet

South East Asia Cluster (formed in 2003.1) Co-chairs: Sureswaran Ramadass/USM Royol Chitradan/NECTEC Lowrence Wong/SingAREN South Asia Net Group (formed in 2003.7) Chair: Gihan Dias/LEARN Oceania Net Group (formed in 2003.8) Chair: George McLaughlin/AARNET http://apan.net/org/regional.htm

3.8 Technology

Application Technology Area

Director: Markus Buchhorn/ANU (Interim) Education WG Chair: An Jie/CERNET (Interim) Co-chair: HocksoonTan/TP (Interim) Grid WG Chair: Kento Aida/TITECH Co-chair: Sissades Tongsima /NECTEC P2P WG Chair: Hyunchol Kim/KAIST Security BoF Chair: Rahmat Budiarto/USM h323-sip (mailing list) Chair: Markus Buchhorn/ANU

http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

Network Technology Area

Director: Sureswaran Ramadass/USM IPv6 WG Chair: Yan Ma/BUPT Measurement WG Chair: Yasuichi Kitamura/CRL Multimedia WG Chair: Omar A. Abouabdalla/USM (Satellite WG: interim) Co-chairs: Lim Seow San/TP Loh Yeow Meng/ TP

QoS WG was closed in 2003.8.

3.8 Technology (cont.)

http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

Network Research Group

Interim Network Research Workshop Committee organized1st Network Research Workshop during the 16th APAN Meetings.31 papers were accepted and published in the proceedings.

Network Research Group was officially formed in 16th APAN Meetings.

Director: Xing Li/CERNET

3.8 Technology (cont.)

http://apan.net/org/tech.htm

3.9 Financial Report

A. Revenue (US$) Balance from 2002.9 3,475

Membership 30,850Other Contribution 51,950

B. Expenditure (US$) Salary 36,500

Travel Expenses 9,080Office Expenses 6,810

Fellowship 11,100 Incorporate Charge 5,420 Equipment 1,200 Busan Meeting Support 2,000 Miscellaneous 1,451

C. Balance (US$) 12,984

(2002.10~2003.9)

Appendix : Plan for 2004

A.1 APAN Lambda Networking

Europe/Russia

China

Hong Kong

Korea

Japan

Taiwan

USA

10Gbps

2.5Gbps2.5Gbps

5Gbps

2.5Gbps

40Gbps

10Gbps

2002.122003.122004.12

A.2 Incorporation of APAN

Formalize the principles regarding :

Organization Structure

Governing Body

Membership

Mode of Operation

Basis of Membership Fee

Number of Votes per Primary Member

A.3 Budget (2003.10-2004.9)

A. REVENUE

Balance from 2003. 9.30 12,982 Membership Contribution APAN-AU 5,000

BAERIN 1,000APAN-CNAPAN-JP 20,000APAN-MY 2,000SingAREN 2,000ANF 7,000+13,000APAN-TH 2,000APAN-TW 5,000LEARN 1,000HARNETAPAN-PH 1,000Transpac 1,000Cisco 2,000Juniper 2,000

Other contributionANF's contribution 12,000 NCHC for APAN meetings 1,000 ANF for fellowship 1,000 APAN-AU for fellowship 1,000 APAN-JP for fellowship 3,000

------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 94,982

(unit : USD)

B. Expected Expenditure (2003.10~2004.6)

Salary 48,000 Travel Expenses 13,000 Office expenses 9,000 Publication 5,000 Fellowship 20,000 Miscellaneous 8,000 Reserve 12,982 ----------------------------------------- Total 115,982

C. Balance : (-) 21,000

* Figure of budget for TRANSITION is not available.

Reference

APAN http://apan.net