Internet2 101: Orientation and Overview

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Internet2 101Orientation and Overview
Spring 2005 Member Meeting May 2, 2005
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Agenda

• Internet2 Marianne Smith
• Background
• Administration
• Mission, Goals, Focus and Values
• Membership Diversity
• Member Opportunities, Expectations and
  Accomplishments
• Network Services Steve Cotter
• Middleware and Security Renee Frost
• Applications Ann Doyle
• Member Support Marianne Smith

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Internet2 Background

• Marianne Smith
• Assistant Director, Member Partner Relations
• melser_at_internet2.edu

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Why Internet2?

• The Internet was not designed for
• Millions of users
• Congestion
• Multimedia
• Real time interaction
• But, only the Internet can
• Accommodate explosive growth
• Enable convergence of information work, mass
  media, and human collaboration

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Why University Leadership?

• The Internet came from the academic community
• Stanford -- the Internet protocols
• NSFNet -- the scaled-up Internet
• CERN -- the WWW protocols
• University of Illinois -- the Web browser
• Research and education missions require an
  advanced Internet and universities have
  demonstrated they can develop it

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Internet2 Beginnings and Growth
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What we do

• We provide our members with an Advanced
  Networking Environment to use for research and
  education
• Abilene backbone
• Network research
• IPv6, Multicast
• End-to-End Performance Initiative
• End-to-End Applications e.g. Commons
• Middleware
• Security

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What We Do

• We provide our members with an environment for
  partnerships and collaborations in advanced
  networking
• Among themselves
• With other partners International, Federal
  agencies, K20 School networks, the Quilt
• Applications Collaborations high energy
  physicists, arts humanities, health science

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Internet2 Administration
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Governance

• Internet2 Board of Trustees
• http//www.internet2.edu/about/board.html
• Four Advisory Councils
• Applications Strategy Council
• Industry Strategy Council
• Networking Planning and Policy Advisory Council
• Network Research Liaison Council
• http//www.internet2.edu/about/councils.html
• Annual nominations
• Three-year renewable terms

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Internet2 Board of Trustees

• Internet2 Board of Trustees
• University Presidents and CEOs
• Chairs of Advisory Councils
• Meets twice/year
• Advises broadly on strategy and Internet2s role
  within higher education

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Internet2 Staff

• Ann Arbor
• 53 Staff 5 temps and interns
• Washington, DC
• 10 Staff
• Throughout the Country
• 38 Staff, Consultants, Shared Appointments

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Internet2 Organizational Structure

• Member and Partner Relations
• Provides value to members through engagement
  activities
• Deployment and Infrastructure Delivery
• Provides service and products that translates
  technology into value
• Technology Direction and Development
• Explore and develop technologies and
  architectures that have potential value
• Organizational Infrastructure
• Supports the mission of other areas

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Internet2 Revenue Other Support
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Abilene fees
Member dues
Grants
Other
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Internet2 Mission, Goals, Focus and Values
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Internet2 Mission

• Develop and deploy advanced network
  applications and technologies, accelerating the
  creation of tomorrows Internet.

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Internet2 Goals

• Re-create leading edge Research Education
  network capability
• Enable new generation of applications
• Transfer technology and experience to the global
  production Internet

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Partnership as a core value

• Internet2 universities are recreating the
  partnerships that fostered the Internet in its
  infancy
• Industry
• Government
• Education

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Internet2 Focus Areas

• Advanced Network Infrastructure
• Security
• Middleware
• Member Engagement
• Applications

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Internet2 MembershipA Wealth of Diversity
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Internet2 Membership

• University
• United States institutions of higher education
• Corporate
• For-profit US-based companies
• Affiliate
• Non-profit and other research or education
  organizations
• Association
• Non-profit, higher education associations with
  national or international scope
• http//members.internet2.edu/

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Internet2 Universities206 University Members,
January 2005
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University Member Types

• Doctoral Research Extensive and Intensive
• Masters
• Medical Schools
• Systems Offices

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Corporate Members
Par
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Internet2 Affiliate Members

• Regional and state networking organizations
• Federal labs
• Federal agencies
• Fine arts institutions
• Performing arts organizations

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Internet2 Association Members

• ACUTA
• Campus EAI

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International Partnerships

• Ensure global interoperability
• Enable global collaboration
• Over 40 MOU agreements
• http//international.internet2.edu/

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International Partnerships
Current MoU Partners
Developing Partnerships
Related Efforts in Formation
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Last updated September 2004
International Partnerships
Related partnerships
APRU (Asia/Pacific) IEEAF
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Abilene International PeeringOctober 2004
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Internet2 MembershipOpportunities, Expectations
and Accomplishments
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Internet2 Membership Opportunities

• Join working groups, special interest groups and
  advisory groups
• Find collaborators for discipline and
  institutional projects and grants
• Foster applications development and faculty
  outreach
• Be an early adopter of new technologies and tools

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Internet2 Membership Expectations

• Contribute to the advancement of research and
  educational uses of high-performance networking
• Commit to the sustained deployment of
  high-performance network infrastructure on an
  end-to-end basis
• Deploy pre-commercial infrastructure and
  protocols
• Collaborate on advanced applications
• Engage in large-scale proofs of concepts

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Internet2 Membership Accomplishments

• Advanced applications development, broad and deep
  
• Development and deployment of middleware
  capabilities, locally and nationally
• Creation and support of national high-performance
  networks, including next generation optical
  networks
• Strong partnerships with international networking
  organizations
• Focused efforts on end-to-end performance, and
  network and host security

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Community Engagement Opportunities

• Working Groups
• Projects and Initiatives
• Member Meetings
• SIGs and BoFs
• Presentations
• Advisory Councils
• Program Committee

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K20 Initiative
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K20 Initiative

• Brings together Internet2 member institutions
  and innovators from primary and secondary
  schools, colleges and universities, libraries,
  and museums to extend new technologies,
  applications, middleware, and content to all
  educational sectors

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Sponsored Education Group Participants - 34
States 4/05
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Internet2 K20 Connectivity Survey
More results from the 2002and 2004 surveys can
be found at http//k20.internet2.edu/connect_surv
ey_index.php
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QA Break
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Network Services Abilene FiberCo MAN LAN

• Steve Cotter
• Director, Network Services
• scotter_at_internet2.edu

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The Abilene Network

• Abilene is
• A high-performance backbone network that enables
  the development of advanced Internet applications
  and the deployment of leading-edge network
  services to Internet2 universities and research
  labs across the country.
• Abilene isnt
• Intended to carry any commercial traffic
  unrelated to Internet2 goals

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Abilene Network Goals

• Supporting cutting edge applications that require
  a high-performance network
• Providing a platform for the deployment and
  testing of advanced services (IPv6, multicast,
  etc.)
• Provide connectivity to other research
  education networks around the world as well as
  peering with other federal research networks to
  foster collaboration
• Provide access to network characterization data
  in support of innovation and advanced
  applications

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Abilene Network Topology
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Abilene Network Topology

• First Level Bullet
• Second Level Bullet
• Third Level Bullet
• Fourth Level Bullet

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Abilene Network Topology

• First Level Bullet
• Second Level Bullet
• Third Level Bullet
• Fourth Level Bullet

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Abilene Network Topology

• First Level Bullet
• Second Level Bullet
• Third Level Bullet
• Fourth Level Bullet

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Abilene Network Topology

• First Level Bullet
• Second Level Bullet
• Third Level Bullet
• Fourth Level Bullet

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Abilene Network Topology

• First Level Bullet
• Second Level Bullet
• Third Level Bullet
• Fourth Level Bullet

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Abilene Network Topology
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Abilene Community

• 230 Primary Participants
• Internet2 members across membership categories
• 115 Sponsored Participants
• Individual institutions, K-12 schools, museums,
  libraries, research institutes
• 34 Sponsored Educational Group Participants
• State-based education networks
• http//abilene.internet2.edu/

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FiberCo Overview

• Tool designed to support optical initiatives in
  the regions or nationally
• Spun off from NLR governance discussions
• Internet2 took responsibility for forming the LLC
  
• Operates on behalf of U.S. higher education and
  affiliates Internet2 membership
• Not an operating entity
• Will not light the fiber only a holding company
• Functions
• Market maker
• Assignment vehicle for both national regional
  optical initiatives

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FiberCo and Dark Fiber

• Aggregate dark fiber assets acquired by U.S. RE
  optical initiatives (segment-miles)
• CENIC (for CalREN NLR)
  6,200
• FiberCo (via Level 3 for NLR RONs)
  6,560
• SURA (via ATT)
  6,000
• Plus 2,000 route-miles for research
• NLR Phase 2 (WilTel Qwest)
  4,000
• OARnet
  1,600
• ORNL (via Qwest)
  900
• NEREN
  670
• Other projects (IN,IL,MI,OR, )
  2,200
• Total (conservative estimate) 28,130
• Over 55 of these assets are now outside NLR
• NLR will hold 11,250 route-miles

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MAN LAN Exchange Point

• Manhattan Landing in New York City - partnership
  with NYSERNet, Indiana University, and the IEEAF
• Provides a high performance exchange facility for
  research and education networks
• Located at 32 AoA in NYC - easy interconnection
  to many national and international carriers and
  other research and education networks
• Peering model is open and bilateral
• Cost recovery model - minimal connection charges
  for layer 2 facility, none for layer 1
  connections
• Working with AtlanticWave on future distributed
  exchange point along U.S. East Coast (NYC?Miami)

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MAN LAN Services

• Layer 2 - Ethernet switch for IPv4/v6 peering
  with 1GigE and 10 GigE interfaces
• Layer 1 - TDM based optical equipment (SONET /
  Ethernet interfaces)
• Cisco 15454
• Nortel OME 6500
• Nortel HDXc
• Layer 0 equipment to be installed soon
• Optical cross connect to facilitate changes

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QA Break
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Middleware and Security

• Renee Frost
• Associate Director, Middleware Security
• rwfrost_at_internet2.edu

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Making it happen

• Much as at the network layer, create a ubiquitous
  common, persistent and robust core middleware
  infrastructure for the RE community
• Foster effective and consistent campus
  implementations
• Motivate institutional funding and deployment
  strategies
• Solve the real world policy issues
• Integrate key applications to leverage the
  infrastructure
• Nurture open-source solutions
• Address scaling issues for the user and
  enterprise
• In support of inter-institutional and inter-realm
  collaborations, provide tools and services (e.g.
  registries, bridge PKI components, root
  directories) as required

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A Map of Campus Upper and Core
Middleware Land
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Core Middleware Scope

• Identity and Identifiers namespaces, identifier
  crosswalks, real world levels of assurance, etc.
• Authentication campus technologies and
  policies, inter-realm interoperability via PKI,
  Kerberos, etc.
• Directories enterprise directory services
  architectures and tools, standard objectclasses,
  inter-realm and registry services
• Authorization permissions and access controls,
  delegation, privacy management, etc.
• Integration Activities open management tools,
  use of virtual, federated and hierarchical
  organizations, enabling common applications with
  core middleware

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Internet2 MiddlewareKey Concepts

• Use federated administration as the lever have
  the enterprise broker most services
  (authentication, authorization, resource
  discovery, etc.) in inter-realm interactions
• Develop a consistent directory infrastructure
  within RE
• Provide security while not degrading privacy
• Foster inter-realm trust fabrics federations and
  virtual organizations
• Leverage campus expertise and build rough
  consensus
• Influence the marketplace develop where
  necessary
• Support for heterogeneity and open standards

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MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for
Education)

• Purpose - to provide advice, create experiments,
  foster standards, etc. on key technical issues
  for core middleware within higher education
• Membership - Bob Morgan (UW) Chair, Tom Barton
  (Chicago), Scott Cantor (Ohio State), Steven
  Carmody (Brown), Michael Gettes (Duke), Keith
  Hazelton (Wisconsin), Paul Hill (MIT), Jim Jokl
  (Virginia), Mark Poepping (CMU), Bruce Vincent
  (Stanford), David Wasley (retired California),
  Von Welch (Grid)
• European members - Brian Gilmore (Edinburgh), Ton
  Verschuren (Netherlands), Diego Lopez (Spain)
• Creates working groups in major areas
  directories, inter-realm access control, PKI,
  video, middleware diagnostics etc.

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The National Science Foundation Middleware
Initiative (NMI)

• NSF program to support and deploy middleware for
  research and education
• Two types of awards
• System Integrators to do widely used tools and
  services
• Separate awards to academic pure research
  components
• Issues periodic NMI releases of software,
  services, architectures, object classes and best
  practices Release 7 due out soon
• Primary System Integrator awardees
• EDIT Internet2, EDUCAUSE, SURA
• Grids ISI, Wisconsin, Argonne, Michigan,
  Indiana
• Two rounds of awards 2001 and 2003

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Landmark Work

• Consensus standards eduPerson, eduOrg,
  commObject (H.350)
• Best Practices and Deployment Strategies LDAP
  Recipe, Group Management, Metadirectories,
  Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap
• Tools KX.509, LDAP Analyzer, LOOK
• Software systems OpenSAML, Shibboleth
• Outreach CAMPs, presentations, publications

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What is Shibboleth? (Biblical)

• A word which was made the criterion by which to
  distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites.
  The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce
  sh, called the word sibboleth. See --Judges
  xii.
• Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a
  party a party cry or pet phrase.
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Shibboleth Architecture
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Shib Development Milestones

• Project formation - Feb 2000 process began late
  summer 2000 with bi-weekly calls to develop
  scenarios, requirements and architecture
• Linkages to SAML established - Dec 2000
• Architecture and protocol completion - Aug 2001
• Design - Oct 2001
• Coding began - Nov 2001
• Alpha-1 release - April 24, 2002
• OpenSAML release - July 15, 2002
• v1.0 April 2003 v1.1 July 2003 v1.2 May 2004
• v1.3 Q2 2005 e-auth certified
• v1.4 Q1 2006 WS-Fed compliant
• v2.0 likely end of the major evolution

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Current Status Shibboleth v. 1.2.1

• Open-source, standards-based, privacy-preserving
  federating software
• Accelerating deployment globally federations in
  Switzerland (SWITCH), Finland, Netherlands,
  United Kingdom (three), Australia, US (InCommon,
  NSDL, InQueue) interop initiative in League of
  Federations
• Commercial information providers in production
  Elsevier Science Direct, OCLC, etc.
• Working on Underlying Attribute Authority GUI and
  resource protection
• Growing international development interest
  providing resource manager tools, email list
  software, etc.

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What are Federations?

• Associations of enterprises that come together to
  exchange information about their users and
  resources in order to enable collaborations and
  transactions
• Enroll and authenticate and attribute locally,
  act federally.
• Uses federating software (e.g. Liberty Alliance,
  Shibboleth, WS-) common attributes (e.g.
  eduPerson), and a security and privacy set of
  understandings
• Enterprises (and users) retain control over what
  attributes are released to a resource the
  resources retain control (though they may
  delegate) over the authorization decision.
• Several federations now in construction or
  deployment

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Policy Basics for Federations

• Enterprises that participate need to establish a
  trusted relationship with the operator of the
  federation in small or bilateral federations,
  often one of the participants operates the
  federation
• Participants need to establish trust with each
  other on a per use or per application basis,
  balancing risk with the level of trust
• Participants need to agree on the syntax and
  semantics of the information to be shared
• Privacy issues must be addressed at several
  layers
• All this needs to be done on scalable basis, as
  number of participants grow and number of
  federations grow

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Federation

• A permanent federation for the RE US sector
• Federation operations Internet2
• Federating software Shibboleth 1.2 and above
• Federation data schema - eduPerson200210 or later
  and eduOrg200210 or later
• Federated approach to security privacy with
  posted policies
• Became fully operational September 2004, with
  several early entrants shaping the policy
  process issues.
• http//www.incommonfederation.org

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LLC Management

• Governance
• Steering Committee Carrie Regenstein, Chair
  (Wisconsin)
• Two Steering Committee working groups
• Policy
• Communication, Membership, Pricing/Packaging
• Technical Advisory Group
• Operations Internet2
• InCommon Certificate Authority
• Issuing the enterprise certificate signing keys
• Metadata and Certificate submission
• Hosting the WAYF (where are you from)
• Supporting Campuses in posting their policies
• Store front (process maps, application process,
  billing, registry authority

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Current Middleware Activities

• Authorization
• A group-oriented, role-based approach
• Presumes enterprise has done some structuring of
  authorizations and roles
• Permits delegation, audit controls, etc.
• Implemented as attributes housed in directories
• Anchored with registries for roles, policies,
  authorities, etc.
• Status early versions of Signet and Grouper
• Authentication Implementation Framework
• PKI, HEBCA, USHER
• Middleware Diagnostics model and software
• Virtual Organization Support

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Additional Middleware Information

• http//middleware.internet2.edu
• http//middleware.internet2.edu/MACE
• http//www.nmi-edit.org
• http//www.nsf-middleware.org

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Security
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Context and Background

• EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force
• Reassessments of Internet2 Work
• Community-centric work
• SALSA
• Tools for today
• Services
• Community tool development
• Tools for tomorrow NetAuth, FWNA
• The Big Picture Rethinking the Problem
  Workshop
• New emphasis Internal work
• Integrate security with services Abilene,
  InCommon, etc
• Integrate security with development HOPI,
  Pipes, etc

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Traditional Internet2 Security Goals

• Advanced network security
• Fit into overall RE security activities
• Much of our middleware work addresses security
  and privacy issues

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Expanded/Additional Directions

• Community security initiatives including some
  with short-term goals
• Strengthen security aspects of operational
  services offered by Internet2, from Abilene
  through meeting wireless technologies
• Engagement w/ Indiana on both network operational
  and network security services
• Better consideration of Security issues within
  technology development initiatives and
  cross-leveraging security developments at other
  layers of the stack

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Community-based Security Activities

• SALSA overarching advisory/coordinating group
  for Internet2 member security activities
• Development of tools, data processes for today
• Intracampus incident handling tools
• Intercampus and intersector information and tools
• Tools for 1-3 years activities to produce
  security infrastructure tools deployable
  relatively soon
• Net-auth
• Federated network access
• Integration with middleware
• Big Picture activities to rethink our approaches
  to networking integrated with security

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SALSA

• Technical steering committee composed of senior
  campus security architects to
• Create understanding in the Internet2 community
  regarding the multiple aspects of security as it
  applies to advanced networking
• Identify deliverables that address needs of
  members and produce tangible benefits
• Membership Mark Poepping (CMU), chair, Chris
  Cramer (Duke), Gary Dobbins (Notre Dame), Terry
  Gray (UWash), Deke Kassabian (UPenn), Chris Misra
  (UMass), Doug Pearson (Indiana), Jim Pepin (USC),
  James Sankar (AARNet), Jeff Schiller (MIT), Joe
  St. Sauver (Oregon), Steve Wallace (Indiana)
• Prioritizing opportunities and identifying
  resources
• Focused activities
• Interested in RD security topics that can be
  smoothly transitioned to deployment

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Today

• Problems of Today
• Network layer DDOS, firewalls, sniffing, etc
• Middleware layer authentication and
  authorization
• Operating system spybots, exploits
• Applications of today privacy spills, spam,
  etc.
• Procedures and policies shifting directives,
  lack of case law, etc.
• Internet2 Security effort will focus on
  network/operating system threats, etc. - both
  intra-realm and inter-realm approaches
• Tools and Services for Today
• Correlating goals and expectations
• Addressing campus incident handling and
  preventative capabilities first

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Improved Data Sharing and Tools

• Two related agendas
• Identify provide, with Indiana, data services
  to help campus incident response offices
  central, inter-sector, national, multilateral
  exchange develop associated tools to process
  data and improve human handling
• Bring campus incident handling leads together to
  exchange information and build an agenda for tool
  development for prevention, detection
  remediation
• Customer focus group for the former is being set
  up will feed larger working group that addresses
  campus tools development

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Tools for Tomorrow

• Charter
• using the scenarios-requirements-specifications-de
  velopment cycle, create documents, frameworks,
  subsystems, etc that will improve network
  security while facilitating the research and
  education missions of our members
• Major themes
• Authenticated and authorized networks
• Meet those needs not likely to be met by the
  marketplace
• Collaborative security approaches
• Delivery of tools in 1-3 year time frames, with
  intermediate products along the way
• Working Groups
• NetAuth managing the connection of a device to
  a network
• FNWA extending connection management to a
  federated community
• Others may happen

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Rethinking the Problem

• Workshop the first step in the Big Picture work
• Towards a needs assessment for RE networking
  cyberinfrastructure
• Bring together strategic thinkers key
  practitioners from higher ed to identify the
  basic services capabilities that network layer
  cyberinfrastructure must support conduct a needs
  assessment on the current status.
• Where appropriate, recommendations on fundamental
  directions that should be considered, eg.
  Trust-mediated transparency
• Sharing current problem case studies, organizing
  the issues, tying them back together, next steps
• Will consider disruptive change, and then
  engineer transitions from current Internet
• Aiming for September

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Inward-oriented Security Planning

• Abilene and Security
• Internal operations security efforts
• Wireless at meetings moving towards security and
  federation
• Internal network and security improvements
• Will be slower to develop an approach to
  integrating security into technology
  developments, and leveraging the security
  capabilities at one layer for another layers
  use.

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Service and Security Abilene

• Revising procedures for problem resolution
• Setting up a web site and information packet for
  Abilene security
• Abilene NOC has in alpha testing a new IETF
  routing mechanism (flow-spec) to allow connectors
  to defend against DDoS without taking a service
  offline
• In discussion with vendors about enhanced
  diagnostic security tools for the backbone
• Abilene TAC will add security to its agenda

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Outreach

• Security sessions at Spring Member Meeting
• Integration of security with applications as well
  as network security
• Working with the Campus Expectations Task Force
• Consider security issues
• Designate security personnel on campuses
• Security-announce list set up, web site rework,
  etc. to follow shortly

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Working with Others

• EDUCAUSE
• Outsourcing key policy issues to Security TF
• Close coordination with Effective Practices Group
• Visible participation in security lists and
  conferences
• Indiana
• As Abilene NOC
• As center for information sharing
• As tool developer

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Additional Security Information

• http//security.internet2.edu/
• http//security.internet2.edu/salsa/
• http//www.educause.edu/security/task-force.asp

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Applications

• Ann Doyle
• Arts Humanities Program Manager
• Member Partner Relations
• adoyle_at_internet2.edu

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Internet2 Advanced Applications

• To the letter, an Internet2 application is
• Anything that runs across Abilene
• In spirit, advanced applications
• Deliver qualitative and quantitative improvements
  in how we conduct research and engage in teaching
  and learning
• Rely on aspects of Abilene that are not available
  on the commodity internet
• Support activities and research that simply are
  not possible without advanced networks

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Direction and Leadership

• Application Strategy Council
• Working Groups
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)
• Advisory Groups

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Internet2 Communities

• Advanced applications are being created and
  used by a wide variety of communities
• Health Sciences
• Sciences and Engineering
• Arts and Humanities
• Business and Law

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Program Managers

• Health Sciences
• -- Mike McGill
• Science and Engineering
• -- Charles Yun and Russ Hobby
• Arts Humanities
• -- Ann Doyle
• Business and Law
• -- Charles Yun

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Program Managers

• What we do
• Coordination and Outreach
• Connect you with resources and people doing
  similar work
• Help learn from other projects
• Watch for trends and emerging technologies
• Consult with you on projects
• What you do
• Run your Internet2 project
• Lay wires, code applications, etc.

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Major Activity Areas

• Technology evaluation and advocacy
• Advanced applications deployment
• Prototyping
• Demonstrations
• Meetings
• Flyers, testimonials, web site
• Campus presentations
• Installing storage servers (with Tennessee), VRVS
  videoconferencing servers (with Caltech), Access
  Grid deployment assistance

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Science and Engineering
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High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP)

• Physics has traditionally been one of the power
  users of all networks
• Physicists are generating Terabytes of data
  (1,000,000,000,000 or 1x1012) per experiment from
  the CERN lab in Switzerland
• Types of network usage
• Bulk data transfers that are extremely resistant
  to data loss.
• VRVS expects multicast and low-latency/jitter
  networks for effective video conferencing

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NEES

• Earthquake research using real buildings and
  computer simulations
• Remote control of physical experiments
• Video is crucial both for conferencing and as
  scientific data
• Types of network usage
• Remote control of resources
• Bulk data transfer and distributed data storage
• Video as data

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VLBI

• Astronomers collect data about a star from earth
  based antennae and for analysis on a 24x7 basis.
• VLBI is less concerned with data loss than with
  long term stability.
• End goal is to send data at 1Gb/s from over 20
  antennae located around the globe.

• Types of network usage
• Long time duration data streaming
• Distributed data storage, real-time dynamic
  retrieval,
• and distributed processing

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NEON and Earthscope

• Both in the early stages of their development
• Their research goals and science plan is fairly
  well understood.
• Using advanced networks to connect researchers,
  data and sensors is assumed.
• As a new group in the Internet2 community, the
  Program Managers are identifying areas in which
  advanced networking experience can be used to
  further their research

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Arts Humanities
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Collections

• A 180 terabyte multimedia archive of Holocaust
  testimonies
• Currently being accessed by
• University of Southern California
• Rice University
• Yale University
• University of Michigan

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Master Classes

• Active involvement
• Columbia University
• Manhattan School of Music
• Cleveland Institute of Music
• New World Symphony
• Curtis Institute of Music
• University of Michigan
• Eastman School of Music
• University of Oklahoma
• Florida State University
• Wayne State University
• Indiana University
• And many others

Michael Tilson Thomas
Pinchas Zukerman
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Live Performance Events
Transcontinental reading of Kenneth Koch's
poems

• Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of
  Music

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Assessment

• University of Texas at Austin
• Integrated Media Systems Center
• at the University of Southern California

The Miró QuartetLive Virtual
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Additional Communities

• Museum Community
• Education
• Conservation
• Foreign Language Instruction
• Less commonly taught languages
• Archaeology
• Shared project planning
• Shared imaging
• Fall 2005 MM SIG Kickoff

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Health Sciences
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Internet2 Health Science Communities

• Educators
• Access to unique educational resources
• Access to developed curricula material
• Access to unique expertise
• Examples
• SUMMIT -- Stanford
• use of technology to improve medical education
• Tusk
• Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK) is
  a password-protected, multimedia database
  containing full-text syllabi, slides, lecture
  recordings (audio and video) and notes, exam
  questions, evaluation forms, bibliographies
  linked to full-text articles, and other resources
  made available by faculty

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Internet2 Health Science Communities

• Clinical Practice
• Remove constraints
• Time
• Size
• Distance
• Examples
• DREAMS
• Center for Surgical Innovation

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Problems Health Scientists are Working to Overcome

• Size and diversity of the data resources
• Cross-Disciplinary Teams
• Geographic Independence

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EACH BRAIN REPRESENTS A LOT OF DATA
AND COMPARISONS MUST BE MADE BETWEEN MANY MRI
IMAGES
Slide courtesy of Arthur Toga
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Research Team of the FutureCancer Biomedical
Informatics Grid

• Global Cancer Research Community
• Grid deployment to Cancer Centers
• Bioinformatics infrastructure
• Public data sources

Funded by NCI/NIH http//cabig.nci.nih.gov/ Dav
id States, MD, PhD
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Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)
Funded by NCRR/NIH Mark Ellisman, PhD Univ.
California San Diego SDSC www.nbirn.net
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New Capabilities Virtual Human Project

• Visible Human Dataset is a public resource
• Virtual Anatomy toolkit for enabling
  applications
• Teaching resources for faculty
• Multi-simultaneous access (classrooms of students
  task aggregate use of network capacity)
• Anatomy curricula for medical schools, K-20, and
  the public

• Internet2/National Library of Medicine
  leadership
• Two decades of investment
• Development led by Internet2 university members

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Business and Law
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Business and Law Applications Working Group

• Faculty from
• Harvard
• University of Washington
• MIT
• Boston University
• Temple University
• Marquette University
• University of Michigan
• Industry CIOs and Consultants
• Becoming Cross-Disciplinary
• Business
• Law
• Information
• Engineering

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QA Break
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Member Support
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Member Support

• Member Meetings
• Working Group Flywheel Support
• Collaboration Opportunities
• Internet2 Days
• The Commons
• Communication
• Loaner Equipment and Demos

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Internet2 Days
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Internet2 Days

• Campus-based events that demonstrate the
  potential of advanced networks
• Build interest among faculty and staff at member
  institutions for advanced network activities

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Internet2 Days

• Half or full day events
• Internet2 provides presenters, equipment,
  communications, and planning resources
• See Hosting an Internet2 Day

• apps.internet2.edu/host-Internet2-day.html

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National Internet2 Day

• Day-long virtual event
• Generate awareness of Internet2 capabilities to
  member institutions
• Over 25 speakers
• 38 participating institutions held simultaneous
  local events
• Over 1000 viewers
• Planned again for 2006
• events.internet2.edu/2004/Internet2Day/

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The Internet2 Commons
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Internet2 Commons Services

• H.323 Videoconferencing Service
• Production, subscription-based service
• Feature-rich Firewall traversal
• Conference streaming and archiving
• Variety of display options
• Diagnostic tools
• Multiple MCU offerings
• HELP! 24/7 NOC (OARnet/OSU)
• Available now atwww.commons.internet2.edu

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H.323 Multipoint Videoconferencing

• Web Collaboration Service
• Hosting member-developed tool suites
• inSORS, Wave3, Marratech, Conference XP, VRVS
• H.323/SIP Gateway
• Quarterly Trainings (200 site coordinators)

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Communications
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Weekly Showcases
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Infosheets
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Infokit

• InfoKit provides a complete collection of
  Internet2 information resources, including
  infosheets, network maps, FAQs, PowerPoint
  presentations, and the member list.
• www.internet2.edu/info/infokit.html

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Loaner Equipment Advanced Application Demos
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Loaner Equipment

• One PIG (Personal Interface to the Grid, smaller
  version of the Access Grid Node)
• 4 Camera/video inputs, 2 VGA outputs
• Four VBrick 6200 MPEG-2 units
• Four Internet2 Cakebox units (network monitoring
  boxes)
• Two NCast Telepresenter units
• Two DVIP (Digital Video over IP) units (small PC
  with Fujitsu DVIP cards)

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Support

• Limited technical support
• Most equipment can be preconfigured, or
  assistance with initial configuration and
  implementation

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Demos Purpose and Kind

• Demonstrate the value of advanced networking and
  facilitate member collaborations
• Scientific applications such as e-VLBI
• Health science applications such as remote
  surgery
• Performance events
• Streaming video applications

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In Summary

• Benefits of Membership
• Network
• Collaboration
• Community
• Membership Support
• Meetings
• Services
• Collaboration support
• Outreach and Communication

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