AGENDA

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AGENDA

• Noon Lunch!
• 1230 Welcome
• 1240 What's happening in UCS - Sandy Moy and
  Jim DeRoest
• 130 What's happening with the Gigapop PWave
  - Jan Eveleth
• 200 Break and "Entertainment"
• 245 "A View from the Middle" - Terry Gray
• 315 "A View from the Top" - Ron Johnson
• 345 QA
• 415 Adjourn

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NDC Update 2002 edition
University of Washington
Computing Communications

• T. E. G.
• 13 May 2002
• All Hands Meeting

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My Top Issues

• Security
• Bandwidth management
• Wireless
• Stability/reliability (perennial favorite)
• Complexity (perennial favorite)
• Resources/Budget (perennial non-favorite)

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Astounding growth continues
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Out of the Woodwork
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My Complexity Complex

• Network examples
• security
• multicast
• diffserv
• ipv6
• accounting
• redundancy
• lagging tools
• Cisco TAB results
• Similar pressures in email, SysMgt areas, e.g.
  federated forests

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My Reliability Complex

• network
• file system
• disaster prep/recovery

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Increasing Diagnosability

• NE tools group efforts
• Brads DeskPilot
• Reference servers
• Smarter apps, with telemetry

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Tensions

• complexity v. reliability
• central v. decentral
• autonomy v. control
• monopoly v. market
• bureaucratic v. entrepreneurial
• execution v. innovation

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Tech Trends

• Microsoft futures
• Linux futures
• web services
• mobility/wireless

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Policy Trends

• network policing
• network accounting
• dubious features
• Resistance may be futile, but we will resist!
• Yuck!!

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Legal Trends

• Anti-Terrorism v. civil rights v. privacy
• DRM v. fair use v. privacy
• Patents v. innovation
• Double Yuck!!

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Depressing? Yeah, but

• We help people
• collaborate
• cooperate
• communicate
• create
• You could do a lot worse...

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So, after all these years

• Its still interesting worthwhile work
• In beautiful surroundings (Seattle, not 4545!)
• But most of all with great colleagues

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My Inspiration

• Its true that the higher up the food chain you
  go, the more likely you are to encounter the
  arrogant and self-deluded, but even
  top-management types are mostly harmless when you
  get to know them. Given lots of love, some even
  make good pets.
  -the cluetrain manifesto

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Any Questions?