Internet2 and NPS

Overview

NPS is a regular member of Internet2 (www.internet2.org). From their description:

"Internet2, led by over 190 U.S. universities working in partnership with industry and government, is developing and deploying advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet."

The Internet 2 Membership and NPS slideset of February 2002 describes our goals and activities (available both in Powerpoint and HTML formats).

Mailing Lists

Our open mailing list is internet2@nps.navy.mil.

To subscribe, please contact helpdesk@nps.navy.mil.

Resources of interest:

• Internet2 Email Lists
• I2-NEWS member newswire archive
• I2-INFO monthly announcements archive
• Internet2 international news and information

Calendar

• Upcoming Internet2 Calendar and Internet2 meetings of interest
• DREN 2002 Networking Conference (agenda), Sunday-Friday 19-24 October 2002
• Next NPS meetings: typically first and third Tuesday of each month, 3-4:00 pm, Root 200B conference room.
  Agenda:
• Major equipment donation by Foundry Networks for Internet2, IPv6 and 10G networking.
• Campus backbone upgrade complete - lots of emerging new NPS and regional capabilities are emerging. Our new infrastructure uses (of course) Foundry Networks equipment.
• NPS Internet2 White Paper Outline
• Operationalizing integration of nps.edu and nps.navy.mil domains (Doug Picard, IAA)
• Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) (Terry Gentry, Don McGregor)
  • NPS daily bandwidth traffic: today, 1 October 2002 and overall
  • Simple topology diagram (to be provided)
• Query about supercomputer interests at NPS and nearby institutions
• Internet2 proposal opportunities (Alex Bordetsky)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Information Technology Research (ITR) programs: small-proposal deadline December 12, 2002
• We plan to meet the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

• Recurring NPS meeting topics:
• New members, introductions (all)
• Planning for NPS attendees at Internet2 meetings (Bordetsky et al.)
• Internet2 join letter finished? (Halwachs, Brutzman)
• Internet2 announcement, NPS outreach/showcase (Cermak)
• MBone, filling up pipes, server farms? (McGregor, Steckler)
• DREN/Abilene topologies (Terry Gentry)
• Milestones and next steps
• California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology: Cal-(IT)²
• Research interests
• NPS membership briefing, followups
• Planning for NPS attendees at Internet2 meetings
• Example topology including both .edu and .mil routing

Interested Researchers

• Alex Bordetsky (abordets@nps.navy.mil), Graduate School of Operations & Information Sciences.
  Wireless/satellite/etc. networking for relief operations. Internet2 group cochair.
• Don Brutzman (brutzman@nps.navy.mil), NPS MOVES Institute.
  Group chair; scalable multicast, agent-based virtual environments. Internet2 group cochair.
• Rex Buddenberg (budden@nps.navy.mil), Graduate School of Operations & Information Sciences.
  Internet to Sea: connecting NPS to fleet, and fleet to Internet.
• Christine Cermak (cmcermak@nps.navy.mil), NPS Information Technology (IT) Strategic Planning.
  Developing strategic plans, obtaining resources and establishing partnerships.
• Terry Gentry (gentry@nps.navy.mil), ITACS (Code 05).
  NPS connections to Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN).
• Tom Halwachs (THalwachs@nps.navy.mil), NPS Chief Information Officer (CIO).
  Connecting and supporting NPS to Internet2/Abilene via DREN.
• Cynthia Irvine (irvine@cs.nps.navy.mil), Center for Information Assurance and INFOSEC Studies and Research.
  Collaborative technologies, digital-infrastructure security.
• Randy Maule (rwmaule@nps.navy.mil), Institute for Defense Systems Engineering Analysis (IDSEA).
  Distributed knowledge networks, grid computing and semantic webs for near real-time Fleet Battle Experiment (FBE) analysis.
• Don McGregor (mcgredo@nps.navy.mil), NPS MOVES Institute.
  Interests include large-scale virtual worlds, simulation, networking, and wireless.
• Doug Picard (doug@iaanet.com), International Automation Associates.
  Interests include ITACS (Code 05) support, Internet2, wireless and wide-area networking.
• Bill Ray (wjray@nps.navy.mil), Computer Science Department.
  Interests include Internet2 Middleware Initiative [GRID Services], advanced architectures for distributed, collaborative applications (very small OODA Loop, agent/object architectures), Ad Hoc Networks, security and Denial of Service.
• Brian Steckler (steckler@nps.navy.mil), Graduate School of Operations & Information Sciences.
  Interests include wireless and other emerging networking technologies, information operations, information assurance, business aspects of network management, etc. Founded/operated a regional full service ISP from '95 to '02.
• Robin Tokmakian (rtt@nps.navy.mil), Department of Oceanography.
  Research in global, high-resolution ocean models using remotely located high-performance computers systems.
• Geoffrey Xie (xie@cs.nps.navy.mil), Computer Science Department.
  Intelligent Network Management.

Links

• Abilene
• Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
• Foundry Networks
• High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)
• Internet2
• Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC)

Contact:

Don Brutzman
Naval Postgraduate School, Code UW/Br Root 200  work 831.656.2149
Monterey California 93943-5000 USA              fax  831.656.3679