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Retreat Committee Report

This report provides a short history of the APAN Retreat Committee, outlines its mission statement, presents the revised Strawman Documentation, and discusses the proposed schedule for the committee. It also includes a review of committee members and information about the next meeting.

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Retreat Committee Report

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  1. Retreat Committee Report Jianping Wu Jan.24, 2003

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Strawman : Output Document of 2002.11 Seoul Retreat Committee Meeting- Presentation Material - APAN Retreat Committee 21 January 2003

  6. Contents 1. Network 1-1. Engineering/NOC 1-2. Network Infrastructure & Topology (backbone) 2. Technology and Application 2-1. R&D Activities 3. Operation and Management 3-1. Management 3-2. Funding 3-3. External Relationship 3-4. Outreach 4. Others

  7. 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

  8. 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)

  9. APAN MAP with Proposed Cluster North Cluster (CN, JP, KR, …) Europe (Geant) Russia North America (Internet 2) (CA *net) Japan Korea USA Central Asia China • Taiwan Hong Kong South Asia Thailand Vietnam Philippines Malaysia • Sri Lanka West Asia Singapore Indonesia Southeast Cluster (MY, SG, TH,…) Oceania Cluster (AU,…) Exchange Point Access Point Current status 2003 (plan) • Australia

  10. 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?

  11. 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, …)

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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)

  15. 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

  16. 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: ?

  17. 4. Others • 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?

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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