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TERENA Technical

Programme

John Martin

Chief Technical Officer

TERENA

http://www.terena.nl/

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TERENA is...

• 40 Research and Education network operators covering Europe and beyond

• Political representation and lobbying

• Forum for collaboration on technical issues

• Technology Transfer

TERENA Technical Programme

• Working Groups– Semi-permanent general discussion fora (Internationalization, lower layers, etc.)

• Task Forces– More dynamic– Address current issues (caching, indexing, ATM testing, etc.)

• Workshops / Conferences– Annual Research Networking Conferences

• JENC, TERENA Networking Conference 1998

– Workshops• NATO Advanced Networking Workshops• DESIRE II Workshops

• Projects

Working Groups

• Network Operations and Quality (WG-QMN)• Networked Multimedia Applications (WG-NMA)• Lower Layer Technology (WG-LLT)• Security - CERT, Certification (WG-SEC)• User Support and Training (WG-ISUS)• Internationalization Issues (WG-I18N)• Mail & Messaging (WG-MSG)

(about 1000 members)

Task Forces

• Advanced Networking Technologies (TF-TANT)• Traffic Metrics and Statistics (TF-ETM)• Web Caching and Replication (TF-CACHE)• Searching and Indexing (TF-CHIC)• User Support Issues (TF-ETINU)• User Documentation, e.g. GNRT (TF-TOOLDOC)

TERENA Technical Projects

External Major “pilot”

Funded byoutsideorganisations

TERENA is apartner itself

E.g. SCIMITAR,CRII, DESIRE II

Funded byTERENAmembers

Operated /managed byTERENA

E.g. DEVICE,SIRCE,PANTOMIME

Funded fromTERENA’s ownresources

short-lived

quick results

Recent pilot projectsTitle WG/TF Budge t Who? PDO Start

DateEndDate

Status

Distributed IndexingPilot (CHIC-pilot)

ISUS,CHIC

13,250 UK, PL,NL

PV 04-98 08-98 completed

Evaluation andRecommendation ofUser Support Toolkits

ISUS,ETINU

14,000 Discovery PV 11-97 07-98 completed

Network monitoring forcache servers

CACHE 6,050 Univ. Lgbh JM 02-98 09-98 completed

Cache server"appliance" Project


Investigation into cacherouting


Multilingual EmailClients - A Test

MSG,I18N

9,000 KievPolytech.Inst.

KM 04-98 09-98 completed

http://www.terena.nl/projects/

CHIC Pilot(Distributed Web Indexing / Searching)

• Partners:– Univ. Warsaw (ICM)– Univ. Edinburgh,

Loughborough, Kent, Lund– DTV– SURFnet– Univ. Bristol (UKOLN)

• Contributions from TF-CHIC

• Objectives:– Link all the existing web

indexes in Europe to provide better search facilities

• Deliverables:– A pan-European search

engine• Technologies:

– Harvest SOIF, Z39.50, AltaVista, InfoSeek, WHOIS++

ERUST(Evaluation of User Support Systems and Technologies)

• Contracted to George Munroe, Discovery

• Includes collaboration with IETF User Services Working Group, WG-ISUS, TF-ETINU

• Objectives:– provide tools and

recommendations for online user support systems

• Deliverables:– a survey on current user

support requirements – a list of software modules

for online user support

World-Wide Web Proxy-Caching(Network Monitoring, caching “appliance”, Inter-cache routing)

• Contracted to the University of Loughborough, UK

• Active contributions from TF-CACHE

• Close collaboration with DESIRE, NLAR (US)

• Objectives:– Wider deployment of caching

technologies• Deliverables:

– Network monitoring tools– Cache “appliance” CD-ROM– Inter-cache routing using AS– URN testbed and FTP mirror

tracking• Technologies:

– Squid, ICP, CIDR, URN

Multilingual Email Clients - A Test

• Contracted to Yuri Demchenko, Kiev Polytechnic Institute

• Partners in Russia, Slovenia, Greece and Belarus

• Reporting to WG-I18N and WG-MSG

• Objectives:– Determine interoperability of

email systems for non-ASCII text

• Deliverables:– Test criteria for ML testing– Report on conformance for

most popular clients

• Internet Streaming Media– Proposed by SURFnet– Objectives:

– Investigation of streaming technologies and their impact on networks

– Needs partners

• Clearing House for Internet Projects (CHIP)– Proposed by various– Objectives:

– To produce pilot project information service

– Started October 1998

pilot projects in the pipeline

Pilot project details from:


• Recent pilots very successful– web caching / indexing, multilingual email...– see: http://www.terena.nl/projects/

• Lessons learned:– Process works

• results have been widely deployed, reported and are well received• lots of interest from the community in continuing

– but...• need faster response / development cycle• need scope for larger projects (e.g. >40 kECU)• need to also encourage more large-scale activities• need better marketing of results (beyond TERENA)

• New call September 1998

TERENA Pilot Projects Initiative

• Objectives– innovation– short-term gains– proof of concept

• Small-medium projects– 10-50 kECU – projects up to 100k considered (for external funding)– small number of partners– short timescale (< 6 months)– technically innovative!

Pilot project submission details from:


Call for New Pilot Projects (Sept. 1998)

TERENA Technical Staff

– John Martin, Chief Technical Officer– web caching and replication, DESIRE II

– security issues, SIRCE

– Peter Valkenburg, PDO– web indexing and searching, DESIRE II

– Information Services, GNRT

– SCIMITAR project management

– Kevin Meynell, PDO– TEN-34

– traffic measurements

– DEVICE

– Yuri Demchenko, PDO– multilingual / internationalization issues

– mail and messaging

Vacancy: Project Development Officer

• The job...– developing and managing new technical developments in research networking

• The requirements– preferably a background in computer science or related– thorough knowledge of computer networking

• The benefits– forefront of technology development– located in centre of Amsterdam

• Contact– any TERENA staff– send c.v. to John Martin <[email protected]>

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