Meeting - Feb 11

[John R. Vollbrecht]

After hearing from a few people that they have a problem with meeting on
Feb 11, I checked to see if I could schedule a room for Feb. 4.
Unfortunately there were no rooms available that day, So the meeting
will be held on Feb. 11.  I will try to arrange the agenda to accomodate
any special requirements of people that can only be there part of the
time.  Let me know.  I am truly sorry for the screw up and I will try to
keep track of my notes better next time.

As a tentative agenda proposal I would like to take the morning for a
number of general topics -

Backbone status
New Sites
National Networking
   - backup to NSF via CICnet
   - CIDR address assignments
   - Next steps with NSFnet
Packet Video

and in the afternoon I would like to focus on NAS requirements.  I would
like to have some different groups give presentation on what the
requirements for their campus are, or about specific projects that are
ongoing.  I would appreciate any volunteers.  I will call a few people
specifically if I don't hear from enough.  

I would like to try to push this discussion to a point where we have
a coherent overview of how the NAS will fit in with MichNet member and
affiliate plans.  

Specifically

- how will authentication/authorization/accounting be done
in a distributed way?  Will each member/affiliate provide AAA servers,
will MichNet also provide this - as backup or for those that can't run
their own server?

what interfaces need to be common? Is an IP/PPP common interface
sufficient?  Do we want/need for dumb terminal interfaces to also be the
same? 

who gets to use the interfaces?  How do we finance dial ports accross
the state?

should we require/allow Novell/Apple/Banyan --- access at the same
ports?

Is this for direct connect ports as well as dial up.

Do we want to include dial on demand routers in this discussion?


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Please feel free to comment/start discussion before the meeting.

I will send out a more complete agenda next week.

Sorry again for the inconvenience I caused by getting the dates mixed
up.


- John






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