MJUS/MJTS meeting

[John R. Vollbrecht]

The next MJTS and MJUS meetings are scheduled for May 20 at the MSU
Union in E. Lansing. This will be an experimental joint meeting. The
groups will have a combined meeting in the morning and split into
separate sessions in the afternoon. 

The morning sessions will include an overview by Jeff Ogden of what is 
going on in the network with an opportunity to ask questions. Scott 
Gerstenberger will present a status report on MichNet dialin service. 
The guest speaker in the morning will be Craig Labovitz. Craig works for 
Merit and has been doing studies of routing and performance issues on the 
national and international level.  Craig will be presenting a paper
titled "Internet Routing Instability" covering similar issues at SIGCOMM
in June.

We will have an extended lunch period to allow people to
get together in breakout groups. After lunch the breakout groups will
report back, and the MJUS and MJTS groups will split to different rooms
for different sessions.


The meeting agenda, maps, parking information, and an
online registration form are available
at:

http://www.merit.edu/michnet/mjus/next.meeting.html
http://www.merit.edu/michnet/mjts/next.meeting.html


Please register by Tuesday, May 13 by submitting the
online registration form. If you find it more convenient to register
via e-mail, send a message to:

mjus-registration@merit.edu
or
mjts-registration@merit.edu


A tentative agenda is shown below. If you have suggestions
for additions or changes, please let me know soon.


TENTATIVE MJTS/MJUS AGENDA


Tuesday, May 20, 1997

9:30 AM to 3:30 PM


Michigan State University
MSU Union, Gold Rooms A/B
East Lansing, Michigan



9:30 AM      COFFEE AND DONUTS


10:00 AM     State of the Network - Jeff Ogden
               Review Merit Board meeting
               MCI link and possible changes
               Other Merit activities/plans

10:40        Dial Access to Michnet - Scott Gerstenberger
               Growth in modems
               DAC proposal for policy change - status
               DAC meeting report
               Merit's ISDN service

11:00        Routing and Performance Issues in the National and
                         International Internet - Craig Labovitz


11:40 PM      BREAK-OUT Sessions
              Grab a lunch at one the eateries in the MSU Union and join
              in one of the break-out sessions back at the Gold Room.

              POSSIBLE BREAK-OUT SESSIONS:

               News feed mapping/planning
               Proxy WEB server rollout
               ISDN planning
               Load shedding during disaster
               Multi-homing
               (Other suggestions?)



1:00 PM      REPORT BACK ON BREAK-OUT SESSIONS


1:45         SPLIT INTO TWO GROUPS (MJTS/MJUS)



MJTS SESSIONS.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.

1:50 PM      MJTS sessions


             Some possible topics
                  Dial useage reports
                  Setting up billing for surcharged services (800, ADP, MGS)
                  DHCP tutorial
                  Merit AAA Server Consortium
            
			Any other ideas would be welcome. This is more than 
                enough, but it is still very preliminary


3:30 PM      ADJOURN MEETING


 MJUS SESSIONS .=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.


1:50 PM      ROUNDTABLE INTRODUCTIONS AND SITE REPORTS


2:10 PM      NEW DIAL-IN OPTIONS
              Russell Dwarshuis will discuss the variables in getting
              high-speed connections and 56 Kbps modems.
              Betty Burke will cover the process for reporting dial-in
              problems. Scott Gerstenberger introduces Merit's new Global
              Service which facilitates dial-in connections for MichNet
              users worldwide.


2:50 PM      DIALING IN? THINK GLOBALLY
              Merit's new international dial-in service, Merit Global 
              Service, provides users access to MichNet and
              the Internet from nearly 900 U.S. and international locations.

              This presentation by IBM/Advantis describes
              the technology behind a global network infrastructure

3:30 PM      ADJOURN MEETING




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