Dear Members of the GNA-G Community:
The proposed agenda for the GNA-G WG meeting @TechEx19 in New Orleans,
on Wednesday, 11 December 2019, is attached to this e-mail.
You are welcome to send suggestions for additions or changes to this
draft agenda to the GNA-G Leadership Team at
<leadershipteam(a)lists.gna-g.net> (please note that the address
<co-chairs(a)lists.gna-g.net> is not longer in use, and was replaced by
<leadershipteam(a)lists.gna-g.net>).
Looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans.
Kind regards, on behalf of the GNA-G Leadership Team,
__
Erik-Jan Bos
Policy & Strategy Officer
NORDUnet A/S - Kastrup, Denmark
Web: https://www.nordu.net/
Dear Members of the GNA-G Community:
At the GNA-G meeting in Tallinn, in June of this year, there was
discussion about the structure of the leadership of the GNA-G moving
forward. Initially, there were three co-chairs, i.e. Erik-Jan Bos, David
Wilde, and Dale Finkelson. These were co-chairs of the GNA or the GLIF
prior to the merger of the two on 1 July 2019. Also during Tallinn, we
were happy that Jim Ghadbane volunteered to act as the Executive Liaison
for GNA-G.
While having the initial three co-chairs proved useful as an initial
structure at the outset of the GNA-G meeting in Tallinn, it also became
clear that this arrangement was not the best way for moving forward. As
a result of suggestions heard at the Tallinn meeting, a call went out to
the GNA-G Community for individuals who would be interested in joining
the GNA-G Leadership Team in setting the directions and doing oversight
of the GNA-G.
We are now pleased to announce that three individuals did step up to
this challenge and have joined the three initial co-chairs to form a
six-member Leadership Team. We hereby ask you all to welcome Harvey
Newman from the California Institute of Technology, Gerben van
Malenstein from SURF, and Buseung Cho from KREONET/KISTI in their new
roles as members of the GNA-G Leadership Team.
Thank you and kind regards,
David, Dale, and Erik-Jan.
Please excuse multiple postings.
For those attending SC19 in Denver, Colorado, we will hold the "Global Research Platform (GRP): Creating Worldwide Advanced Services and Infrastructure for Science” Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting:
* Tuesday, November 19
* 5:15PM - 6:45PM
* Room: 710, Colorado Convention Center
* https://sc19.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof147&sess=sess342 <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof147&sess=sess342>
International scientific initiatives collaborate on building, accessing and analyzing data from one-of-a-kind advanced instruments in unique locations around the globe, connected to remote computational, data storage, and visualization systems at speeds of gigabits and terabits per second. The Global Research Platform (GRP) focuses on the design, implementation, and operation strategies for next-generation distributed services and network infrastructure, on a global scale, to facilitate data transfer and accessibility. GRP BoF presentations and discussions address global science drivers and their requirements and describe emerging Research Platforms worldwide that are developing and customizing data fabrics and distributed cyberinfrastructure to support data-intensive scientific workflows.
To see demonstrations relevant to GRP, visit us at the StarLight research booth on the exhibition floor from Tuesday-Thursday, Booth #993.
See you at SC19!
Joe Mambretti
International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR)
Northwestern University
j-mambretti(a)northwestern.edu <mailto:j-mambretti@northwestern.edu>
Maxine Brown
Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)
University of Illinois at Chicago
maxine(a)uic.edu <mailto:maxine@uic.edu>
Dear all,
Please note that the GNA-G Workshop (09.30-17.00) will be held in Room 4004 of the Atkinson Hall at UCSD tomorrow (19 September). This is on the 4th floor of the building, opposite the elevators.
The workshop will be preceded by the GLIF Governance Working Group meeting at 08.00-09.30 in the same room.
Regards,
Kevin Meynell
Please excuse multiple postings.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Global Research Platform Workshop:
Creating Worldwide Advanced Services and Infrastructure for Science
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Qualcomm Institute-Calit2 | Atkinson Hall
September 17-18, 2019
REGISTRATION is now open for the Global Research Platform (GRP) Workshop, to be held 17-18 September 2019 at University of California San Diego. The website provides detailed information on the program, the venue and hotels in the vicinity.
http://grp-workshop-2019.ucsd.edu/ <http://grp-workshop-2019.ucsd.edu/>
* Registration is US $200 through August 15, 2019, and is US $300 starting August 16.
* For those who wish to do extreme data transfer trials, there is information online about accessing Calit2’s Nautilus cluster in San Diego. Demos should be completed prior to the Workshop, with results — displayed as a single Powerpoint or an electronic poster — to be shown during the evening reception on Tuesday, September 17. Send information about your demo to Maxine Brown <maxine(a)uic.edu>.
http://grp-workshop-2019.ucsd.edu/posters.html <http://grp-workshop-2019.ucsd.edu/posters.html>
The GRP Workshop has a number of informed keynote talks and panel sessions to stimulate discussions among attendees on a variety of topics, including application drivers, cyberinfrastructure, distributed data fabrics, data movement services, programmable networking, next-generation optical networking developments, and introductions to some of the evolving research platform initiatives taking place worldwide. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together network researchers, engineers and managers as well as application scientists to share best practices and advance the state of the art.
Dear GNA-G Community:
As we heard from Joe Mambretti at the Tallinn GNA-G meeting, and as can
be read in the draft notes from the Tallinn meeting, the GRP meeting
will take place in San Diego, CA, USA on 17 & 18 September 2019.
On the day after, there is an opportunity for GNA-G Working Groups to
meet, at the same venue. Through this message, we'd like to hear from
the community, and especially the (co-)chairs of GNA-G Working Groups,
if they are planning to have a working group meeting on the day after
the GRP Workshop.
Please reply to the GNA-G Co-chairs not later than on 15 August 2019, so
we can inform and work with the local organizers.
Thank you and kind regards,
David, Dale and Erik-Jan,
GNA-G Co-chairs.
Dear All:
At the inaugural GNA-G meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, co-located with
TNC19 last month, it was already mentioned briefly that a facility
similar to ANA (Advanced North Atlantic collaboration) and APR (Asia
Pacific Ring) would be formed between Europe and Asia. This is now a
fact, FYI.
Earlier this week, during APAN48 in Putrajaya, Malaysia, eight NRENs
signed the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to create *AER*
(Asiapacific Europe Ring). These are AARNet (Australia), GÉANT
(Europe), NICT (Japan), NII(Japan), NORDUnet (European Nordics),
SingAREN (Singapore), SURF (The Netherlands), and TEIN*CC (Asia-Pacific).
This ring-shaped facility provides resilient 100 Gbit/s bandwidth for
scientists, researchers, educators and students on a path that has only
seen 10 Gbit/s or less until now. AER provides a major step forward for
Research and Education Networking, and adds to the GREN (Global R&E
Network), along the philosophy of the GNA (Global Network Architecture).
A number of public statements have been made about this, e.g.:
http://www.tein.asia/sub/?mc=6010&idx=2333&a=viewhttp://www.nordu.net/article/fast-and-stable-network-ring-between-europe-an…https://www.nict.go.jp/en/info/topics/2019/07/22-1.htmlhttps://www.surf.nl/en/news/fast-and-stable-network-ring-between-asia-and-e…https://blog.geant.org/2019/07/22/aer-secures-resilient-link-backup-between…
Kind regards,
__
Erik-Jan Bos
Policy & Strategy Officer
NORDUnet A/S - Kastrup, Denmark
Web: https://www.nordu.net/
Dear All:
You receive this e-mail because you were subscribed to
<gna(a)internet2.edu> or to <all(a)glif.is>. As you know, the date specified
for merging the GNA Technical WG and the GLIF was 1 July 2019, and the
new entity is named the Global Network Advancement Group (GNA-G). All
subscribers of both mailing lists are now members of
<all(a)lists.gna-g.net>, i.e. this list. If you want to unsubscribe, you
can do so yourself or send a mail to the co-chairs to be removed.
For those of you who were in Tallinn, Estonia (the location of TNC19 and
where we held the inaugural GNA-G meeting), we hope you had safe travels
back. The draft notes of the Tallinn GNA-G meeting are added to this
mail. Comments welcome, until 15 August 2019 at noon UTC.
We, the initial co-chairs of GNA-G, were thrilled by the Tallinn meeting
and the energy we experienced in the room. The reports from the GREN
Mapping WG and the Virtualization WG were great. It was also good to
hear of the pending developments in China. We would like to thank Jim
Ghadbane for his inspiring opening remarks and for being available as
GNA-G’s Executive Liaison, and we’d like to thank the other executives
that were in the room, i.e. Chris Hancock, Inder Monga, René Buch, and
Rob Vietzke, for their support.
The former co-chair of GLIF, David Wilde, and the former co-chairs of
the GNA Technical WG, Dale Finkelson and Erik-Jan Bos, volunteered to
start to lead the GNA-G, in order to have continuation, right from the
start of the merger.
In response to the suggestion on chairing the GNA-G, we heard a number
of excellent suggestions. Primary among these was inviting nominations
for additional co-chairs. In response to this, we are now asking you to
nominate one (or more) individuals to serve as co-chairs. You can
nominate yourself, or nominate another person (who of course has to
accept). We would suggest checking with a potential nominee to be
certain that he/she is indeed willing and able to serve as a GNA-G
co-chair. While there are no specific criteria for being a co-chair, it
does have a time commitment and a need for international travel. If a
nominee has questions about the time or travel commitment, please feel
free to contact a current co-chair or the executive sponsor. Please
submit your nominations, not later than 15 August 2019 at noon UTC.
In this instance, the selection will essentially be by acclaim. When
nominations are complete, unless objections are raised, the nominees
will be asked to join as co-chairs. At the next general meeting (see
below), the process for chair rotation will again be reviewed.
We are also thrilled with the ideas for new Working Groups, e.g. in the
area of NSI Operations, and the fact that we heard back from several
people, both present in the meeting, and not present, that they are
available to work on important topics in the Global R&E Network (GREN).
As stated at the meeting, a significant measure of success in this
activity is the willingness of the community to engage. More information
about these new groups will be coming out soon.
A number of new GNA-G mailing lists have been established. They are:
- <all(a)lists.gna-g.net>: All people interested in GNA-G progress
- <co-chairs(a)lists.gna-g.net>: The current co-chairs
- <exec-liaison(a)lists.gna-g.net>: Jim Ghadbane (President & CEO, CANARIE)
Please note: The <all(a)lists.gna-g.net> list has been populated with all
of the membership from the GLIF and GNA mailing lists. Note that this is
the entire GLIF membership, not only GLIF Tech.
Last, but not least, during the meeting in Tallinn, we agreed that there
are three opportunities for Working Groups to meet in the next half
year, i.e.:
• In September 2019, in San Diego, CA, after the GRP workshop
• In December 2019, in New Orleans, LA, during TechEx19
• In March 2020, in Kathmandu, Nepal, during APAN49 (to be confirmed)
If you are planning on having a Working Group meeting at any of these
events please let the GNA-G Co-chairs know in order that they can assist
with planning and notification. The next full GNA-G meeting will take
place end of March or early April 2020, in Indianapolis, IN, USA, during
the Internet2 Global Summit.
Thank you for your continued support.
Kind regards,
David, Dale, and Erik-Jan,
GNA-G Co-chairs
Attachment: Draft notes Tallinn GNA-G meeting, 20 June 2019.
