European Research Networking Development Activities

1. European Research Networking Development Activities Karel Vietsch TERENA http://www.terena.nl/

2. TERENA Organisation • An Association of European National Research & Education Networks • Secretariat based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Small Secretariat of 14 staff (12 FTE) • 32 National Members • 2 International Members: CERN, ESA • 11 Associate Members (including DANTE, EMBL & NORDUnet + equipment vendors and telecoms operators) • Permanent Observer: European Commission

3. TERENA’s Mission • Represent common interests and opinions of membership • Make political and industrial contacts. • Lobby European Union and national governments. • Liaise with other continents • Knowledge Transfer • Conferences (e.g. TNCs), Workshops and Seminars • Developing informational, best-practice and training material. • Technical Programme • Develops, tests and promotes new technologies, services and applications. • Task Forces, Projects and Workshops. • Fostering new services • Doesn’t run a network!

4. Technical Programme • Special Interest Areas (reviewed every two years): • Lower Layers (IPv6, MPLS, VPNs etc.) • Quality of Service (including DiffServ) • Videoconferencing and Streaming (Including IP Telephony) • Content Delivery, Indexing and Searching • Middleware (security, AAA) • Mobility • Grid and Campus coordination

5. Task Forces (1) • TF-NGN (started December 2000) • Tests suitability of new networking technologies for use in future European backbone, NREN or campus networks. • Undertakes GÈANT Test Programme • LBE, Multicasting, IPv6, network monitoring and flow measurement, MPLS, DiffServ, optical networking, AAA, PERT, special projects. • TF-CSIRT (started September 2000) • Promotes collaboration and knowledge transfer between European CSIRTs. • Includes NREN, ISP, government and commercial CSIRTS. • Establish pilot services (e.g. trusted introducer, tracker database) and common standards and procedures (e.g IODEF). • Assist new CSIRTs. • Prevent miscommunication between NRENs, the EU, and national governments (e.g. ENISA & Legal Handbook).

6. Task Forces (2) • TF-Mobility (started January 2003) • Evaluate mobile equipment and software. • Evaluate possible authentication and authorisation techniques (e.g. web-based, 802.1x, VPNs) • Define an inter-NREN roaming architecture. • Investigate and address security issues. • TF-Netcast (started March 2003) • Survey national streaming media content. • Develop an announcements portal. • Develop a common metadata model. • Investigate European live streaming infrastructure.

7. Task Forces (3) • TF-AACE (Started May 2002) • Investigating issues related to deployment of authentication, authorisation and other security-related services. Task force started officially 1 May 2002. • Focus on PKI. • Close collaboration with Internet2 Middleware Initiative.

8. Projects – NREN Compendium • Compendium has been published annually since 2000. • Collection of relevant information about European NRENs: • Administrative data and legal form. • Number of users and market share. • Internal and external connectivity, and capacity of links. • Network traffic, load and congestion indicators. • Services, staffing and funding. • Provides overview of network status in each country. • Preliminary 2003 edition now on TERENA website. • A good tool for lobbying governments and/or funding bodies!

9. Projects - SERENATE • EC-funded project led by TERENA: 1 May 2002 – 31 December 2003 • Study the evolution of networking over the next 5-10 years. • Includes technical, organisational and financial aspects. • Investigating market conditions and regulatory environments. • Aims to produce set of recommendations for future research and education networks in SERENATE countries • Reports available: • Experience of various communities that have experimented with "alternative" models of infrastructures • Telecoms Operators' views on infrastructure and likely evolution. • Present status of international connectivity in Europe and to other continents • Expected development of the regulatory situation in European countries • Final report to be published end 2003

10. IP Telephony Cookbook • Telecoms costs in some parts of Europe are high. • Number of initatives to use IP telephony, but these were not linked. • Coordination and support would be beneficial. • ‘Cookbook’ initiative started in April 2003 and will run until February 2004. • Will investigate the various IP telephony projects in Europe. • Aims to produce guidelines on: • IP Telephony protocols and basic services set-up. • how to set-up advanced services. • how to connect an IP Telephony island to a wider dialing plan. • regulatory and legal aspects. • interoperability of different IP telephony equipment.

11. Other projects (1)(co-funded by European Union) • TRANSITS (TRAining of Network Security Incident Teams’ Staff) • EC-funded project led by TERENA: July 2002 – June 2005 • Develops and maintains course material for training CSIRT staff • Holds training workshops (with travel funding for NAS countries) • SEEREN (South-Eastern European Research & Education Networking) • EU-funded project led by GRNET: December 2002 – June 2004 • TERENA is a dissemination and liaison partner – linking SERENATE, TF-NGN and Internet2 with SEEREN. • Establishing a network infrastructure (2-34 Mbps) between Romania, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYROM Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Serbia & Montenegro.

12. Other projects (2)(co-funded by European Union) • 6NET • EU-funded project led by Cisco: January 2002 – December 2004. • Has built a native IPv6-based network for gaining experience of IPv6 deployment and migration from existing IPv4-based networks. • Used to test new IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy applications. • TERENA leads the dissemination work package: website, workshops, etc.. • Most results are publicly available! • SCAMPI (A SCAleable Monitoring Platform for the Internet) • EU-funded project led by TERENA: April 2002 – September 2004. • Developing a PCI-based adapter card for monitoring at 10 Gb/s. • Includes dedicated API for developing standard applications.

13. Grids • Mostly in support role at present. • Participating in proposed EGEE project.