Welcome to the 9th Chinese American Network Symposium! A Welcome from Internet2 – a co-organizer of the CANS events Doug Van Houweling President and CEO, Internet2

US and China Partnership between Internet2 and CERNET, CSTNET and NSFC since May 2000 Chinese-American Networking Symposium series Internet2 is delighted to be co-organizer of annual CANS conferences with CAST-USA, CERNET and CSTNET Internet2 has participated in every CANS since the first in 1999

Internet2 at 12 years old Community-designed strategic plan for Internet2 New governance structure Re-engaged and re-energized community Internet2 Network new directions Dynamic circuit networking Support for GENI network research facility Growing global adoption of Internet2 middleware

Jeff Lehman, Chair Internet2 Board of Trustees Chancellor and Founding Dean, Peking University School of Transnational Law

Summary Thanks for attending CANS Thanks very much to our hosts, Indiana University We look forward to continuing to build strong partnership between the Chinese and US research and education networking communities