Challenges, Opportunities and Initiatives Panel Statement Mostafa H. Ammar College of Computing Georgia Tech

Challenge §Complexity

Opportunity §Real-time measurement to end users §Why? How? Where? To Who?

Initiative §Test-Bed for Evaluation of Internet Support for Networked Services § Be-Our-Guest model l ad hoc - not much control l Duplicated effort l hard to generalize l impossible to replicate

Notable Test-Bed Efforts §Mbone -- All §QBone -- Internet2 §XBone -- ISI §ACCESS -- U. of Washington et al