1. NOC Report
Jan. 30, 2004
Kazunori Konishi

2. Network Activities Hard workings
- Daily operation/engineering : stable team
- Network Planning
- Joint projects on bilateral base
- Reporting to Gov. for getting a new link
- Negotiation with telecom carriers
- Network design: JP-CN, etc.
- Network deployment: JP-Hawaii
- Demonstrations

3. NOC meeting
Presentations were made for Information exchange & promoting collaborations:
1). Dongkyun Kim:      "KREONET Updates" 
2). Yasuichi Kitamura: "APAN-JP Updates"  
3). Steve Maddocks:    "AARNet3 and the Australian 10G research lambda"  
4). James G. Williams: "Update on US National and International Networking Initiatives"  
5). Chris Robb:     "The Hybrid Packet Optical Initiative as a Connectivity Solution"  

4. Election
Chris Myers is new elected deputy director of NOC by taking over the duty from John Barlow

5. Engineering Workshop At 9:00 – 12:30 today
Three topics were presented & discussed:
Routing : Stability, Hybrid - pre-computation & dynamic)
TCP performance (Code, TransPAC Test Infra.,
e-vLBI)
(3) Measurement Infra. (Abilene, Planet, JP)
International joint projects have started over long
latency links!