1. The Internet2 Commons & International Coordination Ted Hanss, Internet2 Egon Verharen, SURFnet 6 May 2002 See http://apps.internet2.edu/talks

2. 2 The Internet2 Commons  An effort to encourage and support large- scale, distributed collaboration for the research and education community Enabling one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaboration Supporting personal communications, meetings, conferences, and teaching and learning For Internet2 members and their international partners

3. 3 Commons Vision The Internet2 Commons H.323 Other Collaborative Technologies VRVS Videoconferencing Technologies AGMPEG2Others Data SharingInstant MessagingVoice/IP Electronic Notebooks Peer to PeerCollaboratories

4. 4 Approach  Share information about recommended uses (best practices)  Point people to current & recommended implementations  Facilitate development and deployment projects

5. 5 Leadership  Management Team in place: International: Egon Verharen (SURFnet) Outreach: Mary Trauner (Georgia Tech Univ.) DV-VC Chair: Larry Amiot (Northwestern Univ.) R&D: Tyler Johnson (Univ. of North Carolina) Operations: Bob Dixon (Ohio State Univ.)

6. International Coordination

7. 7 Suggestions  Create an International Collaboration Services Steering Committee Draw from international R&E networks Produce minimum criteria for participation in international collaborations (reciprocity avoids n-squared problem of certification) – Hardware and software standards – Training – Dialing plans – …

8. 8 Suggestions, cont.  Organize workshops and outreach to facilitate delivering classes on collaboration services “Train the trainers” emphasis Build on common training materials with local translations Collocated with major regional conferences (TERENA, APAN, … ) Create “speakers, trainers, and consultants bureau” for referral of experts

9. 9 Suggestions, cont.  Create a web site that points to all national videoconferencing services Example: www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf- stream/VC-Inventory/

10. 10 Next Steps  Let us know if you’re interested (contact Egon, Heather, or Ted) Let’s talk about this during the week We’ll put together a discussion email list Hold more discussion at TERENA? Try to implement something by APAN in August?

11. 11 More Info...  egon.verharen@surfnet.nl  ted@internet2.edu  commons.internet2.edu  apps.internet2.edu/talks/ (this presentation)

12. www.internet2.edu