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The project will address major challenges of the next generation of university networks. First and most importantly, a leading edge network capability for the national research community will be created and sustained. For a number of years beginning in 1987, the network services of NSFnet were unequaled anywhere else. But the privatization of that network and the frequent congestion of its commercial replacement have deprived many faculty of the network capability needed to support world class research. This unintended result has had a significant negative impact on the university research community.

Project Director (Acting) Mike Roberts (Educom)

roberts@educom.edu

Second, network development efforts will be directed to enabling a new generation of applications that fully exploit the capabilities of broadband networks - media integration, interactivity, real time collaboration - to name a few. This work is essential if new priorities within higher education for support of national research objectives, distance education, lifelong learning, and related efforts are to be fulfilled.

Third, the work of the Internet2 project will be integrated with ongoing efforts to improve production Internet services for all members of the academic community. A major goal of the project is to rapidly transfer new network services and applications to all levels of educational use and to the broader Internet community, both nationally and internationally.

Internet2 Project Charter University Members (as of 10/16/96)

University of Arizona Mely Tynan Arizona State University Bill Lewis California State University Tom West Univ of California System Stuart Lynn Univ of California - Berkeley Jack McCredie Univ of California - Davis Carole Barone Calif Inst of Technology Richard Fagen Carnegie Mellon University Alex Hills Case Western Reserve Ray Neff University of Chicago Greg Jackson Colorado State University Julian Kateley University of Colorado Ken Klingenstein Cornell University David Lambert Duke University Betty La Compagnon Emory University Jim Johnson Florida State University Jeff Bauer University of Georgia Walter Mcrae George Washington Univ Doug Gale Harvard University Anne Margulies University of Hawaii David Lassner University of Illinois-UC George Badger Indiana University Christopher Peebles Iowa State University George Covert University of Iowa Bill Decker MIT Jim Bruce Michigan State University Paul Hunt University of Massachusetts Dan Blanchard University of Michigan Jose-Marie Griffith University of Minnesota Don Riley University of Oregon Joanne Hugi Oregon State University Joy Hughes University of Nebraska Walter Weir North Carolina State Bill Willis Northwestern University Mort Rahimi University of North Carolina Bill Graves University of Notre Dame Larry Rapagnani Ohio State University Jim Davis Pennsylvania State University Gary Augustson University of Pennsylvania Jim O'Donnell Princeton University Ira Fuchs Purdue University John Steele Rutgers University George Laskaris University of South Florida William Kearns Stanford University Raman Khann Vanderbilt University Don Spicer Virginia Tech Erv Blythe University of Virginia Polley Ann McClure University of Washington Ron Johnson University of Wisconsin Tad Pinkerton Yale University Dan Updegrove

Internet2 Project working committees

Steering Committee Chair Gary Augustson (Penn St)	jga@psu.edu
Applications Bill Graves (UNC)	Bill_Graves@unc.edu
Chair Engineering Greg Jackson (Chicago)	g-jackson@uchicago.edu
Chair Charter and Goals Raman Khanna (Stanford)	khanna@jessica.stanford.edu
Organization Stuart Lynn (UC), Chair	mslynn@ucop.edu
Search Doug Van Houweling (Michigan), Chair	dvh@umich.edu

UNIVERSITY PARTICIPATION IN Internet2

At a meeting in Chicago in October, 1996, representatives of thirty-four universities agreed unanimously to endorse the goals of the project, committed their institutions to finding the resources necessary to participate in the project, and pledged initial funding to enable planning efforts to proceed without delay. A current list of members is appended to this document.

Five working committees were formed, and chairs appointed as noted below. The committee chairs will comprise an interim steering committee while a permanent project organization is formed and staffed. Gary Augustson of Penn State has agreed to chair the steering committee in order to maintain good coordination with the Educom Networking and Telecommunications Task Force, whose steering committee he also chairs.

It was agreed that charter membership in the project will remain open for a limited time for additional institutions who are in a position to commit the resources necessary for participation.

Joining the project involves the following basic institutional commitments:

• Creating a project team to support the applications development and advanced network services objectives of the project.
• Establishing broadband Internet connectivity on an end to end basis for development, testing and use of applications
• Participating at the executive level in the overall management of the project.
• Contributing necessary financial support to the above activities and to the central management and administrative expenses of the project.

Based on the information available at this time, it is estimated that institutional expenses of all kinds may reach $500,000 per year over the next several years. A substantial fraction of this amount may be covered by networking and related budgets already in place, depending on individual institutional circumstances.

SCOPE OF Internet2 PROJECT

The project will be conducted in phases over the next three to five years, with initial participation expected from fifty to one hundred universities, a number of federal agencies, and many of the leading computer and telecommunications companies, including firms such as IBM, Cisco Systems, AT&T, MCI, and Sun. The overall project technical plan and architecture is contained in a companion document to this statement entitled "Internet2 Architecture."

In the initial project phase, end to end broadband network services will be established among the participating universities. On a parallel basis, applications design will commence using teams of university faculty, researchers, and industry experts. It is expected that within approximately eighteen months, "beta" versions of a number of applications will be in operation among the Internet2 participating universities.

Internet2 PARTNERSHIP & FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS

As announced by President Clinton on October 10, 1996, the federal government will participate in Internet2 through the programs of its major research agencies, who will provide grant support in their areas of program interest, such as the NSF vBNS meritorious high performance networking initiative. In most respects, the partnership and funding arrangements for Internet2 will parallel those of previous joint networking efforts, of which the NSFnet project is a very successful example. Industry partners will work with campus-based and regional university teams to create the advanced network services that are necessary to meet the requirements of broadband, networked applications.

Funding for the Internet2 project will include both financial and in kind services and products of various types that will be necessary for the project. Since most of the project effort will occur on or near university campuses, it is anticipated that the majority of funding from government research agencies and industry partners will be in the form of grants to the participating universities.