Agenda for ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force Meeting 
San Diego 21 April, 1997
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There will be an ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force (NMTF) meeting at
San Diego on the afternoon of Monday April 21 at the 
Marina Village Conference Center, Mission Bay, San Diego.

The focus group has made good progress since the last meeting (at PPPL).
In particular several papers have been submitted for publication, 
(see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf.html for a list)
progress has been made on visualizing the long term trends in the
data, the monitoring software has been successfully ported to a site
(University of Maryland), there has been considerable interest expressed
in the work and results by the FNC, CCIRN, ICFA and the ESSC.  In the
latter 2 cases we are working to provide information to help in 
understanding the problems with Internet performance and as a basis for 
deciding how to address. See 
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf.html for more information.

The meeting will begin at 3:30pm (the late start has been coordinated
with the Email Task force which will run from 1:00 thru 3:00pm thus
allowing people to attend both Task Forces meetings) and run 
until about 5:30pm.

Introductions                            All                10 mins
Agenda Bashing                           All                 5 mins
Focus group activities:
  Deployment of Software                 Kipp Kippenhan     20 mins     
  Visualizing the data                   Les Cottrell       20 mins
Monitoring at other sites
  ORNL's WAN ATM monitoring              Bill Wing          15 mins
  Does anyone want to briefly report on 
    the activities in WAN/INternet
    monitoring at their site?

Applications of Monitoring results:      Les Cottrell       10 mins
  University sites connecting to ESnet
  ISP choice
  Problem reporting etc. 
  
Work with other groups:
  ICFA/CHEP97 report                     Les Cottrell       15 mins   
  ISMA
     http://www.nlanr.net/ISMA/isma97.html                                   

Futures:
  Plans for Ping Monitoring code         Les Cottrell        5 mins
  Additional sites with WAN Monitoring   All  
    pages or traceroute servers
  ESnet sites with other interesting
    WAN monitoring activities
    e.g. traceroute monitoring ...
  Is there interest in increasing the    All
      involvment of NMTF members, if
      so how, or how should we change       
      (surveys? if so on what?
       more postings on what?
       updates to NMTF page)
  How should we proceed