June232010 repcouncil

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June 23, 2010 - Rep Council meeting Ken Voss, Dan Uetrecht, Neal Hodges, Warren Wilson, Kate Adams, Greg Monaco

Ways to make the meeting better. Rep council is made up one member from each university. There are a total of 23 reps, but we generally don't get more than five or six on a call at a time.

Discussion of possible meeting objectives:

• informational - updating around states, updating national scenes
• project/planning
• educational, planning,
• members answering each other's questions
• sharing expertise
• making contacts
• knowing who your peers are
• what do people want?

Out of this meeting came a disaster recovery meeting in Omaha a few years ago.

Black Hills State is remote. Information sharing and gathering is important. The contact is very important.

Best thing about GPN is that if you bring something up, someone will know or know how to find the answer. Note: members are encouraged to use the gp-repcouncil list.

How do the regional network get represented? The members from each state are from universities. Originally, it was research 1 and 2 universities. There were state networks back in '98. Morenet, Kanren, and Onenet are not officially members, but they participate. We contract with MOREnet to operate the NOC.

Missouri S&T: thinking about outsourcing VOIP, anyone have any experience? Another school is thinking of doing the same thing. Greg suggested that he posts to the gp-repcouncil list. Dan has experience with Google mail.

Someone wonders if other regional state networks are having budget cuts like Morenet.

Commodity internet is being diverted over I2.

GPS Dave's presentation talked about saving money by not spending as much money on commodity internet. SD is not really participating in this yet.

CI Advisory committee and Networking Committee are up on the wiki.

Warren: received EPSCOR grant to set up some nodes.

Neal: major work time, upgrading access node with new equipment. Sent CI Advisory to DUSEL people, about 30 people. Bill Capeheart got his proposal in.

Dan:VOIP, liking dark fiber network, Columbia campus and MST campus, changes in way they're using inter-campus networks.

VOIP, outsource hosted, looking at new IPS edge for virus and security.

Google has been a good experience for Dan.

School of mines has all students on google mail. Most lists are managed through SM's own email server.