There are many email lists and unfunded groups in this arena, e.g.
The IETF imrg, ippm, the GGF NMWG & Glue-schema, ghpn groups, the e2e, plus European based groups

Plus less monitoring focused groups such as Grid groups (GGF, PPDG, GriPhyN), NANOG, CENIC, ESCC, IETF, ITU, Internet2, SciDAC funded projects, groups from other countries such as DataTAG, GEANT, APAN