Profile for HEP Internet Monitoring Talks

Les Cottrell (SLAC) and Paul Jeffries (RAL), Last Update: 20 March, 1997

[ CHEP97 | Mini Workshop on HEP & the Internet | Agenda for afternoon Monitoring session ]


The plan is to have brief (15 minute) reports from various countries. In order to maximise the effectiveness of these reports, we recommend: The profile is given below. The aim is that we all supply the same information. This facilitates comparison, and leads us in the direction of being able to grade connections in a consistent manner. See SLAC's HEP Internet Monitoring for an early example of a report.

Proposed Profile:-

  1. List international connections you have giving bandwidth and protocols supported. Also list major "offsite connections", as most sites in the US do not link to international connections directly.
  2. Summary of local monitoring of Internet connections that you undertake. Useful Web addresses. Types of measurements made and tools employed.
  3. Definition of list of "connections" on which you propose to publish monitoring results. We suggest that the list includes connections from your own site (and/or country) to key particle physics centres (mainly accelerator centres) and other sites with whom you collaborate. We feel it is necessary to identify a subset in this way as opposed to publishing every conceivable connection that you can monitor!
  4. Attempt to rate the connections:
  5. Summarise the off-site/international networking changes you foresee in next 12 months (upgrades, or becoming part of new backbone eg TEN-34)
  6. Summarise the resources you have available for Internet network monitoring. This includes people working on it, and tools you are interested in making publicly available. In addition the location of any remote traceroute servers, the addresses of 24hrx7day hosts (say for pinging), names of contact people etc.
Thankyou!
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