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There is an Internet2 / ESnet Joint Techs meeting from the 13th-17th January 2013 in Hawai, I will attendi. The focal areas are: Network Research and Emerging Technologies; Network Architecture and Operations; R&E Network Applications. there are also usually session on non US networks, for example at the last meeting at Stanford there was a talk on Challenges of Building an Affordable and Scalable Wireless Network at Universities in West Africa & KENET: Where we are , see http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2012summer/20120718-Wanja-Njue.pdf and http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/jt2012summer/20120718-Togo-challenges%20building%20wifi%20networks.pdf. Nara will follow up and look at this meeting.
Les has also sent information on a workshop in Salt Lake City in November. Les does not currently know of a particular relevant other conference/meeting especially one on the West Coast of the US or even better in the Bay Area.
The VC also expressed interest in setting up a meeting with the SLAC Director Persis Drell to share ideas. Les has been working with SLAC's layers of management to set up a phone call between Vice Chancellor of UNIMAS and SLAC Director. SLAC director requested more information on the reasons for the meeting, and if we look forward, if this collaboration is going to continue, to ensure there is an Associate Director at SLAC sponsoring this collaboration. I was away for a couple of weeks. I met after my return with the CIO and he is in favor of pushing forward. He requested I work directly with the COO to set up the meeting. The meeting will be early next week. If the VC has particular agenda for the phone meeting that would be useful to prepare for. If it is just a meet and greet it would be good to know that roo.
Future meetings
Nara mentioned that there is a council meeting at the end of the month which will be attended by many Malay Universities. he requested Les to put together a letter of Invitation for sites to join the PingER project. Les has sent a draft to Nara
UNIMAS PingER host name
Imran has successfully assigned the DNS name pinger.unimas.my to the UNIMAS PingER monitor (49.50.236.98). Les has tested the ping and traceroute servers and the ping_data server and all work correctly. *Les sent email to Mohamad 8/22/2012 with a reminder 9/5/2012 to coordinate the changes to the PingER meta data base (NODEDETAILS) and the pinger.xml file at UNIMAS.
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An ePingER App for an Android or iOS might also be an interesting project.
Next meeting
Thursday ?? 27 8pm Pacific Daylight Time, Friday ?? 28 11am Malay time.
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