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Actual attendees: Anjum, Kashif, Johari, Saqib, Bebo, Les

The There was a cut in the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable that runs 12,500 miles from France to Singapore, with branches connecting telecommunication companies in Malaysia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia and Algeria. Of the ~ 3300 networks in Pakistan hundreds of the smaller networks were affected. However the quality of the Skype connection was good.

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Johari recommended a future PingER workshop later this year. Hanan at UTM has agreed to take the lead.  It It will be 25-26 June at the University of Malaya.   There is a document.  I I have amended the schedule to replace Les by a NUST person (Kahsif/Anjum?) for the second day technical sessions  from NUST.

It does not appear possible to fund someone from NUST or Bebo. If this is the case, then Saqib and Johari will give the second day technical session using Kashif's presentation at UNIMAS last year. Kashif will connect remotely to provide assistance. For the NUST session on experiences on the first day, Anjum will pre-record the talk. In the case of Bebo he woud only come if he could contribute, also June is a problem for him. He would be  able to participate remotely for the session on futures. Also Bebo is interested in working with students at SLAC on new visualization tools. 

Les will send an email to Abdullah Bin Gani strongly advocating he the funding of a person from NUST.

For attendees Anjum pointed out it would be good to get 2 representatives from each of the 20 public Malaysian universities. One participant would be from the computer division (more to do with installing and maintaining), the other from Faculty (more for the research side). It would also be good to get a non MYREN University and someone from Malaysia Telecom. Bebo will provide contacts at MIMOS and Manipal.

Funding/Proposals

Johari reported that the FRGS proposal had been accepted. It is for 75K MRs (~$35K). It is for 5 people.

The Next step in funding is to go for bigger research funding, such as LRGS or eScience. We can use the upcoming workshop (1 specific session) to brainstorm and come up with such proposal. We need to do some groundwork before that as well. Johari  Johari will take the lead in putting together 1/2 page descriptions of the potential research projects. 

1. Need to identify a few key areas of research related to PingER Malaysia Initiative and this can be shared/publicized through the website. These might include using the infrastructure and data for: anomaly detection; correlation of performance across multiple routes; and for GeoLocation. Future projects as Les listed in Confluence here https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Future+Projects can also be a good start and also Bebo's suggestion. 
2. Need to synchronize and share research proposals so as not to duplicate research works. how to share? Maybe not through the website, or maybe can create a member only section of the website to share sensitive data such as research proposal?

 Anjum mentioned a paper on Evaluation of IP Geolocation Algorithms on PingER and PlanetLab Infrastructures, by Fida Gilani et. al. submitted to IEEE INFOCOM 2011UNIMAS. This could be updated with new data and maybe submitted to a different venue. Anjum forwarded a copy of the paper to Johari, Abdullah and Hanan with copies to the team. The idea is to see whether there is interest at UTM, UM or UNIMAS. 

We also agreed that the projects we have been gathering should be divided into Development and Research. Since the meeting Les did this, see Potential PingER Projects .

UNIMAS

There is a problem with the UNIMAS traceroute. It appears both in pinger.unimas.my and in the Raspberry. It appears pinger.unimas.my is behind a NAT that is not passing the traceroute UDP probes. Other hosts at UNIMAS are not seeing the problem, so Johari believes it may have to do with the IPTABLES in pinger.unimas.my. Traceroute using the -I option (send the probes using ICMP rather than UDP) seems to work (but needs root access). Thus it would appear not to be in the return (ICMP "time exceeded") response. The probes (when not using the -I option are UDP packets using sequentially ports 33434 - 33465 for up to 30 hops). It is possible that ports > some number may be blocked. Update Johari, Anjum.

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It is not easy to find such sites in those states. Obvious targets are universities, for example UUM in Kedah and UNIMAP in Perlis, but those sites are not ping-able. One way is to approach these universities and explain to them about PingER project and request for the ping packet to be enable. Les has sent HostFinder.pl to Johari to possibly assist in finding hosts.

UM

Since the traceroute is working, "we" can start to make a routing study similar to https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Routing+from+UNIMAS. Badrul has a student who will be working on the case study and will coordinate with Saqib at UTM and Johari at UNIMAS to combine results and to put together a paper for the Malaysian ISI Journal probably around the end of June

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Raja is waiting for the Letter of Support from NUST after which he will mail the documents for SEVIS ID process. (3/20/2013). Anjum believes he will get the letter signed by 3/21/20142013). Anjum mentioned there were  discussions between Raja and NUST that need to be resolved. Next day after the meeting things seemed to be cleared up, since Raja forwarded to SLAC the letter of support from NUST.

The visit of Arshad and the NUST rector Rector to UM and UTM fell through due the Rector being sick.

Potential projects

See list of Projects

Managing <HostList> for Malaysia from Johari

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Coordinate and lead the installation of PingER monitoring at multiple Malayisan sites

Build and install a new http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/pingER-2.0.2.tar.gz file with the improved version of pinger2.pl

Make PingER support IPv6. 

PingER at SLAC

The annual report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Standing Committee on Inter-regional Connectivity (SCIC) has also been completed. Les has been invited to give a general colloquiam at SLAC on the Internet where it came from, challenges and how it is performing. the latter section will report some PingER case studies and measurements. 

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Next meeting Wednesday 10  April 2013 8:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, Thursday 11 April 2013 8:00am Pakistan time, Thursday 11 April 2013 11:00 am Malaysian time.

There is a doodle poll at http://doodle.com/fnwzs5yu7fmux86. Note that the Doodle poll times are GMT (e.g. 3am 11 April GMT = 8pm 10 April PDT, = 11am 11 April Malaysia time, = 8am 11 April Pakistan time)

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