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There was a SEMEWE fibre cut however the quality of the connection was good.
General
Johari has set up a web landing site for the Malaysian collaboration. It is at http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger. It contains:
- brief history, description of the project and the objectives
- link to main SLAC page
- Link to NUST site
- list of names, contact details (email, etc), their affiliation, and the scope of job in the project
- a link to the data collected from UNIMAS and also other hosts in UM, USM, and UTM when they have their monitoring host running
- link to meeting minutes for 2013 in Confluence to do: links to minutes from 2012, 2011, and 2010
- Bebo added as an advisor
- details of the workshop in UNIMAS and also slides from the talks and hands on sessions
To do for the website:
- add some images from the workshop conducted in UNIMAS
- add a list of monitored sites (currently the list is linked directly to the SLAC site)
- add info on research (what to add here? eventually list of research grants, publication, etc)
Please visit the website, any feedback, corrections, suggestions are much appreciated.
It would help to have an MoU between SLAC and UTM. Based on DOE current MOU policy, using the UNIMAS MOU format will not work. SLAC's legal folks also do not think that merely adding additional parties to the current MOU will work either. The new DOE policy will require a new approval. We may be able to get DOE approval of a Work for Others agreement. To do a WFO agreement we would need, at a minimum:
- A detailed project description describing the activities each party will perform
- A description of the deliverables SLAC will provide
- A schedule with completion dates for the activities
- The key personnel and contact information for both parties
- The term for performance of the project activities
- An explanation of the unique capabilities SLAC will provide to the project not available elsewhere
- An explanation how the project is compatible with existing SLAC program(s)
- An explanation how the project enhances the mission of SLAC
Assuming we can get these issues addressed, our legal folks think we could seek DOE approval and enter into an agreement with these other universities. We need to hear back from UTM and UM whether we need/want to pursue this further. It will probably be a considerable effort. UTM & UM will need to address 1. We all need to think about 3. 4 is easy, 2 is doable, 7 and 8 are tricky.
Workshops
Johari recommended a future PingER workshop later this year. Hanan at UTM has agreed to take the lead. It will be 25-26 June at University of Malaya. There is a document. I have amended the schedule to replace Les by NUST person (Kahsif/Anjum?) for the second day technical sessions from NUST.
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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 has submitted a proposal for FRGS (Fundamental Research Grant Scheme). We hope to hear more in April. We can go for a bigger project such as the eScience or LRGS (Long-term Research Grant Scheme) which can accommodate a larger number of people, more funding and encourage cross institutions collaboration. As for research, we need to clarify a few matters: reported that the FRGS proposal had been accepted. It is for 75K MRs (~$35K). It is for 5 people.
- 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.
- Need to synchronize and share research proposal 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?
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Johari has set up a guest account for Anjum. Anjum logged on and reported some concerns about addresses and interfaces not matching. The traceroute/ping server is important for the TULIP trilateration project and also understanding routing within and from Malaysia.
General
Johari has set up a web landing site for the Malaysian collaboration. It is at http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger. It contains:
- brief history, description of the project and the objectives
- link to main SLAC page
- Link to NUST site
- list of names, contact details (email, etc), their affiliation, and the scope of job in the project
- a link to the data collected from UNIMAS and also other hosts in UM, USM, and UTM when they have their monitoring host running
- link to meeting minutes for 2013 in Confluence to do: links to minutes from 2012, 2011, and 2010
- Bebo added as an advisor
- details of the workshop in UNIMAS and also slides from the talks and hands on sessions
To do for the website:
- add some images from the workshop conducted in UNIMAS
- add a list of monitored sites (currently the list is linked directly to the SLAC site)
- add info on research (what to add here? eventually list of research grants, publication, etc)
Please visit the website, any feedback, corrections, suggestions are much appreciated.
It would help to have an MoU between SLAC and UTM. Based on DOE current MOU policy, using the UNIMAS MOU format will not work. SLAC's legal folks also do not think that merely adding additional parties to the current MOU will work either. The new DOE policy will require a new approval. We may be able to get DOE approval of a Work for Others agreement. To do a WFO agreement we would need, at a minimum:
- A detailed project description describing the activities each party will perform
- A description of the deliverables SLAC will provide
- A schedule with completion dates for the activities
- The key personnel and contact information for both parties
- The term for performance of the project activities
- An explanation of the unique capabilities SLAC will provide to the project not available elsewhere
- An explanation how the project is compatible with existing SLAC program(s)
- An explanation how the project enhances the mission of SLAC
Assuming we can get these issues addressed, our legal folks think we could seek DOE approval and enter into an agreement with these other universities. We need to hear back from UTM and UM whether we need/want to pursue this further. It will probably be a considerable effort. UTM & UM will need to address 1. We all need to think about 3. 4 is easy, 2 is doable, 7 and 8 are tricky.
UTM
The UTM Pinger site is http://pinger.fsksm.utm.my/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl to get the data. .
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