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  1. Triangulate position of an unknown host (see http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip,Faran back from ITCN 8/21/06): Faran
    1. Deployment: Faran
      1. Provide a program API - Faran, Shahryar
      2. Wiki Markup
        -Version at SLAC is not working (reported 8/9/06) \[Done 8/21/06\]: Faran-
    2. Consider the security aspects of TULIP - Faran
      1. Add contact info in landmark ping packets for Linux landmarks using the -p (pad option): Les
      2. Maybe develop as servlet or CGI script: Faran
    3. Visualization
      1. Make tables sortable (working on 5/25/06, re-agreed 8/3/06, re-requested 8/21/06, done for the RTTs 8/22/06, can we do with buttons for all columns): Faran
      2. Can we add AS's to routes: Yee, Faran
      3. Integrate with Google maps: Faran
      4. Wiki Markup
        -Position landmarks properly on map (DL, is incorrectly located, reminded 6/19/06, reported still not right 6/22/06, Boston is incorrect, email sent 7/26/06, Les sent lat/longs 7/26/06) \[Fixed 7/26/06\]: Faran-
      5. Wiki Markup
        -Provide diagnosis for non locateable, non-parseable, non responding paths (so far have NAN for non responsive landmark 6/6/06, reminded 6/19/06) \[Done 8/2/06\]: Faran-
      6. When zooming maintain size of dots: Faran
      7. Do not truncate the information in the Ping Raw Data window: Faran
      8. Improve the diagnostic/debugging information for failures (requested 8/21/06): Faran
      9. Wiki Markup
        -Add estimates from other sources, e.g. DNS LOC records, GeoLoc \[Done GeoLoc is in Log, 8/3/06\]: Faran-
    4. Landmarks
      1. Get more Traceroute Sites to TULIP:
        1. See if AMP interested (sent email 3/7/06, yes they appear to be, we have identified suitable landmarks, they will start with NZ 3/9/06, sent reminder 3/21/06 & 4/3/06, 4/18/06, 5/13/06, 6/21/06, more email, talking to kc 8/16/06): Les
        2. Wiki Markup
          -Try Gloriad/Russia (email sent 4/21/06, got response, sent more info 5/6/06, sent reminder 5/24/06, sent reminder 7/26/06, have contact for RBnet 8/2/06) \[Done 8/16/06\]: Les-
        3. Send email to Alaska (5/7/06): Les
        4. Send email to Singapore (got response 5/3/06, sent reminder 5/24/06, got response 5/25/06, sent email 7/26/06): Les
        5. Send email to Malaysia (5/7/06): Les
        6. Sent email Latin America (5/7/06): Les
        7. Sent email for China contacts (7/26/06): Les
        8. Wiki Markup
          -Add landmarks at Mumbai,  [http://59.165.131.15/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl] and [http://pinger.pern.edu.pk/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl] \[Done 8/21/06\]: Faran-
        9. *COMTEC, Japan(Faran send email reminder 5/25/06, agreed to send another reminder 6/7/06) - : Faran, Farooq*
      2. Use PlanetLab for landmarks
        1. Join PlanetLab: Faran
        2. Provide a daemon for the ping server: Faran
        3. Provide a client for the TULIP: Faran
      3. Method for updating the landmarks: Faran
        1. *_Faran has implemented an edit function but unable to make it work at SLAC (5/25/06, demonstrated to Faran 6/21/06, Akbar sent email that modification  modification is not working 7/25/06, Faran said retry but still not working 7/26/06) - : Faran_*
        2. Wiki Markup
          -Get add feature to work \[Done 5/29/06\] -: Faran, Les-
      4. Landmarks:
        1. pinger.ntc.net.pk denies accesss (email to Azher & Faran 7/25/06, Azher responded that he is checking 7/27/06, email sent again 8/21/06, Azher knows about will send person to repair 8/22/06) - : Faran/Azher
        2. Wiki Markup
          \-202.83.166.182/cgi-bin/mati (Akbar sent email to Faran &  			Azher 7/25/06, sent email to Azher, is it still in use 8/21/06)  				\[Done 8/21/06, decide to remove the landmarks since have others  				at NIIT\]: - Faran/Azher\-
        3. Wiki Markup
          \-202.83.160.42 aka pinger.ntc.net.pk (Akbar sent email to Azher & Faran 7/25/06)  				\[Fixed 8/21/06\]: - Faran/Azher\-
        4. Wiki Markup
          \-Fix or understand why the Looking Glass sites are not  				working (7/26/06) \[Done 8/16/06\]: - Faran, Les, Akbar\-
        5. Wiki Markup
          \-bnl.gov needs to be changed to bnl.org \[Done  				8/22/06\]: - Faran\-
        6. -Checking wget "http://sfsmds2.vsnl.net/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl?function=ping&target=www.cern.ch&contact=cottrell@slac.stanford.edu&id=TULIP*" works with wget from * www.slac.stanford.edu*, but not from TULIP and not from atreides.slac.stanford.edu windows (Firefox) browser. Turns out pings from atreides and iepm-bw are blocked but not from pinger. (sent email to Mumbai explaining problem and suggesting using a non-standard port 8/21/06) - Les* Done 8/28/06 opened port 80 to all: Les-
    5. Apply to PingER node database to check the lat/longs are roughly correct - : Faran
    6. Analysis
      1. Wiki Markup
        \-Develop new (alpha free) method  			to estimate location (in progress, expect to resolve in 2-3 days  			7/20/06) \[Done did not work out 8/3/06\]: - Faran\-
      2. Literature search on triangulation, multi-lateration - : Faran
      3. Compare with DNS LOC records, plus availability of DNS LOCs - : Faran
      4. Compare with IP2Location and/or Netgeo records (from http://netgeo.caida.org/aslatlong.txt) - : Faran
      5. Document Faran's algorithm, try new algorithm with optimized alpha that does not require destination to be inside triangle - : Faran, Umar
      6. Compare Faran's algorithm with Bamba's, Octant & simple triangulation
        1. Contact Bamba to find out if http://planetlab-01.ipv6.lip6.fr:10000/cbg.php works for any sites (email send 4/21/06) - : Aziz
        2. Confidence estimates
        3. Applied to PingER hosts
        4. Outside triangles, area coverage, need map with accuracy
    7. Analysis of Accuracy and applicability
      1. Accuracy vs known locations
      2. Effect of removing, adding landmarks
      3. Comparison with other sets of landmarks & methods (can't do Bamba since it is down), Octant, NetGeo for accuracy coverage etc.
      4. Provide bubble maps of accuracy - : Faran
      5. What area/population is covered by TULIP
  2. NETRAT - , SLAC contact: Adnan, Les
    1. Evaluate PCA multivariate method of Crovella - : Waqar, Adnan,
      1. Compare PCA results with Holt-Winters/plateau - : Adnan
        1. Fetch Data From SLAC, BNL, CALTECH (Pathchirp, Thrulay, Ping) - : Adnan
        2. Fetch data from CERN
        3. Apply PCA on same data and to get potential alerts - : Adnan
        4. Comparison of Run-period results and PCA results - : Adnan
        5. Improve event detector - : Adnan
        6. Docment findings on PCA - : Adnan
    2. Forecasting comparison of Active vs. passive data - : Fareena, Adnan
      1. Look at eview implementation of ARIMA (QU has copy) - : Fareena
        1. Extend to more sites/metrics, see need for Integration & higher orders - : Farena, Adnan
        2. Try with longer time base - : Fareena
        3. Get time estimates - : Fareena
      2. Wiki Markup
        \-Look  			at JMSL (license $3500 for developer, $2500 for user) \[Done 8/17/06\]\-
      3. Detailed Graphs description - : Fareena
      4. Regularization
      5. Look at moodss (http://jfontain.free.fr/statistics.htm) - : Fareena
      6. Send documentation to SLAC
      7. Automate procedures
        1. Define project
        2. Put together presentation for workshop (for Sep 2006) - : Fareena
        3. Gather team
    3. Automatic event isolation -  : Adnan, Yee
      1. Background/introductory studies - : Ali
      2. Canonical Data set - : Adnan
        1. Fetch data from monitoring nodes (Pathchirp, Thrulay, Ping, Traceroute) - : Adnan, Ali
        2. Study/Analyze Data - : Adnan, Ali
        3. Run Run-period - : Adnan
      3. ALERT table changes
        1. New table design - : Adnan
        2. Script to populate the table - : Adnan
        3. database connectivity problem - : Jerrod
        4. Modify other scripts accordingly - : Connie
  3. IEPM - , SLAC contact Connie
    1. Install OWAMP at NIIT, get NTP working well (NTP working according to Azher 4/20/06) - : Connie, Azher
    2. IEPM-BW Web-services - :
      1. Waiting for a new student. - : Fawad, Umar
  4. Make traceanal into stand alone package - : Connie, Umar find someone new to take over
    1. Add in new topology - : Connie
    2. See if can be modularized - : Yee
    3. Integrate with AMP (need pingtable form like interface to allow selection of sce/dst sites and date).
    4. Define project (check how to get data from AMP) - Done 7/25/06: Les, Aziz
    5. Apply to PerfSONAR data
  1. Pathneck (see http://maggie.niit.edu.pk/website/projects/Topological_Analysis.html) Yee is the lead at the SLAC end - : Asif
    1. Try and get pathneck working from NIIT, study debug output, work with Ningning <hnn@cs.cmu.edu> (awaits site upgrade) - : Asif
    2. Develop and install pathneck reverse server (would like to start at NIIT just to assure code works work with -y option) - : Les, Asif
      1. Modularize security of traceroute.pl - : Asif, Yee
      2. *Add in PerfSonar - : Asif, Yee*
    3. Evaluate and understand how pathneck needs to be configured, the failure modes, the areas of applicability etc. using iepm-resp.slac.stanford.edu - : Asif
      1. Provide web site documenting failure modes - : Asif
    4. Develop a vizualization
      1. Topology (currently with Touchgraph), color links, mouseover ID router, provide snapshot
      2. Click on link/router to get graph
      3. Incorporate location (e.g. via TULIP)
    5. Investigate integration with traceanal and graphviz - : Asif
    6. Integrate topology map with pathneck - : Asif
    7. Look at using PerfSONAR router information (do not agree well, need to get more statistics, to enable multiple measures need API to get PerfSONAR data, look perfsonar UI) - : Asif
    8. Try on Ultralight (problems if < 4 hops) - : Asif
    9. Problem of 0 results (reported to author but not much happening 4/20/06): Asif
    10. Add position and AS information to router database - : Asif
  2. Communications etc.
    1. *Shahryar & Asif have visas will arrive 15th September: Shahryar*
    2. Arshad may visit for 12-13 14 September - : Arshad
      1. Arrange meetings, Jonathan, Neil, Mahesh, Aziz, Bebo: Adnan, Les
    3. Paper redo for CHEP06 (submitted by Jerrod 5/24/06, need to get registered as SLAC PUB*) - Aziz*
    4. CHEP06 Netflow paper (Umar contacted Fawad 5/17/06) - : Fawad, Les, Akbar
    5. Paper for HONET (due June 30, await hearing of acceptance) - Shahryar
    6. Paper for AACC Kathmandu
    7. Improve reliabilty of mail list server: Azher
      1. Install new UPS (due 7/23/06): Azher
      2. Use maggie-niit@googlegroups.com as alternative 8/3/06: Azher
    8. Improve NIIT connectivity: Azher
      1. Move from NTC to PTCL to remove finger pointing, and upgrade from < 1.5Mbps DSL to 2Mbits/s using fiber pedestal 3 blocks from NIIT with Cu from NIIT to pedestal (recommended, expect to start in a months and for instability during cut-over 7/20/06): Azher
    9. Projects (see http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/projects/)
    10. Proposals
      1. Submitted NTC proposal (sent for review by PTCL 8/3/06 ) - : Arshad
      2. Pakistan US Cooperative Grants Program 2006 (submitted awaiting review, 8/3/06)
        1. Wiki Markup
          -Need to focus on aiding the people & environment (e.g. Digital Divide, distance  				learning) \[Done 8/3/06\]-
        2. Wiki Markup
          -Review old proposal (Les gave copy to Adnan 5/11/06) \[Done 7/17/06\]: Adnan-
        3. Wiki Markup
          -Prepare proposal \[Done 7/17/06\]: Les, Umar, Yee-
        4. Wiki Markup
          -Get signed by SLAC, Stanford (expect 7/27/06)  					\[Done 8/3/06\]: Les-
      3. HEC solicitation for International collaborations, due mid-Sept, Farooq PI
        1. Create draft: Umar
  3. Maggie-NS Site: Umar
    1. Need to be updated with new students photos and profile.
      1. Adding Student Project Description.
      2. Some Pictures Left and will be added soon
      3. Post the weekly presentation on the maggie-ns web site.