Increasing US-Asia Science and Networking Collaborations

Jim Williams

Indiana University

Collaborations of Three Different Types

1.Networking and network technology collaborations

2.Networking research collaborations

3.Science collaborations

Networking and Network Technology Collaborations

Operational activities sometimes within networks but more interesting when across networks

They can involve “fixing” broken things (routing)

They can involve developing new things (DCN, measurement)

These are operationally based cooperations that begin with discussions at APAN (or IEFT or wherever)

Networking research collaborations

Networking activities with a strong research component

Generally funded by a government agency, usually with an internal focus

Difficult to “open up” to researchers from other countries and organizations

Some international attempts such as OpenFlow and GENI

Science collaborations

University or agency researcher to researcher collaborations

Initiated and developed via academic discipline meetings

Network should offer a vehicle for encouraging these collaborations

To increase science collaborations we need a more outward looking presence. We need to explain exactly what the network will do for these researchers and how we will do that…

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Jim Williams

Indiana University

williams@indiana.edu