Campus Bandwidth Management WG Charter

Mission

To discuss and recommend approaches to campus bandwidth management that are consistent with Internet2's mission to promote the development and deployment of advanced applications.

Goals

The Campus Bandwidth Management Working Group will address informational, technical and policy issues related to management of bandwidth and traffic on Internet2 campus LANs. Bandwidth management is closely related to matters such as QoS, routing, customer support, performance metrics, P2P, and policy. The Working Group will address the needs of applications that are of particular interest to the Internet2 community, e.g., Access Grids, bioinformatics, telemedicine, and tele-astronomy. It is the Working Group's intent to research, discuss, evaluate and recommend bandwidth strategies that do not impede application innovation or the deployment of advanced applications. Deliverables and discussion will also directly benefit network administrators who confront daily challenges to their network resources from file sharing and other uses.

The Working Group will produce documents that fall into the following categories:

• technical-informational
• technical-recommendation
• policy-informational
• policy-recommendation

In the technical-informational area, the Working Group will focus on providing the community with a forum for discussing issues such as management software (including commercial software, open-source software, free software and shareware), protocols, routing, metrics, and other areas related to network performance and bandwidth. Additionally, the documents will provide peer evaluation of vendor solutions.

Technical-recommendation documents will be best-practices documents that describe the processes and results of implementing successful bandwidth management solutions.

Policy-informational documents will address questions of bandwidth management as they relate to how campuses have approached concerns such as fairness, cost recovery, P2P, student residential housing, large-scale research projects, testbeds, copyright, and privacy.

Policy-recommendation documents will be best-practices documents that describe the processes and results of implementing policies relating to bandwidth management.