karent@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Karen A. Travis) (02/26/88)
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National Net '88
Perspectives on the Need for Public and Private Initiatives
Dates: April 18-20th, 1988
Location: Loew's L'enfant Plaza
Washington, DC
***Preliminary Program attached. For Registration Materials, Please
send your name, and US address to me ASAP. Conference Registration
is limited due to hotel considerations. The registration fee
for academic and not-for-profit corporations' participants is
$395, prior to March 15th. Corporate Registration Fee is $595
before the 15th of March. After March 15th, an additional charge
of $50 is imposed.
NYSERNet, Inc., and the EDUCOM Networking and Telecommunications
Task Force (NTTF), and the National Association of State Universities
and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), with the assistance of the National
Science Foundation, will be sponsoring a conference on national
telecommunications needs in support of education, research and economic
development. This conference, which will held at the Loews L'Enfant
Plaza in Washington, DC on April 18-20, 1988, will follow up the recent
report of the Federal Coordinating Committee on Science and Engineering
Technology (FCCSET) which recommended that the establishment of a
national high- speed data communications network linking research scientists in universities and industry around the country become a national priority.
The conference's purpose is to acquaint key industrial and governmental leaders with the current status and expected future needs of the United States
in the area of high- speed data networking and to develop a blue print for
a future national research network linking key components of the
academic, industrial and governmental sectors.
National Net '88 will convene scientists, industrial leaders and
federal and state governmental policy makers, for the following
purposes:
* to communicate to these groups the importance and urgency of
creating a national high-speed telecommunications network in
the United States; (the need for a national network will be
presented both in terms of the accelerating demand in the scientific and
educational communities for a national network, and the great potential
benefits to industry of access to a high-speed research network);
* to acquaint U.S. scientists, industrial leaders and governmental
policy makers with activities to date by the NSF, FCCSET, EDUCOM and
the U.S. Congress on behalf of a national network, and with the
development of existing networks;
*to canvass participants and to identify the networking
requirements of the scientific, governmental and industrial communities,
from the broad perspective of the nation as a whole, and to determine
where the nation should be moving with respect to the U.S. telecommunications
infrastructure;
* to develop a blueprint for a national network and an
implementation plan which focuses on:
(1) sparking the interest of state and federal policy
makers and industrial leaders, and
(2) obtaining from them commitments to support the
concept of a national network and to contribute and work
towards achieving it.
National Net '88 has a dual purpose and constitutes, in fact,
a conference within a conference. Its first aim is information
sharing. Although the need for a national telecommunications network for
research and engineering has been documented by the FCCSET committee,
EDUCOM's NTTF and the various meetings of the Federation of Regional
Networks, these groups have still reached only a small audience.
The importance of national networking as part of the nation's research
infrastructure and as a key ingredient in the United State's
ability to compete in the high technology area has still not
been sufficiently appreciated by the key decision makers in industry
and government. Similarly, the extent of academe's involvement in such a
network and it's implication have not been fully grasped by the
presidents and provosts of the nation's research universities.
Given this perspective the conference will focus on:
1) Why there is an urgent need for the US to establish
such a national network.
2) What is currently being done in research and educational
networking.
3) What must be done in the future to forge a partnership between
the government, industry and academe in order to establish such
a network.
It is also intended to have special worships focusing
on the role of state governments and the Public Utility Commissions
in encouraging such a network to flourish. The conference will
also examine policy issues associated with augmenting the
US telecommunications infrastructure. Among the questions which will be
discussed are:
* the expansion of access to networks, for university faculty
and students
* appropriate levels of access and participation by industry.
* the appropriate mix of responsibility by federal and
state government, the universities and industry for
funding and management of a national network;
* assessment of existing regional networks, such as SURANET
and NYSERNet, as suitable models for a national network, and
identification of an optimal organizational structure.
The second aim of the conference is to establish a small number
of planning panels which would map out implementation
strategies and recommendations for the role of governments, industry
and academe in the future.
The conference chairman and Program Coordinator, Richard Mandelbaum,
is Chairman of NYSERNet and Vice Provost for Computing at the University
of Rochester. Kenneth M. King, President of EDUCOM, will co-chair the
conference, with Dr. Mandelbaum. Working together, they will
bring together a dynamic group of people from industry, government
and the academic community to create a forum which will have a
significant impact on the future of networking in the United States.
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National Net '88
Preliminary Program
(as of 2-24-88)
Monday, April 18, 1988
5:30 - 7:OO PM Reception
Tuesday, April 19, 1988
7:30 AM Registration Opens
9:00 AM Welcome and Introductions: Kenneth M. King, President, EDUCOM
9:15 - 10:00 AM Keynote Address: "The Strategic Importance of A
National Network" Ellen Hancock, General Manager of Communication Systems, IBM
10:15 - 11:00AM Plenary Session: "Who Needs A National Network and Why"
1) Major Mark PUllen, DARPA 2) Robert Trocchi, Marketing Mgr. DEC
11:15 - 11:45 AM Plenary Session: "How Do We Get a National Network"
Dr. A.G. Fraser, Executive Director, Information Sciences Division,
AT&T Bell Labs
NOON LUNCH -- "The University Role in A National Network" Hal Ravache,
President-elect, Stevens Institute of Technology
2:00 - 3:15PM -- "A National Network: Today's Reality, Tomorrow's
Vision" Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation and Bob Kahn,
President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
3:15 - 3:45PM Break
3:45 - 5:00PM "NSFNet: One Step Towards A National Network"
Richard Liebheiber, MCI; Douglas Van Howeling, Vice Provost for
Information Technology, University of Michigan; Dr. John Armstrong,
Vice President and Director of Research, IBM
6:00 - 7:00PM Reception
7:00PM DINNER "Technology, Telecommunications, and Trade Wars: American
Competitiveness in the International Marketplace"
Speaker to be Announced
Wednesday, April 20, 1988
7:30AM Registration Opens
8:30 - 9:45 AM AM Plenary "Partnerships: The NYSERNet Model"
1)Richard Mandelbaum, Vice Provost for Computing, University of
Rochester, and Chairman, NYSERNet, Inc. 2) Al Sullivan, NYS Urban
Development Corporation 3) Robert Helgesen, Managing Director, Network
Product Design, New York Telephone
10:00 - 10:45 AM Breakout Sessions
How and Why Industry Should Participate
Network Services: What is Needed
NSF Wide Area Communications
Social Implications of the Information Age
Developing the Network of the Future
11:00 - 11:45 AM Breakouts Sessions #2
Funding the Network
Running the Network
Nodal Switching Systems
Network Services: What is Available
Implications of Technology on Economic Development
NOON - 1:30PM LUNCH -- The Role of the Telecommunications
Industry in Creating the National Network
Mr. Walter Rickard, Vice President, New York Telephone.
1:45 - 2:30PM
Technological Issues ISO/ISDN/CO Lan/X.25
Legal/Regulatory Issues
Information Services, Operations and Management
Acceptable Use and Connections
International Networking
2:45 - 3:15 Closing Comments and Conclusions: Richard Mandelbaum and
Kenneth M. King, Conference Co-Chairs
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