1. Advanced Networking in North America Doug Van Houweling President and CEO University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)

2. Advanced Networking Inititatives  Canadian Advanced Research and Education Network (CANARIE)  Next Generation Internet (NGI)  University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)

3. CANARIE  Canadian industry led  Collaboration among industry, academia and government  CA*netII  More information at: www.canarie.ca

4. Next Generation Internet (NGI)  Established in parallel with Internet2  US Federal agency led and focused  Advanced networking technologies and applications  vBNS, StarTap...  More information at: www.ngi.gov

5. UCAID  US university led and focused  Collaboration with government and industry  Internet2 Project  Abilene Project  More information at: www.ucaid.edu

6. Internet2  NGI Relationship  Similar technical objectives  Focused on complementary communities  Working to ensure the networks are interoperable  Expect rich interconnection

7. Internet2  NGI Cooperation  NSF High Performance Connections grants  Network Interconnection  Applications Development

8. UCAID International Relations  Enable collaboration among researchers through advanced networking  Form mutually beneficial bilateral relationships with similar initiatives  Exploring best policies and options to achieve this.  One model is the Memorandum of Understanding with CANARIE

9. Principles of International Collaboration  Advanced and revolutionary network technologies  Focus on researcher partnerships working on advanced applications Atmospheric scientists Music collaboration Physicists Virtual library  Cooperate to maintain global interoperability

10. International Efforts  Relationships with initiatives of similar scope, mission and constituents  Non-governmental relationships  Use STARTAP (Science, Technology, and Research Transit Access Point) for connectivity www.startap.net

11. International Visits  Australia  Canada  Finland  France  Germany  Japan  Korea  Mexico  Norway  Taiwan  INET’97  INET’98

12. For More Information  UCAID http://www.ucaid.edu/  Internet2 Project http://www.internet2.edu/  Abilene Project http://www.ucaid.edu/abilene/  Doug Van Houweling