Charter

Group Leadership:

Co-Chair(s): Roger Kosak (Accounting and Business Solutions, US)
J.P. Martin-Flatin (CERN, CH)
Pascale Primet (INRIA, FR)
Co-Secretary(ies): Neil Chue Hong (EPCC, UK)
Yee Li (University College London, UK)

Goals:

Provide a forum where parties interested in the secure, robust, high speed transport of data in the wide area and related technologies can discuss and coordinate issues. Note that this RG and GGF in general do not "promote" research, they simply provide a forum for coordination and standardization. For this reason, we plan on having the broadest possible interpretation of our charter. Ultimately, the test is whether or not the subject is transport related and sufficient people show intest. This RG should be a WG "factory" spawning off WGs in areas where sufficient common interest is shown.

Coordination Required:

  1. Grid High Performance Network Group (GGF)
  2. Replication Network Group (GGF)
  3. IETF (possible for some items)

Projected Tasks:

  1. Develop appropriate scenarios to use as guidelines and test cases (DOC, Possbile WG).
  2. Agree on operations necessary at remote sites. This will help us understand interfaces and possible protocol support needed.
  3. Requirements for a General Transport Protocol (DOC, possible WG)
  4. Implementation requirements for a Transport system (possible DOC, possible WG)
  5. Performance Issues related to high speed, bulk data transport (presentations)
  6. Evaluation of alternative bulk data transport mechanisms.  This could include modified TCP, non-TCP, and non-IP based    mechanism (presentations)
  7. Requirements for Asynchronous and Heterogeneous Data Transport (DOC, Possible WG)

Lifetime:

This RG has an indefinite life time. While it holds value as a forum for discussions and presentations, it will also strive to produce focused WGs that have a limited lifetime and produce standards track documents.