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April 8, 2003
VoIP Working Group Meeting
Internet2 Spring Member Meeting

Dennis Baron [ppt] [pdf]
Nadim El-Khoury [ppt] [pdf]
Phil Coolick [ppt] [pdf]
Jeremy George [ppt] [pdf]
Chris Peabody [ppt] [pdf]
Barry Wray [ppt] [pdf]

1) REVIEW OF WORKING GROUP CHARTER (Enyeart)

• recommended charter remain unchanged, while changing reference of QoS WG to a SIG

• new WG guidelines reviewed for Working Groups, including documentation of activities, definition and delivery of deliverables, and protection of intellectual property evolving from group discussions
• Internet2 resources, including website and meeting assistance and assignment of a “flywheel”(Ben Teitelbaum)
• To remain a working group, the VoIP WG needs to develop deliverables
• volunteers needed to develop workshops and documents; Chris Peabody emphasized importance of maintaining liaisons with related non-Internet2 groups such as ACUTA and Net@EDU ICS

• discussion focused on use of testbed to obtain eventual wide area connectivity

• reviewed status of design effort
• Goal: provide email to PBX extension translation
• review of MIT and Yale proofs of concept
• Phase 1: SIP INVITE to email address rings rings black phone through campus PBX (campus directory integrated with SIP proxy)
• Phase 2: begin to support registration of SIP user agents on campus
• working on cookbook approach to implementation
• courting gateway vendor sponsors
• "grow"community of SIP users and begin to explore offering SIP services on campus

• ViDe Net and GDS: successful merger to version 3 (GDS), fully redundant architecture, globally scaleable H.323 number/dial plan, directory services, and tools
• GDS: hierarchy, E.164 numbering, super space, administration by ViDe Numerical Address Space WG (NASM –Tyler Johnson, Chair), policies set by respective countries
• GDS structure and review of gatekeeper hierarchy management
• Directory services: creation of video teleconference schema extensions, pursuit of ITU-T standardization, enabling of white pages/authentication services/user-account management and endpoint management
• Developed Tools: web-based Zone administration, user directory, search tool

• technical trial to build a private IP phone service between public carrier, private network, and ITSP switch manufacturer
• trials explore ability to: enable production carrier-class IPV6, explore SIP-enabled MAX terminal use, build offsite MAX telephone disaster-recovery structure, build IP disaster plan for switch failure for DC area, build overflow service for MAX calls to eliminate MAX connection, build PaeTec IP connection to Broadsoft box, determine possibility of rerouting PaeTec calls (processed via MAX) to Broadsoft switch
• potential for leveraging partnership/increasing visibility
• consensus on value for VoIP
• post-9/11 necessity of anticipating/accommodating post-catastrophic traffic

• Charter references QoS working group, which is now a SIG
• No other comments
• Chairs will revise charter and submit to the list

• Fall 2003 VoIP Workshop (currently co-scheduled with Internet2 Fall Member Meeting)