Objectives and programme

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Objectives and programme

• Karel Vietsch
• TERENA CEO
• TEQUILA Workshop Internet Design for SLS
  Delivery
• From Service Level Specification to Per Hop
  Behaviour
• Amsterdam, 25-26 January 2001

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The TEQUILA consortium
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TERENA membership

• the national research and education networks of
  34 countries
• CERN, ESA, ECMWF
• associate members (regional organisations,
  industry)

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TERENAs mission

• The four pillars of TERENA
• representation of common interests and opinions
  of TERENA members
• political, policy and industrial contacts
• liaison with other continents
• the Technical Programme
• developing, testing and promoting new networking
  technologies, services and applications
• workshops, task forces, projects
• knowledge transfer
• conferences, workshops and seminars
• assistance to less-advanced networks
• providing a cradle for new services
• e.g. pilot services

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TERENA Technical Programme

• Task Forces
• joint work (involving NRENs, universities,
  industry) on developing, testing and promoting
  new technologies and services in the European
  research networking community
• small projects
• funded from TERENAs own resources
• workshops and ad-hoc meetings
• e.g. European Middleware Workshop, PKI/CA
  Workshop
• externally funded projects
• e.g. TEQUILA

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TEQUILATraffic Engineering for Quality of
Service in the Internet at Large Scale
Project partially funded by the EU under the IST
Programme