December 2004
Technical Committee to strike working groups on new applications
ORION’s new Technical Committee meets this week to kick-start a series of Working Groups that will be instrumental in deploying new applications over the network and between user institutions.
The Committee, created earlier this year, will help advance new and critical uses of the network, says ORION Senior Director of Engineering and Operations Sam Mokbel, who anticipates a number of working groups will be created to follow up on the applications to explore the best ways to proceed with implementation.
Collaboration technologies and videoconferencing are the most likely candidates for quick follow-up, but the group will also focus on other topics, such as shared storage and disaster backup and recovery.
Federated Identity Management (FIM), which involves managing identities across security domains, and Certificate Authority are both significant security and authentication issues for CIOs and Information Technology Directors, and the group will share information and trends in these areas.
VoIP, videoconferencing and webcasting are other major applications the Technical Committee expects to pursue.
Mokbel will also report on ORION’s network development and review the network’s backup and redundancy plans.
The Committee was established earlier this year to advise ORION on network design and technology deployment, management and operations. It held its first meeting at the Ontario R&E Summit in Toronto June 14. The committee will initially meet a minimum of twice a year.
Members include, from western region, Doug Payne from the University of Waterloo and Kent Percival of University of Guelph; from eastern region, Andy Hooper of Queen’s University, Gerry Pinkney from UOIT and Marc Lefebvre from the University of Ottawa; from northern region, Bill Sandblom of Sudbury’s Laurentian University; from southern region, Colin Wu of McMaster University in Hamilton and Casey Carvalho of Sheridan College; and from GTAnet, Bob Chambers from the University of Toronto, and Ken Woo from Ryerson University.
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