1996.4.4

Report on ad hoc meeting on advanced internetworking for Asia-Pacific
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Some of APEC Symposium participants met in the evening of March 28, 1996 to
discuss on advanced internetworking for Asia-Pacific.  See Appendix A for the
participant list.   The main topic of the discussion was on forming the
consortium on advanced internetworking for Asia-Pacific.  We decided to discuss
further to come up with draft proposals on the formation of the consortium and
implementation of the network in the coming months.

There are several movements on global advanced networking such as

	G7/GII
	APEC/APII
	NIIs and their testbeds
	Internatinal testbeds(Applications, ATM)
	High speed international Internet

There are obvious needs to form high speed networking in Asia-Pacific including
the high speed link to North America for various purposes such as;

	Accommodation of ever increasing Internet traffic 
	Testbed for advanced applications

To handle ever increasing Internet traffic, Europe has the backbones such as
Europanet and Ebone, and fat pipes to North America.  In Asia-Pacific, we don't
have appropriate backbone, and each country has its own link to USA.  The
situation needs to be corrected with high speed Asian backbone(s) with high 
high speed "Pacific Bridge".  

For testbeds on advanced applications, we need to link various national 
testbeds to test various applications.  Some of the countries with the testbeds
are as follows;

	Asia: 		Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia
	North America:  Canada, USA

For the Europe-North America link, there are CANTAT-3 in 155 Mbps from
Teleglobe.  

We may combine the above two areas, or treat them with separate networks.  
The former is the production network, and the latter is the network for testing
and development.

NSF is expected to offer the tender for high speed intercontinental link such as
at 155 Mbps soon.  This may be a good opportunity to move with the obvious
deadline.

If we would like to progress on the discussion, we may meet at the following
occasions;

	May 9-10	Tokyo		(to come up with the initial draft)
	June 18-20	Seoul		APEC/APII Testbed Forum
	June 25-28	Montreal	INET'96
	July 22-26	Tokyo		Interop Tokyo

Appendix 1: Participant List(Partial)

	Australia
		Michael McRobbie
	Canada
		Douglas Hughes
	Japan
		Shigeki Goto/NTT
		Shuichi Tashiro/ETL
		N. Teraoka/STA
	Korea
		Kilnam Chon/KAIST
	Singapore
		Weiguo Wang/ISS
	Thailand
		Thaweesak Koanantakook/NECTEC
	USA
		Steven Goldstein/NSF