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                                                                 Seoul-104
                                                                 1998.5.20
                                                               Kilnam Chon

British Columbia GIBN Meeting Report 
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Attended Globally Interoperable Broadband Network(GIBN) Project Steering
Committee Meeting in Whistler Mountain in Canada's British Columbia in 
1998.5.8-9 as liaison of APAN and CCIRN. See the attendee list for the GIBN
participants as well as the agenda.

Most discussion was focused on the organizational issue based on GIBN Working
Group on Organizational Issue.  Another major issue was Cost Sharing Working
Group's final report.  There are the following documents to be delivered soon.

GIBN Meeting Minutes
Output document on organizational issue
Final report on cost sharing(available now)

We had heated and long discussion on the organizational issue including possible
merge with CCIRN. The conclusion was continuation of GIBN Pilot Project with the
new name, GIBN Forum in the spring of 1999 after 1999 G8 Summit.  GIBN Forum
will not merge with any organization, and primarily focuses on Scenario A,
pilot applications rather than Scenario B, research network interconnection.
GIBN Forum would have two classes of members; founding members(G8) and other
members to be selected case by case later in addition of liaison members such
as APAN, DANTE, and QUAD.  This leads to other organizations such as CCIRN to
have to focus on the global (research) network interconnection.

Regarding the cost sharing issue, the final report was made with recommendation
for European networks to contact Edcause, the newly merged organization of
Educom and CAUSE on this issue.  I don't expect this does not produce much
output in future.  The best part is that we agreed on the final report on this
issue, and we don't have much argument in future meetings.

We will have final GIBN Pilot Project meetings in the following ways;

1998.12.2-4 Washington, D.C.
To develop core agreement on the next phase, GIBN Forum by having 
two-days' workshop followed by GIBN Meeting.

1999.4/5
To develop broad agreement including future members.  Thus, we will
have the final GIBN Meeting as an open meeting with an open workshop.

Since G7 beccame G8 with Russsia's join, GIBN meeting this time had Russian
members;

   Dr. Alexei P. Platonov, Director, Russian Institute for Public Networks
   Translater
   Mr. Nickolay V.Gusev, Department Chief, Ministry of Science and Technology
   
Dr. Platonov explained on his network connecting Moskow and St. Petersberg to
Siberia; Novosivirsk now and Nahotka/Habarovsk by the end of this year.  This
backbone network will have capacity of 6 Mbps or more.  They have international
links through Finland, and Germany.  The USA link would be 2 Mbps and will be
jointly funded by NSF, called MirNet.  We discussed on the link between Russia
and Japan/Korea, possibly using RJK cable.  1999 may be the right time to have
the link.

Japan-Canada satellite link of 45 Mbps had impressive demonstration of
open heart surgery over MPEG 1 over ATM over satellite and CA*net2.  45 Mbps
was splitted into two 22.5 Mbps(actually up to 28 Mbps).  The video was very
clear and suggests usability of 45 Mbps for this purpose.  All 19 applications
were listed in GIBN home page.

I made two progress reports; 
APAN(Asia-Pacific Advanced Network), and
CCIRN(Coordinating Committee of Intercontinental Networking)

Attachment:

1. Agenda
2. Minutes(to be available later)
3. Output document on organizational issue(to be available later) 
4. Final report on cost sharing issue
5. Application list