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Some of the work has been done in this area by Jisc - they have a Strategic Alliance with CERNET, which could potentially be expanded for other GÉANT members. Internet2 has agreements with CERNET and KISTI; GARR is work in progress.                                                                                                                                                                    

Technical Barriers

William Wan, CERNET

One other 'Big Issue' that needs to be taken into consideration when talking about TNE is technical barriers. William grouped those digital divides into 4 main groups:


ChallengesSolutions
CONNECTIVITY

• International line could be costly and not stable  

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• Exploring R&E networks 

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INTEROPERABILITY

• IPv6 and other technological issues
• Identity management and authorization issues

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• Standards
• eduGAIN needs to be explored

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OPERATIONAL

• Institutions might not have the right peering policies with multiple internet connections
• Licensing issues 

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• Try to optimize with R&E network infrastructure
• Vendor specific 

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REGULATIONS

• Government policies  (e.g. Firewall, etc.)
• Sending hardware crossing boarders can be expensive and time consuming

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• In-country knowledge is key
• Purchase locally 

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Suggested services that need to be develped to address the challenges are end-to-end support and 24/7 service desks.

Tools, toolkits and resources

Esther Wilkinson, Jisc

The main tasks of this workstream are to

  • identify tools and resources already in existance, 
  • to develop a suite of tools and resources
  • and to understand requirements of tools and resources to more directly support education institutions or policy stakeholders in the NREN country

to enable NRENs to support TNE, individually and globally and enable accesability.

Esther presented a few examples of existing tools and information sharing platforms that can be used or adopted by NRENs, such as:

A couple of areas that this group could work on to add onto the abovementioned resources are collecting and publishing country specific info and writing up more success stories for the 'In the Field' blog and other media.

Next steps

• Steering Committee to develop SIG-TNE Workplan based on todays discussions and share on SIG Wiki
• Survey SIG-TNE members on Workplan contents and call for contributors
• Plan and communicate next meetings of SIG-TNE every six months  (on or around November 2017, then TNC18)
• Continue to develop SIG-TNE Wiki site resources