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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Mark Alexander Davis-Craig/Merit
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- Minutes of the Low-Cost IP Hardware Wish List BOF (LOIP)
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- Mark Davis-Craig chaired the BOF in place of Laura Breeden. The charge
- of the Group was to come up with a wish list of what we'd like to see in
- a low-cost piece of IP hardware, and to give that list to FARNET.
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- We had the critical mass necessary for a good 2.5 hour discussion with
- adequate representation from network providers, vendors, and people
- trying to connect K-12.
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- We made the following recommendations:
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- o FARNET should submit an RFI to vendors with requirements stipulated
- by FARNET members (network providers) and not with requirements of
- those who may ultimately use said box for their Internet
- connectivity.
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- o An inventory of today's existing solutions should be taken.
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- o A matrix of costs and responsibilities should be created to help
- buyers of network access make good choices with respect to the
- balance between low-cost and low-maintenance.
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- With that data, FARNET should be able to bundle some ``startup kits'' of
- software and hardware for various environments to make it easier for
- small institutions to get connected.
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- The unedited comments, which were written on transparencies at the
- meeting, follow. I intend to rewrite them later in a more coherent
- fashion. Editor's Note (md): A complete listing of the ``unedited''
- comments is available via ftp under loip-minutes-93mar.txt. Refer to
- Section 1.2 of the Proceedings for retrieval instructions.
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- Attendees
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- Mark Davis-Craig mad@merit.edu
- Sallie Fellows sallie@ed.unh.edu
- Terry Gray gray@cac.washington.edu
- John Hascall john@iastate.edu
- John Klensin klensin@infoods.unu.edu
- Daniel Long long@nic.near.net
- Paul Lustgraaf grpjl@iastate.edu
- Bruce Nelson bnelson@novell.com
- David O'Leary doleary@cisco.com
- Roy Perry rperry@advtech.uswest.com
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