=== Topic 4  GENI I&M Measurement Plane and Interfaces ===

Team members:
  Harry Mussman* – BBN/GPO  (yes)[[BR]]
  Ezra Kissel – Univ Delaware  (yes)[[BR]]
  Chris Small - Indiana Univ  (yes)[[BR]]

  *agreed to organize first writing and discussion

Consider:
  IP network[[BR]]
  Layer 2 (VLAN) connections[[BR]]

Discuss:[[BR]]
  Which protocols are active[[BR]]
  Access to resources in aggregates, even when resources are in private address space, via GWs or proxies[[BR]]
  How to provide authentication and authorization[[BR]]
  How to provide QoS to protect measurement traffic[[BR]]
  How to provide QoS to protect other traffic when measurement traffic is large.[[BR]]
  Reserve bandwidth?[[BR]]

Martin on 6/28:  Consider XSP (extensible session protocol) to provide transport layer GW functions.