BULK TRANSPORT WG Meeting
Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Attendees:
Stanislav Shalunov 
Steven Senger
Chet Rusczyk
Eric Boyd
Jeff Boote
Warren Matthews
Susan Evett (scribe)

Meeting started at 12:05 p.m. CST. 

Stanislav called the meeting to order. He announced that, because he was leaving 
Internet2, the group would need a new co-chair or be disbanded. He recommended taking 
the API draft to final before he left in January 2007.

The group discussed potential chairs – it was agreed that Injong Rhee had not taken an 
active role as a co-chair for the past year but that it was up to Stanislav to ask him if he 
wished to step down. Steven Senger agreed to take Stanislav’s seat as co-chair and, if 
Injong did not wish to continue as co-chair, Chet would take Injong’s role. The WG has 
an existing charter and support (flywheel and scribe); this will not change with 
Stanislav’s stepping down.  The group developed a series of action items for going 
forward, listed below.

Stanislav reported to the group on the VFER demo and bandwidth challenge entry at 
SC06; while VFER didn’t win the bandwidth challenge, the code put out 2 Gig, which is 
better than ever before.

Chet reported that e-VLBI did initial testing with a small pilot data transfer project where 
the bandwidth on the path was limited, in some places, to 100 Mbps. The group agreed 
that the outcome of the test, with supporting data, would be very useful to evaluate VFER 
in a ‘real-life’ setting.

Meeting adjourned at 12:30 p.m. CST.

ACTION ITEMS:
1.	Stanislav is to ask Injong whether or not he wishes to continue as WG co-chair 
and alert him to the changed role of Steven.
2.	Stanislav is to ask Ivan (VFER developer) if he requires more changes to the draft 
API.
3.	Steve is to check to insure all changes to API requested by Ivan (to date) have 
been made.
4.	Stanislav is to verify that agreement has been reached, issue a ‘last call’ and 
declare API as final.
5.	Stanislav is to forward web pages to Susan to maintain