Network Nebraska Meeting
Notes
http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/
November 1, 2012 - 1-3PM CT
(Video Conference)
K12 Attendance:
Alliance Public Schools: Dan Hoesing
ESU 01 (Wakefield): Bob Uhing
ESU 02 (Fremont): Mike Danahy
ESU 10 (Kearney): John Stritt
ESU 16 (North Platte): Scott Jones
ESU 18 (Lincoln): Kirk Langer
Pope John XXIII: Betty Getzfred
Not present: Mike Kvanvig
Higher Ed Attendance:
U of N: Debbie Schroeder (Kearney)
U of N: Mike Ruhrdanz (Lincoln)
State Colleges: Gene Beardslee
(Peru)
State Colleges: John Dunning (Wayne)
Community Colleges: Lyle Neal (Milford),
Community Colleges: Tom Peters (Kearney)
Independent Colleges: Jason Degn (streaming)
Not present: Mike Carpenter
CAP/staff Liaisons present:
Walter Weir, Rick Golden, Tom Rolfes
(Lincoln-Varner), Leona Roach, Brad Weakly (UNCSN)
Agenda Items:
John Stritt opened the meeting at 1:01pm CT.
1. Welcome - Roll Call and
Introductions and Agenda Additions (visitors)
a.Roll call from 12 sites
found 14 members, 5 CAP/liaisons present, with 2 absences.
2.
September 12 Meeting Notes (http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/index.html)
John reviewed
the meeting notes from the September 12 meeting.
3. NNAG Charter Approval Draft (Deb Schroeder)
Added - The operational
year is July 1 through June 30
Debbie
reviewed the recent suggested changes to the Charter with the new operational
year as being July 1 through June 30. Lyle
Neal moved, Jason Degn seconded, to add July 1 through June 30 to the NNAG
charter. Yes-12, No-0, Motion Carried.
4. *Review history of Network
Nebraska and NNAG (John Stritt)
John reviewed the paragraph
from the NNAG charter and the OCIO fee memo that dealt with the origination of
the Network Nebraska Advisory Group (see end of meeting notes). John recalled
that a list of 40 items from then-Wayne State CIO, Dennis Linster,
to State CIO, Brenda Decker, helped provide the impetus for the Education
Council to charter the advisory group to provide strategic input to the State
CIO about how Network Nebraska should be managed.
5. Reports (Reports impacting
NNAG discussion)
CAP
Network Nebraska Update (Rick Golden)-Rick reported that
outside of a few interruptions of service on the network, that everything has
been stable.
Membership Update (Tom Rolfes)-Tom reported that the
apparent end of the LB 1208 equipment reimbursement may cause some of the
non-participants to join the network in spring 2013. Also, one nonpublic school
and one private college are considering network membership if the
cost-to-benefit ratio is favorable.
RFP, E-rate (Tom Rolfes)-Tom reported that the
upcoming RFP should be posted in mid-November and be opened in mid- to late
December. SuAnn will assist the OCIO in filing the federal E-rate documents to
accompany the RFP. Tom also reported that the last of the Forms 479 for
Internet safety compliance and the Letters of Agency have been collected from
all the K-12 entities for 2013-14.
Marketing Survey (SuAnn Witt)-SuAnn Witt was not
present but did provide the draft copy of the Network Nebraska Marketing Survey
Report. http://nitc.ne.gov/ec/meetings/documents/2012.10.17/NNSurveyReportDraft_2012.pdf
John
asked that the NNAG members review the survey report and make suggestions and
comment for incorporation in the December 2012 version.
Education Council (Tom Rolfes)
Tom reviewed the results of
the technical and programmatic review of the NETC project, 47-04, and ESUCC-01,
the BlendED Initiative. The Ed Council voted to give Project 47-04 a
Tier 2 priority and the ESUCC-01 a Tier 1 priority for the Governor and
Legislature.
ESUCC (Bob Uhing)
Bob Uhing
reported that the BlendED Initiative has been
conceived as a standards-based software deployment rather than naming a single
software product. Bob also reported that there is a new BlendED
advisory committee that is considering a K-16 focus instead of just a K-12
focus.
ESU DEC/NOC Advisory
Committee
DEC Report (Scott Jones)
Scott Jones reported that
the DEC also discussed the BlendED initiative. Scott
reported that Senator McGill is considering a change to the LB 1208 language
affecting the incentives. Nov. 5-9 is distance learning week.
NOC Report/Help Desk (Mike Danahy)
Leona Roach reported that
were off to a slow start with the iSupport software.
No trouble tickets have been submitted, yet, but Leona wants to make sure that
the system is operating properly and is sending notices out to all named
technicians. Technician status allows a person to cut their own trouble tickets
and also view trouble Network Nebraska trouble tickets similar to ones own.
Mike Danahy has requested 1 hour on the Nov. 29 ESU-NOC agenda to kick off the iSupport system. Mike has been working with Jordan Clark
from ESU 10 on the directory services schema to be able to demonstrate by Dec.
1.
Post-secondary
Organizations (Community, State, Private Colleges)
Community - (Lyle Neal, Tom Peters)
Lyle reported that the
community colleges have not met since August but are very interested in the
statewide repository, if not also the learning management system from the BlendED initiative. Tom Peters mentioned that Mike
Carpenter and he had met with Rick Golden about the prospect of disaster
recovery services. UNCSN has been doing a pilot project with a few institutions.
Private - (Jason Degn, Mike Carpenter)
Jason reported that the
Independent Colleges business officers met and seemed very interested in
Network Nebraska. The CSM vice-president of development termed Network Nebraska
as the solution for college residential and recreational use.
State - (Gene Beardslee,
Jon Dunning)
No report.
6. NNAG Committees (*Chair
of committee):
2012-13 Budget - *Schroeder, Golden, Cone, Dunning,
Peters.
No report.
NN Participation Profile Expanded Committee - Witt, Danahy, Langer, Schroeder,
Weir, Hoesing
Service Level Agreement
(SLA) recommended updates. (SuAnn Witt)
** (SLA Document)
John explained the recommendations provided by
SuAnn Witt related to the SLA (found at the end of the meeting notes) and
recommended acceptance of all suggested edits and changes. John asked if any
progress has been made on the participation profile. No additions were
available. The vote on the acceptance of
the SLA edits was tabled until the next meeting.
Web Design Review - *Kvanvig,
Rolfes, Stritt
Tom
reported that the Office of the CIO has other projects ahead of the Network
Nebraska website project but that a set appointment to discuss a timeline with
the web developers could put the project back on track.
IPV6 - *Dunning, Meainke, Danahy, Langer, Hollman, Christensen, Haffener,
Wooters.
John Dunning reported that
the IPv6 group has not met recently. John asked whether we wanted to make this
an advanced technologies group. John hoped to have an IPv6 conversion timeline
ready for the next meeting. John mentioned cloud services as the next big
issues for service roll out on Network Nebraska. Wayne State College had a
denial of service attack earlier this year and recommended that Network
Nebraska take some pro-active action to prevent any further attacks.
Debbie asked about
Internet2 eligibility for services and whether SEGP members are able to take advantage
of Internet2 offerings. Mike Ruhrdanz related that UNL is the only recognized
entity that has Internet2 voting privileges and is termed the Internet2
connector. Internet2 Net+ services are eligible only for Internet2 members.
Mike said that it would be more cost-effective if each Network Nebraska entity
that was interested to pay for a licensed service, at around $10,000-$12,000
per year (e.g. by ESU). The next NNAG
meeting will include the Net+ program offerings, amount of bandwidth to
Internet2 GigaPop, and the amount of commodity
Internet traffic that is being passed on a daily basis.
7.
Committee
reorganization - Please complete the
committee organization survey
John Stritt asked that each
member and liaison respond to the committee organization survey. John asked for
suggestions to re-organize our committee work. IPv6 and firewalling will be
moved under Network Nebraska emerging technologies and have Internet2, LMS,
CMS, traffic shaping, etc... be moved under
application services. Web design should be moved under marketing. Network Nebraska
membership will include participation profiling, cost
recovery. Governance will apply to the governance of the NNAG. John will revise the survey and send out to
the NNAG. Members can be on more than one subcommittee.
8. Agenda Items for next
Meeting
SLA Edits & Approval
Committee plan for 2012-13
Web Design
ESU-NOC update on iSupport
Internet2 bandwidth and
services
9. Next Meeting Date - Week of
January 28-February 1
John and Debbie adjourned the meeting at 2:43 pm.
*History of NNAG
Network Nebraska - 2007
NNAG organized in July 2009
Reports to CIO and other
related committees (Ed Council, CAP, ESUCC, DEC, etc)
Membership - 8 K-12 (7
original members), 8 post-secondary (3 original members), CAP liaisons,
NITC/NDE reps. Others interested in meetings can
participate in meetings.
Meetings scheduled on a
bi-monthly or as needed basis.
All meetings held over
video conferencing as open meetings is not a
requirement.
OCIO bridge
supports meetings.
Streaming available for
others interested in participating through browser.
Major focus - Review NN
budget, monitoring NN upgrades, NN membership, NN services, NN awareness (web
site, membership, survey), monitoring network
evolution, update charter.
**SLA Recommendations from
SuAnn Witt
The SLA has appeared on the
NNAG agenda since March 2012 with no action and in
other committees for some time
prior to that. Therefore, I think NNAG, as the advisory
group to the OCIO, needs to --
1. Discuss whether or not
the SLA is valuable to both the service providers (OCIO et al) and
member/partners. (I say yes)..
2. If it is determined to
be of value, review and approve any changes/modifications.
3. Move to approve the
use of the SLA document as soon as determined
appropriate by the group, or identify
other actions that need to be taken to make
this document valid.
d. Communicate its
recommendation(s) to the OCIO.
Suggested updating of SLA
process:
1. Recommend that we accept
all deleted word changes.
2. Recommend that Appendix I
be updated
3. Recommend that the document
with above changes be edited to reflect only the comments as suggested.
4. Recommend that NNAG
membership review document prior to January meeting.
Recommend that NNAG
membership discuss recommended changes at January meeting.
Recommend that NNAG
membership vote on approval of recommended changes at January meeting.
5. Recommend that an SLA
committee continue as a review and working group and that at the last meeting
of each NNAG year that they report to NNAG proposed changes to update the SLA
agreement.