Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 9:00 a.m. Meeting Agenda
Video Conference Sites [Neb. Rev. Stat. § 84-1411(2)]
Host site: Lincoln Executive Building, Room 103, 521 S. 14th, Lincoln
Remote: UNMC, MSC Room 3029, 42nd & Emile, Omaha
Remote: Wayne State College, NATS Conference Room, 1111 Main St, Wayne
Remote: ESU 10, 76 Plaza Blvd., Kearney
Remote: ESU 13, 4215 Avenue I, Scottsbluff
Remote: Southeast Community College, Eicher Bldg IVC
Room, 600 State Street, Milford
VOTING MEMBERS/ALTERNATES PRESENT:
Dr. Terry Haack, Co-Chair, Bennington Public Schools (Lincoln Site)
Mr. Mike Carpenter, Doane College (Lincoln
Site)
Mr. Greg Maschman, Alt. for Clark
Chandler, Nebraska Wesleyan University (Lincoln Site)
Mr. Matt Chrisman, Mitchell Public
Schools (Scottsbluff Site)
Mr.
Jeff Johnson, Centennial Public Schools (Centennial-webcam)
Mr.
Gary Needham, Educational Service Unit 9 (Kearney site)
Mr. Steven Stortz, Alt. for Stephen Hamersky,
Daniel J. Gross Catholic High School (Wayne Site)
Ms. Mary Niemiec, University of
Nebraska (Lincoln Site)
Dr. Bob Uhing, Educational Service
Unit 1 (Wayne Site)
LIAISONS/ALTERNATE MEMBERS PRESENT
Dr. Kathleen Fimple, Alt. for Dr.
Marshall Hill, Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (Lincoln
Site)
MEMBERS/LIAISONS ABSENT: Mr. John Dunning, Wayne State College; Mr. Ed Hoffman, Co-Chair, Nebraska State College
System; Ms. Yvette Holly, UN-Medical Center; Dr. Mike Lucas, York Public
Schools; Mr. Lyle Neal, Southeast Community College; Mr. Randy Schmailzl, Metropolitan Community College; Mr. Jeff
Stanley, Conestoga Public Schools School Board; Ms. Brenda Decker, Office of
the CIO; Mr. Brent Gaswick, Nebraska Department of Education; and Mr. Gary
Targoff, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
CALL TO ORDER, ELECTRONIC POSTING,
LOCATION OF OPEN MEETING LAW DOCUMENTS, ROLL CALL, INTRODUCTIONS
The Co-chair,
Dr. Haack, called the meeting to order at 9:04 am. There were seven members
present at the time of roll call. A quorum was not present at the time of roll
call. After roll call was taken there were two late arrivals at which time a
quorum existed to conduct official business. The meeting notice and agenda were
posted to the Nebraska
Public Meeting Calendar on October 18, 2013.
The meeting agenda was posted to the NITC Web site December 16, 2013.
CONSIDER
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR THE DECEMBER 18, 2013 MEETING
Ms. Niemiec moved to approve the
December 18, 2013 as presented. Mr. Carpenter
seconded. Roll call vote: Carpenter-Yes,
Maschman-Yes, Chrisman-Yes, Haack-Yes, Stortz-Yes, Johnson-Yes, Needham-Yes,
Niemiec-Yes, and Uhing-Yes.
Results: Yes-9, No-0,
Abstained-0. Motion carried.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE OCTOBER 16, 2013 MEETING
Ms. Niemiec moved to approve the
October 16, 2013 minutes as presented.
Mr. Uhing seconded. Roll call
vote: Uhing-Yes, Niemiec-Yes, Needham-Yes,
Johnson-Yes, Stortz-Yes, Haack-Yes, Chrisman-Yes, Maschman-Yes, and Carpenter-Yes. Results:
Yes-9, No-0, Abstained-0. Motion carried.
PRESENTATION: INCOMMON PILOT PROJECT
BY ESUCC ON NETWORK NEBRASKA-EDUCATION, S. Isaacson & M. Danahy
The
overall goals of the learning environment is to make
technology more accessible, easier to use, easier to manage and make it more
secure. Identity management definition
consists of three components:
·
Authentication
(are you who you say you are?)
·
Personal
data (what do we know about you? name,
role(s) in your organization, other defining information)
·
Authorization
(what are you allowed to access?)
Independent
user accounts have been set for different services available. Almost all school districts and higher
educational institutions have their own file servers. Attempts to consolidate information all in
one location is challenging. Before the
concept of confederation was being considered, the Educational Service Unit
technical staff decided to establish an LDAP Work Group. The vision of the LDAP Work Group was to link
directory systems statewide and to develop common schema extensions and
practices to consolidate identities.
There are some single sign-on systems in the state.
The InCommon Pilot Project has reached national
recognition. Nebraska is one of eight
K-12 pilot states exploring and defining what InCommon membership will look like for K-12
institutions. Currently, the University of Nebraska has four campuses and
Central Administration that are InCommon
participants. There are initial
conversations with Wayne State, Northeast and Southeast Community Colleges.
There are five Educational Service Units and four service providers identified
to test federation. The federation idea
builds on the concept of a common framework of trust without matching up
directories. Directories can be
different but have agreed upon attributes and requirements. Security is vital and needs a high degree of
collaboration with K12 and higher institutions.
Internationally, Estonia and the Netherlands are ahead of the game. Partnerships and collaboration are important
building blocks.
Mr. Rolfes
stated that if the project is wanting to address the identity
management standards and guidelines, that these are typically recommended by one
of the NITC Advisory Groups through the Technical Panel and eventually approved
by the NITC. Mr. Rolfes was given a copy
of the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) document called
Transforming Data to Information in
Service of Learning for the Council’s reference.
Council
members were given an opportunity to share comments and ask questions. In six months, the project will provide an updated
report.
PRESENTATION: MOBILE
PULSE APPLICATION TO MEASURE WIRELESS BROADBAND ACCESS
Cullen
Robbins and Gene Hand, Public Service Commission
The Public
Service Commission, the Office of the CIO and the University of Nebraska have
been partnering in a broadband project.
Mobile Pulse is an application that tests download and upload speeds at
unique locations on carrier networks and/or wi-fi and
uploads data to Mobile Pulse’ secure site.
Mobile Pulse is a free public application that citizens can download onto
their smartphone or there is an advanced version that transmits more data. The advanced version is also free but there
are limited licenses available. Both
have dashboard functionality.
The Public
Service Commission is seeking partners that would utilize and distribute the
dashboards for up to 25 users. There is
no financial obligation.
Summary of Solution for States: Solution for States
·
On-going,
real-time mobile testing for whole state
·
Control
of data (raw data for analysis/map)
·
Accurate,
real-world results
·
Enterprise
solution for drive tests
·
Benefit
to all levels of government, public safety, and FirstNet
planning
·
Easy
deployment
·
Cost
effective solution
Council
members were given an opportunity to share comments and ask questions. To facilitate communication about Mobile
Pulse, Dr. Haack recommended that Public Service Commission work with Mr. Rolfes
to send a notice out to the council members, as well as to work with ESU’s and
Nebraska Education Teachers Association which includes 2,300 educators.
Mr. Hand
gave kudos to Mr. Rolfes for the community anchor institution broadband data gathered
in 2010 from Nebraska schools and colleges (www.broadbandmap.ne.gov) . Other states are
having difficulty collecting their information and were
wanting to know what Nebraska did to get such a comprehensive set of
circuit data from K-20 education.
NITC STATEWIDE
TECHNOLOGY PLAN
2014-2016 Network Nebraska (9 action
items), Digital Education (9), E-Gov (1) Action
Items
The Nebraska
Information Technology Commission approved the Council’s action items on
December 10th. Mr. Rolfes
complimented the Council on their input and detailed information regarding
their action items.
Consider Assignment
of Action Items to EC Task Groups
Council members
and their alternates who were not assigned to any task group were asked to
review the work group information and then inform Mr. Rolfes which group(s)
they would want to participate. For future meetings there will be a time
scheduled for each task group report
TASK GROUP REPORTS
Most of
the Task Groups had not met since the last council meeting so no reports were
provided. Task groups can expect that at least part of the April 16 meeting to
be spent working in groups.
NETWORK NEBRASKA-EDUCATION REPORT
RFP
4582 was
released on December 11, 2013. The Request
for Proposal included 29 circuits, with 8 alternative paths for northeast
Nebraska colleges that may not be part of Network Nebraska but may be shared
between Northeast Community College and Wayne State College, and 21 K-12
circuits. As an interim solution, Network Nebraska will be purchasing aggregation
circuits for ESUs 3, 5 and 6 that would become part of the backbone. Network Nebraska will be able to discontinue
one aggregation circuit on June 30, 2014.
The new internet rate will be available to Network Nebraska purchasers
on 7/1/2014 and could be as low as $1.46/Mbps/month. Once this is done, as many as 28 new K-12
entities [ESU 3,13 schools; ESU 4 & 6, 14 schools) could join Network
Nebraska which would make the K-12 public participation above 99%. Membership could
increase by 10% which may mean more reductions in participation fees. The RFP will be opened on January 17, 2014
In
December, Commercial Peering Service was made available through Internet2. The current cost to Network Nebraska-Education
is $ .25/Mbps/month x 3,000Mbps = $750/month.
The Network Nebraska cost recovery surcharge will be $ .07/Mbps/month x
10,714 Mbps = $750/month. Intrusion Prevention
is a set of enterprise appliances that Network Nebraska has purchased to
provide a first layer of security and protection. Entities will supplement with additional regional
and local security appliances. At the
next Network Nebraska Advisory Group meeting, disaster recovery and business
continuity will be discussed, as well how to formalize and develop policies for
participation and fees.
SUBSECTOR UPDATES
State Colleges. No update.
Community Colleges. No update.
Independent Colleges. No update.
University of Nebraska.
Jim Zemke shared that the University is an InCommon partner.
The project has been beneficial in moving forward with federation and
single sign-on processes. At the Network
Nebraska Advisory Group meetings, there has been a lot of discussion regarding
services, how to administer these services, and how to charge for services. At the last NNAG meeting, Utah Education
Network presented their project which is totally funded by the state and has
113 FTEs. There are no participation
fees.
K-12 public & private.
Dr. Uhing reported that
the Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council has been discussing learning management
systems in regards to how do we train teachers, how can training be supported, and
how is training shared with K-12 sectors.
There are nine Network
Nebraska schools involved in the Nebraska Department of Education’s Data Dashboard
pilot testing. Security and identity
management is a concern. ESU’s are
making progress on systems that would benefit the implementation of enterprise
or statewide services. Most ESUs have implemented Safari Montage for videos and
content. Private schools may be interested in Unified Threat
Management (UTM).
AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE 2/19/2014
MEETING/CONSIDER LOCATION FOR THE 2/19/2014 MEETING
The
Council asked for a Commercial Peering Service and Intrusion Prevention Service
update at the 2/19/2014 meeting. Council members were asked to send additional agenda
items to Mr. Rolfes. The February 19th meeting will be via videoconferencing
due to the unpredictability of the weather.
Mr. Stortz moved to adjourn. Mr. Maschman seconded. All were in favor. Motion carried.
The
meeting was adjourned at 10:57 am.
Meeting
minutes were taken by Lori Lopez Urdiales and reviewed by Tom Rolfes of the
Office of the CIO/NITC.