Network Nebraska Meeting Notes

http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/

May 15, 2013 - 1-3PM (Video Conference)

Video Conference (164.119.46.1##5300)

Agenda Items:

1. John Stritt and Debbie Schroeder welcomed the NNAG members to the meeting and conducted the Roll Call and Introductions and asked if there were any Agenda Additions or visitors present.

A) 13 Members present

a. John Stritt, ESU 10 (ESU 10 site)

b. Bob Uhing, ESU 1 (ESU 1 site)

c. Caroline Winchester, Chadron Public Schools (CPS site)

d. Scott Jones, ESU 16 (ESU 16 site)

e. Kirk Langer, Lincoln Public Schools (LPS site)

f. Mike Danahy, ESU 2 (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

g. Debbie Schroeder, UNK (ESU 10 site)

h. Gene Beardslee, Peru State College (PSC site)

i. John Dunning, Wayne State College (WSC site)

j. Jason Degn, College of St. Mary (CSM site)

k. Mike Carpenter, Doane College (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

l. Lyle Neal, Southeast Community College (SCC-Milford site)

m. Tom Peters, Central Community College (ESU 10 site)

B) 3 Members Absent

a. Rob Hanger, District OR1-Palmyra/Bennet

b. Betty Getzfred, Pope John XXIII-Elgin

c. Michael Ruhrdanz, UNL

C) 4 Liaisons Present

a. Rick Golden, UNCSN (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

b. Brad Weakly, UNCSN (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

c. Ben Mientka, UNCSN (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

d. Tom Rolfes, OCIO/NITC (Lincoln Varner Hall site)

2. March 28 Meeting Notes (http://nitc.nebraska.gov/NNAG/meetings/index.html)

A) John Stritt reviewed the meeting notes from the 3/28/2013 NNAG meeting.

3. NNAG Membership 2013-14 Update

A) Co-Chairs 2013-14 Deb Schroeder - Postsecondary and John Stritt - K12

B) Members voted 12-0 to retain Deb Schroeder and John Stritt as NNAG Co-chairs for the 2013-14 year.

4. Liaison Reports impacting NNAG discussion

A) CAP Meeting Review--Rick Golden deferred his report until later in the agenda

B) Legislative, E-rate updates --Tom Rolfes gave a quick legislative update on LBs 495, 497, 511, 566. Only LB 497 will be acted upon with a study of the use of lottery funds in summer 2014.

5. NNAG Committees Updates

John Dunning recommended some subcommittee topic changes of merging Identity Management and the InCommon Pilot Project. John also recommended moving Intrusion Prevention Services from “Emerging Technologies” to “NN Application Services”.

A) Committee membership guidelines

a. At least one NNAG member from K12 and Post-secondary

b. A liaison member tied to the committee topic

c. Other interested member(s) from K-20 community.

B) NNAG Committees:

a. Governance (Co-Chairs Deb Schroeder and John Stritt)

+Budget (Deb Schroeder, Scott Jones, Jason Degn, Tom Peters, Ron Cone, Tom Rolfes--data gatherer)

Projected 2013-14 Budget

Participation Fee)

Interregional Transport Fee)

K-12 Internet Access

Brad Weakly and Tom Rolfes gave an overview of the Participation Fee budget and explained all the changes and the outstanding cost variables such as CPS. The NNAG overwhelmingly supported the adherence to the current fee

+Memorandum of Agreement (John Stritt, Deb Schroeder)

+NNAG Membership (John Stritt, Deb Schroeder)

+Collaboration with outside groups - e.g. PSC, legislature (SuAnn Witt)

+NN Membership Guidelines (i.e. Grand Island Public Library)

Grand Island Public Library is reaching the end of their 2-year free deferral of Network Nebraska fees. John Stritt will speak with Steve Fosselmann about starting up their fees for 7/1/2013.

b. Emerging Technologies (John Dunning & Mike Danahy)

+IPv6

+Firewalls

+Identity Management

+Classroom Flipping, BYOD—to be removed?

+Big Data Transport

+Intrusion Prevention Services (Brad Weakly, Ben Mientka)

Brad Weakly explained the Fortinet IPS service and Procera traffic shaper upgrade. The BYOD and 1:1 initiatives are affecting the network with more bandwidth, so some form of upgrade may be needed during 2013-14 for Traffic Shaping. The second item is the Fortinet IDS/IPS devices, which was also selected by UNCSN for their IPS needs. The licensing is very favorable for education and government. There is no per-user licensing cost at all—just hardware. The technology is ASIC-based or a hardware firewall. Unite Private Networks and Hurricane Electric will be the primary pipeline for recipients of IPS services.

+InCommon pilot project (Mike Danahy)

Mike Danahy gave an overview of the InCommon national Pilot Project for Network Nebraska. UNCSN will be helping with the pilot that involves NNNC and GNENC. The InCommon “circle of trust” made a lot of sense for K-12 in Nebraska and nationwide to emulate this structure in the spirit of sharing. The Open Education Resource movement and reduction of costs are big drivers. The possibilities seem limitless. The implications for higher ed are substantial. The EDUCAUSE EduPerson schema will be used to model the K-12 staff and student schema. Next steps involve the GNENC and NNNC moving forward with the other pilot participants to achieve federation within Nebraska and between states. Besides Jordan Clark from ESU 10, John Stritt asked if others would be interested in monitoring the pilot project. Tom Peters volunteered Keith Vincik from CCC, and Rick Golden volunteered his University staff. Mike Carpenter volunteered Dan Schneider from Doane College. Shibboleth Training will be held, soon, with up to 20 participating, with 12 from K-12. Mike Danahy will be sending out some webinar links about identity management and federation to the group of interested individuals.

c. NN Application Services (Bob Uhing, Mike Carpenter, Kirk Langer)

+Internet2/Commercial Peering Service (CPS) (Brad Weakly)

Brad explained the CPS service and answered questions from the NNAG members. K-12 and higher ed were definitely in favor of the CPS service.

+Traffic Shaping

+Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery

+Shared Services

+BlendEd (Bob Uhing)

The ESUCC approved implementation of the Safari Montage servers at 18 locations to begin the week of May 20. The ESUCC approved a steering committee for implementation of the project. The expectation is that all hardware will be up and running and ready for the fall semester. Additional discussions have been had about the transition from Angel to Blackboard. The ESUCC also offered a contract to Scott Isaacson to help with the single sign-on and directory services project management. John Stritt asked what impact will the LOR have for post-secondary? The annual fee for Safari Montage is $50/building/year. Higher ed will be able to participate at a similar rate.

+Legislative update - LMS/CMS - Single Sign-on

+Learning Object Repository (Ron Cone)

+Caching Server (Brad)

d. Marketing (Chair: John Stritt - SuAnn Witt)

+NN Web site (John Stritt, Tom Rolfes)

Tom Rolfes reported that the Network Nebraska website project was to be worked on after the OCIO and NITC website redesign projects were finished and that we expect to have a working demo of the new Network Nebraska website by the next regularly scheduled meeting.

+Survey (Lyle Neal, Caroline Winchester)

+Participation Profile (Mike Danahy, SuAnn Witt)

6. Other committee Reports:

A) Community College (Tom Peters and Lyle Neal)

a. Lyle Neal communicated the MoA to all 6 community colleges.

B) State College (Gene Beardslee)

a. Gene Beardslee reported that the redundant fiber has been laid to Peru and should be active in the next month or so.

C) Private College (Jason Degn and Mike Carpenter)

a. Jason Degn reported that the new CIO for Hastings College is very interested in Network Nebraska. Mike Carpenter mentioned the August meeting in Grand Island for the higher ed CIOs.

D) ESUCC (Bob Uhing)

a. No report.

E) DEC (Scott Jones)

a. Scott is helping reinforce the MoA return from participating schools. New classes will be coming up on Network Nebraska. Statewide bridge testing occurred in April.

F) NOC (Mike Danahy)

a. No report.

7. Consider - What are other states doing in support of statewide educational networks?

A) John Stritt gave a report from the USDLA Conference in St. Louis in April. The Utah Education Network presentation was striking in that they deliver similar services but with an estimated $4.3 million state-provided budget. John asked if the NNAG would be interested in a guest presentation from neighboring networks on a bimonthly basis, with a limit of ~30 minutes. Members were supportive of the concept.

8. Special meeting - June - Budget Approval

A) The Co-Chairs recommended an early June meeting to finalize the agenda to be able to recommend it to the OCIO. June 10-11?

9. Next regular meeting – end of July

A) Utah Education Network special presentation

B) John will send out a Doodle Poll to determine best date.

The meeting adjourned at 2:53pm.

Meeting notes were recorded by Tom Rolfes and reviewed by John Stritt and Debbie Schroeder