Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:22:44 -0400
From: Don Riley <drriley@umd.edu>
Subject: CENIC Mission and Goals
To: Northern Tier Networking <northern-tier1@lists.services.wisc.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Maryland
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Just for edification....

CENIC's mission is to facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment and operation of a set of seamless and robust intercampus communications services capable of supporting advanced research and education applications in order to further California's leadership in higher education and research.

CENIC's is committed to the following goals:

1. Overseeing the deployment of a robust, cost effective, state-of-the-art intercampus communications infrastructure and supporting resources accessible to all institutions of higher education in California;

2. Facilitating high quality operational support for the new infrastructure;

3. Coordinating the development and promulgation of common protocol standards and practices among participating institutions to ensure end-to-end quality of service and interoperability;

4. Ensuring that the advanced communications infrastructure can be utilized fully and effectively by the institutions it serves;

5. Enabling the study of a variety of cost recovery models for the delivery of advanced communications services and their potential impact on the institutions it serves;

6. Catalyzing partnerships with governmental agencies and the private sector to facilitate availability of pre-competitive communications services and equipment in support of advanced information technology applications;

7. Representing the common interests of the institutions it serves in leveraging relationships with vendors and in working with statewide and national governmental bodies;

8. Advancing the national network communications infrastructure through active participation in Internet-2 and other initiatives



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