Inquiry on AG 2 - Unicast

[Ivan R. Judson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:20 PM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: 'Mary Fritsch'
> Subject: RE: Inquiry on AG 2 - Unicast
> 
> At 11:43 AM 3/17/2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> >1) We have a bridging solution in AG-2 so that probably 
> addresses their 
> >concern about moving, they can still unicast. The sets of venues we 
> >bridge in ag1 and ag2 should probably be synchronized (bob can you 
> >generate a list and send it in this thread?), I'm guessing 
> the lists are pretty close.
> 
> I thought we already had these aligned.

I believe this is true; the oddness being the surprise below :-)
 
> >2) Why in the world are we msb bridging ncsa venues? That seems like 
> >something that should have come up for discussion so I had an 
> >opportunity to dissent -- I might have been out voted, but 
> not having 
> >the chance to disagree is an extremely frustrating situation.
> 
> We've been doing this for at least a couple years just for 
> the PNL folks. 
> The issue is that their firewall folks are very restrictive, 
> but would open up a conduit to ANL (since ANL is another 
> national lab). The NCSA venues are there because they have a 
> need to connect to meetings held in those venues.

That makes sense, it's a special case we should probably have documented
somewhere. Do we have other special cases that we are supporting?

--Ivan