[AG-TECH] AG1 to AG2 Transitional Plan and Timeline

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

> This email outlines the plan we have for transitioning away from the AG1
> infrastructure and supporting solely the AG2 infrastructure by year-end.
> Some of the goals of this plan are:
>
> 	- migrate the community to the latest reliable software
> 	- schedule to coincide with university summer schedules,
> 	  so the transition doesn't impact production use during the
> academic year.
> 	- ease the support load on the AG Dev Team
> 	- provide long enough transition time to enable all AG1
> 	  users to find appropriate time to upgrade
>
> Here is the timeline of the transition we are planning on following:
>
> May 4, 2003:
> 	Moratorium on the creation of all AG 1 Venues, and AG 1 Bridge
> registrations,
>      as announced at the May Town Hall.
>
> June 4, 2003:
> 	Start AG2 Production Institutional Venue Service.
> 	  - Service Details:
>            Limited Support
>            No Bridging Services provided, but institutions can run their
>              own bridges against their own venue
>            1 Venue per Institution
>            No Security/Authorization
>
> September 3, 2003:
>      AG 1 Institutional Venues (and their AG1 Bridges) are turned off.
>
> December 1, 2003:
>      AG 1 Core Venues and remaining AG 1 Bridging are turned off.

Sorry if I'm just adding noise to the list, but I couldn't find the status of
these items.  How are things progressing compared to this projection?

jh

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