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Minutes From The November 3, 2005 Bimonthly meeting

 


Agenda
Participants
  1. Agenda bashing
  2. EMail Diagnostics
    • Questions that need to be answered?
      • From level 1 and 2 diagnosticians
      • From the perspective of the user
    • What are all the events that need to be collected?
  3. EDDY and Abeline (incorporating NetFlow events)
    • Questions that need to be answered?
      • From the NOC
      • From the researchers
    • What are the scale issues?
  • Chas DiFatta - CMU (chair)
  • Paul Hill - MIT
  • Michael Gettes - Duke
  • Mark Poepping - CMU
  • Matt Zekauskas - Internet2
  • George Brett - Internet2 (scribe)

NOTE: Minutes of the meeting could not be transcribed due to a problem with the teleconferencng system.

1. Agenda bashing

2. EMail DIagnostics

A discussion was led on the identification of types of diagnostic data that would be useful for the email diagnostician. The data types are as follows,

  • top talkers
    • servers
    • clients
    • owners of clients
  • classic log errors, i.e. smtp, sendmail, cyrus, pop, client, etc.
  • indirect errors such as network problems
  • sharing reports with on-campus departments about their member usage
  • end users
    • where am I relative from the perspective of other users usage (anonymized identiy)
    • How much spam do i get relative to other users
    • How much spam do i get

3. Abeline and Security Diagnostics

A discussion was led on using Abeline data to feed researchers in the security diagnostic domain. The topic that were discusses are as follows,

  • Anonymization of the data rearchers use at this time/li>
  • Who uses the data now
  • Multicast anonymization
  • RENISAC and their presination of data
  • Matt will produce an outline on the above topics by next meeting

The call ended.

 
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