Other agency programs will complement and leverage the Quorum program in developing advanced network services, QoS, and security technologies. The highly automated services envisioned in this task lead to the goal of building strong security mechanisms into the components. Planning and Simulation Planning large network interconnections is at present mainly a manual process that is not tied to any runtime tools or distributed efforts. Under this subtask, a network planning description language will be developed as a community standard. The plan can be validated against the requirements Requirements can be maintained during the life cycle of the resulting network Monitoring, Control, and Display Network engineering and management requires tools for gathering and analyzing data and for issuing control commands based on the results.
Current practice uses planned analysis based on protocol headers and aggregated statistics.
This subtask will take on the challenge of presenting runtime analysis based on distributed communication patterns and communication speeds so high that they would overwhelm current tools. The management stations will demonstrate the scalability nature of the design and its capability to adjust to varying levels of granularity of information, organizational responsibility, and active versus passive monitoring and control. Analysis and control functions will work smoothly among cooperating organizations, and the ability to implement wide area, distributed interoperation will be demonstrated as an ongoing NGI effort. The management software will work in a tightly bound interlock with new strategies for controlling data delivery in networks. In addition, schemes that use generalized or alternative addressing methods will be explored.