In the future, The MetrANOVA consortium will act as a team supporting those engaged in network measurement and analysis endeavors within the research and education (R&E) community. As a result of our efforts to achieve the stated goals below, the following will be true:
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Networks employ data-driven design and operations to make the most of their investment.
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Engineers have supportable tools, techniques, and tactics to execute effectively.
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A collaboratively developed and sustainable technical ecosystem exists that supports a diversity of needs.
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Large, well-funded, and modest-scale networks can leverage our efforts.
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An ecosystem based on open and loosely coupled architectures without dependency on cloud services will exist.
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While encouraging innovation, production-ready building blocks and design patterns will facilitate quality services.
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The consortium will leverage expertise from invested organizations and individuals to advance the collective’s network measurement goals more effectively together than apart.
Goals
MetrANOVA’s goals are to:
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Provide tools, tactics, and techniques to the community.
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Develop and share open architectures, technical components, design patterns, best practices, and policy recommendations to create effective network measurement systems.
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Facilitate the ability to generate multi-data source composite views of R&E cyberinfrastructure.
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Educate the R&E community to enable effective use of network measurements for operations, engineering, planning, and outreach.
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Create learning and growth opportunities for students and staff.
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Coordinate with other community and industry efforts as appropriate
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Provide technical and policy primitives to support controlled sharing.
Non-Goals
MetrANOVA will not:
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Develop policy governing the sharing of measurement data by members and affiliates.
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Facilitate sharing of data beyond the production of technical and policy primitives to support controlled sharing.
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Create or operate production services or federations of services.
