Harnessing IP for Critical Communications Using Precedence (HICCUP)
Meeting Notes


Purpose
The purpose of the meeting is to bring together people interested in critical 
communications to describe the problem space, give some examples where critical 
communications are needed, and provide venue to exchange ideas on how to move 
forward.

Meeting Name HICCUP Ad-Hoc Meeting

Location Congress I (Prague CZ)
March 20, 2007


Agenda:

* Agenda bashing (5 minutes)
* Proposed Charter Overview - (5 minutes) chair
* US DHS/NCS (10 minutes)
* NATO (10 minutes)
* US DoD GIG (10 minutes)
* General Discussion (20 minutes)

Minutes: Archana Vemulapalli

Summary:

Mr. Fred Baker (Cisco) opened the Ad-hoc meeting by discussing the scope of the HICCUP effort.  
Through the meeting, Mr. Baker encouraged attendees to formulate problem statements to document 
different areas of concern before moving towards building a charter. It was recommended that 
HICCUP mailing list members write up the problem statements as an Internet draft. Some 
suggested questions were –

* What is the scope of the problem?
* What is the threat model?
* What are the actual expectations for various applications?
* What are the mechanisms we are going to need to meet those expectations?
* Where are the delays going to be?
* How do we make sure the network doesn’t become vulnerable?


 Mr. Brian Rosen spoke about EMS IP based communications. He discussed the effort to provide 
emergency services on an IP network and the work being done by ENRICK 7 focus group. Mr. Rosen 
described emergency situations where the Police, Fire Department or Medical services would need 
to communicate with higher priority. The concern highlighted by Mr. Rosen is the need for emergency 
services to try to preserve private network characteristics in a public network. 

Mr. Antonio Desimone (NII/ DoD-CIO) discussed the Global Information Grid’s (GIG) role as 
an organizing construct to pull together all DoD networks and applications. The GIG connects 
to other networks: coalition, NATO, Federal, State and Local, and commercial. Mr. Desimone 
expressed interest in moving towards a common approach to talk about precedence for the GIG 
and interconnected networks. 

Mr. An Nyugen (NCS) talked about the dependence of National Security and Emergency Preparedness 
on public communication networks to facilitate recovery operations for natural or man made 
disaster events. Mr. Nyugen outlined his concerns with specific focus on the need to provide 
end-to-end priority and to provide security to ensure authorized ETS.
	
Mr. Pratik Bose (LM) and Mr. Chris Christou (BAH) both stated the need to develop a requirements 
draft that would capture the expectations of various agencies.  Mr. Dennis Berg stated that there 
is an effort underway to address priority over public networks.  Jon  also recommended clarifying 
the charter for the proposed HICCUP BOF by further describing the scope and impact to different services. 

In conclusion, Mr. Baker again asked all participants to begin problem statement formulation and 
encouraged participation in the HICCUP mailing list. The HICCUP list will be sent to the IEPREP list 
and information of charter will be sent out as well. 



Action Items:

Item
Assigned To
HICCUP Mailing List information should be sent to the IEPREP list - Kimberly King
Develop Problem Statement - All Agencies in attendance
Send proposed Charter Information to IEPREP list