[LINK] Vocational Network proposal without AARnet or IPv6

[Skeeve Stevens]

Tom,

Have you tried to connect to AARNET as a small educational organisation?  The cost are quite high and they aren't exactly friendly about it.

...Skeeve

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-
> bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Tom Worthington
> Sent: Sunday, 21 February 2010 8:07 PM
> To: Link list
> Subject: [LINK] Vocational Network proposal without AARnet or IPv6
> 
> The Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace
> Relations has issued a Request for Expression of Interest for a $80M
> Vocational Education Broadband Network (VEN). The RFI is deficient in
> not addressing inter-working with Australia's existing educational
> network (AARnet) and not providing IPv6.
> 
> The network was announced by the Prime Minister 22 April 2009, in
> response to the 2020 Summit. The new backbone will interconnect the
> state TAFEs and other vocation training organisations. There is a
> requirements document available for downloading (366 KByte, Ms-word
> format): Document ATM ID DEEWR EOI PRN24590, 18 February 2010:
> <https://www.tenders.gov.au/>.
> Some excerpts at:
> <http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2010/02/vocational-education-broadband-
> network.html>.
> 
> 
> NO MENTION OF AARNET
> 
> What is not clear from the RFI is why Australia needs a second national
> education network backbone. The Australia Academic and Research Network
> (AARNet) is run by a not-for-profit company to connect Australian
> universities and the CSIRO: <http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us.aspx>.
> 
> AARNet already connects many vocational educational providers in
> Australia, were these are provided in conjunction with universities.
> The
> RFI document does not explain why this existing network should be
> duplicated and does not even mention AARnet.
> 
> NO REQUIREMENT FOR IPV6
> 
> The RFI document specifies the use of the IPv4 address space. This
> address space is reaching its limits. Other deficiencies with IPv4 have
> been identified, particularly security and IPv6 was developed to
> address
> this. AARnet supports IPv6 and IPv4. The lack of any mention of IPv6
> for
> the  vocational network appears to be a serious flaw.
> 
> LACK OF COORDINATION OF VOCATIONAL AND HIGHER EDUCATION POLICES BY THE
> AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
> 
> Data networking is one example of a general lack of coordination of
> resources between vocational and higher education in Australia. The
> Australian Government is funding duplicated programs for e-learning in
> the vocational and university sectors. These separate parallel programs
> are working on essentially the same requirement and coming up with the
> same answers. This is a waste of resources.
> 
> 
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> Tom Worthington FACS HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
> PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia  http://www.tomw.net.au
> Adjunct Lecturer, The Australian National University t: 02 61255694
> Computer Science http://cs.anu.edu.au/user/3890
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