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Dear All,                                                                                                                                                 20050115 1415

This is the beginning of a new site intended to be the working home of both The Bethlehem Alliance and the natural extension of the public benefit regional IP-video development work of the University at Buffalo's Western New York High Performance Networked Video Initiative (WNY-HPNVI). It seems likely that it will also start to include support material for some activities of the WNY Partnership for Regional Internetworking (WNY-PRI), which grew out of the WNY-HPNVI. Not to worry about the various groups and hard-to-say names. At the end of the day, we're all trying to do the same thing -- to realize the large and compelling public benefit promises for next generation Internet applications and technologies in education, healthcare, the arts and government service.

Among the most promising next generation applications and technologies are those loosely referred to as IP-video and they are the primary focus of most of our early adopter groups.   Our general common objectives are to illuminate the edges of the envelopes of practicality in order to accelerate cost effective and meaningful deployments that deliver tangible public benefit results. Our methods are low-cost, entirely facilitative and supportive efforts that serve to increase development rates and to reduce service delivery times.

These are the first few hours of this site's life; please treat it as you would an infant -- with tolerance and expectations for continuing change. I'll be using it for a while as an unpublicized on-line shared repository of material of value to some of the people and groups starting to form around this effort. As time permits, I'll also try to nudge the site towards more of an easy to use and maintain presence and support facility for all of our various constituencies: interested passers-by, newcomers, veteran early adopters, technical support resources, project working groups and decision makers. To the extent that occurs, it will be slow and over a long time. Please bear with me. This is not my particular forté.

Best Regards,

Jim

James O. Whitlock
Associate Director of Computing Services
Director, WNY High Performance Networked Video Initiative
University at Buffalo
Computing and Information Technology
104e Computing Center
Buffalo, NY    14260

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20050114 WNY-HPNVI Site Archive On-Line:

The last production WNY-HPNVI site archive is now on-line. It's a simple copy/paste from archived material and you should expect broken links and other issues for a while -- possibly forever. :-) The last production site was supported on a Cisco IP/TV Content Manager Web server and that's been awaiting time and justification to be-build for several years now.

I've put the archived site on-line here now because it includes a lot of the history and background material that is still relevant and that may be of some use to those now engaged in extending our developmental work within the Bethlehem Alliance.

The direct link right into the site Archive is: http://www.BethlehemAlliance.org/WNY-HPNVI/

As time permits, I'll publish a new higher-level index page and will also repair broken links as I find them.

The Bethlehem Alliance Facilitating Public-Benefit Next-Generation Internet Development

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Facilitating Public-Benefit Next-Generation Internet Development