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6 Implementation     Table 1:   The time schedule for this project. The milestones are marked with a *. 6.1 Tools We are in the process of deciding which tools will be used to implement this project. Clock: we are currently investigating which cards are available on the market. Test-boxes: our plan is to use off-the-shelf industrial PC's running BSD Unix. Plot package: Two packages are being considered: The CERN-library tools (which includes a DST-mechanism) and PGPerl, a PERL extension to the PGPlot package. Database: For the first prototypes, we plan to use a home-grown database. At a later stage, a commercial product will be considered. 6.2 Time Schedule The basic approach is that we want to start with a test bed (see section 5). This setup will be built during the summer of 1997. Data taking will start in the late summer. If the test bed is a success, we will try to find a handful (10...30) ISP's who are interested in having a test-box installed at their sites. These boxes will be used to test of the order of 100 connections, where the number of 100 is set by the data volume that can be handled without major investments in storage devices. This setup will start running early 1998. Several ISP's, both from the RIPE community and from those participating in the TERENA TF-ETM working group [8], have shown interest in hosting our test-boxes. After this setup has proven to be a success, we will develop a plan to include more ISP's and connections. A more detailed plan of deadlines and milestones can be found in table 1.

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