Working Groups

The PlanetLab community has self-organized into a collection of working groups, each focused on a different aspect of PlanetLab's architecture. The working groups primarily communicate via mailing lists, as well as at periodic face-to-face meetings. 

Architecture Working Group

This working group focuses on the architectural evolution of PlanetLab, including both the OS running on each node and infrastructure services running globally.

• Chairs: Larry Peterson, Timothy Roscoe
• Mailing List: arch@lists.planet-lab.org (  information /  archive  )

Planetary-Scale Commercial Services Working Group

This working group explores the evolution of PlanetLab into an open, federated, ubiquitous platform for hosting commercially relevant services.

• Chairs: Mic Bowman, Rick McGeer
• Mailing List: pscs@lists.planet-lab.org (  information /  archive  )

IT Advisory Board

This working group is designed to get feedback from local site network, system, and security administrators.

• Chairs: Jeff Sedayao Scott Karlin
• Mailing List: it-advisory-board@lists.planet-lab.org (  information /  archive  )

Tools Working Group

This working group focuses on the development of tools that service implementors can use to deploy and manage their services.

• Chair: Robert Adams
• Mailing List: tools@lists.planet-lab.org (  information /  archive  )

Affiliated Community Efforts

There are several efforts loosely affiliated with PlanetLab, many focused on applications or uses of PlanetLab, that have formed their own communities outside the PlanetLab working group structure. They include:

• Network Virtualization
• OpenDHT
• Public Health of the Internet (PHI)

Defunct Working Groups

Mail archives of defunct working groups can be found here:

• Monitoring