Packet marking

- Scitags RCS-IT: project proposal to deploy Scitags in production in collaboration with WLCG and CERN storage team was discussed last week

- Firefly (R&E) dashboards 
   - Now that DC24 is over we can check deployment at Jisc
   - Updated ESnet dashboard:
        - Has exp/act shown correctly
        - New filter for site selection 
        - Flow duration graphs
   - TODO: Transfer rates (bytes/duration)

- Collectors
    - DC24: Scalability testing of the ESnet collector 
    - Andy proposed an updated architecture for sofware collectors
        - We would rely on Kafka bus to exchange traffic between collectors (instead of UDP, see screenshot attached)
    - New (site)collector developed and deployed at CERN during DC24
        - Uses UDP input plugin instead of beats+syslog, more efficient (no file reads)
        - Uses UDP output plugin to forward (can be used by Jisc to forward to ESnet)

Storage developments:
- Bugfixes in XRootd scitag HTTP headers  (in 5.6.7)
   - https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/v5.6.7/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt
- EOS 5.2.18 with scitags support
    - https://eos-docs.web.cern.ch/diopside/releases/diopside-release.html
- TODO: Open ticket with StORM and Pelican
 

Packet pacing
- DC24: BBR deployed on some production nodes in ATLAS and CMS