Phase One – The Pilot Phase
(January 1, 2007 – May 1, 2007)
| December 2006 | Hire the Project Manager. |
| January 2007 | Complete funding and research agreements. |
| February 2007 | Finalize research team |
| February 2007 | Finalize the MMR Operational and Research Design and obtain Institutional Review Board approval. |
| January – March 2007 | Determine reporting needs including: frequency, content, and audience. Define dashboard of metrics for traffic monitoring over the 18-month study. |
| March 2007 | Finalize vendor selection for traffic monitoring, both for perimeter and selected segments inside the network. |
| March 2007 | Conduct an initial goals-directed behaviors campus-wide survey. |
| March 2007 | Conduct initial focus groups of students. |
| April 2007 | Pilot test network traffic monitoring capabilities and implement the final monitoring configuration. |
| April 2007 | Establish a clear baseline set of traffic data before the end of the spring semester. |
| May 2007 (ongoing) | Establish data collection and distribution plan, including guidelines for protecting the privacy of participants. |
| May 2007 | Hire support staff, including full-time network engineer and research assistant. |
Phase Two – Baseline Data & Social Science Gathering
(May 1, 2007 - December 15, 2007)
| May – August 2007 | Use summer to debug live network. |
| June – July 2007 | In-depth Interviews of 30 students using Mental Models approach. |
| June – July 2007 | Survey Preview 2007 participants. |
| August 2007 | Refine network data elements to be collected during fall 2007. |
| August 2007 | All equipment should be installed and tested for September data collection. |
| August 2007 | Analyze and report out on Phase One baseline network data. |
| August 2007 | Apply for next round of funding/grants. |
| August 2007 | Analyze and report out on Phase One Behavioral data. |
| August – September 2007 | Network Data Collection. |
| November 2007 | Prepare for implementation of legal media services in Phase Three, including identification of services and negotiations with service providers. |
| November 2007 | Plan logistics, staffing, etc. for going live with escalated response. |
| November 2007 | Create birdtrax Web site. – legal media services |
| November 2007 | Develop and test educational module capabilities. Test and be ready for implementation with escalated response. |
Phase Three – Implementation of Legal Services/Escalated Response
(December 15, 2007 – June 30, 2008)
| December – June 2008 | Analyze and report out on Phase Two and Phase Three data before June 30. |
| December – June 2008 | Continue to collect network data and analysis. |
| January 2008 | Activate legal media services, promote registration. |
| January 2008 | Go live with escalated response program and education modules. |
| January – May 2008 | Monitor response of students to legal media services. |
| January – May 2008 | Monitor response of students to escalated response system. |
| January – May 2008 | Respond to encryption counter-measure. |
| May 2008 | Identify Illinois State policies for discussion and reconsideration. |
| May 2008 | Identify industry issues for discussion. |
| May 2008 | Consider not sponsoring university-subsidized legal media services, but using only pass-through options. |
| June 2008 | Introduce birdtrax to Preview students/parents and register new users in June/July 2008. |
| June 2008 | Submit articles and reports for publication/presentations. |
| August 2008 | Focus attention on P2P issues, ISU environment, birdtrax opportunities at Passages (new student orientation) in August 2008 for all new students. |