Slides on administrative issues

1. Welcome and Apologies
› Apologies were received from:
› Peter Rastl (ACOnet), Zvonimir Stanic and Vlado Pribolsan
(CARNet), Jan Gruntorad (CESNET), Agathoclis Stylianou
(CYNET), Leif Laaksonen and Klaus Lindberg (CSC), Dany
Vandromme (RENATER), Kees Neggers and Boudewijn
Nederkoorn (SURFnet), Jan Weglarz and Stanislaw Starzak
(PSNC), Pedro Veiga and José Fernandes (FCCN), Zoran
Jovanovic and Slavko Gajin (AMRES), David Foster (CERN),
José Fernández and Giuseppe Ziccardi (ESA), Brian
Carpenter and David Martin (IBM), Yves Poppe and GeertJan Spelde (Teleglobe).
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Andijana Prskalo Macek represents CARNet with proxy
Janne Kanner represents CSC with proxy
Artur Binczewski represents PSNC with proxy
Walter van Dijk represents SURFnet with proxy
› Observers:
› Werner Koblitz (ACOnet), Krassimir Simonski (SAITC, BG),
Baiba Kaskina (LATNET), Tim Marshall (UKERNA), Kyriakos
Maifoshis (CYNET)
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2. Approval of Agenda
› The GA is asked to approve the agenda
(GA(07)003).
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3. Minutes of 26th GA meeting
› The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the
26th General Assembly meeting, which was held in
St. Julian’s (Malta) on 20 October 2006
(GA(06)024r1).
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4. Membership matters
4a. Admission of new members (GA(07)009)
› The GA is asked to admit BREN as the National
Member for Bulgaria in category 2, effective from
receipt of the membership fee for the first year,
with a membership fee of 0.6 units and 6 votes in
the TERENA General Assembly.
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4. Membership matters
4b. Changes in membership (GA(07)008)
› The GA is asked to admit RoEduNet as the
National Member for Romania, replacing RNC.
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4. Membership matters
4c. Changes in representatives
› BREN: Kiril Boyanov (representative), Petar Iliev
(substitute)
› RoEduNet: Sergiu Iliescu (representative),
Octavian Rusu (substitute)
----› ESA: José Fernández (representative), Giuseppe
Ziccardi (substitute)
› Teleglobe: Geert-Jan Spelde (substitute)
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4. Membership matters
4d. Outstanding membership fees
organisation
ctry
2005
2006
2007
total
IUCC
IL
19,772
19,772
ANSTI/RNC
RO
21,529
21,529
MARNET
MK
1,780
1,780
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2,723
2,723
45,805
45,805
ESA
Cisco Systems
total
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5. TERENA formal matters
5a. Adoption of financial accounts 2006 (FIN(07)002)
› The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial
Accounts 2006
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5. TERENA formal matters
5b. TERENA Annual Report
› The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive
Committee’s Annual Report 2006, including the
report on the Secretariat
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6. TERENA Technical Programme
› A report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory
Council and an update on the TERENA Technical
Programme will be presented orally.
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7. Executive Committee elections
Vice-President for Technical Programme
Valid nominations:
› Christoph Graf (nominated by GARR, seconded by
ACOnet)
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Member
Valid nominations:
› Alberto Pérez (nominated by GARR, seconded by
HUNGARNET)
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8. Conferences and workshops
8a. TERENA Networking Conference 2007, Lyngby
› An oral report will be given on the preliminary
results from the TERENA Networking Conference
2007
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8. Conferences and workshops
8b. TNC 2008, Bruges, 19-22 May 2008
Programme Committee:
› Diego López (RedIRIS, ES) chair
› Hansruedi Born (SWITCH, CH)
› Jacqueline Brown (University of Washington, US)
› Andrew Cormack (UKERNA, UK)
› Baiba Kaškina (LATNET, LV)
› András Kovács (HUNGARNET, HU)
› Mike Nelson (IBM, US)
› Mikael Linden (CSC, FI)
› Ligia Ribeiro (University of Porto, PT)
› Dale Robertson (DANTE)
› Esther Robles (RedIRIS, ES)
› Koen Schelkens (BELNET, BE)
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8. Conferences and workshops
8c. TNC 2009, Málaga, 8-11 June 2009
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9. TERENA Secretariat matters
› Karel Vietsch
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John Dyer
Valentino Cavalli
Kevin Meynell
Licia Florio
Cătălin Meiroşu
Guy Van Den Bergh
Dick Visser
Christian Gijtenbeek
Gijsbert Sliedrecht
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Bert van Pinxteren
Laura Durnford
Wilma OverdevestFinancial
Carol de Groot
Jim Buddin
Bertine Lokhorst
Hanna Cherigui
Tonia Bos
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Secretary General
Chief Technical Officer
Deputy Chief Technical Officer
Project Development Officer
Project Development Officer
Project Development Officer
Project Development Officer
Senior IT Support Officer
Webmaster
Webmaster
Chief Administrative Officer
Public Relations Officer
Administrator
PR & Conference Officer
Workshop Organiser / Project Management Assistant
Data Analyst
Secretary
Assistant Bookkeeper
10. Update on the History Book
› An update on the preparations of a history book
will be presented orally.
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11. Update on the work of TF-LCPM
› An update on the work of TF-LCPM will be
presented orally.
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12 Liaisons
12a. CCIRN
› Next CCIRN meeting: Saturday 25 August 2007
(or Sunday 26 August 2007) in Xi’an, China
› Europe can send a delegation of maximum 7
people, to be appointed by the TERENA Executive
Committee
› Who would be interested to participate?
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13. Next meetings
› Riga, 26 October 2007
› Bruges, 22 May 2008
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14. Any Other Business
› Sending the GA meeting documents (BvP)
› Inputs / data / information from NRENs for EARNEST study to
be sent now (SJR)
› Inputs requested for the TEC’s TERENA Activity Plan 2008 (DO)
› Reminder about TERENA Compendium data (BvP)
› Inviting NREN managers to TNC gala evening and closing
session (SJR)
› New name for UKERNA (TM)
› Farewell to Claudio Allocchio and Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia (DO)
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Close
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