GA(15)015
Overview of outstanding actions
(a) Vienna GA
Action
A 03 – 01
Description
The Board is to propose rules for which
parts of the Minutes should be kept
confidential.
Who
Board
A 03 – 02
The Board is to consider the options for
further merger of the Association and
Limited to a single legal entity.
Board
See agenda
item 9
A 03 - 03
The Board is to prepare proposals for
continuing the work carried out to date by
the EICC, the TIC and the SIC within the
new governance structure.
Board
See agenda
item 12
A 03 - 04
The EC should be informed by the Board
that GEANT is opposed to the splitting of
funding for GÉANT operations and
development.
The CEO is to contact the EC at DirectorGeneral level to confirm the funding period
for GÉANT in the 2016-17 Work Programme
The Board is to invite a representative of
the EC to attend a future meeting of the
GEANT NRENs.
Board
Done
CEO
Ongoing
Board
Done
The Board is to progress the creation of a
GÉANT Project Planning Committee as
described in GN401-15-002, with elections
for its membership to be held in Porto.
The Board is to take steps to develop a
description of the governance structure,
including the responsibilities of each body
and the relationships between them.
The Board is to set up a working group in
order to develop a proposal for any
revisions to the present voting scheme
appropriate for dealing with the future
additional business of the Association. The
working group is to bring its proposal to the
GA meeting in Porto.
Board
See agenda
item 12a
Board
See agenda
item 12c
A 03 - 05
A 03 - 06
A 03 - 07
A 03 – 08
A 03 – 10
Deadline
November GA
meeting
Status
Open
See agenda
item 6
(b) Old NRENPC actions
Action
A842
Item
5
Description
Ensure the same co-
Who
TC
Deadline
31/03/2015
Status
Ongoing
1
A928
5
A1018
5A
A1103
6
ordinator signs
both the FPA
and the first
SGA, for
consistency
Prepare the Open
Exchange, Peering
and External
Connectivity
policies for
communication
externally, for
approval by the
Exec prior to
dissemination.
Approach the EC to
explain GÉANT’s
role in Clouds, what
we propose to do in
future, and how our
activity differs from
that of other eInfrastructures
Recommend to
GÉANT Association to
review its voting
scheme and the other
crucial issues
regarding the
governance structure
(and the process to
transfer the NRENPC
terms of reference
into the Assembly of
the GEANT
Association) so as to
render it suitable for
use for decisionmaking for the type of
business hitherto
conducted by the
NREN PC
NA2
15/09/2014
Closed,
business as
usual
DO
31/10/2014
Closed, in
hand
GÉANT
Association
Board
17/01/2015
In progress
(c) Vienna NRENPC actions (actions not mentioned were moved to GA actions, see above)
Action
A1170
Item
8
Description
Amend the proposed
Consortium
Agreement based on
the discussion during
item 8 of the NREN PC
Vienna Meeting and
circulate the amended
version within 1 week,
providing 2 weeks for
comments, with the
aim of the CA being
ready for use with
SGA1
Who
NH
Deadline
01/04/2015
Status
DONE
2
A1172
10
TC and BvP to arrange
an appropriate email
list to take the place of
the NREN PC mailing
list
TC and BvP
14/04/2015
Open (will
be done
when
@geant.org
mailing lists
are
available)
(d) Old GN3plus Assembly actions
Action
Item
Description
Who
Deadline
Status
A1036
7E
Make minor
amendments to the
GÉANT Letter of
Support procedure:
remove mention of
DANTE in light of the
decision to move to
the GÉANT
Association; place
responsibility on the
Association secretariat
in general, rather than
the DANTE GMs, to
fulfil requests.
GN3plus Exec
20/11/2014
Board
A1093
4B
In view of cost
pressures on the
network, impress on
network users the
need to make
ambitious use of the
network facilities
available.
Assembly NREN members
27/02/2015
In progress
A1094
4B
Provide data showing
the cost of developing
each GÉANT service,
compared to usage of
the resulting
production service
PMO
16/02/2015
In progress
A1095
4B
Prepare complete
portfolio listing of
GN3plus and GÉANT
Association services
PMO
16/02/2014
In progress
A1098
7
Regular presentations
on cost effectiveness
will be provided at
GN3plus Assembly
meetings
GN3plus Exec
11/03/2015
In progress
3
(e) Vienna GN3plus Assembly actions
Action
A1177
Item
5A
Description
Responsibility for
ensuring the fulfilment
of actions A1094 and
A1095 to be moved to
the GA Board due to
the limited remaining
time for which the
GN3plus Exec will
continue to operate
now.
Who
TC
Deadline
03/05/2015
Status
Done
4