TERENA General Assembly meeting, Catania 18-19 May 2006

1. Welcome and Apologies

Apologies were received from Zvonimir Stanic and Igor Velimirovic (CARNet), Jan Gruntorad (CESNET), Agathoclis Stylianou (CYNET), Enzo Valente and Claudia Battista (GARR), John Boland (HEAnet), Jan Weglarz and Stanislaw Starzak (PSNC), Kees Neggers and Boudewijn Nederkoorn (SURFnet), Dany Vandromme (Renater), Andrea Baldi (ESA), Brian Carpenter and David Martin (IBM), Jean-Marc Uze (Juniper), Karel Vietsch (TERENA)

Proxies:• Vlado Pribolšan represents CARNet with proxy• Kyriakos Maifoshis represents CYNET with proxy• Perhaps Claudio Allocchio will represent GARR with proxy• Artur Binczewski represents PSNC with proxy• Ton Verschuren represents SURFnet with proxy

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2. Approval of Agenda3. Minutes and Actions List

• The GA is asked to approve the agenda

• The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the 24th GA meeting (Budapest, 21 October 2005)

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4. Membership Matters4a. Admission of new members

• The GA is asked to admit IUCC as National Member for Israel, in membership category 4, with 30 votes

• The GA is asked to admit Extreme Networks as an Associate Member of TERENA

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4. Membership Matters4b. Changes in Membership

• There are no requests for changes of membership

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4. Membership Matters4c. Changes in Representative

• IUCC: Eli Peleg (representative), Asher Rotkop (substitute)

• Extreme Networks: Gerrie de Jongh (representative), Jan Hof (substitute)

• RED.ES: Tomás de Miguel (representative), Alberto Pérez (substitute)

• SWITCH: Christoph Graf (representative)• HUNGARNET: Tamás Máray (substitute)• GRNET: Tryfon Chiotis (substitute)• 3Com: David Huggett (representative),

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4. Membership Matters4d. Outstanding Membership Fees

Organisation ctry 2004 2005 2006 total

ANSTI/RNC RO 19,316 19,316

U. Belgrade/AMREJ CS 1,461 1,461

MARNET MK 1,461 1,461

3Com 2,547 2,547

Cisco 2,435 2,435

IBM 2,002 2,002

total 29,222 29,222

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5a. Adoption TERENA Financial

Accounts 2005

• The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial Accounts 2005

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5b. TERENA Annual Report

• The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive Committee’s Annual Report 2005, including the report on the Secretariat

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6. Technical Programme

A report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory Council and an update on the TERENA Technical Programme will be presented verbally.

A status report on the Server Certificate Service pilot will be given.

A presentation will be given on the REFEDS initiative.

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7. Discussion on lifecycle and portfolio management

A short presentation will be given about lifecycle and portfolio management.

This will be followed by a round-table discussion, in which GA members will be asked to say a few words on how such matters are handled in their own organisation.

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8. Executive Committee Elections

Vice-President for Conferences

Valid nominations:• Miroslav Milinović (nominated by UKERNA, seconded by

ARNES)

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Treasurer

Valid nominations:• Lajos Bálint (nominated by Renater, seconded by ARNES)

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9. Foresight Study status

Verbal report on the latest status of the EARNEST study activity

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10. Conferences and Workshops10a. TNC 2006, Catania

Verbal report on the preliminary results from the TERENA Networking Conference 2006

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10. Conferences and Workshops10b. TNC 2007, Lyngby 21-24 May 2007

Programme Committee:• Thomas Schmidt (TU Berlin, DE) chair• Hansruedi Born (SWITCH, CH)• Andrew Cormack (UKERNA, UK)• Felix Kugler (SWITCH, CH)• Mikael Linden (CSC, FI)• Ingrid Melve (UNINETT, NO)• Dan Mønster (UNI•C, DK)• Michael Nowlan (Trinity College Dublin, IE)• Esther Robles (RedIRIS, ES)• Koen Schelkens (BELNET, BE)• Brian Vinter (University of Copenhagen, DK)• Steve Wallace (Indiana University, US)• ………..

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11. TERENA Secretariat Matters

Karel Vietsch Secretary GeneralJohn Dyer Chief Technical OfficerValentino Cavalli Deputy Chief Technical OfficerKevin Meynell Project Development OfficerLicia Florio Project Development OfficerCătălin Meiroşu Project Development OfficerDick Visser Senior IT Support OfficerJeroen Houben Senior WebmasterChristian Gijtenbeek WebmasterBert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative OfficerJoanne Barnett External Relations OfficerWilma Overdevest Financial AdministratorCarol de Groot PR & Conference OfficerJim Buddin Workshop Organiser / Project Management Assistant Maarten de Jong Data AnalystAukje Bakker SecretaryErkan Mengi Assistant Bookkeeper

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12. Update on TF-PR

Verbal update on the work of TF-PR

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13. Discussion on budgets in 7th Framework Programme

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14. Liaisons

• Verbal report on the CCIRN meeting in Arlington, 26-27 April 2006

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15. Next Meetings

• GA 26, 20 October 2006 in Malta

• GA 27, 24-25 May 2007 in Lyngby

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16. Any Other Business and Close