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1. Welcome and Apologies (1/2)
Apologies have been received from:› Klaus Ullmann (DFN)› Antoine Barthel (RESTENA)› Kees Neggers (SURFnet)› Jan Weglarz and Stanislav Starzak (PSNC)› Pedro Veiga (FCCN)› Gun Djerf and Hans Wallberg (SUNET) › Jean-Marc Uzé (Juniper)
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1. Welcome and Apologies (2/2)
Proxies:› Petter Kongshaug represents SUNET with proxy› Artur Binczewski represents PSNC with proxy
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2. Approval of Agenda3. Minutes and Action list
› The GA is asked to approve the agenda
› The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the 27th GA meeting (Lyngby, 24 May 2007)
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4a. Admission of new members4b. Changes in membership
› The GA is asked to admit Adva Optical as an associate member of TERENA, effective from receipt of the membership fee for the first year
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4c. Changes in representative
› Klaus Grobe (representative of Adva Optical) and Thomas Schneider (substitute representative of Adva Optical)
-------› Janne Kanner (representative of CSC) and Leif
Laaksonen (substitute representative of CSC)› David Martin (representative of IBM) and Michael
Nelson (substitute representative of IBM)› Erik-Jan Bos (substitute representative of
SURFnet)› Krassimir Simonski (representative of BREN) and
Kiril Boyanov (substitute representative of BREN)
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4d. Outstanding membership fees
organisation ctry debt2005
debt2006
debt2007
total
MARNET MK 1,780 1,780
Cisco 2,723 2,723
total 4,503 4,503
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7. TERENA Activity Plan 2008 (1/4)
Introduction:
› Two main challenges for our community:› Further technical development of research
networking infrastructure and services› Promotion of the use of research networking
infrastructure and services that are available today
› Both challenges require collaboration in the European research and education networking community› Role for TERENA
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7. TERENA Activity Plan 2008 (2/4)
TERENA’s mission and status:
› (strategic vision:) TERENA is first and foremost a collaborative organisation
› Financial status of TERENA satisfactory in recent years
› Medium-term financial prospects matter of concern› In recent years, activity level has grown much more
than income› EU project funding rules are becoming less
favourable› For 2008, a deficit is budgeted› Financial situation in 2009 and beyond uncertain
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7. TERENA Activity Plan 2008 (3/4)
Main developments in 2008:
› Preparation of GN3 project proposal› Continuation of current TERENA work from GN2› Possibly additional roles for TERENA
› Follow-up of the recommendations of the EARNEST foresight study› In a number of areas, EARNEST calls for closer
collaboration between NRENs, campus networkers, end-users› Role for TERENA in facilitating collaboration› See agenda item 10
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7. TERENA Activity Plan 2008 (4/4)
Some new items among the specific plans for 2008:
› Printed TERENA brochure› Disseminate news stories to the press› FEDERICA project (start January 2008)
› New edition of IP Telephony Cookbook› GN2/SA5: European eduroam® confederation
service (start September 2007)
› Workshop(s) on end-to-end issues› NGN workshops on lower-layer issues (start November
2007)
› Workshop(s) on regulatory issues
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8a. Contribution categories of national members
› The GA is asked to decide that
› HEAnet (Ireland) will be in category 5 from 1 January 2008 and, as a phase-in, will pay 5 units as its membership fee in 2008
› AMRES (Serbia) and BREN (Bulgaria) will each pay 0.8 units as their membership fee in 2008
› EENet (Estonia) will be in category 2 from 1 January 2008 and, as a phase-in, will pay 0.75 units as its membership fee in 2008
› MREN (Montenegro) will pay 0.2 units as its membership fee in 2008
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8b. Projected outlook 2007(kEUR) 2006 result 2007 budget 2007 outlook
INCOME
contributions 970 991 994
project income 1350 2052 1922
interest received 65 55 55
other income 4 1 3
TOTAL 2389 3099 2974
DIRECT EXPENDITURE
project costs -1510 -2114 -2000
Technical Programme -32 -58 -54
TOTAL -1542 -2172 -2054
INCOME LESS DIRECT EXPENDITURE 847 927 920
INDIRECT EXPENDITURE
personnel costs -535 -589 -526
other administrative costs -246 -256 -225
TOTAL -781 -845 -751
OPERATING RESULT 66 82 169
financial expenses -25 -22 -20
project results from earlier years -4
INCOME LESS EXPENDITURE 36 60 149
RESERVES AT YEAR START 1111 1147 1147
RESERVES AT YEAR END 1147 1207 1296
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8c. Proposed budget 2008 (1/2)(kEUR) 2007 budget 2007 outlook 2008 proposed budget
INCOME
contributions 991 994 1020
project income 2052 1922 1153
interest received 55 55 55
other income 1 3 1
TOTAL 3099 2974 2229
DIRECT EXPENDITURE
project costs -2114 -2000 -1274
Technical Programme -58 -54 -52
TOTAL -2172 -2054 -1326
INCOME LESS DIRECT EXPENDITURE 927 920 903
INDIRECT EXPENDITURE
personnel costs -589 -526 -735
other administrative costs -256 -225 -306
TOTAL -845 -751 -1041
OPERATING RESULT 82 169 -138
financial expenses -22 -20 -22
project results from earlier years
INCOME LESS EXPENDITURE 60 149 -160
RESERVES AT YEAR START 1147 1147 1296
RESERVES AT YEAR END 1207 1296 1136
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8c. Projected budget 2008 (2/2)
› The GA is asked› to set the membership fee unit for 2008 at 5,027
euro› to adopt the budget for the year 2008 as in
document GA(07)020
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8d. Appointment of auditors for the 2007 accounts
› The GA is asked to re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as the auditors of the TERENA accounts for 2007
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9. Regulatory issues
› National regulators might take a common (unfavourable) position regarding NRENs being public networks. If needed, NRENs to join forces on this.
› The Milne report recommends joint working groups of NREN representatives, organised through TERENA, to clarify good practice in areas like:› Fulfilling telephony obligations for VoIP services› Preventing the spreading of spam› Ensuring network availability› Retaining communication data› Maintaining acceptable use of audiovisual material
› Is there interest in this from NRENs?
› How to organise?
› Proposal: start with a workshop for NRENs about these issues
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10. Possible activities to be organised by TERENA following up on EARNEST study
› The EARNEST reports point to need for closer collaboration between NRENs, campus networkers and end-users on a number of issues. Examples are:› Regulatory issues (see agenda item 9)› Common policies to make end-to-end service provision easier (e.g.
technical coordination, harmonisation of service portfolios, charging principles, SLAs)
› Integrated policies for AAI services› Information exchange about NREN<>campus collaboration› Information exchange and possibly coordination on actions to raise
awareness among users of available services› Information exchange about actions to train campus networkers› Information exchange about actions to train end-users› …..
› Is there interest in these from NRENs?
› How to organise?
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12. Secretariat matters
Karel Vietsch Secretary General
John Dyer Chief Technical Officer
Valentino Cavalli Deputy Chief Technical Officer
Kevin Meynell Project Development Officer
Licia Florio Project Development Officer
Péter Szegedi Project Development Officer from 1 Jan
Dick Visser IT Support Officer 24/39
Christian Gijtenbeek Webmaster
Gijsbert Sliedrecht Webmaster
Bert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative Officer
Laura Durnford Public Relations Officer 36/39
Wilma Overdevest Financial Administrator 28/39
Carol de Groot PR & Conference Officer
Gyöngyi Horváth Conference and Workshop Organiser from 1 Nov
Jim Buddin Workshop Organiser
Hanna Cherigui Secretary
Harriëtte Raaymakers Assistant Bookkeeper 16/39
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