1' Welcome and apologies

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1. Welcome and apologies

• Apologies were received from Dany Vandromme
  (Renater), Lajos Bálint (HUNGARNET), Siavash
  Shashahani (IPM), Jan Weglarz and Stanislaw
  Starzak (PCSS), Stefano Zatti (ESA), Yves Poppe
  (BCI/Teleglobe), ..
• Proxies
• Slawomir Niwinski represents PCSS 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
  17th GA meeting (Limerick, 5-6 June 2002)

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• 4a. Admission of new members
• 4b. Changes in membership
• The GA is asked to note that the TERENA
  membership of FRCU/EUN (Egypt) has been
  terminated from 1 September 2002
• 4c. New representatives

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4d. Outstanding Membership Fees
Member ctry 2000 2001 2002 total GRNET GR 2
8,200 28,200 IPM IR 28,200 28,200 ANSTI/RNC R
O 20,298 20,298 SURIS IS 4,477 5,208
9,685 MARNET MK 5,384 5,384 KPNQwest/EUnet
2,350 2,350 BCI/Teleglobe 2,614
2,614 ------- ------- ------- -------- TO
TAL 0 4,477 92,254 96,731
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5. SERENATE update
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SERENATE basics

• Strategic study into the evolution of research
  education networking in Europe over the next 5-10
  years. Looking into the technical, organisational
  and financial aspects, the market conditions and
  the regulatory environment. Will provide inputs
  to the policy-making of the EC, national
  governments and funding bodies, research
  institutions and research education networks.
• May 2002 September 2003
• Project partners TERENA, DANTE, CTI, Academia
  Europaea, ESF. With strong involvement of
  national research education networks.
• Needs active participation from all stakeholders!

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SERENATEs 14 work items

• Initial Workshop
• Transport Infrastructure
• Regulatory Situation
• Operators Workshop
• Infrastructure Forecast
• NREN Models
• Infrastructure Scenarios
• Equipment
• User Needs
• Overall Strategic Scenarios
• Extensions of Research Networks
• Geographic Coverage
• Final Workshop
• Final Report

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Where are we today?
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Initial Workshop (1)

• took place at La Hulpe from 17-18 September 2002
• 94 participants from national research
  education networks, researchers, government and
  funding bodies, telecom operators, equipment
  manufacturers
• interesting plenary presentations
• researchers, educationalists and librarians
  view
• policies/politics (EP, EC, ENPG)
• the view from the campus (FR, UK)
• the continental view (GÉANT, Internet2)
• optical networking
• problems in real life
• breakout discussion sessions on Technology,
  Economics, Geography, Researchers Needs, Other
  Users Needs

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Initial Workshop (2)

• breakout discussion sessions on five questions
• Security inhibits user-to-user connectivity.
  Discuss.
• Is geographically ubiquitous connectivity for
  European researchers (a) sustainable? (b)
  extensible?
• What should Europe do about connectivity to
  neighbouring areas?
• How should the national research education
  networks community transfer their experience
  and/or expertise to other communities?
• Can (should) we recommend a minimum/average/accept
  able level of service for each European
  researcher?
• plenary session, including preliminary
  impressions

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Initial Workshop (3)

• Some preliminary impressions (1)
• From hardware to services
• Research networking is evolving fast. It is not
  so much just getting hardware connectivity to
  the researchers desk, but it is increasingly
  about delivering a set of services needed by
  researchers (and others). The user wants
  information access, collaborative tools,
  disciplinary Grids. AAA and Web/Grid services
  will be part of the delivery mechanism.
• Research education networks are a resource
• Lots of expertise. Growing understanding by
  government of the importance of ICT as a driver
  for economic prosperity. Growing understanding by
  governments of the value of their research
  education networks expertise. Increasing
  requests to capitalise on that expertise.

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Initial Workshop (4)

• Some preliminary impressions (2)
• Technology
• The optical wave is a powerful one. We need to
  find a coherent approach to the steadily
  increasing amplitude of optical networking.
• Economics
• We need a clear understanding of any regulatory
  barriers that we could face in deploying
  pan-European fibre. Does it matter whether you
  actually own fibre, or lease it on a long-term
  basis, or maybe even lease wavelengths?
• Geography
• There is a conflict between two fundamental
  EU-policy concepts equal opportunities for
  researchers wherever they are (ERA) ?
  subsidiarity.
• Researcher-User Needs
• As much as they can get (and afford). AAA, Grids
  etc.

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Initial Workshop (5)

• Some preliminary impressions (3)
• Other Users Needs
• Could one develop benchmarks for schools,
  libraries, hospitals etc.?
• Policy and funding
• Dialogue with governments and politicians
  (national and European level) needed.
• www.serenate.org/workshop1.html

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Transport Infrastructure

• fact-finding on the transport and infrastructure
  market deployment and trends, incl. pricing and
  availability and market development as well as
  global connectivity issues
• carried out by DANTE and CTI
• started in June 2002
• material GÉANT procurements as one of the inputs
• confidential interviews with European-level
  operators
• study to be completed in November 2002
• taking into account results of Operators Workshop
• report in December 2002

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Regulatory situation

• study into the status of regulatory development
  in
• each of the EU Accession States
• Portugal, Greece
• the other EU Member States as a whole
• carried out by CTI and Antelope Consulting
• started in May 2002 (one month before schedule)
• lot of information already gathered
• study to be completed in November 2002
• report in December 2002

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Operators Workshop (1)

• will take place in Amsterdam on 8 November 2002
• organised by TERENA and DANTE
• directed at traditional and alternative
  operators
• new pan-European operators
• traditional operators that have developed
  pan-European capabilities
• unreconstructured monopolists
• regional operators

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Operators Workshop (2)

• discussion sessions on
• technology Protocol Wars Return of the Circuit
  Switch
• pricing and geography How to close the Digital
  Price Divide in Europe?
• stability of the industry Will we see more
  operators getting into serious problems?
• relations between operators and research
  networks Business relationship or partnership?
• www.serenate.org/workshop2.html

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NREN Models

• case studies on novel infrastructure acquisition
  initiatives
• analytic report
• carried out by CTI
• results to be discussed in workshop aimed at
  NRENs, organised by TERENA on 5 February 2003 in
  Noordwijkerhout (NL)
• started in August 2002
• study to be completed in February 2003
• end-report in March 2003

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Equipment

• study into the availability and characteristics
  of equipment for next-generation networks
• carried out by DANTE and TERENA
• contributions from technical experts from TF-NGN
• started in July 2002
• questionnaire developed interviews with
  equipment manufacturers to take place between 20
  October and 30 November 2002
• study to be completed in December 2002
• report in January 2003

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Researchers Needs

• study of the networking needs of users in the
  European research community
• carried out by Academia Europaea and ESF
• started in August 2002
• Web questionnaire developed and large number of
  researchers invited to respond
• draft report to be discussed in workshop in
  Montpellier from 17-19 January 2003
• study to be completed in February 2003
• end-report in February 2003

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8. TERENA Activity Plan 2003
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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Introduction

• The Activity Plan 2003 is a document of the
  TERENA Executive Committee, describing its plans
  for TERENA for the next year

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003State of the Union

• Europe has established itself as a very major
  player in research and education networking
• Some milestones
• GÉANT
• IPv6 experimental rollout
• Major player in Grids
• Other technical development work (QoS,
  middleware, etc.) is also at the forefront
• Now the time to look at strategic issues for the
  future SERENATE
• How to achieve the ERAs goals of equal
  opportunities for researchers throughout Europe
  need to narrow this digital divide

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003TERENAs mission

• Fostering new activities
• among others, investigating feasibility of ideas
  and developing and piloting new services
• Technical Programme
• support to joint European work in developing,
  evaluating, testing, integrating and promoting
  new networking, middleware and application
  technologies
• workshops and ad-hoc meetings to exchange
  experiences and to plan for joint activities
• Knowledge Transfer
• conferences, workshops and seminars
• knowledge transfer to less-advanced networks
• Promoting members interests
• political, policy and industrial contacts, and
  liaison with other continents

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003State of TERENA

• Facilitator for joint technical work. Increased
  visibility of the organisation.
• TERENA has a small Secretariat to support and
  facilitate activities carried out by the
  community
• Increased participation of the Secretariat in
  Framework Programme projects, co-funded by the
  EC. Creates challenges for the available staff
  and for management and financial administration.
• New projects co-funded by the EC have positive
  effect on TERENAs finances
• Need to consider carefully balance between
  EU-funded activities and other work. Need to
  ensure continuity.

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Priorities for 2003

• Provide inputs to policies of many stakeholders.
  SERENATE and its follow-up.
• Promote participation of the community in FP6.
  TERENA itself also to participate in FP6 project
  proposals whenever appropriate.
• Continue support to successful task forces and
  projects. Develop new activities in Technical
  Programme.
• Take initiatives to support research networking
  in underserved countries.

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Representation of
members interests

• SERENATE
• TERENA Compendium of National Research
  Education Networks
• Continue liaison with EC, ENPG, ICANN
• Continue intensive collaboration with Internet2
• Continue to arrange European representation in
  CCIRN meetings
• Information dissemination via the TERENA website

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Technical Programme (1)

• TF-AACE successful and continuing
• TF-CSIRT successful and growing
• TF-LSD to be limited to tasks related to ongoing
  projects
• TF-NGN successful and continuing with new list of
  activities
• New task force on Mobility to be established
• Initiative for IP Telephony Cookbook project

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Technical Programme (2)

• Follow Grids developments. Support exchange of
  information between Grids and research-networking
  communities.
• Promote discussions on how to organise and
  structure the interaction with the campus level
• Discuss role of NRENs and TERENA in content
  delivery and the integration of content and
  networking services
• Ongoing major projects Adding Certificate
  Retrieval to OpenLDAP and Directory Schema
  Registry
• New edition of the GNRT to be published

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Technical Programme (3)

• Projects (co-)funded by the EC in which TERENA
  participates
• 6NET
• 6LINK
• SCAMPI
• TRANSITS
• SEEREN

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Conferences and
knowledge transfer

• Organise support to research networking in
  underserved countries
• Funding for participation from poorer countries
  obtained in SERENATE and TRANSITS
• Provide more support on a bilateral basis.
• Collaborate with CEENet on NATO workshop
• Establish help-desk function
• Organise TERENA Networking Conference 2003
• Zagreb, 19-22 May 2003
• Together with CARNet Users Conference 2003
• Possibly combined with Cisco and/or Juniper
  events
• Organise mini-symposium at October GA meeting

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TERENA Activity Plan 2003Services

• Continue function as clearinghouse for Trusted
  Introducer service, now established on a
  permanent basis
• Memberships
• Review TERENAs membership of the Internet
  Society
• Information dissemination and publicity
• Establish group of PR officers of TERENA member
  organisations

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9b. Contribution categories of National Members

• The GA is asked to decide that all TERENA
  National Members will be in the same membership
  category in 2003 as they are in 2002.

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9c. Projected outlook 2002
(kEUR) 2001 2002 2002 result budget outlook
EXPENDITURE personnel costs 733 854
860 accommodation 106 125 128 office
running costs 154 192 186 travel
meetings 52 59 54 membership
6 6 5 financial expenses 6
11 16 representation interests 3
2 2 technical meetings 20 29
39 technical travel 32 35 22 minor
projects funding 32 62 44
depreciation debtors 0 0
55 ---------------------------------------- T
OTAL 1144 1375 1411 INCOME contributions 918
964 966 interest 54 45
47 charged hours other income 80 414
594 depletion Special Project Fund 6 39
1 ----------------------------------------
TOTAL 1058 1462 1608 OPERATING
RESULT -87 87 197 project
results -1 -209 -197 NET RESULT -86
-122 0
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9c. Projected outlook 2002
(kEUR) 2001 result 2002 budget 2002
outlook INCOME contributions 918 964
966 project income 158 350
652 other income 17 45
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TOTAL 1093 1359
1632 DIRECT EXPENDITURE project costs
-159 -559
-849 Technical Programme -84
-126 -105 -----------------
----------------------- TOTAL -243
-685 -954 INCOME LESS DIRECT
EXP. 850 674
678 INDIRECT EXPENDITURE personnel costs
-662 -446 -279 other
administrative costs -321 -384
-375 -------------------------------------
--- TOTAL -984 -830
-654 OPERATING RESULT -134 -156
24 interest received 54
45 47 financial expenses
-6 -11 -71 ----------------
------------------------ TOTAL 48
34 -24 INCOME LESS EXPENDITURE
-86 -122
0 RESERVES AT YEAR START 951 865
865 RESERVES AT YEAR END 865
743 865
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9d. Proposed budget 2003
(kEUR) 2002 2002 2003 proposed
budget outlook budget
EXPENDITURE personnel costs 854 860
939 accommodation 125 128
131 office running costs 192 186
191 travel meetings 59
54 64 membership
6 5 6 financial
expenses 11 16 14
representation interests 2 2
2 technical meetings 29 39
40 technical travel 35 22
25 minor projects funding 62
44 50 depreciation
debtors 0 55 0
------------------------------------------ T
OTAL 1375 1411 1462
INCOME contributions 964 966 942
interest 45 47 45
charged hours other income 414 594
693 depletion Special Project Fund
39 1 26
------------------------------------------ T
OTAL 1462 1608 1706
OPERATING RESULT 87 197 244
project results -209 -197 -538 NET
RESULT -122 0 -294
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9d. Proposed budget 2003
(kEUR) 2002 budget 2002 outlook 2003
prop.budget INCOME contributions 964
966 942 project income 350 652
557 other income 45 14
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TOTAL 1359 1632
1528 DIRECT EXPENDITURE project costs
-559 -849
-1095 Technical Programme -126
-105 -115 ----------------
------------------------ TOTAL -685
-954 -1210 INCOME LESS DIRECT
EXP. 674 678
318 INDIRECT EXPENDITURE personnel costs
-446 -279 -249 other
administrative costs -384 -375
-394 ------------------------------------
---- TOTAL -830 -654
-643 OPERATING RESULT -156 24
-325 interest received 45
47 45 financial expenses
-11 -71 -14 -------------------
--------------------- TOTAL 34 -24
31 INCOME LESS EXPENDITURE
-122 0 -294 RESERVES
AT YEAR START 865 865
865 RESERVES AT YEAR END 743
865 571
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9d. Budget 2003 and membership fees 2003

• The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA budget for
  2003 as shown in document GA(02)022 and to
  determine that the membership fee for 2003 will
  remain unchanged at EUR 4700 per unit.

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12. Secretariat matters

• TERENA Secretariat staffper October 2002
• Karel Vietsch Secretary General
• John Dyer Chief Technical Officer
• Yuri Demchenko Project Development
  Officer (leaves 31 Oct)
• Valentino Cavalli Project Development Officer
• Kevin Meynell Project Development Officer
• Licia Florio Project Development Officer
• Alex de Joode Senior IT Support Officer (20/39)
• Dick Visser System/Network Manager (30/39)
• Jeroen Houben Webmaster
• Bert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative Officer
  
• Carol de Groot PR Conference Officer
• Wilma Overdevest Financial Administrator
  (24/39)
• Raquel Corredoira Workshop Organiser (24/39)
• Roos Stouthamer Secretary