EARN DIRECTORS: Pedro Amorim, Portugal Paul Bryant, U.K., EARN General Secretary Miguel Angel Campos, Spain Avi Cohen, Israel, EARN Executive Frode Greisen, Denmark, EARN President Michael Hebgen, Germany, EARN Vice President Thedi Hatt, Switzerland (deputy) Jean-Claude Ipollito, EARN Treasurer Dennis Jennings, Ireland, EARN Executive Petter Kongshaug, Norway David Lord, CERN Oguz Manas, Turkey Wilfried Maschtera, Austria (deputy) Kees Neggers, Netherlands Jean Nuyens, Belgium Stelios Orphanoudakis, Greece Arne Sundstrom, Sweden Stefano Trumpy, Italy, EARN Executive EARN STAFF: Alain Auroux, Manager, Paris Office Jerry Striplin, (DEC) Manager, EARN OSI operations centre OBSERVERS: Laura Abba, Italy Jose Barbera, IRIS, Spain Harry Clasper, IBM (Europe) Bob Cooper, JANET, UK Rene Florizoone, Belgium Eugenia Graca, Portugal Nicholas Newman, CEC Pierre Roy, Digital (Europe) Martin Wilhelm, DFN, Germany ABSENT: Iceland, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Egypt, Finland, and Yugoslavia.
The observers were welcomed.
The President thanked Pedro Amorim for organising the Board meeting and the first class location selected. He also thanked DEC for providing the meeting banquet.
22.2.1 The minutes of meeting 21 - BOD29 89 - were approved
22.2.2 Review of actions from meeting 21 All actions have been completed or were taken up in papers or in the appropriate sections of the minutes.
Noted - the presidents report - BOD42 89
Noted - the "EARN operations report" - BOD54 89
Noted - the "EARN office report" - BOD53 89
Noted - There are now 3 part time staff in Turkey active on EARN projects in addition to the full time EARN employee.
Resolved - To warmly thank EHEI in Paris for hosting the EARN office.
Noted - the "NOG meeting May 25-26 1989" - BOD46 89
Noted - a verbal report of the NOG meeting held in Amsterdam October 6, 1989.
Resolved - the LISTSERV directive proposed by the NOG was approved. This will be published as a separate document - BOD60.89.
Resolved - to approve the NOG request to allow observers from BITNET and not yet connected countries to attend NOG meetings. EARN will provide no finance to such attendees.
Noted - the "EARN-SNA report" - BOD45 89 - and that a final report will be provided to the Executive.
Noted - the "Traffic report" - BOD39 89 - and that similar figures would be provided at subsequent meetings.
Noted - the "EARN traffic and topology" - BOD40 89 - and that the recommendations will be taken into account when topology changes are proposed.
Noted -the "EARN OSI transition report - BOD55 89 - and a verbal report on recent achievements.
Approved - the "OSI development plan" - BOD36 89 - by 9 votes to 2 with 7 abstentions.
Noted - the "OSI development plan" contains a number of options which cannot be resolved until further developments outside of EARNs control take place. Thus the document will be updated and developed as events unfold.
Resolved - the Executive is asked to develop a long term strategy with input from the Paper from Kees Neggers and other sources. Board members are asked to comment on expected drafts electronically to ensure that the paper has wide support before being submitted for approval.
Noted - the "Liaison reports" - BOD43 89
Noted - the "Budget update for 1989" - BOD47 89
Noted - the "1989 actual expenditure (end of August) and year end forecast" - BOD48 89
Noted - the "Country contributions received (September 1st 1989)" - BOD49 89
Approved - the "EARN proposed 1990 budget and country contributions" - BOD50 89 - by 13 votes to 1 with 2 abstentions and 1 no-vote.
Noted - that the budget for the EARN manager will have to be increased to about 100 KECU as cost of employment had been underestimated. There will be consequential savings to keep the total unchanged. Some will come from removal of the need for space rental.
Noted - the "Country contributions based on traffic" - BOD41 89 - and that the model did not have universal approval but that the Executive would provide a definitive proposal to the next meeting based on this model augmented by "server compensation" figures.
Noted - the report on technical forum - BOD58 89.
Approved - the arrangements for the Joint Networking Conference 1990 - BOD56 89 - and a verbal update.
Noted - the policy report - BOD57 89.
Noted - there were no new countries.
Resolved - not to approve the "proposed action in the case of late payment of contributions" - BOD38 89 - and to ask the Executive to consider the matter further in the light of comments.
Approved - the "Operation procedures for the connection of a new country" - BOD60 89 (note that this is the paper distributed at the meeting which supersedes BOD37 89).
Resolved - to ask the Executive to bring forward proposals for the connection of countries by alternative means such as ISDN, PPSDN, dial-up, and IXI.
Approved - the "Operational procedures for implementing sanctions against an EARN country member" - BOD52 89
Approved - the "EARN INFO Permanent Group-Terms of reference" - BOD51 89
Noted - the "Secretary General report" - BOD44 89
Noted - "EARN Charter" - BOD30 89
Noted - "Organisation of technical work in EARN" - BOD31 89
Noted - "Proposal for EARN annual report" - BOD32 89
Noted - "EARN statistics "directive"" - BOD33 89
May 17/18, 1990, beginning mid day on May 17 and finishing at 18.00 on May 18 in Killarney, Ireland. This will follow the Joint Networking Conference 1990.
