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Minutes of EARN Executive Committee Meeting, 17 December 1986, Brussels 

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES:  
Paul Bryant, United Kingdom
Birgitta Carlson, Sweden 
Jean-Loic Delhaye, France 
Michael Hebgen, West Germany 
Dennis Jennings, Ireland, elected EARN president
David Lord, CERN, current EARN president
IBM REPRESENTATIVES:     
Alain Auroux, IBM Europe

I. DRAFT MINUTES OF THE EARN BOARD OF DIRECTORS (BOD) MEETING.

The revised version will be send by David Lord to the EARN BoD members and Ira Fuchs (BITNET), Christopher Wilkinson (CEC), Thomas Huebner (CEPT) and Peter Linington (RARE).

Changes will be incorporated and the Draft Minutes will be made available on NETSERV if no BoD member veto it.

II. ORGANIZATION OF SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT.

Dennis Jennings has no problems to get secretarial support (1/2 person) but problems to get a fulltime person for overall support (technical coordination, network management, financial matters etc.).

Funds are available from IBM to assist the transition and require new justification. Because it should be no long term commitment without membership agreement it must be a 1-year assignment for the organizational position.

Dennis Jennings will do advertising for temporary 1-year aid first in Ireland in January 1987 and - if he is not successful - later send a message to all BoD members describing local advertising. David Lord will contact Udo Meyer due to his outstanding offer.

III. GERMAN INTERNATIONAL LINES.

Michael Hebgen described the situation: De jure we will have time charging in Germany starting as of 1/1/1987 but de facto measurement tools are not expected to be available in the next years.

IV. COMETT

Dennis Jennings describes possibilities of funding by the CEC: Mr. Sanderson from the commission is very sympathetic to EARN and interested in supporting/funding EARN (for X.400 for example). The right sort of projects will get funding in 1987/88 (CEC likes to use EARN as a pilot for the COSINE network).

COMETT is a CEC project for education and training. One of the problems is, that the CEC forces carrying commercial traffic which requires negotiation of CEC, CEPT and EARN.

Dennis Jennings will setup a first version of mailing lists on this topic in Ireland.

V. DISCUSSION OF A LETTER FROM EARN BELGIUM.

The EEC likes it.

VI. APPLICATION OF EDS.

Michael Hebgen will send the membership criteria to Hagen Hultzsch and he should check if EDS matches an acceptable category. Then EDS should make a definite application with a sponsoring university and follow the rules (national EARN director, EARN membership committee and EARN BoD).

VII. SOUTH AFRICA.

A draft version of the answer will be send by David Lord to the EEC.

VIII. NEXT EEC MEETING

Next EEC meeting is planned for February 11th in Paris.

IX. EARN 86/87

After checking the comments evaluation for EARN 86 it was clear that EARN 87 has to be an ordinary general meeting with business sessions and invitations to all EARN installations, preferably in Vienna (or Linz or Graz). Therefore it must be a low cost conference. Michael Hebgen should describe it to Arno Schulz and ask for exact figures and if help from other universities is available for the local organizing committee.

X. MIGRATION TASK.

Paul Bryant reviewed the status and guidelines (like maintain functions, no fragmentation, no cost increase, no disruption of service, consistent with RARE/COSINE CEN/CENELEC) were discussed. Paul Bryant will send a note to the migration party and the BoD. Michael Hebgen mentioned a paper "On the Integration of the German EARN into DFN" which he will distribute as soon as available.

EARN EXEC COM/BOD - ACTION LIST.

1. Appoint an accountant/auditor and inform Board [J-C.I. and D.L.]

2. Seek new sources of funding and support. [J-C.I.]

3. Verify that all Membership Application Forms have been signed people authorized to do so. [All Directors]

4. Propose a Basic set of Operating Procedures for the [OPG].

5. Prepare a proposal for an Operating Procedure to control the ??pation on the Technical Group. [OPC].

6. Establish a number of alternative models for the financing of costs. [D.L.]

7. Identify and seek solutions for problems arising because of support at end '87. [TF]

8. Ask RARE to appoint its observer to EARN Board Meetings.

9. Appoint liaison officers to the RARE Working Groups. [P.B.]

10. Organize the support staff for the President. [D.J.]

11. Set up the organization of the Technical Sub-committee and the ??cal Group. [P.B. and A.C.]

12. Set up technical studies to be done by Technical Group to be by 1/5/87, to evaluate the various technical options for ISO methods of operation, including time scales, costs and [tsc]

13. Set up studies of GRAND and PORTACOM. [TSC]

14. Proceed with setting up the satellite link between Montpellier USA. Identify the node for the US end and negotiate the agreement with them. [J-C.I. and A.A.]

15. Organize EARN87 [EEC and A.S.]

16. Provision of an IBM official statement on OSI. [H.B.]

17. Organize next Board Meeting in May 1987. [D.J., A.A. and D.L.]

18. Examine the membership request from EDS [M.H. and MC]

19. Revise Membership Application Form [D.L.]

20. Reply to recent letter from South Africa [D.L. and D.J.]

21. Appoint a project manager for the X400 project [P.B.] 

Key.
A. A.	Alain Auroux.
A. C.	Avi Cohen.
A. S.	Arno Schulz.
D. J.	Dennis Jennings.
D. L.	David Lord.
EEC	    EARN Executive Committee.
H. B.	Herb Budd.
J-C. I.	Jean-Claude Ippolito.
M. H.	Membership Committee.
MC.	    Michael Hebgen.
OPG.	Operating Procedures Group.
P. B.	Paul Bryant.
TF.	    Task Force.
TSC.	Technical Sub-Committee.
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