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Minutes of EARN Executive Committee Meeting, 28 July 1988, Paris 

EARN REPRESENTATIVES:
Alain Auroux, EARN Office, Paris 
Paul Bryant, United Kingdom 
Joe Chester, EARN Office, Dublin 
Frode Greisen, Denmark 
Jean-Claude Ippolito, France 
Dennis Jennings, Ireland 
David Lord, CERN 
Olivier Martin, CERN
Apologies: Michael Hebgen, Stefano Trumpy

1. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING

The Minutes of the last EARN Exec meeting were amended and approved. The corrected version will be distributed to EARN Exec and EARN BoD by Michael Hebgen. Joe Chester will send a signed copy to Alain Auroux for the book.

MATTERS ARISING/ACTION LIST: It was agreed to add an item on "Review of Management and Organisational Structure" to the agenda of the next meeting. An input paper will be prepared by Paul Bryant and Joe Chester.

6. LIAISON.

EUNET: Joe Chester reported on two meetings with EUNET. It was agreed that formal discussions should continue on a Memorandum of Understanding, and on gateways and other topics of interest. Frode Greisen agreed to formally represent the Executive Committee, assisted by Joe Chester, in these discussions.

JWPA: Dennis Jennings reviewed the history of JWPA, and there was a discussion on the outcome of the recent meetings. It was agreed to review the report circulated as the agreed position (Appendix A), with a view to its formal acceptance by EARN. Comments are to be sent to the Exec list as soon as possible.

It was agreed that further participation by EARN in JWPA would be on the basis that JWPA operated correctly, and that all documents issued on behalf of JWPA be specifically agreed by the members before circulation.

ACTION: Dennis Jennings will prepare a Statement of EARN's current position for circulation.

Paul Bryant will prepare a paper on the European Internetwork Model for consideration at the next meeting.

Concern was expressed that the representation of the MDNS pilot activities as the "COSINE Network" may make EARN's funding arrangements for 1989 more difficult.

7. TECHNICAL ITEMS

Olivier Martin reported on the EARN Tech meeting in Izmir.

ACTIONS:

Mailer: Paul Bryant stated that the existing mailer was not RFC822 conformant and that Eric Thomas proposed that the Exec make funds available for the mailer to be rewritten.

It was agreed that this would be given a high priority in 1989, when budgeted funds will become available. In the interim, Eric Thomas would be asked to investigate the work in Princeton. The agreed mailer recommendation was circulated to NAD's. Alain Auroux will report responses to the Exec.

Manpower: Alain Auroux presented a summary of the existing proposal (Appendix B)

ACTION: Alain Auroux will write a letter of enquiry to the Board on the implementation of the manpower proposal.

Statistics/Modelling: The Exec warmly welcomed the offer by Jean-Claude Ippolito to process the traffic statistics.

ACTION: D. Dumas will produce a monthly traffic statistics report for the Exec beginning in September, including FRMOP22.

ACTION: Alain Auroux will investigate the EMBL list, and report to the September meeting.

18. FINANCE

Expenditure: Alain Auroux reported that the Paris Office was within budget except that travel was 30% over budget. The Dublin Office expenditure was circulated, showing that travel expenditure was the major expenditure item.

ACTION: Alain Auroux and Joe Chester will produce a full list of all trips undertaken for the next Executive meeting.

ACTION: Jean-Claude Ippolito and Alain Auroux will prepare a full Statement of Expenditure.

ACTION: Jean-Claude Ippolito and Alain Auroux will send a budget and financial report for the first half of 1988 to the Board before the October meeting, as decided at the Board Meeting of 19-20 November 1987.

As expenditure is ahead of budget, Dennis Jennings said that cutbacks appeared to be necessary.

TAL Payments: Alain Auroux reported that 30% of this money is still unpaid (6 countries).

ACTIONS:

1989 funding: ACTION: Alain Auroux is to write asking Board members to confirm that funding, according to the model, is secured for 1989.

1990 funding will be discussed at the next Board meeting.

ACTION: Dennis Jennings/David Lord are to prepare a funding model for the next Exec meeting.

8. OSI PROGRAMME

Joe Chester reported on meetings with DEC, NT, sites, and Dennis Jennings reported a telephone conversation with IBM (Herb Budd). Alain Auroux reported on the switch interoperability meeting.

ACTIONS:

The draft agenda for the suppliers meeting was agreed. The suppliers representatives have informally agreed to participate.

ACTIONS:

Nordunet. Frode Greisen reported on the Nordunet proposals for a wide-area LAN. DEC have agreed to provide four G-boxes and funding to upgrade the link to the EARN backbone.

9. MEMBERSHIP

Frode Greisen reported that the Tunisia and Egypt votes were now completed. Both countries are now members. Voting on Morocco is now proceeding. India was voted on and accepted as an Associate Member.

There was a discussion on Eastern Bloc countries.

ACTIONS:

10. ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

Frode Greisen reported that there are six new Israeli Associate Members.

ACTION: Frode Greisen will present a proposal from the Membership Committee on publishers.

11. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

ACTIONS:

17. EARN89

Alain Auroux reported on progress with EARN89. Actions:

19. NEXT MEETING

The next Exec meeting will take place in Paris on 19 August. The September meeting will take place on 27 September, also in Paris.

Appendix A: JWPA REPORT.

Joint Working Party A of Cosine, EARN, Eunet and RARE met on 11 July 1988 at Schipol Airport to consider the development of a shared common X.25 infrastructure for research in Europe. In the discussions, all participants recognised

In the discussions, JWPA warmly welcomed the recent developments in networking in Europe. Specifically, JWPA welcomes the increasing cooperation between the existing research networking service providers EARN, EUNET and HEPNET; the offer by the CEC to provide 1MECU in 1988 to support research networking, and to offer further substantial sums of money in 1989-1991; the offer of financial support by the Government of Norway which was made at the recent COSINE Policy Group meeting. In particular JWPA welcomes the offer by the Dutch PTT to initiate a pilot pre-CEPT Managed Data Network Service (MDNS) for research networking in Europe.

Given the above, JWPA decided and recommends as follows:

  1. JWPA recommends that a common shared X.25 infrastructure for research in Europe be established in Europe, and warmly wel comes the commitment of the existing network service providers EARN, EUNET and HEPNET to participate in achieving this goal. JWPA recommends that an evolutionary approach be adopted towards the establishment of this common shared X.25 infra structure.
  2. JWPA notes and welcomes the decision of the research network service providers EARN, EUNET and HEPNET to continue with their ISO/OSI transition plans, and warmly welcomes their decision to cooperate together to enhance their international X.25 infrastructures, to share the use of these enhancements, and to ensure interoperability between their networks. JWPA recommends that COSINE and CEC funding be provided to JWPA ensure that these enhancements are achieved as rapidly as possible, and that interoperability is achieved. JWPA notes the willingness of these research network service providers to order the additional lines in anticipation of the provision of funding by COSINE and the CEC so that rapid progress can be made.
  3. JWPA notes and welcomes the willingness of all JWPA participants to participate in a CEPT-MDNS pilot project, as proposed by the Dutch PTT, and to work to ensure interoperability between this pilot network and the research network service providers existing and planned X.25 network infrastructures. JWPA recommends that COSINE and CEC funding be provided to JWPA to fund the pilot MDNS project and the interworking activities, so that this work can proceed in parallel with the network enhancements described in 2 above.
  4. JWPA notes and welcomes the desire of all network service providers to ensure interoperability with the public X.25 net works (PPSDNs) to provide universal connectivity. JWPA recommends that the connections to the PPSDN be provided by the Pilot MDNS Project, and that COSINE and CEC funding be provided to achieve this, and to ensure interoperability with the research network service providers existing and planned X.25 infrastructures.
  5. JWPA notes and welcomes the commitment of all the research network service providers EARN, EUNET and HEPNET to participate in the evaluation of the Pilot MDNS Project and to cooperate with the enhancement of the MDNS solution if this evaluation is satisfactory and meets their networking service requirements. JWPA recommends that COSINE and CEC funding be provided to JWPA to support this evaluation.

Appendix B: TECHNICAL STAFF PROPOSAL

The Technical Group propose that two permanent staff should be provided to manage the network. The Group do not believe that volunteer staff should be expected to provide the service. Volunteer staff cannot dedicate their time to the tasks and it is unreasonable to expect their sites to provide the effort free of charge.

The tasks to be carried out by the staff are:

Two full-time staff are needed to carry out these tasks.

The attributes for the posts are:

In addition, funding should be provided for work for two people on projects/task forces.

These people should be familiar with the network, and have substantial network experience.

Possible task forces - subgroups:

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