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Minutes of EARN Executive Committee Meeting, 27 September 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
Stefano Trumpy, Italy
Apologies - Michael Hebgen, David Lord

A. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING

1. MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

The Minutes of the last EARN EXEC meeting were amended and approved

2. MATTERS ARISING

The action list was reviewed and Joe Chester will circulate a new Action List.

It was decided that only Country Directors and their Deputies may be present at closed sessions of Board Meetings. National networking representatives will not attend closed sessions.

ACTION: Dennis Jennings to inform the Board of this decision.

16. FINANCE

Alain Auroux and Jean-Claude Ippolito presented the financial details of the Association and reported that operations are over budget except for the cost of the line to the US (due to a price decrease by the French PTT). The Executive Committee Decided to recommend to the BoD to use the saving on the line to cover the deficit on the operational budget.

ACTION:

It was agreed to defer discussion of the funding model to the next Executive meeting.

International Line Payment. Alain Auroux reported that the Ivory Coast, Portugal and Spain have agreed to pay the amounts outstanding against them. The subject of Transatlantic Line payments will be discussed at the Board meeting.

ACTION: Joe Chester to ensure that this item is included on the agenda for the Board Meeting.

15. ELECTION PROCEDURES

The draft election procedures were amended and agreed upon. It was decided that the new Executive Committee will decide on the distribution of functions among members. Joe Chester will prepare a nomination paper. Alain Auroux and Frode Greisen will check the number of Board members which constitute a quorum.

20. ISRAEL MEETING

It was decided to proceed with the next Board Meeting in Israel. At the Board Meeting it was decided that EARN staff members will present the items on the agenda, seconded by a Board Member.

18. EARN89

Alain Auroux reported on the status of EARN89 on behalf of Stelios Orphanoudakis. The meeting is to be directed at site support staff. It was decided that a complete programme including the names of individual speakers must be ready for presentation to the Board Members in Tel Aviv. A final decision on holding this meeting was deferred until Tel Aviv.

ACTIONS:

ORGANISATION

The paper by Eric Thomas was discusses at length and the discussion will continue at the next Executive and EARN Tech meetings.

ACTION: Joe Chester will ensure that this item is placed on the next Exec agenda.

11. MEMBERSHIP

ACTIONS:

12. LIAISON

JWPA: Joe Chester reported on recent events in JWPA. No further meetings will be held until the structure has been resolved. Frode Greisen and Joe Chester reported on a meeting held during NORDUNET88 in Reykjavick. The President will hold further discussions with the CPG in Athens during the RARE COA.

NORDUNET: Frode Greisen and Joe Chester reported on NORDUNET. They have accepted to provide G-boxes and part funding (jointly with EUNET and HEPNET) of a 64K link CWI-KTH.

ACTION: Dennis Jennings will write an official letter of offer to NORDUNET.

EUNET/HEPNET: Frode Greisen and Joe Chester reported an agreement to continue acting together, specifically to jointly fund the line to NORDUNET. A further meeting will be held in CERN on 4 November 1988.

OSI PROGRAMME Joe Chester reported the current status.

ACTIONS

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