TERENA General Assembly meeting, Rhodes, 10-11 June 2004

1. Welcome and Apologies

Apologies were received from Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia (TEC and Renater), Peter Rastl and Wilfried Wöber (ACOnet), Jan Gruntorád (CESNET), Dany Vandromme (Renater), John Boland (HEAnet), Kees Neggers and Boudewijn Nederkoorn (SURFnet), Peter Villemoes (NORDUnet), Brian Carpenter and David Martin (IBM), Jane Butler and Graça Carvalho (Cisco Systems), Pierre Bruyère and Jan Torreele (BELNET), Siavash Shashahani (IPM)

Proxies:• Werner Koblitz represents ACOnet with proxy• Lars Fischer represents NORDUnet with proxy• Ton Verschuren represents SURFnet with proxy • Theo de Jongh represents Cisco Systems with proxy• Jean-Paul le Guigner represents Renater 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 20th GA meeting (Copenhagen, 23-24 October 2003)

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4. Membership Matters4a. Admission of new members

• The GA is asked to admit 3Com Corporation as an Associate Member of TERENA

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4. Membership Matters4b. Changes in Membership

• The GA is asked to admit RED.ES as the new National Member for Spain, replacing CSIC

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4. Membership Matters4c. Changes in Representative

• 3Com Corporation: Angelo Lamme (representative), Brent Nixon (substitute)

• RED.ES: Alberto Pérez (representative), Diego López (substitute)

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• ESA: Andrea Baldi (substitute)• CESNET: Helmut Sverenyák (substitute)• GRNET: Vasilis Maglaris (representative)• UNI●C: Ole Kjærgaard (representative), Dorte

Olesen (substitute)

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4. Membership Matters4d. Outstanding Membership Fees

Organisation country 2002 2003 2004 total

GARR IT 75,200 75,200

IPM IR 28,200 30,369 33,970 92,539

ANSTI/RNC RO 20,434 20,434

MARNET MK 5,384 5,272 5,975 16,631

Cisco 2,350 2,350

EMBL 2,350 2,350

KPNQwest 2,350 2,710 3,082 8,141

IBM 2,350 2,350

Teleglobe 1,858 1,858

total 35,934 38,350 147,568 221,852

68,161 142,444

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5a. Adoption TERENA Financial

Accounts 2003

• The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial Accounts 2003

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5b. Appointment of Auditors for 2004

Financial Accounts

• The GA is asked to appoint Horlings, Brouwer & Horlings, registeraccountants te Amsterdam as the auditors for the TERENA accounts for 2004

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5c. TERENA Annual Report

• The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive Committee’s Annual Report 2003, including the report on the Secretariat

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5d. Notice of Termination of TERENA

Membership

• The GA is asked to decide that the TERENA memberships of IPM, MARNET and KPNQwest will be terminated on 1 September 2004 unless payment of at least one year of the outstanding membership fees of the organisation concerned will have taken place before that date

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6. Technical Programme

An update on the TERENA Technical Programme and a report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory Council will be presented verbally

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7. Discussion of possible changes to TERENA Statutes

and TERENA Rules & Regulations

The GA is asked to discuss the discussion note on the Terms of Office of TEC members

The GA is asked to discuss the discussion note on the Election Procedures for TEC members

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8. The future evolution of TERENA and its collaboration with DANTE and the NREN PC

The GA is asked to discuss these topics following a verbal presentation by the TEC

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9. Financial Matters

The GA is asked to discuss the discussion note on a possible change in the fee system for certain countries

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10. Executive Committee Elections

Treasurer

Valid nominations:• Lajos Bálint (nominated by Renater, seconded by

CESNET)

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11. Conferences and Workshops

Verbal report on the preliminary results from TNC 2004 and the preparations for TNC 2005

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12. TERENA Compendium

Verbal report on the current work for the TERENA Compendium

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13. TERENA Secretariat Matters

Verbal report on the developments in the TERENA Secretariat in 2004

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14. Liaisons

• Verbal report on the developments in EUrid

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15. Next Meetings

• GA 22, 21-22 October 2004 in Cyprus• precise venue and time schedule to be

announced

• GA 23, 9-10 June 2005, Poznań, Poland

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16. Any Other Business and Close

• Short presentation by ESA representatives

• ……