TERENA General Assembly meeting

Reykjavik, 24-25 May 2012

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1. Welcome and Apologies (1/2)

Apologies have been received from: › Karel Vietsch (TERENA Secretariat)

› Uladzimir Anishchanka and Sergey Aneichik (UIIP NASB)

› Enzo Valente and Claudia Battista (GARR)

› Petter Kongshaug and Helge Moe (UNINETT)

› Jan Węglarz and Stanisław Starzak (PSNC)

› Jean-Marc Uzé (Juniper Networks)

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1. Welcome and Apologies (2/2)

Proxies: › Aurelija Gefenienė: UIIP NASB with proxy

› Claudio Allocchio and Peter Kaufmann: GARR with proxy

› Ingrid Melve: UNINETT with proxy

› Artur Binczewski: PSNC with proxy

› Lars Fischer: SUNET with proxy

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2. Approval of Agenda 3. Minutes of the 36th meeting

› The GA is asked to approve the agenda – GA(12)005

› The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the 36th GA meeting (Brussels, 26-27 October 2011) – GA(12)029r1

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4a. Admission of new members ASNET-AM, Armenia

› The GA is asked to admit ASNET-AM as the National Member for Armenia in category 1, with a membership fee of 0.3 units and 3 votes in the TERENA General Assembly, effective from receipt of the membership fee for the first year.

› The GA is asked to grant ASNET-AM a phase-in discount in the membership fee of 75% of the normal fee in 2012 and 50% of the normal fee in 2013.

› Representative: Mr. Vladimir Sahakyan; substitute: Mr. Hrachya Astsatryan

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4a. Admission of new members ANA, Albania

› The GA is asked not to decide yet about the application of ANA to be admitted as the National Member for Albania.

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4a. Admission of new associate members TELEFONICA, Alcatel-Lucent, Google

› The GA is asked to admit Telefonica SA as an Associate Member, effective from receipt of the membership fee for the first year.

› Representative: Mr. Diego R. Lopez

› The GA is asked to admit Alcatel-Lucent as an Associate Member, effective from receipt of the membership fee for the first year.

› Representative: Mr. Rolf Sperber

› The GA is asked to admit Google UK, Ltd as an Associate Member, effective from receipt of the membership fee for the first year.

› Representative: Mr. William Florence; substitute: Mr. Robin Morgan

4b. Changes in membership

› The GA is asked to admit AMRES as the National Member for Serbia, replacing the University of Belgrade.

› The GA is asked to admit MARnet as the National Member for FYRo Macedonia, replacing the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – GA(12)016.

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4c. Changes in representative

› Jan Torreele (who was substitute representative of Belnet) became representative and Pierre Bruyère (who was representative) became substitute.

› Martin Bech of UNI•C succeeded Ole Kjærgaard as representative and Gitte Kudsk succeeded Dorte Olesen as substitute.

› Andreas Dudler of SWITCH succeeded Christoph Graf as representative, Christoph Graf succeeded Thomas Brunner as substitute.

› Ahmet Kaplan of ULAKBIM succeeded Cem Saraç as representative.

› Manfred Wiegand of Nokia Siemens Networks succeeded Oliver Jahreis as substitute.

› Guy Cochrane of EMBL succeeded Peter Stoehr as representative – GA(12)017.

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4d. Outstanding membership fees

OUTSTANDING MEMBERSHIP FEES (ON 3 MAY 2012) GA(12)011

Organisation

Ctry debt 2010 debt 2011 debt 2012 total debt

BREN BG

4,022

4,498

8,520

Univ. Belgrade RS

797

797

MARNET MK

2,345

2,487

4,832

MREN ME

2,011

2,011

Cisco Systems

2,662

2,662

Juniper Networks

2,789

2,789

Level 3 Communications

2,514

2,514

TOTAL -

6,367

17,758 24,125

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5. TERENA formal matters 5a. Adoption of financial accounts 2011

› New presentation, abolishes the distinction between ‘direct’ and ‘indirect expenses.

› Instead, two new presentations:

› By cost category (salary, rent, etc): starts page 6;

› By project: starts page 18.

› So: accounts now show two ‘views’ on the same set of figures.

› The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial Accounts 2011 (FIN(12)002)

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6b. TERENA Annual Report 2011.

The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive Committee’s Annual Report 2011, including the report on the Secretariat.

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6. TERENA Technical Programme

› Report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory Council in Reykjavik

› Progress report

› Discussion

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7. Presentation and discussion: recent examples of NREN work with

Structural Funds

› Presentations from: › NIIF/HUNGARNET, › CESNET › RedIRIS

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8. Discussion on national experiences of NRENs with Public Service networks

› Presentations from:

› Janet,

› Belnet

› CSC/FUNET

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9. Executive Committee Elections

Vice-President Conferences (for a 3-year period)

Valid nominations:

› Helmut Sverenyák (nominated by RedIRIS, seconded by

CYNET)

Treasurer (for a 3-year period)

Valid nominations:

› Marko Bonač (nominated by RedIRIS, seconded by

RESTENA)

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10. TERENA's position with regards to the GEG report recommendations

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11. Conferences and Workshops

› Presentation by Miroslav Milinović, Vice President Conferences

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12. Secretariat matters

Karel Vietsch Secretary General

Valentino Cavalli CTO/Acting Secretary General

John Dyer Business and Technology Strategist

Kevin Meynell Project Development Officer

Licia Florio Project Development Officer

Péter Szegedi Project Development Officer

Brook Schofield Project Development Officer

Dick Visser Senior System Engineer

Christian Gijtenbeek Senior Software Engineer

Bert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative Officer

Laura Durnford Senior Communications Officer 36/39

Wilma Overdevest Financial Administrator 26/39

Gyöngyi Horváth Conference and Workshop Organiser

Anthony Hodge Communications Officer

Jim Buddin Workshop Organiser

Magda Haver Project Management Assistant 20/39

Nadia Sluer Project Management Assistant 32/39

Hanna Cherigui Secretary

Mirko Ampt Assistant Bookkeeper 12/39

Marc van der Holst Data Analyst (until 31 October) 20/39

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13. Report on non-Technical Task Forces

› TF-CPR

› TF-MSP

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14. ASPIRE update

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15. Liaisons

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16. Next meetings

› GA 38: 24 - 25 October 2012

› GA 39: 6 - 7 June 2013, Maastricht, Netherlands

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17. Any Other Business and Close

› 2012 Compendium survey: http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/

deadline: 30 June 2012!

› Member satisfaction survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/terena-2012