General assembly Meeting

Chair: Jianping Wu

Date: 25th Jan 2008

Time: 11:00-12:45

Venue: Jefferson Hall, University of Hawaii, USA


  1. Application area report-Koji Okamura

(a) Medical-11 teleconference for last 6 months

(b) Middleware-Request Extension to Jan 2010

-Finalization of new name

(b) e-Culture: co chair can not decide


  1. Natural Resource Area report is presented by Chris Elvidge

Highlights of Natural Resource area in this APAN meeting were AG monitoring, Global Roads project, global road database.


  1. NOC Report is presented by Kazunori Konishi

19 presentations were presented in the network engineering session.

Network plan, Network operation tools, High-performance applications were highlights of network engineering session.


  1. Grid Committee Report is presented by Kento Aida

Grid Committee has achieved its goal and it is decided to close grid committee. Grid activities are well expanded in its own WGs. Middleware WG will extended grid activities in middleware domain.


  1. Program Committee Report is presented by Jacqueline

(a) Register cancellations due to high accommodation cost.

(b) Total number of attendees was 269


  1. Election Committee Report

(a) Further discussions for training committee will be carried on.

(b) Election summary and terms

Election Committee Chair: Francis Lee

Event Committee Chair: Denis Villorente

Backbone Committee Chair: George McLaughlin

Vice Chairs: Dae Young Kim, Lawrence Wong

Treasurer: George McLaughlin

Chair Term: 30 June 2009

Immediate past chair term: 30 June 2009

Vice Chairs term: 30 June 2010

Treasurer term: 30 June 2010


  1. Event Committee Report is presented by Akira Mizushima

(a) 27th APAN meeting is proposed to be held during 2-6 March 2009.

(b) Proposal for 30th meeting is received from NACESTI.

(c) It is good to co locate APAN and APRICOT meeting in the future. Event committee chair will contact right person for possible co location.


  1. APAN Secretariat Report is presented by Vimolrat


  1. APAN 27 introduction is presented by Li-Chi.

Organizer would like to change date for the APAN 27 meeting.

Organizer will consider to pre pond HPC Asia 2008.


  1. APAN 26 introduction is presented by Julie Watson.


  1. APAN Council Motions are presented.

Motion 1: APAN offers to be the legal organization to take on operational responsibility for TEIN3.

Motion 2: APAN will work closely with DANTE to develop recommendations and actions plans regarding operational ownership of TEIN3.


Motion 3: Coordinating Committee nominates DY Kim to be APAN contact officer to liaise with DANTE or its representative(s).


  1. Call for APAN Incorporation

APAN will announce call for APAN Incorporation in future.