Program Committee's Video/Teleconference Session
Date: 30 Sept. 2005
Time:  8:00-9:00 am BKK (GMT+07:00)
Chair: Prof. Joo
Secretary: Tsering

Agenda

    1. Roll Call
    2. Introduction of new APAN secretariat staff, Tsering.
    3. Agenda Bashing
    4. Review of new proposals submitted after Taipei meeting - Compiled by Pipot/Tsering
        -  Formal proposals received after Taipei meeting. - Compiled by Pipot/Tsering
    5. Draft allocation of workshop/sessions. - First draft by Bok-Gyo Joo
    6. Other program related issues
          - Key note speaker recommendation. One from Asia-Pacific?
          - Decision on the organizer of Lambda Networking proposed in Taipei.
          - Confirmation of 'Special plenary session: Next Generation Applications over next generation exchanges' and the workshop with the same title/theme. Proposed by Jacqueline. 
    7. Other issues
          - Organizing committee status, briefing by Tsering/Pipot
    8. Next meeting

Summary of the proposals:

Natural Resources Area:
Earth Monitoring - 5 slots (Chris Elvidge + Pakorn + Pisuth)
Multilingual - 2 slots (Pisuth)
Agriculture - 4 slots (Pisuth)
Data Grid on Natural Resource Management – 2 slots (Pisuth)

Network Technology Area:
Network Engineering (NOC) - 4 slots
SIP Tutorial - 4 slots
Advanced SIP subjects - 4 slots

Application Technology Area:
HDTV - 2 slots (JW Kim)
(TBD) Inter-operability testing event (session?) of uncompressed HD video over IP systems, which would require a dedicated space (or room) for one or two full days. (JW Kim)
Medical - 4 slots (Shimizu)

Others:
Next Generation Applications over Next Generation Exchanges- 4 slots (J. Silvester)
Global Collaboration - 2 slots (Jacqueline)
ENUM(Kewin S.)
    - ENUM Workshop - 2 slots (maybe need 4)
    - ENUM BoF - 1 slot
End-to-End Performance Workshop - 2 days - before the main APAN conference (Kitamura-san)
eCulture (Kameoka-san)
    - e-culture workshop – 2 slots
    - e-culture BoF discussion – 1 slot
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Requests Received after August 2005 Taipei Meeting

Security Workshop - 2 slots
Grid Workshop - 2 slots
eScience Worshop - 2 slots

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Note: Lambda Networking has not sent a request yet but the PC reserved 2 slots for them

Supporting Documents: Venue Plan, Draft Allocation of Slots

Minutes

  1. Attendance
    • Prof. Joo, Seishi San, Scott, Pisuth, Pipot, Tsering
  2. Introduction of new APAN secretariat staff, Tsering
  3. Agenda Bashing
  4. Review of proposals submitted after Taipei meeting
    • Prof. Joo suggested contacting the organizers to get more information on the requested sessions and obtain formal and complete proposals that should be uploaded on the website for everyone to see.
  5. Draft allocation of workshop/sessions- first draft by Prof. Joo
    • Seishi San informed that their request for Natural Resources Area slots remains unchanged as of now but will confirm and inform APAN secretariat before the next VC meeting if there happens to be any changes in their program.
    • Prof. Joo said that Lambda Networking was an important topic. Two slots have been reserved for this group already. He suggested Scott to contact Lambda group to discuss about organizing the session. It was decided that Scott would do that and inform APAN Secretariat. Prof. Joo will also contact Jacqueline and Xing Li in this regard.
    • After consultation with Kitamura-san it was decided to hold the E-2-E workshops on January 22 and 23, Sunday and Monday. Prof. Joo to send the updated draft allocation soon.
    • Considering the overall allocations, it is hard to move Network Engineering Workshop (NOC), Special Plenary: Next-Gen Applications over NG Exchanges and Next Gen. Application Workshop. The other sessions are still flexible at the moment.
  6. Other Program related issues
    • APAN Secretariat will contact the program committee and ask for a recommendation of a keynote speaker from the Asia Pacific region.
    • Scott to contact the Lambda Networking Group and discuss organizing the session with them and inform APAN secretariat. Scott suggested Akira Kato would be an ideal candidate as the organizer of Lambda Group.
    • GAN plenary session was proposed by John Silvester and Jacqueline informed on e-mail that she was ready to be as the intermediary.
  7. Other issues
    • Scott was informed to be aware of request for Non-APAN related meetings for room allocation purposes. Also, he was asked to coordinate with the APAN secretariat about such requests.
  8. Next meeting