Minutes

1. Attendance:
   
   • Prof. Joo, Scott, Jennifer, Chunyan, Kazunori Konishi, Satoshi Sekiguchi (could join later), Dr. Lee Hing Yan, Jon Lau, Ms. Sherrie Shiong
     
   
   
2. Review of New Proposal/Requests:
   
   
   • The local organizing committee made a request for a workshop on "Core University Project on NGI" outside of the regular APAN meeting (Jan.26-Jan27)
     
   • Scott informed that the attendees will pay the full registration and the organizers will provide the funding to cover the costs of organizing the workshop. Most likely, most of the attendees would be local participants.
     
   • Program Committee informed that it is a related meeting and does not fall under PC. Prof. Joo suggested that APAN secretariat work in association with the local organizers for room availability and the arrangements.
   
   
3. Review of tentative schedule (slot allocation):
   
   
   • APAN Secretariat informed the program committee members about the confirmation of schedule interchange between the Medical workshop and the Network Engineering workshop.
     
   • End -to- End Performance workshop has also confirmed their second set of slots on January 23, Monday.
     
   • Program Committee members were also informed on the receipt of the revised program from Natural Resources Area (NR) group and the cancellation of H.350 workshop.
     
   • Suggestions were received from Prof. Joo and other participants to implement a few changes in the slot allocation. The revised and updated schedule based on these suggestions can be viewed at http://www.apan.net/meetings/tokyo2006/schedule.html
     
   • APAN Secretariat will report to the program committee if new workshop proposals were received or if any change was necessary.
     
   • Prof. Joo requested APAN Secretariat to contact the workshop organizers and collect the proposals if there were any still left to receive.
     
   • APAN Secretariat was also requested to get the number of participants information from the organizers to discuss the room allocation with the local organizing committee.
   
   
4. Other Issues:
   
   • The video conference meeting faced technical problem for the second time due to which some of the participants had difficulty joining the session and participants expressed concern over this. APAN Secretariat will work towards fixing this problem or look for other alternatives for the next meeting.
   
   
5. Next Meeting:
   
   • The next meeting would be held on November 25, 2005 from 8:00-9:00 am BKK time (+7:00 GMT).