1. Welcome and Apologies

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1. Welcome and Apologies

• Apologies were received from
• Peter Rastl and Christian Panigl (ACOnet),
  Zvonimir Stanic (CARNet), Jan Gruntorád and
  Helmut Sverenyák (CESNET), Panayiotis Tsanakas
  and Tryfon Chiotis (GRNET), John Boland (HEAnet),
  Sergiu Iliescu and Octavian Rusu (RoEduNet), Cem
  Saraç and Serkan Orcan (ULAKBIM), Dai Davies and
  Hans Döbbeling (DANTE), Bart van Aanholt (Level3
  Communications)
• Proxies
• Werner Koblitz represents ACOnet with proxy
• Agathoclis Stylianou represents GRNET with proxy
• Lajos Bálint represents RoEduNet with proxy
• Observers
• Tim Marshall (JANET(UK)), Goran Škvarc (CARNet),
  Uladzimir Anishchanka (UIIP NASB), Alan Hollander
  (Nortel Networks), Artur Binczewski (PSNC)

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2. Approval of Agenda

• The GA is asked to approve the agenda (GA(08)003).

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3. Minutes of 28th GA meeting

• The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the
  28th General Assembly meeting, which was held in
  Riga on 26 October 2007 (GA(07)022).

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4. Membership matters4a. Admission of new
members (GA(08)004, GA(08)005)

• The GA is asked to admit UIIP NASB as the
  National Member for Belarus in category 2,
  effective from receipt of the membership fee for
  the first year, with a membership fee of 0.6
  units and 6 votes in the TERENA General Assembly.
• The is asked to admit Nortel Networks B.V. as an
  Associate Member, effective from receipt of the
  membership fee for the first year

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4. Membership matters4b. Changes in membership

• none

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4. Membership matters4c. Changes in
representatives (GA(08)006, GA(08)007)

• NIIP NASB Uladzimir Anishchanka
  (representative), Sergey Aneichik (substitute)
• Nortel Networks Alan Hollander (representative),
  Gerard Jacobs (substitute)
• -----
• HEAnet Mike Norris (representative), John Boland
  (substitute)
• Cisco Systems Klaas Wierenga (substitute)

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4. Membership matters4d. Outstanding membership
fees
organisation ctry 2006 2007 2008 total
ULAKBIM TR 296 296
RoEduNet RO 20,604 20,604
BREN BG 4,022 4,022
EMBL 2,514 2,514
Juniper Networks 1,514 1,514
Level3 Communications 2,514 2,514
total --- --- 31,461 9,344 31,461 9,344
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5. TERENA formal matters5a. Adoption of
financial accounts 2007 (FIN(08)002)

• The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial
  Accounts 2007

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5. TERENA formal matters5b. TERENA Annual Report

• The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive
  Committees Annual Report 2007, including the
  report on the Secretariat

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5. TERENA formal matters5c. Appointment of
auditors for 2008 and 2009

• The GA is asked to appoint the firm of HLB
  Schippers as the TERENA auditors for the 2008 and
  2009 annual accounts

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6. Executive Committee elections

• President
• Valid nominations
• Dorte Olesen (nominated by GARR, seconded by DFN)
• Member
• Valid nominations
• Agathoclis Stylianou (nominated by ARNES,
  seconded by GARR)

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7. TERENA Technical Programme

• A report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory
  Council and an update on the TERENA Technical
  Programme will be presented orally.

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8. GN3 project preparations

• A verbal update will be given on the status of
  the preparations of the GN3 project proposal, and
  opinions will be invited on the role of TERENA in
  the project.

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9. Conferences and workshops9a. TERENA
Networking Conference 2008, Brugge

• An oral report will be given on the preliminary
  results from the TERENA Networking Conference 2008

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9. Conferences and workshops9b. TNC 2009,
Malaga, 8-11 June 2009

• Programme Committee
• Andrew Cormack (JANET(UK), UK) chair
• Hansruedi Born (SWITCH, CH)
• Jacqueline Brown (University of Washington, US)
• Serge Droz (SWITCH, CH)
• Victoriano Giralt (University of Málaga, ES)
• Baiba Kaškina (SigmaNet, LV)
• András Kovács (HUNGARNET, HU)
• Melanie Pankhurst (DANTE)
• Jürgen Rauschenbach (DFN, DE)
• Ligia Ribeiro (University of Porto, PT)
• Esther Robles (RedIRIS, ES)
• Péter Szegedi (TERENA Secretariat)

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10. Report from the regulatory issues workshop

• Alberto Pérez will give a verbal report on the
  workshop on regulatory issues that was held in
  Amsterdam on 17 March 2008

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11. TERENA Secretariat matters

• Karel Vietsch Secretary General
• John Dyer Business and Technology Strategist
• Valentino Cavalli Chief Technical Officer
• Kevin Meynell Project Development Officer
• Licia Florio Project Development Officer
• Péter Szegedi Project Development Officer
• Dick Visser Senior IT Support Officer
• Christian Gijtenbeek Senior Webmaster
• Gijsbert Sliedrecht Webmaster
• Bert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative Officer
• Laura Durnford Public Relations Officer
• Wilma Overdevest Financial Administrator
• Gyöngyi Horváth Conference and Workshop
  Organiser
• Jim Buddin Workshop Organiser
• Anikó Nagy Data Analyst
• Hanna Cherigui Secretary

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12. Update on the History Book

• An update on the preparations of a history book
  will be presented orally.

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13. Liaisons13a. CCIRN

• A verbal report will be given on the CCIRN
  meeting that was held in Brugge on 17-18 May 2008.

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14. Next meetings

• Sofia, 24 October 2008
• presentation/invitation by Kiril Boyanov
• Málaga, 11-12 June 2009

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15. Any Other Business and Close

• GA dinner is offered by BELNET
• 1930 hours
• Priorij van de Karmelieten, Ezelstraat 28, Brugge