1. Welcome and Apologies

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1. Welcome and Apologies

• Apologies were received from Zvonimir Stanic and
  Igor Velimirovic (CARNet), Jan Gruntorad
  (CESNET), Agathoclis Stylianou (CYNET), Enzo
  Valente and Claudia Battista (GARR), John Boland
  (HEAnet), Jan Weglarz and Stanislaw Starzak
  (PSNC), Kees Neggers and Boudewijn Nederkoorn
  (SURFnet), Dany Vandromme (Renater), Andrea Baldi
  (ESA), Brian Carpenter and David Martin (IBM),
  Jean-Marc Uze (Juniper), Karel Vietsch (TERENA)
• Proxies
• Vlado Pribolšan represents CARNet with proxy
• Kyriakos Maifoshis represents CYNET with proxy
• Perhaps Claudio Allocchio will represent GARR
  with proxy
• Artur Binczewski represents PSNC with proxy
• Ton Verschuren represents SURFnet with proxy

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2. Approval of Agenda3. Minutes and Actions List

• The GA is asked to approve the agenda
• The GA is asked to approve the minutes of the
  24th GA meeting (Budapest, 21 October 2005)

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4. Membership Matters4a. Admission of new members

• The GA is asked to admit IUCC as National Member
  for Israel, in membership category 4, with 30
  votes
• The GA is asked to admit Extreme Networks as an
  Associate Member of TERENA

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4. Membership Matters4b. Changes in Membership

• There are no requests for changes of membership

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4. Membership Matters4c. Changes in
Representative

• IUCC Eli Peleg (representative), Asher Rotkop
  (substitute)
• Extreme Networks Gerrie de Jongh
  (representative), Jan Hof (substitute)
• RED.ES Tomás de Miguel (representative), Alberto
  Pérez (substitute)
• SWITCH Christoph Graf (representative)
• HUNGARNET Tamás Máray (substitute)
• GRNET Tryfon Chiotis (substitute)
• 3Com David Huggett (representative),
• ----- (substitute)

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4. Membership Matters4d. Outstanding Membership
Fees

Organisation ctry 2004 2005 2006 total
ANSTI/RNC RO 19,316 19,316
U. Belgrade/AMREJ CS 1,461 1,461
MARNET MK 1,461 1,461
3Com 2,547 2,547
Cisco 2,435 2,435
IBM 2,002 2,002
total 29,222 29,222
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5. TERENA Formal Matters5a. Adoption TERENA
Financial Accounts 2005

• The GA is asked to adopt the TERENA Financial
  Accounts 2005

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5. TERENA Formal Matters5b. TERENA Annual Report

• The GA is asked to approve the TERENA Executive
  Committees Annual Report 2005, including the
  report on the Secretariat

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6. Technical Programme

• A report on the meeting of the Technical Advisory
  Council and an update on the TERENA Technical
  Programme will be presented verbally.
• A status report on the Server Certificate Service
  pilot will be given.
• A presentation will be given on the REFEDS
  initiative.

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7. Discussion on lifecycle and portfolio
management

• A short presentation will be given about
  lifecycle and portfolio management.
• This will be followed by a round-table
  discussion, in which GA members will be asked to
  say a few words on how such matters are handled
  in their own organisation.

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8. Executive Committee Elections

• Vice-President for Conferences
• Valid nominations
• Miroslav Milinovic (nominated by UKERNA, seconded
  by ARNES)
• Treasurer
• Valid nominations
• Lajos Bálint (nominated by Renater, seconded by
  ARNES)

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9. Foresight Study status

• Verbal report on the latest status of the EARNEST
  study activity

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10. Conferences and Workshops10a. TNC 2006,
Catania

• Verbal report on the preliminary results from the
  TERENA Networking Conference 2006

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10. Conferences and Workshops10b. TNC 2007,
Lyngby 21-24 May 2007

• Programme Committee
• Thomas Schmidt (TU Berlin, DE) chair
• Hansruedi Born (SWITCH, CH)
• Andrew Cormack (UKERNA, UK)
• Felix Kugler (SWITCH, CH)
• Mikael Linden (CSC, FI)
• Ingrid Melve (UNINETT, NO)
• Dan Mønster (UNIC, DK)
• Michael Nowlan (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
• Esther Robles (RedIRIS, ES)
• Koen Schelkens (BELNET, BE)
• Brian Vinter (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Steve Wallace (Indiana University, US)
• ..

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11. TERENA Secretariat Matters

• Karel Vietsch Secretary General
• John Dyer Chief Technical Officer
• Valentino Cavalli Deputy Chief Technical Officer
• Kevin Meynell Project Development Officer
• Licia Florio Project Development Officer
• Catalin Meirosu Project Development Officer
• Dick Visser Senior IT Support Officer
• Jeroen Houben Senior Webmaster
• Christian Gijtenbeek Webmaster
• Bert van Pinxteren Chief Administrative Officer
• Joanne Barnett External Relations Officer
• Wilma Overdevest Financial Administrator
• Carol de Groot PR Conference Officer
• Jim Buddin Workshop Organiser / Project
  Management Assistant
• Maarten de Jong Data Analyst
• Aukje Bakker Secretary
• Erkan Mengi Assistant Bookkeeper

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12. Update on TF-PR

• Verbal update on the work of TF-PR

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13. Discussion on budgets in 7th Framework
Programme
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14. Liaisons

• Verbal report on the CCIRN meeting in Arlington,
  26-27 April 2006
• ..
• ..
• ..

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15. Next Meetings

• GA 26, 20 October 2006 in Malta
• GA 27, 24-25 May 2007 in Lyngby

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16. Any Other Business and Close