EARN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting 20 issued by The secretariat May 2, 1989 ——————————————————————– EARN BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING _______________________________ Minutes of the Meeting Held October 24 and 25, 1988 ___________________________________________________ PLACE: Hotel Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv, Israel EARN DIRECTORS: Jean-Marie Akeboue, Ivory Coast Pedro Amorim, Portugal Kurt Bauknecht, Switzerland Paul Bryant, U.K., EARN Technical Director Miguel Angel Campos, Spain Avi Cohen, Israel Andreas Eleftheriades, Cyprus Frode Greisen, Denmark Michael Hebgen, Germany, EARN General Secretary Juha Heinanen, Finland Jean-Claude Ippolito, France, EARN Treasurer Dennis Jennings, Ireland, EARN President Arne Laukholm, Norway David Lord, CERN, EARN Vice-President Oguz Manas, Turkey Wilfried Maschtera, Austria Kees Neggers, Netherlands Jean Nuyens, Belgium Stelios Orphanoudakis, Greece Arne Sundstrom, Sweden Stefano Trumpy, Italy EARN STAFF: Alain Auroux, Manager, Paris Office Joe Chester, Executive Assistant, Dublin Office Ann Hovenden, Secretary, Dublin Office OBSERVERS: Athanase Adou, Ivory Coast Jose Barbera, IRIS, Spain Mats Brunell, NORDUNET Herb Budd, IBM (Europe) Harry Clasper, IBM (Europe) Bob Cooper, JANET Rene Florizoone, Belgium Peter Flynn, Ireland Eugenia Graca, Portugal Odd Jorgensen, Digital (Europe) Arne Moi, Norway Boudewijn Nederkoorn, Netherlands Henry Nussbacher, Israel Harri Salminen, FUNET Michael Walsh, HEANET Martin Wilhelm, DFN ABSENT: Algeria, Egypt, Iceland, Luxembourg, Morocco, Tunisia, Yugoslavia. Items are numbered according to the running order of the agenda and in a unique way to ease later references. 88.26 WELCOME ______________ Dennis Jennings, EARN President, opened the meeting and welcomed all participants. 88.27 AGENDA _____________ The agenda for the meeting was approved. It was decided that the election of officers would be held in a closed session, with only Board members and deputy directors attending. It was also decid- ed that the finance session would be open, with the possibility of declaring a closed session, if necessary. The draft election procedures with the change “directors and deputies” were ratified by the Board. 88.28 MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING AND MATTERS ARISING ______________________________________________________ The minutes were presented by Michael Hebgen and approved. Michael Hebgen stated that he wishes to speed up the process of approving the Minutes of Board Meetings by electronic distribu- tion or faxed hardcopies to get approval within 4 weeks. 88.29 ACTION LIST __________________ The Action List from the April Board Meeting was reviewed. 88.30 FINANCE ______________ 88.30.1 Accounts 1988: Alain Auroux presented the Statement of Accounts to end of September 1988 with an increase of travel expenses (Executive meeting every month, new activities like OSI team) and a decrease of the french TAL expense (no VAT in France and a decrease of nominal cost). It was agreed o that any attempt must be made to minimise the over-run on expenditure and to keep it within the overall budget for the year. Alain Auroux and Jean-Claude Ippolito will take actions to bring expenditure in line with the budget. o that more timely information on accounts is required by the Board – regular statement on accounts on a 3 monthly basis and immediately on budget overrun. By mid-November Jean-Claude Ippolito will provide an up-to-date projection of expenditure to end of the year, including a detailed break-down of travel expenses by category. 88.30.2 Transatlantic Line (TAL) non-payments: Alain Auroux pre- sented a report on TAL payments. Jean-Claude Ippolito reminded Board Members of the importance of paying next years contribution early in 1989 as, unlike this year, there will be no money car- ried over. Alain Auroux will send out the invoices for countries’ contribu- tion to the EARN budget, including the TAL, as early as possible and in any case before January 1st 1989. It was agreed that either the total contribution should be invoiced by January 1, 1989 to be paid by January 31, 1989 or half be paid by January 31, 1989 and the remainder by July 1, 1989. It was agreed that a country must pay this invoice within six months. The Executive Committee will work on a paper for distri- bution and consideration by the Board Members on the subject of TAL payments, and the legal basis for disconnection/other penal- ties resulting from non-payment. 88.30.3 International Line Payments: Alain Auroux reported on these payments. No problems are anticipated for 1989. He remind- ed the Board on a questionnaire on how these payments are achieved. 88.30.4 Budget 1989: Jean-Claude Ippolito presented the proposed budget for 1989, which includes salary for 4 technical staff, an increased budget for travel and more accurate costings for the Trans-Atlantic line as requested during the last Board meeting in Cesme. Michael Hebgen stated that the overall budget is acceptable to Germany but NOT the budget distribution because it is based on GNP and results in an unacceptable level of increase in payments. A share of about 50 KECU computed with the “old” EARN/RARE keys is secured, the remainder is open. For the UK, Bob Cooper also stated that the increase is unacceptably high for a service on which the UK is not totally dependant. Both, Bob Cooper and Michael Hebgen, requested that the service should be based on usage or access capacitiy, not on GNP. Frode Greisen noted that the proposal was the mean value between the previous EARN/RARE keys and the GNP. The GNP was considered the best estimate of usage as long as this cannot be measured directly. In an attempt to solve this problem, it was proposed that no country should pay more than ten percent of the total 1989 figure for central contributions. This would give a reduction in the amount payable to France, Germany, Italy and the UK, while all other countries contributions would remain the same. To accommo- date this change, overall expenditure would have to be cut by about ten percent. This proposal was scheduled for further dis- cussion on day two of the Board Meeting. 88.30.5.1 Ideas for new financing model for EARN: David Lord presented a possible new funding model for EARN, as an informa- tion item. This was scheduled for discussion later in the meet- ing or via electronic mail. Actions: _______ o Jean-Claude Ippolito and Alain Auroux to: – take action to lessen expenditure – provide more timely information on accounts – provide up-to-date projection of expenditure to end of year, including details of travel by category – send out invoices for central EARN cost before January 1st 1989 o The Executive Committee to work on a paper on the subject of central cost payments 88.31 MEMBERSHIP _________________ 88.31.1 Country Membership: Joe Chester and Frode Greisen pre- sented the membership report. The electronic votes on membership applications from Morocco and Egypt were unanimously ratified by the Board. India’s application for Associate Country Membership was passed by sixteen votes. Kurt Bauknecht abstained from the vote as the question of the contribution by India to the inter- continental line has not been resolved. Kees Neggers reminded Board Members that EARN currently bears the total cost of the trans-Atlantic line to BITNET. Dennis Jennings has already been informed by BITNET that there was no possibility of sharing these costs in 1988, but he will check again the situation regarding the future. GULFNET was ratified as an Associate Network on BITNET, with two abstentions. Avi Cohen and Arne Laukholm both abstained until the question of free access by all countries to GULFNET is clari- fied. Frode Greisen will circulate the BITNET Charter for infor- mation. Joe Chester reported on the situation regarding Eastern-bloc countries. It was agreed that no action will be taken until EARN is certain that Eastern-bloc countries can legally connect to the network. Dennis Jennings will: o write to COCOM requesting information on the position of Eastern-bloc countries; o write to the COSINE Policy Group; o write to the applicant countries informing them of the cur- rent position. Eastern Bloc countries will not appear on meeting agendas until there is some progress to report. Odd Jorgensen requested formal checking of all connected DEC machines in case of a connection. Frode Greisen raised the question of payments by new countries. The Board accepted a proposal that new countries do not make any payments to EARN until they have been connected to the network for six months. Actions: _______ o Dennis Jennings to check with BITNET re cost of TAL line o Frode Greisen to circulate BITNET charter o Dennis Jennings to take actions (as above) on Eastern-bloc countries 88.31.2 Associate Membership: The electronic vote on six new Associate Members was ratified. Harwell Laboratories was also unanimously accepted as an Associate Member. Following comments by Board Members on the present method of acceptance of Associate Members, the Membership Committee is asked to review the method of admission and report back to the Board. Action: ______ o Membership Committee to review admission of Associate Members. 88.32 LIAISON ______________ 88.32.1 NORDUNET: Frode Greisen gave a short overview. The Board approved to proceed along these lines and requested a detailed proposal an the steps for the next BOD meeting. 88.32.2 CEPT: Stefano Trumpy reported on a meeting with the main result of a permission to run the network on the international circuits in 1988. 88.32.3 EUNET: Frode Greisen gave a short report on the status. 88.32.4 COSINE/RARE/CEC and MDNS: Joe Chester reported on the objectives of the organizations and the common statement of direction which includes o ISO/OSI standards o shared european X.25 infrstrucuture (JWPA) o resolving of naming problems o gateways to US (JWPB) JWPA is unable to agree how to proceed with the 2 solutions MDNS and “user managed networks” like EARN or EUNET. After a lengthy discussion and exchange of information on MDNS the Board agreed with 1 abstention to participate in the defini- tion, planning and testing of the MDNS pilot and authorized the EARN president to negotiate the details. 88.32.5 CCIRN: Dennis Jennings reported on the activities of this committee. Bob Cooper reported on the recent meeting of the committee held in Washington, D.C, where a statement of permitted usage is requested from each network and a list of all gateways is to be produced. 88.32.6 SPAN: Joe Chester reported that the only contact with SPAN has been by telephone. EARN has been invited to the SPAN meeting in Frascati, Italy in mid-November. Joe Chester asked Board Members interested in attending this meeting to make them- selves known to him. 88.32.7 EARN Policy on European Networks: Paul Bryant presented a paper to clarify the EARN policy. It has been discussed in the Executive Committee and will be circulated electronically. Actions: _______ o Frode Greisen e.a. to produce a detailed proposal on liaison with NORDUNET 88.33 OSI TRANSITION PROGRAMME _______________________________ Joe Chester presented a status report (foils attached) and a description of the implementation plan for transition. Answering the question if EARN is in line with the published doc- umentation of COSINE and RARE, Paul Bryant assured that EARN wants to be technically as close as possible. EARN is ready to readjust/modify the plans to take into account the MDNS pilot. The Board of Directors endorsed the actions of the Executive Com- mitte to date to implement this plan and agreed to continue with Pilot Phase 1. The Board instructs the Executive Committe to reply to the letter of COSINE with all information requested and to work out a detailed plan for pilot phase 2 considering MDNS and OSI applications. Action: ______ o Joe Chester to prepare a more detailed plan for Phase 2. DAY 2 OF THE MEETING ____________________ Kurt Bauknecht is disappointed that at 8.30 am only 5 persons were present and most of the EXEC members were not present and he asked the question how the Executive Committee can run an associ- ation not being able to run a meeting in time. 88.34 ELECTION OF OFFICERS ___________________________ This was a closed session for Board Members or their deputy directors only. o Frode Greisen was voted unopposed as new President of EARN. o Michael Hebgen was voted as new Vice-President. o Paul Bryant was voted unopposed as new Secretary-General. o Jean-Claude Ippolito was voted as Treasurer. o Avi Cohen, Dennis Jennings and Stefano Trumpy were voted as Executive Committee members. 88.35 EARN89 _____________ Stelios Orphanoudakis presented the current planning for EARN89 and surrounding EARN meetings which was agreed by the Board with 1 abstention: o May 25-26: EARNTECH o May 27 : EARN EXEC o May 29-31: EARN89 o June 1-2 : EARN BOD The proposed programme for EARN89 is to have tutorials on the 1st day and plenary sessions on EARN and other networks in the morn- ing and parallel sessions on technical aspects and user support in the afternoon of the 2nd and 3rd day. Stelios Orphanoudakis asked the Board members to participate in the EARN89 Programme Committee. 88.36 EARN NETWORK OPERATIONS ______________________________ 88.36.1 Report of the EARN-NOG: Alain Auroux gave a report of the meeting of the EARN NOG (network operations group) which con- sists of all NCCs (network country coordinator) and Ullrich Giese (BITEARN NODES), Berthold Pasch (NETSERV), Eric Thomas (LISTSERV), Udo Meyer (Traffic statistics) and Paul Bryant – see minutes of the EARN-NOG meeting already distributed. 88.36.2 Topology: ________________ 88.36.2.1 New Topology: The topology decided in Paris and assured in Cesme is running. Budget items for increased capacity and a 2nd TAL are included in 1989. 88.36.2.2 Connection of new countries: Alain Auroux presented a paper on the current status and planning. Dennis Jennings stated that there should only be 1 international node in a country. 88.36.2.3 Montpellier: Alain Auroux reported on a meeting to improve the quality of service of the most critical node of EARN with many international lines. 88.37 TECHNICAL ITEMS ______________________ 88.37.1 Report of Israel Technical Group meeting: Hank Nussbach- er gave a short report – see minutes of the EARNTECH meeting already distributed – and focused on the key points: o The security paper will be forwarded to the Executive to be discussed with IBM as a top concern. o A subcommittee will deal further with a paper on SNA which exists and must be coordinated. o Clear scope and terms of reference for EARNTECH are request- ed. 88.37.2 “Improving the Quality of EARN Services”: Hank Nussbach- er described the discussion in EARNTECH including the invitation for 2 members of EARN-NOG to participate in the recent Executive meeting. A small majority of EARNTECH is happy with the Executive proposal to adopt 2 non-voting members of EARNTECH. The Board decided o that the normal channel for communication between EARNTECH and the EARN Board of Directors/Executive Committee is via the country Board member. o that the Executive should prepare clear statements of refer- ence for EARNTECH. o that 2 members of EARNTECH should not be permanently coopted to Executive meetings, but invited when technical items are to be discussed (vote for permanent cooption: 4 yes, 13 no, 4 abstention). o that the Executive should do all necessary steps to improve the communication with EARNTECH. Hank Nussbacher, asked for his impression, answered that he is disappointed and during the next Board meeting in 6 months a check for real improvement should be done. 88.37.3 NAD proposal: – deferred to next meeting – 88.37.4 Technical Staff proposal: Alain Auroux presented the proposal for one EARN office with a manager, a secretary and 4 people technical staffing ( 2 fulltime people and the equivalent of 2 for project people – see appendix). He also pointed out that all the people do not need to be at the same physical loca- tion, to some extent the office can be decentralized. Odd Jorgensen re-stated the DEC offer for 3 full time people under the direction of EARN which is conditional on equivalent EARN committment. Martin Wilhelm, seconded by Michael Hebgen, requested that the projects are to maintain and improve current service and to work towards the OSI direction. The Board decided to accept this proposal subject to the budget decision (with 1 abstention). The Board instructs the Executive to develop a proper staff management plan and to bring the projects (see appendix) to the Board for decision. 88.37.5 Traffic Statistics: Alain Auroux distributed a first result of September 1988 and stated that for the next Board meet- ing good data on the past 6 months will be available. Actions: _______ o The Executive to discuss the EARNTECH security paper with IBM as a top concern o The Executive to prepare clear statements of reference for EARNTECH o The Executive to improve the communication with EARNTECH o The Executive to produce an EARN staff management plan o The Executive to prepare project proposals 88.30 FINANCE – CONTINUED __________________________ 88.30.4 Budget 1989 – continued: In the discussion on the EARN office Kurt Bauknecht mentioned that the proposed 150 KECU may be not enough for the 4 technical staff people. Dennis Jennings clarified the location question, either the exisitng EARN office in Paris or the DEC offer for Amsterdam. After a lengthy discussion on the items “Manufacturers contribu- tion” and “Funding required” Dennis Jennings presented the fol- lowing details for clarification: Expenditure (KECU) | Income (KECU) ————————————— Development (1) 300 | EARN 300 OSI Transition 300 | DEC/OSI 150 | N.N. (2) 150 — — 600 600 (1) Maintenance and improvement of existing service, additional US link and line upgrade (2) not yet identified, not to be spent before funding available Harry Clasper stated, that the IBM ESINET is an initiative to interconnect IBM supercomputers and is a separate but related network and usage of these lines for EARN traffic (which may result in cost saving – see note (2) above) needs discussion with IBM. Jan Nuyens informed the Board that the IBM ESINET contribu- tion has resulted in less funding for the normal belgian EARN link because of bypassing the EARN country director and he asked IBM to negotiate link funding very carefully. The Board accepted.the proposed budget for 1989 with the changes mentioned above with 1 vote against from Austria. Wilfried Maschtera explained the austrian vote: The uncovered amount of 150 KECU is most likely to be spent which may result in an increase of the members contribution and Austria does not accept such a possible increase. During the discussion of the EARNTECH meeting (item 88.37.1) Den- nis Jennings has asked the question “Do we devote resources to SNA or OSI” which resulted in some confusion and discussion over lunch. The result of the discussion within the Board meeting was the following statement with a vote of 18 in favor and 1 absten- tion: +—————————————————————+ | | | o EARN is committed to OSI and to migrate existing NJE | | services to OSI services. | | o The new X.25 EARN backbone will be used for OSI servi- | | ces (X.400, X.500 etc. and also NJE/OSI/X.25). | | o Existing services will continue on the NJE/RSCS/BSC | | links. | | o Further development of existing links will be subject | | to a separate project plan. | | | +—————————————————————+ Coming back to the budget issue Paul Bryant gave the UK position: UK can not commit to the requested 1989 contribution at this meeting but can commit to funding at the 1988 level. UK wants to see economics from rationalization of UK/Europe connections in 1989 that becomes possible from the EARN OSI transition. UK needs more information on the funding requirements (case, plans etc.) to make stron bid to funding bodies. UK needs a realistic forward look for 1990 and follwoing years including any new scheme for calculation of the national contribution if a new scheme is anticipated. Michael Hebgen repeated that like UK, Germany can not commit to the requested 1989 contribution but can commit to funding with the 1988 distribution model applied, i.e. the “old” EARN/RARE keys. He proposed to limit to contribution to ten percent of the total 1989 figure for central contributions and to accept the budget with the direction to the EXEC to run the budget within the limits which may have to be reduced due to a reduced share from Germany and UK. Frode Greisen disagreed and requested voting on the proposed budget and distribution model as on page 26 of the briefing book. The result of the voting was 14 in favor, 1 against (Germany), 2 abstentions and 1 no-vote (CERN). 88.30.5 Budget 1990-1992: Alain Auroux explained the budget pro- posal based on the following assumptions: o plain extrapolation o 5 percent global increase o 10 percent increase for the telecommunication lines due to new lines and more capacitiy and maybe a reduction of tar- rifs. Arne Moi suggested to reflect the policy decision on cooperation with MDNS to be shown by reduced line costs. Actions: _______ o The Executive to produce the EARN staff management plan with- in the limit of 150 KECU for technical staff people o The Executive to name each project in future budget proposals o The Executive to distribute financial requirements much ear- lier o The Executive to handle the normal budgeting procedures over the network (information, re-adjustment etc.) o The Executive to negotiate with Germany and UK their share of the 1989 budget 88.31 EARN ASSOCIATION _______________________ Alain Auroux informed the Board that due to legal reasons the registered office (in French: siege) of the association has been returned to the lawyer’s office. 88.32 OPERATING PROCEDURES ___________________________ Frode Greisen asked for voting on several items where a decision is needed during this Board meeting: o Clarification of connection: A new country will receive vot- ing rights when connected to the EARN network and participate in the central and operating costs 6 months later. Voting: 14 in favor, 2 abstentions, 1 no-vote. o Change of the charter: Include “organisations with substan- tial links to academic institutions” in the chapter on asso- ciate members. Vote: 17 in favor, 1 no-vote. o Electronic voting: The quorum for electronic voting is taken only for Board members with electronic mail address. Vote: 17 in favor, 1 no-vote. o The paper “Management of changes” proposed by the Executive Committee was unanimously ratified – see appendix. Michael Hebgen November 30, 1988 Appendix A LIST OF DECISIONS _________________ This is a summary of the decisions taken by the EARN Board of Directors at their meeting. For the reference of the exact word- ing the related chapter of the minutes is included in parenthe- ses. o Election of officers in a closed session (88.27) o Finance discussion in an open session (88.27) o Ratification of the election procedures (88.27) o Regular statement on accounts on a 3 monthly basis (88.30.1) o Immediate statement on accounts on budget overrun (88.30.1) o A country must pay the invoice for central cost within 6 month (88.30.2) o Ratification of country membership for Morocco and Egypt (88.31.1) o Ratification of associate country membership for India (88.31.1) o Ratification of GULFNET as an associate network to BITNET (88.31.1) o Deferring agenda item on connection of Eastern Block coun- tries (88.31.1) o New countries do not have to pay for 6 month after connection (88.31.1) o Acceptance of 7 new associate members (88.31.2) o Participation in the definition, planning and testing of the MDNS pilot (88.32.4) o Continuation of pilot phase 1 of the EARN OSI transition pro- gramme (88.33) o Election of officers (88.34) – President: Frode Greisen – Vice-President: Michael Hebgen – Secretary General: Paul Bryant – Treasurer: Jean-Claude Ippolito – Members of the Executive Committee: Avi Cohen, Dennis Jennings, Stefano Trumpy o Running EARN89 end of May in Crete (88.35) o Relation to EARNTECH (88.37.2) – The normal communication channel is via the country Board member – To produce clear statements of reference for EARNTECH – To invite 2 members of EARNTECH when technical items are to be discussed – To improve the communication with EARNTECH. o Acceptance of the technical staff proposal (88.37.4) o Statement on OSI committment (88.30.4 – continued) o Acceptance of the EARN budget 1989 and the distribution model as on page 26 of the briefing book (88.30.4 – continued) o A new country will receive voting rights when connected and participate in costs 6 months later (88.32) o Include “organisations with substantial links to academic institutions” in the EARN charter (88.32) o The quorum for electronic voting is taken only for Board mem- bers with electronic mail address (88.32) o Ratification of the paper on “Management of changes” (88.32) Appendix B 88.33 EARN OSI TRANSITION PROGRAMME (FOILS) ____________________________________________ Draft Implementation Plan Overview Phase 1: pilot X.25 service complete software development (NJE/OSI) and implement software in pilot sites begin switch interoperation project develop management procedures Phase 2: extend X.25 to complete square backbone introduce X.400 and gateways begin country connections Phase 3: hand over X.25 square to Operations Group introduce FTAM complete country connections Appendix C 88.37.4 TECHNICAL STAFF PROPOSAL ________________________________ This proposal has been presented during the EARN BoD meeting in April 1988 and adopted by the Board subject to the budget deci- sion. TECHNICAL STAFF PROPOSAL ________________________ The Technical Group propose that two fulltime staff should be provide to manage the network. The Group do not believe that vol- unteer staff should be expected to provide the service. Volunteer staff cannot dedicate their time to the tasks and it is unreason- able to expect their sites to provide the effort free of charge. The tasks to be carried out by the staff are: o Node management including the master co-ordination for EARN. Requires one week per month. o The control of NETSERV and LISTSERV. Requires one week per month. o Maintenance of existing programs. Requires one week per month. o Liaison with sites and others. Requires one week per month. o Support for National Country Co-ordinators. Requires a few days per month. o Writing and updating documents. Requires a few days per month. o Overheads including holidays, education, and meetings. Requires one week per month. 2 full time staff are needed to carry out these tasks. The attributes for the posts are:- o Applicants must be familiar with the EARN network or be will- ing to learn quickly. o Some programming experience in high level languages is required. In addition, funding should be provided for work of 2 people for projects/tasks forces. These people should be familiar with the network, and have substantial network experience. Possible task forces – subgroups: o Gateways o User interfaces o Domain names o Modelling and statistics o … Appendix D 88.32 MANAGEMENT OF CHANGES PROPOSED BY EARN BACKBONE _____________________________________________________ SITES _____ OBJECTIVE: the purpose of this proposal is to define a procedure to be adopted by EARN for the management of changes which effect the services to users of the international infrastructure. PREAMBLE: It is assumed: (1) that the management of the hardware and software installed at international nodes is the responsibility of the management of the site housing the node; (2) that management at the site of an international node will operate and manage their system to ensure delivery of the most effective service possible to the users of the EARN international infrastructure, within the performance ability of the installed hardware and software; (3) that it is the intention of any managed changes in hardware or software, to further improve the delivered quality of service and cost effectiveness of the EARN international infrastructure. PROCEDURE: given the above assumptions, it is agreed that pro- posed changes, significant to the network, in the hardware or software used at an international node will be notified in good time to the Executive Committee by the Board Member of the Coun- try concerned. All aspects of such proposals will be reviewed by the Executive Committee at its next meeting, as a matter of urgency. If neces- sary, further technical evaluation will be requested by the Exec- utive Committee to achieve concensus. It is agreed that pending the agreement of the Executive Commit- tee to the proposed changes: (1) planning for the changes may proceed; (2) all reasonable steps be taken by the management of the site to assist the Executive Committee in its evaluation of the impli- cations of the planned changes on the international infrastruc- ture; (3) the results of the evaluation by the Executive Committee of the notified changes be completed in a period of not more than three months from the notification of the planned change to the Executive Committee, and will be communicated immediately to the relevant Country Director. Share this:FacebookTwitterReddit