EARN BOD 04 84 EARN Document Title: Minutes of EARN Board of Directors Meeting December 7, 1984 Author: Not known Date: 1984/12/7 Committee: Board of Directors Document: BOD4 84 EARN-MIN LISTSERV@UKACRL Revision: 0 Supercedes: Status: Final Maintainer: Board of Directors Access: Unrestricted ——————————————————————– MINUTES ——- EARN Board of Directors Meeting December 7, 1984 1) Opening and Report on Major Events Jennings welcomed the participants and proposed (and it was accepted by the BOD) to establish groups for the major topics. Jennings summarized some comments on the last minutes: – ISRAEL: the international link is active, 6 nodes are connected. – The status of Finland and Denmark is: planned. – The BOD agreed with the contents of the letter which has been sent by H. Hultzsch to the CEPT. Jennings recalled the major events since the last meeting: – A second leased line from Europe to the U.S. linking DEARN at GSI- Darmstadt and GWUVM at Washington DC is active. – H. Hultzsch described the CEPT discussion: CEPT has understood the idea of such a network. CEPT puts pressure on EARN to go to the international OSI standards, CEPT is only interested on volume charging on international lines, but it is left to each country to establish a reasonable tariffication. For Germany volume based tariffication currently is applied only for data coming via dial up connections, thrupassing data will not be charged. H. Hultzsch proposed that academic authorities should establish a communication to their national PTT’s, demonstrating the need of a tariffication which can be covered by current and future R&D budget structures. 2) Status of EARN in Each Country Each BOD member presented the status of EARN and the PTT problems in his country. A working group on the “Status Report”” (Mrss. Trumpy, Neggers, Hebgen, Bryant and Eisinger) presented the 1st version which is enclosed in appendix A. 3) A working group on the “EARN Charter” (Mrss. Rodier, Cohen, Greisen, Hultzsch and Jansson) proposed an EARN Charter which was accepted as the official EARN Charter by the BOD and is enclosed in appendix B. 4) EARN Organization After presentation of an idea of an EARN association by A. Auroux, a working group on the “EARN Organization” (Mrss.. Delhaye, Auroux, Mate, Franzelius, Lord and Ms. Carlson) proposed and accepted by the BOD. The EARN association located in Paris, France, with the EARN charter as the associations statute and one general meeting per year for every member and four BOD meetings per year. The result of the elections for the EARN association is: Chairman: D. Lord Vice-Chairman: D. Jennings Secretary: Mr. Trumpy Treasurer: Mr. Ippolito Foundation-group: Mrss.. Lord, Trumpy, Cohen, Ippolito 5) Working Groups Reports “Applications” (H. Budd): IBM announced a European Community Science Engineering Computation Centre (ECSEC) with about 10 FPS-164 systems and 10 staff people (IBM), 5-7 post doc positions and 10-20 visitor positions at which 8 hours cpu power per day should be available to universities via EARN (optimistically by the end of the 1st Q85). IBM has agreements with French universities on VLSI training, i.e. IBM provides VLSI design tools to the universities and builds these chips. “Technical Coordination” (P. Bryant): On February 18-20, 1985, the 1st technical meeting will take place at RAL. Details will be provided by P. Bryant. “Promotion/Information Centre” (J.L. Delhaye): J.L. Delhaye presented a poster and proposed a LOGO, folders and stickers. An EARN kit (colour foils) to present EARN will be available at the end of 1984. The German group presented a reference summary and a different LOGO already used for letter heads. The BOD rejected the poster, but decided to use both Logos temporarily for letter heads until a final decision is made. The reference summary and the sticker were accepted for usage on the folders. The BOD also suggested to use only one LOGO in the future. Mrss. Delhaye and Lord should coordinate the final selection. For the EARN information centre, the BOD decided one centre per country due to the volume based charging. “Standards and EARN Development Plan” (D. Lord): A paper on standards is in progress and will be circulated prior the next (technical) meeting. The BOD accepted the statement of full migration to the OSI standards as a basic statement of EARN and the development plan. In addition to OSI standards work must be done on EARN-BITNET standards, e.g. MAILER programs. 6) Next Meeting will be on March 8 in Spain ———————————————————————— APPENDIX A: EARN STATUS REPORT – DECEMBER 7, 1984 Description of the columns: 1 – planned gateways 2 – active nodes 3 – planned nodes 4 – volume charge on national lines 5 – volume charge on international lines volume charge abbreviations: E = expected U = unexpected N = not available/applicable D = dial up lines only 6 – license for international lines 7 – active backbone lines 8 – planned backbone lines Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ———————————————————————— Austria ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1 (Germany) Belgium 0 0 10 E E N 0 1 (France) CERN 0 6 ? N E Y 1 (GSI) 3 (U.K., Italy, France) Denmark ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Finland 1 (FUNET) 0 1 N E ? 0 1 (Sweden) France 0 7 37 ? E ? 0 3 (CERN, Sweden, Belgium) Germany 1 (DFN) 61 15 0 D ? 2 (CERN 4 (Denmark, USA-WAS.) Austria, Ireland, Netherland) Iceland 0 0 1 ? ? ? 0 1 (Denmark) Ireland 1 (HEANET) 2 0 0 0 ? 0 2 (U.K., Germany) Israel 0 13 5 0 0 ? 1 (Italy) 0 Italy 1 (APRA) 10 2 0 E ? 3 (USA-NY 0 Israel Spain) Netherland 0 1 18 U U ? 0 1 (Germany) Norway 1 (UNINET) 0 1 ? ? ? 0 1 (Sweden) Spain 0 5 3 0 0 ? 1 (Italy) 0 Sweden 1 (SUNET) 0 1 N E ? 0 3 (Norway, Denmark, France) Switzerland 0 3 7 ? N ? 0 0 U.K. 1 (JANET) 0 1 0 E ? 0 2 (CERN, Ireland) ———————————————————————— Country 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 APPENDIX B: EARN CHARTER AND MEMBERSHIPS REGULATIONS —————————————- EARN Objectives ————— EARN (European Academic and Research Network) is a computer network open to all Universities, Educational, Academic and non-commercial Research Institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The objective of EARN is to provide an Information Exchange System to satisfy the need for cooperation and fast exchange of data between the members of this academic and research community, for non-commercial scientific, educational, academic and research purposes. EARN Membership ————— EARN members are institutions responsible for at least one node of EARN, who are able and willing to support connections to additional EARN members. A node is a computer system, connected to the main EARN network, which is able to send, receive and distribute files by name, using appropriate communication standards and to potentially support connections of additional EARN nodes. All universities and non-commercial research institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are eligible to be Full members of the EARN. Other Research Institutions are eligible to be associate members of EARN. Full member of EARN are considered to have the same status, independently of the national implementations of the network. The member of the EARN Board of Directors in each country participating in EARN decides on applications for Full membership according to the regulations established by the EARN Board. All applications for Associate membership will be decided by the EARN BOD. EARN Usage ———- All uses of EARN must be for scientific, educational, academic and research purposes only. No commercial use, direct or indirect, is permitted. Full members of EARN are permitted to communicate between themselves with associete members of EARN and with all members of the U.S. BITNET network. Associate members of EARN are only permitted to communicate with full members of EARN. Special BITNET access authorisation is required for associated members. Communication with other Computer Networks —————————————— EARN members agree to restrict their communications to other networks via gateways according to regulations agreed between EARN and the attached networks. Responsibilities —————- Members shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that users of their computing facilities abide by these and such other regulations governing the use of EARN as the EARN Board of Directors shall introduce. EARN does not guarantee the security, the confidentiality or the integrety of the data sent on the network. It is the user’s responsibility to protect their data and to secure the data transmission on the network by all means they feel appropriate. No EARN member shall be held responsible for any way the use made by any other member. EARN Regulations —————- Regulations governing the connection to, access to, and use of EARN and EARN site facilities, are determined by the EARN Board of Directors. A decision by the EARN Board of Directors concerning the membership of EARN, the regulations governing EARN, and any other matter concerning EARN shall be complied with by the members. EARN Board of Directors ———————– The EARN Board of Directors shall comprise one director from each country with members participating in EARN. The EARN Board of Directors may coopt additional members to the Board as appropriate. Each member shall be eligible to nominate and select their national delegate to the EARN Board of Directors, according to the regulations laid down by the Board. Share this:FacebookTwitterReddit