APAN General Assembly Date : 24 February 2011, Thursday Time : 1400 to 1530 hrs (GMT+8) Chair : Jianping Wu Organization Representative(s) George McLaughlin APAN AARNET (AU) Mary Fleming Panjai Tantatsanawong APAN-TH APAN-CN Jianping Wu, Jennifer An APAN-JP Shigeki Goto APAN-KR Dae Young Kim APAN-MY Sureswaran Ramadass, Doris Wong APAN-TW Simon Lin ASTI-PH Denis F. Villorente ERNET (IN) Ranjan Kumar HARNET (HK) Gerrit Bahlman, Anita Chan LEARN (LK) Nimal Ratnayake NASATI(VN) Ta Ba Hung PERN (PK) Anwar Amjad - No representative - REANNZ Lawrence Wong, Francis Lee, Kalvin Gao, SingAREN Ong Bin Lay NREN Kishor Panth Agenda Items Action 1 Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) - George McLaughlin 2 special resolutions were raised during EGM: (i) To extend the term of all current Directors, Committee Chairs and Working Group Chairs by 2 months (from 30 June to 31 August) to align elections held at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the start of new appointment terms. Proposer: Lee Bu Sung Seconder: Dae Young Kim The motion was passed unanimously by Council Members.
1 Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) - continued (ii) To add the word "Annual" before "General Meeting" in clause 7.6 of the House Rules, to align the House Rules with clause 39 of the Articles of Association of APAN. [the Articles have precedence over the House Rules, refer clause 12 of the House Rules] Proposer: Lee Bu Sung Seconder: Dae Young Kim The motion was passed unanimously by Council Members. For REANNZ (New Zealand), Chris Litten confirmed via email on 24 Feb 2011 that it is agreeable to the 2 special resolutions above. 2 Committee Reports 2.1 Program Committee - Jacqueline Brown Jacqueline provided feedback about APRICOT-APAN 2011 – more integration/ collaboration between APRICOT and APAN would have been good. 2.2 Event Committee - Denis F. Villorente Denis presented the timeline of upcoming APAN meetings. 2.3 Backbone Committee – Dae Young Kim The Asia-Pacific Backbone Topology map has been updated. 2.4 Election Committee – Francis Lee APAN Board Elections - Timeline 1. Announcement of APAN Board election - 1 February 2011 APAN Primary 2. Open for nomination – 20 February 2011 Members 3. Nomination close - 15 April 2011 4. Announcement of Nominees - 1 May 2011 5. Notification of election as part of AGM agenda - 1 June 2011 6. Election at the meeting in India - 25 August 2011 Francis Lee called for nominations for APAN Board Members. 3 Area Report 3.1 E-Research Area – Chris Elvidge Chris Elvidge reported on APAN E-Proceedings and the appointment of Suhaimi Napis as E-Research Area Director.
3 Area Report (continued) 3.2 Technology Area - Sureswaran Ramadass Sureswaran Ramadass reported the updates for Technology Area. Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India proposed to set up APAN Working Group on IPR, Legal and Policy Issues. APAN Board highlighted that before an APAN Working Group is formed, it should be a BoF for at least a year. 4 Workshop Report 4.1 Network Security Workshop - Yoshiaki Kasahara 4.2 Network Research Workshop – Kitamura Yasuichi Kitamura Yasuichi will step down as the Chair of Network Research Group and Jongwon Kim will be the new Chair. 5 Finance Summary (Aug 2009 – Dec 2010) – George McLaughlin George reported on the financial summary of APAN for the period of Aug 2009 – Dec 2010. 6 Secretariat Report - Bin Lay Ong Bin Lay reported on the cost allocation for APAN Sec. Budget (July 2010 to June 2011) and APAN membership status. 7 Host Presentation – APAN32 Meeting, New Delhi, India – Ranjan Kumar The k ey issues raised: VISA application issues and ERNET’s preparations for APAN32 meeting. 8 Host Presentation – APAN33 Meeting, Chiang-Mai, Thailand 9 Adjournment The meeting ended at 1530 hrs (GMT+8).
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