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Minutes of EntNet Meeting

New Orleans June 19, 2000 at ICC2000

Introduction

1.-The meeting of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Enterprise Networking ( EntNet)

was held on June 19, 2000 at New Orleans in conjunction with ICC2000 (The list of participants is shown in Annex1).

2.-Masayoshi Ejiri chaired the meeting by the request of EntNet Chair Shri Goyal.

3.-The agenda proposed was approved and the meeting was proceeded accordingly.

TPC Report

1. Sadhna Ahuja( GTE Labs) attended GLOBECOM/ICC TPC meetings on behalf of Bhumip. No particular issues which we need to react were discussed in the meetings.

EntNet Charter

1. For the past one year we have discussed the charter and prior to this meeting the final proposal was sent to members concerned by email to ask their comments. No comments were received and the meeting agreed the Charter as proposed.The follow up would be to let Curtis Siller, the VP Technical Activities know and to have the new charter posted on EntNet Web site ( and with IEEE ComSoc).

EntNet Conference at SUPERCOMM2001

1. EntNet Conference( The Enterprise Applications and Services Conference) will be held in June 4-6,2001 at Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc and IEC( International Engineering Consortium). The outline of the conference has been reported to EntNet members by email. After that , at Supercomm 2000, the successive meeting was held with IEC officers and Bhumip attended the meeting on behalf of EntNet. Masayoshi summarize the outcome of the meeting as follows based on Bhumip’s information

1.1. Contact persons of IEC are John Janowiak( jjanowiak@iec.org) and Dan Coran( dcoran@iec.org)

1.2. IEC is responsible to Conference Room, Registration and Local Arrangement. For Publicity and Publications, both of IEC and ComSoc will take responsibilities. Business session ( IEC) and Technical session ( ComSoc) papers will be combined to make proceedings.

1.3. The contract will soon be done between IEC and ComSoc. ( Doug suggested that Tom Stevenson will sign up on behalf of ComSoc)

1.4. IEC will make draft version of (1) Press release document and (2) CFP which is planned to be distributed by the end of June. IEC will soon send them to ComSoc and we should check them and response to IEC ASAP after receiving them .

1.5. The following important dates should be decided.

* Paper Submission due date.

* Notification date.

* Camera ready date.

* Advance Program finalize date.

1.6. ComSoc should organize:

A. SIX Technical Session with 3 papers each.( Total 18 papers are to be selected)

B. One Panel Session with 4-5 speakers

C. One Luncheon keynote speech.

D. THREE Tutorials for half day each.

1.7. We need to establish Organizing Committee for the conference and to manage the issues mentioned above.

Chair : Masayoshi Ejiri (Fujitsu Ltd, Japan)

Vice Chair : Algirdas Pakstas (University of Sunderland, UK)

TPC Chair : Pradeep Kumar Ray (U. of New Southwales, Australia)

Secretary : Buhmip Khasnabish (Verizon/GTE Labs, USA)

Other Business

1. Recently Maria Luisa, who kindly has been maintaining EntNet Web site , resigned from CSELT and became impossible to continue this job and we need to look for the person who will take over this Web maintaining. New officers will soon discuss this issue and make decision.( Many Thanks to Maria for her excellent job she has done)

2. Algirdas proposed the sponsorship of EntNet for IEIS 2000 ( International Symposium of Enterprise Information Systems) which will be held in Paris , July 2000. The proposal was agreed and it was suggested that Algirdas should contact with Gayle Weiseman to have official approval.

ANNEX 1

The list of participants

1. Roberto Saracco( CSELT)

2. Laura Cerchio (PMI Net)

3. Doug Zuckerman( Telcordia)

4. Algirdas Pakstas( Univ. of Sunderland)

5. Sadhna Ahuja(GTE Labs)

6. Motomitsu Adachi( Fujitsu Labs)

7. Masayoshi Ejiri ( Fujitsu Ltd.)