Applications Strategy Council
Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Participants: David Lassner (Chair), Marie Modrell (scribe), Laurie Burns, Cheryl Munn-Fremon, Ann Doyle, Charles Yun, Russ Hobby, Vijay Kumar, Homer Neal, Cliff Lynch, Parvati Dev, Bill Decker, Harvey Newman

1. Introductions (All)

2. Agenda Review (David)
There were no requested additions to the agenda.

3. Comments on Prior Meeting Notes (David)
David requested that the group review once again the notes from the last ASC (1/26/05) meeting before being posted.

4. Updates from Internet2 (Cheryl/Laurie)
Internet2 Discipline Program Managers have been invited to sit in on ASC meetings.

5. Updates from ASC Members (All)
Bill Decker confirmed that invitations, along with draft charter and roster, were issued on 2/21/05 for participation in the Campus Expectations Task force. The group will meet face-to-face in late March/early April in order to establish some early thoughts and priorities. The Task Force is expected to make a preliminary report at the Fall 05 Member Meeting in mid September and a final report at the Spring 2006 Member Meeting.

6. Update/Discussion of Ongoing ASC Agenda for Action

• Campus Expectations Task Force (Bill)
  This Task Force has been formed to re-examine the expectations for Internet2 member campuses to sustain a leading edge network environment that enables researchers and scholars to collaborate and innovate. The Task Force has a principle goal of re-articulating the ideal characteristics of an Internet2 member campus, in light of the Internet2 communityÕs goal to promote and enable advanced applications.
   
  
• Outreach to and Support of Research Community (Bill/Laurie)
  Laurie reported that NPPAC met for 1.5 days in late January. Part of the established charter of NPPAC overall is to review strategic priorities. The Agenda included review of 12 different activities in order to define a set of priorities. The most strongly endorsed priorities were Network Futures (and evolution of Abilene and convergence with NLR), Member Engagement, Relationships with Research Communities, Middleware, and Security. The Council was briefed on ASC and the Strategic Plan.
   
  
• Real-Time Communication (David/Egon)
  This is at a similar stage to the Campus Expectations Task Force. The Charter has been completed and members invited. Tyler Johnson will Chair.
   
  
• Lecture Object (David)
  Homer Neal and Cliff Lynch agreed to work with George Brett to close the loop on the survey. Collecting the information from the survey will be useful and the Council will then decide if they want to take any further steps.
  Action: David to let George know that Cliff and Homer will work with him to get the survey out.
   
  
• Teaching & Learning (Laurie)
  The first meeting of the Teaching and Learning Working Group will be held during the Spring 05 member meeting. This will start out as a BoF. Jennifer MacDougall and Marty Seigel are working on a charter for the Group and will write an abstract/brief charter statement that can be included in spring member meeting program.
   
  
• IDEA Awards (David)
  Greg Wood is the Internet2 staff lead on this activity. These will be announced at future member meetings, the first of which will be presented at the Fall 05 meeting. A couple of invitations have gone out as we look to recruit the head judges.
   
  
• Application Dissemination Ð Getting Apps into ÒProductionÓ
  There is no strong activity going on at the moment. There will be a BoF on Digital Anatomy Applications at the Spring 05 Member Meeting. A website has been created.  
  
• Internet2 Opportunity Database
  There is little activity in this arena at this point. George Brett is currently meeting with discipline program managers about this and is still gathering info.

7. Other Items
Vijay brought to the attention of the Council the newly formed SIG "Extending the Reach of Research and Education around The Globe". Warren Matthews, coordinator of International Networking Initiatives at Georgia Tech, will chair the SIG.

8. Next/Future Meetings
The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 23rd at 1:00pm EST

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