Internet2 Applications Strategy Council Monthly Meeting
August 3, 2005

The July ASC call was postponed until Wednesday, August 3rd at 1:00 PM EDT.

Participants:  Cliff Lynch, Alan Blatecky, George Thoma, Jacqueline Brown,  David Lassner, Parvati Dev, Egon Verharen,  Bill Decker, Vijay Kumar, Cheryl Munn-Fremon, Ann Doyle, Terri Saarinen-scribe, George Brett, Russ Hobby, Jill Arnold, Mike McGill, Charles Yun

Unable to participate: Jim Bottum,

Standing monthly ASC agenda topics include:
Review of Agenda

Comments on prior meeting notes

Updates from Internet2 (Cheryl) –There is now a committee of eight representing Internet2 board members and NLR board members. The first face to face meeting will be in Chicago on Aug. 15.  There will be a second meeting of this committee on or near 8/23 in Chicago or another major airport location.  The Internet2 representatives include: Larry Faulkner, Don Randel, Jack McCredie, and Doug Van Houweling.  The NLR representatives include: Tracy Futhey, Erv Blythe, Ron Johnson, and Tom West

Updates from ASC Members
Parvarti described a move within India to make stronger use of the Internet across all villages in India. This is driven by the Knowledge Commission.  Parvati has been asked to help develop a plan for MedNet and the service offerings that would go out across this network.  She is interested in open courseware and high bandwidth applications. This project in very early demo stages and is just beginning.  ASC members are asked to keep in touch with Parvati if interested in or have input to this project.

Update/Discussion of Ongoing ASC Agenda for Action
Campus Expectations Task Force (CETF): Bill reported that interest in this effort has been reenergized.  CETF will discuss merger activities in detail and will identify what may have been overlooked and what goes forward. Bill said that he's had a phone conversation with Doug Van Houweling and Tom West to make certain the CETF effort should continue.  Bill will attend SAC next week, and while there he expects to attend the NPPAC meeting, research BoF, and merger BoF.  He wants to also touch base with CETF members at net@edu meeting.  Bill is working with Kevin Thompson at NSF and is getting good input from a federal point of view. Bill will be giving CETF update at FMM05. Bill added that he will also be speaking with research officers in November.
  
Real Time Communication (RTC): Egon said the work on architecture has started, and that three meetings have been held, and a fourth meeting has been scheduled.   Phone meetings are scheduled each week in the afternoon. The RTC group is engaged, they are generating email traffic, and meeting regularly.  Egon said there will be a session organized at Fall Meeting.
  
Lecture Object (L.O.): Cliff said survey has been completed and that another BoF session will be held at the fall member meeting. Lecture Object Survey resulted in no cheap wins in terms of an existing convergence on format or tool.  There is an enormous amount of diversity around formats and tools. What are the next steps? Where do we go from here?   Do we want to go further than helping a tools discussion move forward?  We need to allow the members to drive this.  The Fall Member Meeting gives us an opportunity to ask those interested about the next steps.

Teaching & Learning (T & L): David said this group has taken off and is meeting regularly under the co-leadership of Jennifer MacDougal and Marty Siegel, and flywheel Ann Doyle.  There will be a side meeting at the fall member meeting and Ann said they are putting wheels in motion now.  The question of how this activity relates to the K-20 activities was raised.  This activity is of interest to many individuals who are also interested in K-20 activities, but is complementary.

IDEA Awards: - Ted Hanss is leading this effort.  Ted has drafted a schedule to advance this award. A team of judges is being formed.  The timeline begins Aug 2.  Plan is that by Dec 7 all nomination materials will be available to judges.  Finalists will be determined by Feb. 1 and will be announced at SMM06 meeting in DC. 

Along with Ted, IDEA awards committee includes Vijay, Annie Stunden, and Louis Fox. 

Other Items

Discipline Program Manager Efforts: Jill spoke about the perception that Internet2 has not done a good job engaging the "big science" folks in our member community.  Internet2 is interested in changing that perception and also getting ready to engage with this group in the new organization.  Jill wanted to bring this to ASC to seek feedback and ideas you might have on how best to refine effort and how we keep linked to ASC.  It was suggested that this perception relates both to the infrastructure and to the services or support offered to big science projects and is impacted by the maturity of the project.

It was suggested that this is a campus issue.  Perhaps we need to communicate what the campuses need to do and what campus expectations ought to be and help enforce any kind of meeting those expectations or enabling people to meet expectations. 

As we move forward to the new organization we want to understand how we can be more helpful.  This should be rolled into helping discipline communities inclusive of big and little.

David sent the Implementing a Balanced Portfolio document to ASC. This document described a set of goals for the Internet2 discipline program managers to achieve.   They are trying to determine some measures of success.  The Discipline managers are looking for guidance from the ASC.  It was decided that this topic would be part of the face to face meeting at the Fall Member Meeting.

Next ASC Monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 24 at 1:00 pm EDT.

Call ended 2:08.