ASC Meeting Notes
July 26, 2006

ASC Council Members: Cliff Lynch, Alan Blatecky, George Thoma, David Lassner, Vijay Kumar, Alan Whitney

Internet2: Laurie Burns, Jill Arnold, Cheryl Fremon, Jonathan Tyman, Ann Doyle, Terri Saarinen – scribe

Proposed Agenda
Review of Agenda
Board Update
Updates from ASC Members
Update/Discussion on Ongoing ASC Agenda for Action
            Real Time Communications
            Teaching and Learn
            Campus Expectations Task Force
Updates from Internet2 Staff

Quick Update on the Governance Activities
David Lassner noted that a governance and nomination committee is being formed to provide some recommendations to the board on how to restructure governance to bring the board a stronger voice from the regional networking organizations and the CIO community.  Committee will soon be announced.  Goal is to have committee work completed by late fall.

General Updates
As a parallel activity, Laurie Burns added that work is being done to review the membership structure and model issues. NPPAC has formal responsibility as the membership committee for the board.  An NPAPC subcommittee has been formed.

There was a discussion about the size of the current board and the possibility of increasing it to 20 board members.  To avoid bloating the board size, Cliff Lynch suggested adding a strategy council for the regionals and adding that council chair to the current board.  Cliff also suggested including folks as at large members from outside the immediate community as it is helpful to have folks to open up the thought process.  Another possibility suggested is to have both chairs and vice chairs for the various councils.  David thanked ASC for providing input for initial discussions.

The next ASC meeting will be Wednesday, August 23 at 1:00 PM Eastern.