------------------------------------------- Alpine meeting at UCL 24/9/99 draft minutes Present: Ian Marshall BT Hamid Gharib BT Morris Sloman IC DOC Nat Pryce IC DOC Laurent Mathy, Lancaster Mark Banfield Lancs Jon Crowcroft UCL --------------------------------- 0. The contract has been agreed, and distributed and signed. All partners have pretty much lined up people to work on the project. 1. Ian Marshall outlined BT's goals i nthe project, and very much stressed that we should be thinking "outside the box". Extremes (programable hardware, radical new services, user programmable networks etc) are allowed and indeed encouraged. Ian also outlined a number of other projects that relateto Alpine. 2. Jon Crowcroft outlined UCLs Y1 workplan - this is mainly internal to the DPS work. 3. Laurent talked about Lancaster's interests in new services, particularly group communication - UCL and Lancaster will organise a joint meeting in the november timeframe, as well as trying to touch base at NGC99 (http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/) 4. IC DOC talked about the possible interaction with the Mosaic IRC which if funded will involve UCL, Imperial and Lancaster, and has relevant and testing applications! It was reported that Opensig 2000 in september could be ours to run. IWAN 2001 at one ofthe Alpine partners IWAN 2002 at UTS/Sydney/Oz 5. T&D of next meeting Proposed: Feb 9, 2000 at IC DOC. 6. Actions: All - to agree Y1 workplan with Ian asap. UCL/Lancs/BT to meet about collaboration on group comms. All -to go ahead on special issue of Computer Networks (invovles writing Call for Papers and getting it cleared by Harry Rudin). ------------------------------------------- Project Web Page at: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/alpine/ ------------------------------------------- Email list: alpine@cs.ucl.ac.uk current contents: atanu@socs.uts.edu.au Morris Sloman Michael Fry dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk marshall@drake.bt.co.uk marty@socs.uts.edu.au np2@doc.ic.ac.uk dc@doc.ic.ac.uk jnm@doc.ic.ac.uk nd@doc.ic.ac.uk laurent@comp.lancs.ac.uk cardoe@comp.lancs.ac.uk dan@comp.lancs.ac.uk jim.hardwicke@bt.com hamid.gharib@bt.com ncd@doc.ic.ac.uk paul.mckee@bt.com mike.fisher@bt.com velascol@drake.bt.co.uk ian.w.marshall@bt.com