IFIP TC6 WG 6.7 (Smart Networks)

MINUTES OF THE MEETING

Date:		19.10.2000
Place: 		TU Wien, Freihaus, lecture room 2 
Time: 		4.00 PM
Present: 	Olli Martikainen
		Harmen R. van As
		Hartmut König
		Reda Reda 

1.	The meeting was opened and the members were welcomed by chairman Olli Martikainen.
2.	The WG Aims and Scope document accepted in the TC6 meeting May 2000 in Paris was discussed and minor corrections were made.  The Aims and Scope is attached as an annex.
3.	New members to the working group were welcomed. The memberlist is attached as an annex.  New members are:
	
	Nadia Boukhatem, boukhate@infres.enst.fr
	Masanori Kataoka, kataokam@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
	Osamu Takada,  takada@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
	Asser N. Tantawi, tantawi@us.ibm.com
	Jonathan M. Smith, jms@central.cis.upenn.edu
	Scott Nettles, nettles@ece.utexas.edu
	Scott Alexander, salex@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
	Yechiam Yemini, yemini@cs.columbia.edu	
	Radu Popescu Zeletin, zeletin@fokus.gmd.de

4.	The steering committees for event series were discussed and members were proposed.  The IWAN steering committee for the next event IWAN'2001 was fixed later in Tokyo.
	IWAN:	
	  US		Jonathan M. Smith, jms@central.cis.upenn.edu
			Scott Nettles, nettles@ece.utexas.edu
			Scott Alexander, salex@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
			Yechiam Yemini, yemini@cs.columbia.edu
	  Japan		Masanori Kataoka, kataokam@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
	  Eur		Radu Popescu Zeletin, zeletin@fokus.gmd.de
			Guy.Pujolle@prism.uvsq.fr
			Harmen.R.van-As@tuwien.ac.at
			Olli.Martikainen@icon.fi

	SmartNet:	Finn.Aagesen@item.ntnu.no
			Harmen.R.van-As@tuwien.ac.at
			Villy Iversen, vbi@tele.dtu.dk
			Olli.Martikainen@icon.fi
			Guy.Pujolle@prism.uvsq.fr

5.	Reports on events:
	Smartnet'2000 was a high standard event with a total of 161 participants in both 	tutorials and the conference (plus 25 persons from the Institute of Communication 
	Networks).  Participants in the Conference: 127, Tutorial A: 48, Tutorial B: 20, 
	Tutorial C: 22, Tutorial D: 29, Tutorial E: 9, Tutorial F: 12.  Submitted papers 
	47, invited papers 6,  presentations 36.  The organizers and sponsors of the event 
	are kindly acknowledged.

IWAN'2000 was a high standard event with 108 participants, of which 25 from Europe, 70 from Japan and 13 from USA. Submitted papers: 59, keynote adresses 2, presentations 30, one half day tutorial on the first day and a panel session with closing remarks on the last day.  The organizers and sponsors of the event are kindly acknowledged.

Smartnet'2001 organizer University of Helsinki, Finland, Dates: 5.-7.9.2001,
	Contact: Kimmo Raatikainen, kimmo.raatikainen@cs.helsinki.fi

IWAN'2001 organizer University of  Pennsylvania, Dates: late October 2001,
Contact: Jonathan M. Smith, jms@central.cis.upenn.edu

IWAN'2002 Paris, Contact: Guy.Pujolle@prism.uvsq.fr

Smartnet'2002 open, possibly in Germany 

Smartnet'2003 Norway, Contact: Finn.Aagesen@item.ntnu.no