Minutes of the SC-cc Monday, July 13th
Participants:
John Englund, ITAA
Tamar Frankel, BU
Siegfried Langenbach, DENIC
Javier Sola, AUI
Amadeu Abril i Abril, FCR
Don Heath, ISOC
Martin Burack, ISOC
Robert Shaw, ITU
Marc McFadden, CIX
Leni Mayo, ISOC
Jim Dixon, EuroISPA
Laina Raveendran Greene, APIA
Roberto Gaetano, ETSI
Mike Roberts, Educom
Izumi Aizu, APIA
Werner Staub, ISOC
Sabine Dolderer, DENIC
June Portch, CIX
John Wood, CSSA
Michael Schneider, EuroISPA
Minutes taken by Mark McFadden
STEERING COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION

This morning's Steering Committee conference call focused on the controversy over who can be a part of the Steering Committee. Several people expressed the view that the SG had taken a step backward and no longer had a clear understanding of who the IFWP was or what they should do. The group accepted consensus that there were different roles for the Steering Committee and the Program Committees. It generally emerged that the Steering Committee served three key purposes: facilitating the global IFWP process, early work in helping facilitate the Reston meeting (before there was a "program committee") and coordinating the results of the different venues. The proposal, accepted by consensus, was that SG members must be:

New requests to be in the steering committee will be judged against the criteria above. The existing group is reviewing the current lists. New people who want to be in the Steering Committee will be judged based on the criteria by Michael Schneider, Izumi Aizu and (if he agrees) Michael Roberts. The entire group may appeal the decision of this new "credentials committee." The rules for becoming a SC member will be published. As soon as Mike Roberts agrees the alias credential@ifwp.org will be set up to point to the three.

At the Reston meeting the group reached consensus on publishing notes from its meetings. The format of those notes are to be as follows: the names of the participants, the outline of the points covered in the meeting, and any consensus points reached.

The European Web site is still not populated with any information, but a draft of what may be published there is available at www.isoc.org/ifwp/ and will be moved to the IFWP site shortly.

The group recognized the need for mailing lists and requested a closed list for Steering Committee members. The Steering Committee chose to use the list at listserv@itu.int for internal discussion purposes.

Substantial discussion took place on how do to budgeting for IFWP. Specifically it was agreed that there should be a budget set up for the common IFWP financial requirements and separate ones for each of the program committees. It was also established that each program committee should be responsible for the costs and details of webcasting the conferences as well as any scholarships for encouraging participation from underrepresented geographic areas.