FORCES Project - Management Committee Minutes 11/04/00

• Gordon Blair (GB), Lancaster
• Muffy Calder (MC), Glasgow
• Graham Clark (GC), Marconi Communications
• Evan Magill (EM), Strathclyde (Secretary)
• Ken Turner (KT), Stirling (Chairman)

Action points arising from meetings are identified as AP/meeting/action/owner. This meeting was number 4.

1. Appointment of Secretary

   E. Magill agreed to act as secretary for this meeting.

2. Apologies for Absence

   J. Derrick was unable to attend due to absence abroad. J. Evans was represented by G. Clark due to absence abroad.

3. Approval of Agenda

   The agenda was approved.

4. Approval of Minutes and Matters Arising

   The minutes of Meeting 3, 06/09/99, were approved with no matters arising.

5. Review of Outstanding Action Points

   AP/3/0/KT K. Turner will organise the production of an A4/A3 publicity poster (as appropriate). Ongoing

   AP/2/2/ALL The status of company contacts is as follows:

   • D. Marples did make enquires at the LATC trade show, but did not find any suitable organisations.
   • E. Magill did approach Atlantech but they did not wish to join.
   • J. Evans did approach Scottish Telecom (now called THUS) who expected to send a representative from Demon, but nothing came of this.
   • K. Turner did approach Lucent, but without achieving any definite result.
   • E. Magill has approached Mitel, but their joining looks most unlikely. (K. Turner separately approached Mitel but with equal lack of success.)
   • M. Calder approached Graham Technology, but they did not wish to join.

   It was agreed that new companies needed to be approached. This action was revised as follows:

   • M. Calder should approach Motorola. Ongoing
   • E. Magill should approach Nortel Networks and also Cisco. Ongoing
   • K. Turner should contact the DTI again to seek partners. Ongoing

     (Chairman's Afternote: K. Turner contacted T. Reynoldson of DTI in April.)

   AP/3/2/KT This action was subsumed by AP/3/0/KT.

6. Participation of Ericsson UK

   AP/4/0/EM E. Magill agreed to approach the company to clarify their position.

7. Arrangements for August/September Workshop

   It was agreed that the workshop would be held on the week of 4th September 2000 in Glasgow.

   AP/4/1/KT K. Turner will contact Scottish Enterprise (S. Boyle) with a view to gaining local support.

   (Chairman's Afternote: Scottish Enterprise have been approached and are initially enthusiastic. A definite proposal will come out of a meeting between S. Boyle, E. Magill and K. Turner on 15th June.)

8. Arrangements for October Colloquium

   It was agreed that the theme of the workshop should be convergence in services. It was also agreed that it should be held on the week of either 16th or 23rd October 2000 in London at the IEE, Savoy Place. The programme committee is to be K. Turner, G. Blair, and D. Marples.

   AP/4/2/KT K. Turner will ensure that a suitable date is chosen.

   AP/4/3/KT K. Turner will book the IEE, and attempt to obtain IEE consent for this to be an IEE colloquium.

   AP/4/4/KT K. Turner will write a paragraph outlining the colloquium theme that can be used in AP/4/5/All.

   (Chairman's Afternote: After discussion with IEE, the likely date is 23rd or 24th October. The relevant IEE Professional Group has been approached for endorsement through G. Smith at Strathclyde. IEE have said that they may not be able to offer facilities on such financially advantageous terms as last year. K. Turner has already circulated to project members a statement of the colloquium theme.)

   AP/4/5/All It was agreed that a number of people should be approached with a view to giving talks at the colloquium:

   • G. Blair: Philips UK, speaker on JINI, speaker on CORBA from Iona Technologies
   • M. Calder: Real Time Engineering
   • G. Clark: Marconi Service Departments, BlueTooth Consortium, IETF on Mobility over IP
   • E. Magill: Mobile VCE
   • K. Turner: SUN (already contacted but will try again)

9. Arrangements for Longer-Term Funding

   Little time was left for this item. It was felt that the next meeting might be more timely. Issues included:

   • extension using left-over EPSRC finance?
   • re-application to EPSRC?
   • industrial support?
   • training (e.g. CPD, Engineering Doctorate)?
   • courses jointly run by project members?

   AP/4/6/All Project members should consider this further at the next project management committee meeting. Ongoing

10. Broadening Project Scope

    Little time was left for this item. Issues included:

    • wider notion of service?
    • wider notion of telecomms - IP telephony, mobile telephony, service APIs, wireless communications, active networks?

    AP/4/7/All Project members should consider this further at the next project management committee meeting. Ongoing

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