Minutes: TCCC
Executive Committee Meeting of
Attendees:
Douglas Comer,
Sanjay Jha,
Howard Salwen, Audeon Networks (salwen@rcn.com)
Gary Kessler,
Archan Misra, IBM Research (archan@us.ibm.com)
Sajal K. Das,
Ellis Nolley, Strategic Growth (e.nolley@ieee.org)
Joe Bumblis, UDLP (joseph.bumblis@udlp.com)
Unable to attend:
Charles Perkins, Nokia Research (charliep@iprg.nokia.com)
Overview:
The first Executive Committee
(ExCom) meeting of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer
Communications (TCCC) took place at the Embassy Suites Hotel in
Minutes (Action Items are in red text.)
Travel:
Opening remarks focused on
travel reimbursement issues. ExCom members were reminded of the expense report
process. One ExCom member is required to submit a W-8 form with the expense
report. The W-8 form has been sent by Joe Bumblis.
Computer Society TAB
OpCom Meeting Report:
We discussed the November 4,
2004 TAB OpCom meeting with specific emphasis on the meeting report written by
Joe Bumblis and filed with the TCCC ExCom on November xx, 2004 (a copy can be
viewed at: http://tab.computer.org/tccc/Minutes/110404%20TAB.htm).
After a detailed discussion we agreed on the following activities:
·
Send a copy of
the
·
Sajal
Das will contact the individual Chairs of the TCPP and TCDP and forward a copy
of the OpCom report. Sajal will discuss
Joe’s OpCom report with the two TC Chairs and determine their views and any
recommended course of action.
·
Joe
Bumblis will contact the TCEC Chair and send a copy of the OpCom report. As above, Joe will discuss the TCEC Chair’s view of
the OpCom meeting and report on any suggested course of action.
Note: A list
of TC’s can be viewed at: http://www.computer.org/tab/tclist/index.htm
Online Publishing:
Over the past year, the TCCC
ExCom conference calls always included preliminary planning of TCCC Web page
online publishing. During this meeting, Joe Bumblis reminded the ExCom of the
online publishing goal; to add value to the TCCC membership. Doug Comer
suggested starting the initiative by posting TCCC sponsored conference reports;
a report representing a TCCC ExCom member’s view and a report from a student
representing the student’s view of the conference. Gary Kessler suggested also
inviting a reporting body representing industry, such as InfoWorld, to report
on the conference. Although the TCCC would not be able to post the report on
the web page, it is possible to add a link to the InfoWorld (and/or others)
article.
Other suggestions included
adding a TCCC web page link to conference paper submissions (for example: http://www.ieeelcn.org/lcn29papers.html
) as well as upcoming conference dates. This will form the basis of a
bi-monthly newsletter to the TCCC membership. Joe and
Gary will prepare the TCCC web page for the first conference reports and links.
Joe and Archan will jointly work on the newsletter
format and content. Future online publishing may include:
·
A report from
selected universities/colleges regarding current projects
·
Formation of a
review panel to ensure the quality of the paper/report
·
Investigate
publishing a conference best paper from a TCCC sponsored conference
·
A method and
means to advertise the conference
Note 1: The Computer Society currently offers online publishing via DS Online (ISSN: 1541-4922). See: http://dsonline.computer.org/ for
details.
Note 2:
Something to consider…according to http://scholar.google.com
:
“Google Scholar enables you
to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all
broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles
from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across
the web.”
TCCC Presence at
Sponsored Conferences:
During the “Online
Publishing” discussion above, we identified the need for a TCCC presence at the
conferences sponsored by the TCCC. For example, ICNP has no
mention of the neither Computer Society nor TCCC sponsorship on their web page.
The following activities were agreed to:
·
Sanjay
Jha will write a report on the LCN conference. He agreed to have a report ready by
·
Sanjay will
contact Ken Christensen regarding a student report from a student that attended
LCN through the NSF grant. Sanjay has already sent an
E-mail to Ken.
·
Sajal
Das will represent the TCCC at the PerCom
(http://www.percom.org/) conference.
·
Archan
Misra will represent TCCC at the WoWMoM (http://www.perlab.it/wowmom2005/) conference.
·
TCCC
ExCom members visiting TCCC sponsored conference will be responsible to represent the TCCC at the conference by
coordination with the conference Organizing Committee to secure a position for
a TCCC informational poster, membership forms and/or helping with online
membership, giving a short introductory talk during the conference regarding
TCCC activities, and writing a conference report for posting on the TCCC web
page.
Membership Database:
After completing the “Online
Publishing” and “TCCC Presence…” items, the discussions turned to the TCCC
membership database. Ellis Nolley completed sorting the last-known-good TCCC
database into membership areas. Ellis reported that 52% of TCCC members were in
the
Ellis also discussed the
request he made to the Computer Society for TIP information (see http://tab.computer.org/tccc/Minutes/TCCC%20ExCom%206-16-04%20Conference%20Call%20Minutes.doc
) from the membership database. The request was forwarded to the Computer
Society IS folks for processing (according to John Daniel during the
Joe reported on the Computer
Society effort to create TC membership databases. This project is known as the
Unified Database Project TEchnical Committees Achieves (TECA). Detailed
information and user manuals can be located at: https://eckert.computer.org/tchelp/spcl145.htm
The only TCs currently in the
TECA are the TCVG, TTTC, and TCCX. To add the TCCC to the TECA, an E-mail must
be sent to teca@computer.org (or: alfredo.benso@polito.it). Joe will send this E-mail and copy Ellis as the primary user
of TECA.
Recruitment:
We discussed the growth of
not only the TCCC ExCom, but also growing the TCCC. Joe mentioned there are
several open Chair positions remaining on the TCCC ExCom. These include:
·
Permanent Finance
Chair
·
Tethered Network
Technology Chair
·
Protocol
Technology Chair
·
Application
Domain Technology Chair
It was suggested that we ask
Charlie Perkins to either take-on the role of Protocol Technology Chair, or to
offer some suggestions for possible candidates. Joe
will contact Charlie regarding the Protocol Technology Chair opportunity.
Webcasting and Online
Conferences/Workshops:
Our final discussion focused
on possible alternatives to TCCC members attending conferences and workshops.
We discussed things like Webcasting, Chat Rooms, and video streaming of
pre-recorded presentations. We believe the IEEE has a Webcasting service; Ellis will investigate and report back to the TCCC ExCom.
It is unknown if Chat Room services are offered by the IEEE. It may be possible
to add this functionality to the TCCC web page assuming we can address the
SPAM, SPIM, and security issues associated with chat rooms and IM technology.
Doug mentioned the possibility of allowing users to download presentations
during online viewing of conference keynote addresses, university reports,
and/or other talks like colloquiums. We need to not only investigate the
technology, but also the cost of services and the logistics of use.
Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at
Joe Bumblis
Chair, TCCC