Draft Minutes for MMN BT URI project for Cambridge, thurs, Mar 11

	draft of 12/3/99, Jon Crowcroft

0/ introductions & apologies

Attendees
	Ian Marshall et al from BT (please add!)
	Ian Leslie, Brian Cowe,  Richard Mortier
	Jon Crowcroft
	David Hutchison, Dan Waddington
	David Parrish, Iain Phillips
	Morris Sloman, Nat Pryce

Apologies from Mark Sanford at Loughborough

1/ minutes/actions/agenda bashing
Crowcroft talked about the JIF proposal for a national 
network infrastructure for comms research - see
JIF http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/jif/
Ian Leslie proposed that a clean version of this be posted with acover
letter that potential institutions that wish to sign up can show to
their provost/vice-chancellors - this should stress that
a) the history of epsrc/ukerna (tale of two stools)
b) the leverage this apparently small bid gets by having big
industrial donations associated with it (i.e. can't just be done as a
straight epsrc proposal)

ACTION Crowcroft: will provide this by end of next week!

2/ work progress reports from each partner
ACTION ALL: Give me the online version of your slides!

	OBU
		in absentia
	Cambridge
		Brian Cowe
			gave a nice talk about admission for voice over switchlets
	UCL
		Jon Crowcroft
			talked about UCL's epxloitation plans, and
			james cowans departure to pastures new...
	Lancaster
		Dan Waddington
			outliend state of the art of the PVM, plus
			java gateway for UTS dynamic proxylet server!
	Loughborough
		Iain Phillips
			talked about state of the monitoring system
	IC
		Nat Pryce
			talked about the state of MIDAS

3/ Papers, Patents, Projects
	Brief talk about JIF and FV

4/ Integration Plan
	We drew up a timeline. BT would like to have a demo of all the
pieces at Martlesham in the week of August 23-27 - the demo day would
have talks in the am, demos i nthe pm - 10-12 talks, about 20mins per
partner (incl BT overview) and then 5/6 demos in the pm, in 2/3
different labs (Ian's, the learnet one etc)

Working back from then, we have a timeline as follows:
July 23rd - final date for s/w cut; talks to be delivered to ian
June 23rd - final date for system specification to BT for each
partner('s') demo; alpa version of talks from each partner to all the
others so we can cross reference
May 30th - finish changing things; only fix things!
March/April - get on with it!

one issue with the date is whether UTS will (can) be there or no

5/ T&D next meet
One of sep 6,9,10,13-17,21-24
final debrief/wrapup, on
Sep 24 at UCL, unless we are at BT on Sep 23rd, then there.

6/ AOB
Crowcroft proposed to have a book of the "MMN URI Works - papers,
patents etc" _ all agreed - its up to Ian and Jon to coordinate and
edit this - we will ask for contributions after the demo! but before
the last project meeting (when you try to do this after the last
meeting, it suddenly becomes a very low priority:-)

7/ Planning for the End of the Project

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