Draft Minites of MMN BT URI project for Loughborough, March 4th
			1998
 
 0/ introductions & apologies
 
Attendees:
D.J.Parish@lboro.ac.uk
O.Bashir@lboro.ac.uk
J.M.Sandford@lboro.ac.uk
I.W.Phillips@lboro.ac.uk
Ian.Leslie@cl.cam.ac.uk
Brian.Cowe@cl.cam.ac.uk
Dan@comp.lancs.ac.uk
tf@comp.lancs.ac.uk
Majidia@drake.bt.co.uk
marshall@drake.bt.co.uk
j.cowan@cs.ucl.ac.uk
jon@cs.ucl.ac.uk
np2@doc.ic.ac.uk
mss@doc.ic.ac.uk
mike@mcs.uts.edu.au
atanu@socs.uts.edu.au

Apologies from DH@lancs...
No sign from OBU

 1/ minutes/actions/agenda bashing
 
 previous minutes are at 
 http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/mmn/minutes-5.11.97.txt

Actions: 
1/ Morris and other s outlines opportunites for papers at
IM99 (deadline mid jully, conf in Mar 99)
Funding - from JISC,
Other conferences soon: NOSSDAV, HIPPARCH
$$$: JISC for $$$
2/ all - to work on integration/demo plan:
2/i) Rob Davieson sent a spec for the low level half and  David and
others responded
2/ii) The high level plan awaits a meeting between UCL, IC and Lancs
(Ian M., James, Nat and Dan).
 
 2/ LEARNET Progress
Cambridge have fiber connectivity , but not photons, cells or packes
yet
London have logical connecvity but a submcron gap which takes 2 months
to schedule a fuse for in BT Tower...
 
 3/ work progress reports from each partner
 	UCL - James reported on client stack management
rmi,corba,etc
 	IC -  Nat presented work from their paper on component architecture)
componenet=object=thing?
 	Cambridge - Brian presented more DCAN results
switchlets, but resources?
 	OBU - declared UDI (allegiance with HICID?)
 	Lancaster - Dan presented Lancs Windows environs work 
could be mega useful - DIrect/Active etc...
 	Loughborough - Iain reported on latest progress on measurements
Useful...

 4/ Patent Progress
 
fine

 5/ Integration Plan
 
lots of discussion - basicaly, though needs a heads banging together
meeting of 2 levels Cam, Lboro, OBU, and IC, UCL, Lancs).

watch this space...

 6/ T&D next meet
 
Tue, 14 july, 10:30 am Imperial 

7/ AOB
note LEARNET meeting at UCL on 25/3/98 - might be relevant to folks
plans.


jon to merge mmn and mmn-tech lists - actually soln is => just use
mmn list...:-)