1. Overview and discussion of Tier 1 computing systems project structure, as defined by Policy 200-45 - John Bruno

2. Network Operation Advisory Committee's (NOAC) Recommendation Regarding Bandwidth Limitations - Jerry Hallee

Absent: Mary Duthie, Celeste Rose, and Carol Wall.

Staff to the Council: Ian Blake, Gilda Garcia, Teri McKown.

Staff to the Council Absent: Debbie Lauriano, Bob Loessberg-Zahl.

Guests: Doug Hartline, Donna Olsson, and Kevin Rhodes.

1. Overview and discussion of Tier 1 computing systems project structure, as defined by Policy 200-45 - John Bruno
   Handouts:
   
   1. "Decentralized Information Technology Requires Central Coordination!"
   2. "Middledware: The Second Layer of IT Infrastructure"
   3. UCDavis Administrative Computing Plan

   John Bruno provided an update on developments in the Office of the Vice Provost-Information & Educational Technology. The Division of Information Technology, which is the operations and service arm of the office, will undergo some changes in the next few months. Mainly some of the units will be consolidated and the Instructional Technology and Digital Media Center will be established. A new Web site for the Office of the Vice Provost is under development.

   The UC Davis Information Technology Coordinating Framework consists of the Information Technologies Policy Board (ITPB), the Academic and Administrative Computing Coordinating Councils (AC4 and AdC3 respectively) and the Network Operations Advisory Committee (NOAC). In addition, John Bruno is planning the creation of a new UC Davis Technology Infrastructure Forum to coordinate campus-wide planning and development of middleware for the campus.

   Similarly, the Administrative Computing Plan is designed to provide a coordinating framework for administrative computing systems. Dr. Bruno distributed a handout providing an overview of the type of committee structure needed to ensure appropriate development, implementation and maintenance of an administrative computing system.

   It was commented that the diagram did not include the project managers' workgroup. The chair of the workgroup is appointed by the Vice Provost-Information & Educational Technology.

   Mary Jo Anderson pointed out that we need to be thinking about how to coordinate the increasing number of campus administrative systems and ensure that we do not create a proliferation of corresponding committees. The difficulty is that the current Administrative Computing Plan does not scale very well, especially if we were to include infrastructure systems in the mix.

   The Chancellor's Office will start the process of evaluating document management systems. It would be premature to undertake this project at the campus-wide level. A pilot project will be initiated to learn more about the process and requirements for document management.

    
   

2. Network Operation Advisory Committee's (NOAC) Recommendation Regarding Bandwidth Limitations - Jerry Hallee
   
   Handout: Communications Resources Communication Plan (withdrawn)

   Jerry Hallee discussed the recommendation the NOAC made regarding Napster and digital music applications. Both require a lot of bandwidth, interfere with legitimate educational uses of the network, and are very costly. Doug Hartline and Kevin Rhodes recommended to NOAC that use of these applications be limited, not eliminated. NOAC concurred with this recommendation and asked that AdC3 be informed of this recommendation.

   More specifically, the recommended solution is to limit the total RESNET traffic to 10Mbps and to further limit Napster bandwidth use to 256 Kbps per connection. Throttling the bandwidth to 10Mbps ensures that RESNET doesn't use more of the network capacity than the residents are paying for.

   Actions:

   1. AdC3 endorsed the suggested recommendations to traffic throttling and shaping.

   2. NOAC to revisit the network funding model.

   The meeting adjourned at 4:37 pm.