Program Committee Cairns, Australia Bok-Gyu Joo

Review of Cairns Program Overall: 4 tracks(26 slots) and joint tutorials Network Technology Area(2) - SIP, ENUM & QoS – Engineeing(2) Application Technology Area(4) - HDTV, Grid, Joint, Demo Natural Resources(9) – Digital Earth &... – 6 – Agriculture – 1 – NR & eScience Joint - 2 Network Research Workshop(4) Other Areas – Global Collaboration(2), eHealth(1) – PlanetLab, Medical Conference(1) – eCulture BoF, SIP BoF

APAN Conference in Bankok Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Conference – Tutorials, Workshops, Sessions Dates: (mon) -28(fri) Place: – Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Amari Watergate Hote

Proposals Network Technology Area – Network Engineering(2s, K. Konishi) Application Area – Grid(2s)- K. Aida – HDTV(2s) – J. Kim Natural Resources and e-* – Earth Observation, Earth System, Agriculture, Natural Resources: (8+s) – e-Science(3s): Chris Elvidge – e-Culture(2s): K. Takaharu Others – Global Collaboration(2s) -Jacqueline Brown – Medical Teleconferencing(2s, 1.24) – Y. Kitamura – Joint Session with APNG(2s) - Tommy

Proposals(cont.) Tutorials – Access Grid(2s) – Org. Comm. – Sensor network with FieldServer, a wireless field monitoring system(NR, 4s) – Build and Understand SIP Proxy Server(4s) – Stephen Kingham – Running, … H.323 Zones with SIP Gateways(2s)- Kewin Stoeckigt – Bandwidth Optimization Techniques(2s), Dr. Gihan Dias, Sri Lanka.

Tentative Schedule Tentative Schedule Tracks Network Applica- tion N.Resource s & e-* Remarks 1.24mon 1.25tue Reception 1.26wed 1.27thu Dinner 1.28fri General Assembly Tutorials Plenary

Milestones : Announce Call for Draft Proposals : Program Draft in Cairns : Initial programs with organizers : Due formal workshop proposal : Finalize workshops with organizers : Finalize workshops with session list : Finalize abstracts and speaker list : Print brochure(and other materials) : Committee Meeting in Bankok

To Other Committees To APAN Council – Request 1 APAN Sec support for program To Organizing Committee – Approval of draft schedule – Joint plenary speakers Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Thailand (1) Tom De Fanti, EVL, UIC, pioneer of CAVE, father of STARTAP (2) Tony Hey, Director of the UK eScience program

Program Committee Chairs – Bok-Gyu Joo/Hongik, KR Chair – Yasuichi Kitamura/CRL, JP Co-Chair – Seishi Ninomiya/NARO, JP Co-Chair – Jacqueline Brown/Pacific Wave Co-Chair – Jane Zhu /APAN, Secretariat Members be adjusted for future meetings – Organizers for 19 th & 20 th Meetings – New- Jun NII