1. APAN South Asia Net Group Charter and Organisation 26 th July 2003

2. Objectives Have members from academic networks in the region Establish human networks among regional institutes Establish Internet links within region Encourage regional research and education co-operation Regional initiative for high-speed intercontinental connectivity

3. Organisation A regional grouping within APAN geography – AF – BD - MD Members Academic networks in region (Ex. ERNET, LEARN) Associate Members Academic institutes in region (Ex. BD) Members and Associate members should (at some point) become APAN members

4. Organisation (cont.) Chairman Will represent APAN-SANG in APAN Management Committee One committee member from each Member / Associate Member Alternate from each member / Ass. Mem. Working Groups to be set up as needed

5. Organisation (cont.) Secretariat LEARN offers to provide secretariat for 1 st year APAN could provide web-site, etc. Mailing list - APANSANG No legal organisation

6. Funding No funds at present Each member should pay membership fees to APAN APAN will reserve 50% for APAN-SANG To be used mainly for meetings

7. Meetings Yearly APAN-SANG meeting co-locate with SANOG Next meeting proposed in Bangalore in Jan 04 APAN-SANG members will meet annually at APAN meeting Meeting at Honolulu? next meeting – Taipei Aug 23-28 2004

8. Timeline Jul 03 Inaugural meeting – Colombo Elected interim committee (till Aug 04) members LEARN, ERNET, Tribhuvan Univ. PERN – to be confirmed BERNET – no concrete information (BD) Associate Dhaka Univ. (BD) Aug 03 update web page and mailing list Get members from PK and BD, formalise membership of ERNET 2003/04 prepare proposal for EU / Dante

9. Timeline (cont.) Jan 04 3 rd APAN-SANG meeting – Bangalore 2004 Establish personal links between academic institutes in the region Submit proposal for intercontinental connectivity Have link from IN to JP/KR/SG Inter-regional link from South Asia – Other Region Link from IN to LK – to be evaluated 2005

10. Interim Committee Chairman Gihan Dias Members LK - Ajantha Athukorala, Gihan Dias IN – Deepak Singh, Anil Rawat NP – Binod Vaidya APAN Liason Kilnam Chon S Ninomiya – Natural Resources

11. Projects APCN – AP Climate Prediction Net www.apcn21.net Mongolia, Kazakstan, Sri Lanka, B’desh 1.8GB data / day