[This document is NCITS/J13 99/007]

Draft Agenda for 27Jul99 J13 Meeting by Teleconference

====================
 NCITS/J13 will meet at

    July 27 1999  10:00 AM PDT  (17:00 GMT)

 at the offices of Franz Inc, 1995 University Avenue, Berkeley CA
 94704, and at various other venues by teleconference.

 The estimated duration for the meeting will be one hour.
 The draft agenda follows below.

 Steven M. Haflich, Chair, NCITS/J13
 smh@franz.com   (510)548-3600

==================== Draft Agenda

(1) Call to order and introductions.  Quick review of effective
    teleconference techniques.

(2) Appointment of a Secretary Pro Tem for the current meeting.

(3) Approval of draft agenda.  This parliamentary item is required by
    NCITS procedures.

(4) Approval of Minutes for May 6, 1999 meeting.
    (Available as http://www.franz.com/~smh/J13/99-002.txt)

(5) Review of NCITS/J13 status and formal procedures, including chair
    report from officer training session: J13 options for extending or
    modifying the ANS, procedures required for doing so, and what are
    possible other options.  Discussion.

(6) Discuss establishment of a J13 fee mechanism to support
    operations, specifically, teleconference and other meeting fees.
    This may require appointment of a treasurer and a 30-day letter
    ballot on fees.

(7) The one-list / two-lists issue.  What is the proper degree of
    openness for non-formal, working deliberations?

(8) Discussion of mechanisms for technical deliberation, whether
    plenum or subcommittee.  Possible establishment of a subgroup to
    evaluate alternatives to email.

(9) Review the scope of technical issues raised on the mailing lists.
    How can they be addressed effectively?  How to decide which issues
    are worthy to address?  How to decide which issues are practical
    to address?  Discussion of the "MIT list" and other collections of
    issues.  The intention of this agenda item is _not_ technical
    discussion, although it is impossible to hold a hard line; rather,
    it is to characterize the various kinds of issues, and whether and
    how the committee can justify and address them.

(10) Placeholder to discuss establishment of a subgroup to consider and
    begin drafting any new NCITS Project Proposals.

(11) Placeholder for consideration of officer appointments.

(12) Announcements and new business.

(13) Evaluation of the teleconference meeting.

(14) Scheduling of future meetings.  At the May 6 1999 meeting there
    was consensus to schedule the next meeting in conjunction with the
    LUGM meeting, Oct 10-13 1999, in San Francisco.  If we keep to
    this plan, we'll need to schedule the precise time(s) consultation
    with the meeting organizers; for now we need to decide whether we
    want a short meeting (perhaps a few hours on one particular
    evening) or whether we want to extend to an additional day.  Also,
    we should consider whether to accommodate by teleconference
    members who cannot attend LUGM.