ATIC Board Meeting Minutes- September 8, 2004
On-site Attendees:
Mark Goldstein (*), Diane Bacon (*), Patt Patterson, Richard Kindberg, Galen Updike (*), Oris Friesen (*), Al Sterman (*), Brad Tritle (*), Jay Flash Miringoff; Mike Keeling (*), Mike Williams, Ted Kraver (*), Ron Schott, Richard Pearce-Moses (for GladysAnn Wells) (*), Michael Cohen, John Kelly (*), Tom Campbell (*).
Attendees Via Audio or Video Conferencing: : Glenn Stoneman (*). Matt McClymonds (*). Alecia Miller, Steve Peters (*).
(*) - ATIC Board Members (13) present with a quorum = 10)
Many thanks to the Cox Web Conferencing service provided by Cox Business Services for the statewide audio conference connections, and thanks, too, to Lewis & Roca for providing videoconferencing facilities in Phoenix and Tucson.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW:
The next ATIC Board Meeting will be on October 13, 2004, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Please make a note of the meetings scheduled for next year in 2005:
MEETING SCHEDULES FOR 2005
The Board Meetings will be held on the 15th Floor (Room 1534) at Lewis & Roca, in Phoenix, on Wednesdays from noon - 2:00 p.m.
- January 12, 2005
- February 9, 2005
- March 9, 2005
- April 13, 2005
- May 11, 2005
- June 8, 2005
- July 13, 2005
- September 14, 2005
- October 12, 2005
- November 9, 2005
The Public Information Meetings will be held on the 15th Floor (Room 1534) at Lewis & Roca, in Phoenix, on Thursdays from 2 - 4 p.m.
- February 17, 2005
- April 21, 2005
- June 16, 2005
- September 22, 2005
- November 17, 2005
Modifications to and Acceptance of Agenda Draft
The agenda was accepted as shown below.
Agenda
- Modifications to and acceptance of agenda draft
- Self-Introductions
- Acceptance of minutes from last meeting
- Review of Outstanding Action Items as Documented in July 2004 Minutes.
- Committee Reports
- Monthly "General Information" Meetings (Mark Goldstein)
- Informational Presentations
- Adjourn
Acceptance of Minutes from Last Meeting
The minutes for the July 14, 2004 Board meeting were presented for approval.
MOTION: To approve the minutes.
MOVE: Al Sterman
SECOND: Mike Keeling
Passed Unanimously
Review of Outstanding Action Items
No outstanding items.
Membership Consideration
Galen Updike requested that he be removed from the list of Board Members, since GITA, the organization for which Galen works, is already represented by Chris Cummiskey. Galen will withdraw as an ATIC Board Member. He will continue to serve ATIC in the excellent manner that he has in the past
Committee Reports
Joint Government Affairs/Strategic Planning Committees (Mike Keeling, Steve Peters, Kurt Jonckheer, Oris Friesen)
- Citizens Clean Election Commission (CCEC) debates
Oris reported that the general election debate will be presented at
The University of Advancing Technology - Auditorium
2625 West Baseline Road
Tempe, Arizona 85283-1042
On Thursday, October 7, 2004
3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
As with the Primary Election Debate, it will be webcast live and will be available for post-event viewing on the Internet at the ATIC website http://atic.researchedge.com/election/acc04debate.html. Spanish and sign language translations will be available, and 3 special viewing locations will be provided by Central Arizona College. John Kelly will be the Moderator. The final list of candidates is not yet known.
According to information made available after the Board Meeting, the candidates participating in the Debate will be:
- 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats who are competing for the 3 terms expiring in 2009.
They are:
- Mike Gleason (R)
- Jeff Hatch-Miller (R)
- Mark Manoil (D)
- Bill Mundell (R)
- Nina Trasoff (D)
- 1 Republican and 1 Libertarian are competing for the 1 term expiring in 2007.
They are:
- Kris Mayes (R)
- Rick Fowlkes (L)]
Oris will contact Kino to find out how many hits the primary election debate web page has had.
- Government Broadband Development Activity progress report (Galen and Mike Keeling)
Galen Updike reported that the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) are moving ahead to create a mechanism, to be called the Telecommunications Infrastructure Committee (TIC) to address telecommunications planning and policy throughout Arizona. It will be under the Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology (GCIT). ATIC will support the TIC as a background organization and as a source for some TIC membership slots. TIC will be under the GCIT Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Wendy Vitorri, VP and General Manager at Motorola Computer Group.
Letters will be going out to approximately 20 potential members. Chris Cummiskey will chair the committee, and Gil Jimenez will also participate. The1st meeting will be during the 2nd week of October.
Mike Keeling made the observation that Galen should be recognized for the tremendous amount of work he has done in bringing the TIC into existence. The Board Members heartily agreed and gave him a solid round of applause.
- TS privatization RFP Contract (Mike Keeling)
The privatization RFP has been delayed again. It is now is due out in October sometime.
There is an outsourcing issue, in that originally the RFP was to forbid outsourcing, but this is being relaxed and in the end it will probably not have any substance. This is primarily due to the inability to control subcontractors.
- Grant Opportunities
Galen reported that a grant application to provide WiFi capabilities along the CANAMEX Corridor has been selected as one of three applications to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The grant is targeted primarily to implement wireless access for improved first-responder use along the CANAMEX corridor, with ATIC as an oversight and implementation body.
[It has subsequently been learned that ATIC was awarded the grant. Ours was one of twelve proposals awarded funding from the 113 submitted.]
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Cyber Security Committee (Jerry Crow, Cindy Donaldson)--
Mark Goldstein read the following report from Jerry Crow, who was unable to attend the meeting.
- There was no meeting in July because of schedule conflicts; neither Cindy nor I was in town.
- In August we had a presentation from Rob Babich of Telesoft on telecommunications contract compliance auditing, etc. He gave an extremely interesting presentation on how to be aware of possible cramming, slamming, third-party billing errors, etc., on corporate telecom bills. Thanks to Mark for passing on this offer from Rob to present.
- Our September meeting (Monday the 13th) will be devoted to initial discussions and planning for a possible second annual ATIC Cyber Security workshop. The announcement for this meeting was issued to the Cyber Security list today.
- Cindy and I have been representing the ATIC Cyber Security Committee at the Arizona Security Round Table meetings being hosted by Chris Pierson. This is an effort being driven by the Phoenix Chapter of InfraGard to form a working collaboration among the various security-oriented groups in Arizona. The most recent meeting was held on August 19th and I attended. Mike Keeling has attended some of these meetings and Steve Peters has been attending on behalf of the AZ CyberSec Alliance.
- The Committee is also participating in several InfraGard meetings planned for the near future and is planning to hold a second cybersecurity workshop in the spring.
- Steve Peters reported that a security event is being planned for Tucson in the fall of this year.
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ACC Activities (Tom Campbell) --
Tom submitted a written report that is included as Appendix A. He commented briefly on some of the high visibility topics, such as
- The Qwest price cap case (see Item #1 in the attachment). It scheduled for a January hearing with a ruling expected around next May.
- Customer Proprietary Network Information - CPNI (see Item #5 in the attachment). Basically, the ACC wants to have more control over CPNI than industry desires. Staff proposals will be heard soon.
- Unbundled Elements (UNE) and the Triennial Review (see Item #6 in the attachment). The August 20 FCC interim unbundling rules issued by the FCC is being appealed to the DC circuit court. FCC says it is a 6 month temporary freeze and the FCC hopes to have a final decision before the 1st 6 months expires.
- A docket has been opened for VOIP, but nothing has yet been done.
- The "cable systems information service vs. telecommunications service" issue is before the Supreme Court.
- Cell phone regulation is the major legislative priority of the ACC. Regulation would require new legislation to regulate cell phones. Wireless industry would prefer that the federal legislation take precedence over individual and multiple state regulations.
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Arizona Telecom Directory (Ralph Gierish, Brad Tritle, Mark Goldstein --
Brad will organize a meeting in the next 2 weeks to decide next steps and directions. Interested parties are welcome to join.
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Collaborative Technology (Steve Peters) --
Steve would like to pursue the purchase of 1 or 2 polyphones for ATIC. This discussion will be deferred until our next meeting.
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eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students (eSATS) (Ted Kraver) --
Ted reported that the eLearning System for Arizona Teachers and Students (eSATS) is moving forward. Ted plans to have a meeting with Susan Patrick from the federal Department of Education in Washington, D.C. soon.
Ted also discussed an economic development methodology that he has presented to Joe Yuhas at the Arizona Department of Commerce. It builds upon the cluster concept. The document is being distributed with these minutes.
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Monthly "General Information" Meetings
Additional public meetings are planned for September 16, and November 18.
September 16, is cancelled in lieu of the upcoming ACC General Election Debate sponsored by ATIC and the CCEC.
Some potential ideas for the November 18 and subsequent sessions are:
- George (?) Weiss of Gartner to talk about bandwidth directions in the applications layer
- A Panel with possible representation from iLinc, Skype and Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) to discuss peer-to-peer & VOIP potential
- Limelight Networks and content objects distribution world wide
- Should also consider webconferencing, the debates, etc.
- Implications of wireless vs. VOIP vs. Powerline Telecomm
- Consider Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and their implications
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Informational Presentations
Since no informational presentation was scheduled, attendees gave brief reports on related activities in which they are engaged.
- Mike Keeling agreed to lead a discussion on 211 initiatives for our next Board meeting.
- Mike Williams previously worked for Qwest and its predecessors before going to work at South Mountain Community College (SMCC) with Cliff Heide. Cliff brought him in to work with industry to promote workforce development. Several companies are interested in the SMCC telecommunications program, including Cox.
- Ron Schott, of the Arizona technology Council (ATC) discussed the importance of Proposition 102 in the upcoming General Election. The Proposition embodies the Tech Transfer initiative that will permit Arizona's three public universities to receive equity in companies that license technology developed at the universities as compensation for use of the technology. The passage of this initiative allows Arizona to stay competitive with the other twenty-four states that currently let the private sector commercialize technology in this way. It will enable our Arizona universities to continue to develop highly marketable and profitable products and ideas. For more information, see http://www.jobs102.com/.
- Oris gave a brief overview of the Mesa Community College (MCC) Information Assurance (IA) and Cyber Forensics program that he has helped to develop. It is one of the foremost and most comprehensive community college programs in the subject area anywhere in the United States. The program consists of three certificates and an AAS Degree: (1) The Certificate of completion in Network Security builds on the skills of a network administrator and prepares students for entrance into the (2) Certificate Program in Information Assurance. The (3) Cyber Forensics certificate program is available for any student with some course work in networking. The course work required for these certificates can be applied towards an AAS degree in Information Assurance.
- Richard Pearce-Moses reported that GladysAnn Wells is working with the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) to harvest state documents from the web automatically.
- Patt Patterson reported that the Community Voice Mail (CVM) National Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington on October 7-9.
- Michael Cohen discussed what is being done to expand the Central Arizona College network to the high schools in Pinal County.
- Steve Peters announced a national security practitioners conference to be held in Tucson from December 5 through December 10. For more details see Appendix 2 or http://www.acsac.org/.
- Mark Goldstein announced the 2004 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference to be held in Scottsdale from November 15 - 18. For details, see http://www.sdrforum.org/sdr04/program.html.
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Next ATIC Board Meeting
The next ATIC Board Meeting will be on October 13, 2004, 12:00-2:00 p.m. at Lewis & Roca in both Phoenix and Tucson.
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Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
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attachment 1
ACC Status Report
Thomas H. Campbell
- Price Cap Docket - Qwest filed an amended pricing plan for its retail and wholesale services. This Plan calls for certain services to be placed in competitive categories or zones subject to lesser or no rate regulation. This amended pricing plan was filed by Qwest as required in the prior rate case settlement order in which a price cap and alternative regulation plan was adopted. This case will be heard in January 2005.
- Access Charge proceeding - Access charges are what a local carrier charges a long distance carrier for originating and terminating long distance calls. Historically, access charges have been set above cost and subsidize local service. The Commission is studying a variety of access charge issues but, most importantly, to what extent access charges should be reduced closer to cost as are other wholesale services. The Commission consolidated this proceeding with the Qwest Price Cap case so it is also set for hearing in January 2005.
- Wholesale Pricing Docket -This docket sets the prices Qwest can charge other telecom carriers for interconnection, unbundled elements and resale services. On June 12, 2002, an order was entered in Phase 2 that significantly lowered many of the wholesale prices charged by Qwest, including the statewide average monthly loop price, which was lowered to $12.12 from $21.90. The Phase 2A decision issued on December 12, 2002 set switching rates and a few other prices. There will also be a Phase 3, but neither the issues nor the hearing date for this phase have been finalized.
- Universal Service Fund - The Commission is reviewing its Universal Service Fund rules. The Universal Service Fund provides money to high cost carriers to help keep the cost of basic local service in the rural and high cost areas on a par with the rates in the urban areas. Comments have been solicited from interested parties by the ACC staff. This proceeding has not been set for hearing.
- Customer Proprietary Network Information ("CPNI") - This docket was opened in response to Qwest's notice to its customers that CPNI would be shared with Qwest's affiliates, unless the customer chose to "opt out" from such sharing. In response to ACC objections, Qwest withdrew this notice. The Staff has prepared proposed rules and numerous telecom providers have filed comments generally objecting to all or portions of the proposed rules. Most carriers want the ACC to adopt the FCC rules. The ACC has yet to decide on the proposed rules.
- Unbundled Elements and the Triennial Review - The Commission initiated a triennial review of unbundled elements as required by the FCC Triennial Review Order. Subsequently, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected much of the FCC's Triennial Review Order. In response, the FCC has proposed interim unbundling rules that are being challenged by the RBOCs. The ACC proceeding is still pending, but it is not clear what will happen. The ACC may initiate its own unbundling docket or wait on the FCC to finalize new rules.
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attachment 2
Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA)
20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
December 6-10, 2004
Tucson, Arizona
http://www.acsac.org/
In December the Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) http://www.acsac.org/ will host the 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) in Tucson. The Arizona Cyber Security Alliance is working with them to help promote the conference. Additional information is also available on their web site.
Average attendance is 200-250 people, with about 70% industry, 20% government, and 10% academia. Last year approximately half the papers submitted were from outside the US and we have growing mix of attendees from outside the US. It is a mixture of practitioners, researchers, engineers, etc. It is generally a very technical audience.
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) is a non-profit association of computer security professionals who have a common goal of improving the understanding, theory, and practice of computer security. To this end, ACSA supports a number of activities, all of which serve the goal of improving the computer security field. The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) is the major activity funded by ACSA. Started in 1985, the conference's goal is to explore technology applications in the area of computer security, for both civil and military applications. It looks at hardware and software tools and techniques, as well as specific examples of system applications and implementations. The conference consists of a two and a half day technical program, preceded by two full days of a formal tutorial program.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Steve Rome at rome_steven@bah.com
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eCommerece Concept
eCommerece Concept