AsiaFI Monthly Updates on 2008.07.01
 

1. AsiaFI Board Member Chair and Deputy Chairs were elected for one year term; 2008.6-2009.6
    
    Chair:            Hualin Qian(one year term)
    Deputy Chairs:    Yang Hee Choi, and  Francis Lee 
    Members:          Xing Li(one year term), Jun Murai, Onno Purbo, Lixia Zhang
 

    Remark:  We expect to increase the number of Board members to nine next year. 
 
                 
2. AsiaFI Steering Group members were nominated and approved as follows;
 
    Jun Bi				Tsinghua University		Secretariat Director(2008-2009)
    Kilnam Chon			KAIST/Keio/Tsinghua	At-Large Member(2008-2009), Steering Group Chair(2008-2009)
    Choong Seon Hong		Kyung Hee University	Education Committee Chair(2008-2009), and Secretariat Director(2008-2009)
    Xiaohong Huang		BUPT				At-Large Member(2008-2010)
    Akira Kato			Keio University		At-Large Member(2008-2010)
    Dongman Lee			ICU				At-Large Member(2008-2009)
    Hewu Li				CERNET			Mobile WG Chair(2008-2009)
    Koji Okamura			Kyushu University		At-Large Member(2008-2010), and Secretariat Director(2008-2009)
    Sureswaran Ramadass		USM				At-Large Member(2008-2009)
    Mingwei Xu			Tsinghua University		Architecture WG Chair(2008-2009)
 
3. AsiaFI Meetings(Board Meeting, Steering Group Meeting) were held on 2008.6.17.
 
4. International Conference on Future Internet was held on 2008.6.18-20, and it will be held again in Seoul next June.
 
5. Global Collaboration
    During Conference on Future Internet, we had a series of informal meetings among
    delegates from Asia, Europe and USA to discuss on collaboration on future internet
    research, in particular on its coordination such as coordination meetings.  We decided
    to look into the coordination.
 
6. Africa-Asia Collaboration
    We had an informal meeting between Africa and Asia, and agreed to look into 
    collaboration in particular on research and development.  We will have the workshops
    and meetings in this fall and next spring to identify the areas to collaborate.
 

7. Future AsiaFI Event Schedule;
 
   2008.08.25-29 AsiaFI School on Architecture and Building Blocks, Jeju(at Cheju University) 
                 2008.8.25      Testbed Workshop and Testbed WG BoF
                 2008.8.26      Tutorial on Future Internet Architecture(with FIF Summer Camp)
                 2008.8.27-29   Architecture School - Main Program
 
   2008.10.27-28 Joint Network Workshops, Qingdao(during CERNET Annual Conference)
 
   2008.11.23-28 Joint Africa-Asia Workshop, Addis Ababa(during AfriNIC Meeting) 
 
   2009.01.12-16 AsiaFI School on Mobile and Wireless Networks and Security Workshop, Beijing (at Tsinghua University) 
                 
   2009.03.02-06 Joint Workshop, Kaohsiung(during APAN Meeting)
 
   2009.05.24-29 Joint Africa-Asia Workshop, Cairo(during AfNOG/AfREN/AfriNIC Meeting)
 
   2009.06       International Conference on Future Internet, Seoul
 
   2009.08       AsiaFI School on Architecture and Building Blocks
 
8. Future AsiaFI Board meetings:
 
   2009.01.12    During AsiaFI School on Mobile and Wireless Networks, Beijing
   2009.06       During International Conference on Future Internet, Seoul
 

9. Future AsaiFI Steering Group meetings:
 
   2008.08.28 at 11am-1pm  During AsiaFI School on Architecture and Building Blocks, Jeju (at Cheju University) 
  
   2008.10.27-28  During Joint Network Workshops and CERNET Annul Conference, Qingdao
 
   2009.01.12-16  During AsiaFI School on Mobile and Wireless Networks, Beijing (at Tsinghua University) 
 
   2009.03.02-06  During Joint Workshop and APAN Meeting, Kaohsiung
 

   2009.06        During International Conference on Future Internet, Seoul
 
 
 
See further information in www.AsiaFI.net.