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Governance Minutes ArchiveFebruary 26, 1992
Minutes of the University Communications Resources Committee Meeting: Wednesday, February 26 1992, 3 p.m. Location: Donaldson Brown Continuing Education Center Attending: Bevan, Crofts, Evans, Fox, Furrow, Johnston, LaBerge, Litchfield, McAnge, Snoke, Swift Guests: Bowden and Lilly 1. Meeting called to order at 3 p.m. by Chair McAnge. 2. Minutes of the January 29, 1992, meeting were approved as amended. 3. The following item was added to the agenda: - Update on Rate Schedule 4. Update - Electronic Village Project: Theta Bowden gave the following update on the Electronic Village Project. -- Presentations are being made to various groups, i.e., PC users, Blacksburg High School, retirees, etc., and receiving good press coverage. -- The project is still a concept but submission of potential applications is encouraged. -- Paul Gherman has been reassigned to work on the project. It was requested that more information be provided about Paul's assignment. This item will be placed on the agenda for March for Blythe to report. -- Project is receiving positive press. -- Discussion continues with C&P Telephone on initial projects. Snoke reported on the reaction of Faculty Senate on the Project. A letter from Faculty Senate President Geyer was shared with the committee. The letter requested, "... to make the Senate/faculty a part of the "loop" in the information, reporting, and decision making committee or other structures regarding the above-named project." After a discussion on this issue, it was the consensus of the committee that the issues mentioned in the Faculty Senate required no action by the UCRC. 5. Student and Faculty Network Access A letter (November 25, 1991) was written to Provost Carlisle suggesting the Commission on Graduate Studies address the issues of access to computing resources and offered the assistance of UCRC. Chair McAnge reported to the committee that no response has been received to date from Dr. Carlisle. This item will also be forwarded to the Commission on Undergraduate Studies for inclusion on their agenda. LaBerge and Snoke will report back to this Committee on action of CGS. This item will be placed on monthly agenda of this Committee. 6. Communications Resources Rate Structure Judy Lilly gave an update on the communications rate restructuring contained in her memo to Administration, dated February 11, 1992. New installations will be billed at the new rate as soon as final approval is granted. CNS representatives will meet with departments to plan the conversion of local area networks to 10BaseT Ethernet connections. There will be a grace period for installation charges for existing networks. To protect the integrity of the campus backbone, it is CNS' goal to convert all local area networks to 10BaseT Ethernet. A policy mandating conversion may be required to meet this goal. Ed Fox suggested a more flexible policy; permit existing to remain, and mandate future installation to 10BaseT connections. Fox recommended the Committee encourage CNS to continue departmental discussions and the Committee add to its agenda (1) the Committee's responsibilities for providing technical advice to CNS and (2) security issues related to network connections. 7. Next Meeting Scheduled The next meeting was scheduled for March 25, 1992, Donaldson Brown Center, Conference Room G. Meeting adjourned at 5 p.m. Minutes prepared by: Tom McAnge and Joyce Smith Approved: March 25, 1992
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