2022-09-20 ACCESS EC Meeting Agenda & Summary

Attendees:

• RAMPS: Stephen Deems (v), Dave Hart

• MATCH: Shelley Knuth (v)

• CONECT: Tim Boerner (v), Leslie Froeschl

• MMS: Tom Furlani (v), Joe White

• OpenCI: John Towns (v), Shawn Strande, Ron Payne, Lavanya Podila,

• NSF: Tom Gulbransen (NSF)

• Guest Speaker:

  • Lisa Kaczmarczyk for external evaluation of ACO

(v) indicates a voting member

Agenda/Notes

1. External Evaluator Responsibilities @Lisa Kaczmarczyk (10 minutes)

   a.

2. Approval of summaries from prior EC meetings John Towns (5 min)

   1. 13 September 2022 Interim EC Summary

3. Informational Items (10 mins)

   1. RAMPS Stephen Deems

      1. Notifications regarding proposal outcomes from August XRAC meeting were sent successfully. Working with groups who were denied to resubmit/re-align.

      2. Yesterday’s “Welcome to ACCESS!” email took down allocations.access-ci.org for a few minutes

         1. Over 14,000 hits came in; may not be purely related to # of HTTP requests

            1. Development team suspects this was due to Microsoft Office 365 checking links for phishing attacks. No immediate action required. Will investigate when a future communication goes out. Thanks for Dina/Megan for the help with message.

   2. MATCH Shelley Knuth

      1.  

   3. CONECT Tim Boerner

   4. MMS Tom Furlani

   5. OpenCI John Towns

5. Slack Communications with the community Shelley Knuth (5 mins)

a. Discussion regarding purpose of each slack channel

b. @ShawnStrande to draft a version stating the definition, function and purpose of each slack channel, to be reviewed by Tim Boerner and then present to the EC

6. EAB Charter Discussions @ShawnStrande (10 mins)

7. Metrics/Tracking mechanisms Tom Gulbransen (10 mins)

8. Time permitting: EC Backlog Review: Update priority/items for next EC meeting John Towns

Next EC Meeting: 27 September 2022