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TERENA COMPENDIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKING, 2006 TSec(06)019 DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION: 22 April 2006! Unless otherwise specified, please provide us with the data as of the 31 st of January, 2006 (or as close to that as possible).Note that the information that you provide will be made public through the Compendium website. E-mail addresses are encoded using javascript so they cannot be harvested by spambots . As soon as you update a section, we will make the answers public. If you would like to avoid that, for example because you would like to do some internal error checking first, please let us know. We will then make information public only after you have given your explicit approval that this can be done. Section one: USERS/CLIENTS In this section, reference is made to the various levels of education. In using these, please refer to the ISCED classification scheme; more information about this scheme is at http://www.terena.nl/compendium/faq.html#isced). For the purposes of this Survey, ‘University’ level should correspond to ISCED levels 5 and 6; ‘higher/further education’ corresponds to ISCED level 4; ‘secondary education’ corresponds to ISCED levels 2 and 3 and ‘primary education’ to ISCED level 1. 1.1 Please give an estimate of the percentage of the institutions in each category in your country that are served by your NREN (even if not all institutions receive the same services): Type of institution Are you allowed to serve this type of institution? [Yes | No ] % of all institutions of this type in your country served by your NREN: Universities Institutes of higher/further education Research institutes Secondary schools Primary schools Libraries, Museums, National Archives Hospitals (other than University hospitals) Government departments (national, regional, local) Others If you connect others, please specify who (companies, individuals, etc.) 1.2 Do you have a Connection Policy on your website? [ ] YES If yes, please provide the URL: [ ] NO 1.3 Do you have an Acceptable Use Policy? [ ] YES If YES: Is your AUP posted on your website? [ ] YES If yes, please provide the URL: Has your AUP been changed in the last year? [ ] YES If yes, please summarise briefly how it has been changed: [ ] NO 1.4 [ ] NO [ ] NO Please give a rough estimate of the methods by which the different types of institutions are connected to your network: 1 / 16 % connected to a POP on the NREN directly or through a MAN managed by the NREN % connected to the NREN via a regional or metropolitan network managed by a third party % connected to the NREN via or behind another, connected institution % connected to the NREN in another way: Total (should be 100%) Universities, Institutes of higher/further education Research institutes Secondary schools Primary schools Others 1.5 If you connect (some of) your clients through regional or metropolitan networks (either managed by you or managed by a third party), we would like to know what the usable capacity is of the connections between those networks and your PoPs/routers. Please use as many lines as needed Capacity of the connection to your PoP/router 1.6 Number of connections to from the MAN to your PoPs/routers at this capacity Please indicate the total number of connections to your NREN for each institutional category, and give the percentage breakdown for each bandwidth class (note that we are interested in the usable bandwidth) Sites of: Total number of connections % connected through ISDN or lower % connec ted at up to 2 Mb/s % connec ted at >2 Mb and ≤10 Mb/s Universities Institutes of higher/ further education Research institutes Secondary schools Primary schools Libraries, Museums, National Archives Hospitals (other than University hospitals) Government departments (national, regional, local) Others 2 / 16 % connec ted at >10 and ≤ 100 Mb/s % connec ted at >100 and < 1000 Mb/s % connec ted at 1 Gb % connec ted at > 1 Gb and < 10 Gb/s % connec ted at 10 Gb or above 1.7 Does your network currently support IPv6 or does it have plans for that? If so, please state when support for IPv6 was or will be introduced. 1.7.1 1.7.2 As a pilot service: As a production network service: 1.8 Please indicate the total number of sites that have IPv6 connectivity through your NREN for the institutional categories listed below. A breakdown in percentage by the Ipv6 enabling technology would be helpful. Percentage connected via: (total should be 100%) Sites of: Total number of IPv6 connections % connected with native IPv6 % connected via tunnelled IPv6 % connected using 6to4 % connected using tunnel brokers Universities Institutes of higher/further education Research institutes Secondary schools Primary schools Libraries, Museums, National Archives Hospitals (other than University hospitals) Government departments (national, regional, local) Others 1.9 Remarks or further information regarding section one: Section two: NETWORK In earlier years, we wanted information here about the part of your network where aggregate traffic flows, not the access circuits. This year, we would like to receive information about the entire network that is managed by your organisation, excluding links outside your national territory. 2.1 What is the number of PoPs on your network? (A PoP is defined here as a point on the NREN backbone which can connect client networks or aggregations of client networks such as MANs, or external networks.) 2.2.1 What is the number of managed sites on your network? (i.e. the number of sites where you1 manage routing or switching equipment.) ‘You’ in the context of this questionnaire means that it is the responsibility of the NREN and either carried out by own staff or by a body to which this function has been outsourced by the NREN. 3 / 16 1 2.2.2 What is the number of managed links (that carry production traffic) between the managed sites on your network? 2.3 We would like to get a feeling for the aggregate capacity of your network. Please add the bandwidth*distance products [in Gbit/s*km] for all your backbone. A rough estimate is fine. ∑ linki*bandwidth(linki) = 2.4 We would like to know how you would describe your network in bandwidth terms. In other words, what is the current typical core usable backbone capacity on your network? (Please don’t count backup links in this.) [ ] 2 Mbit/s or below [ ] > 2 Mb/s, ≤ 34 Mb/s [ ] > 34 Mb/s, ≤ 155 Mb/s [ ] > 155 Mb/s, ≤ 622 Mb/s [ ] > 622 Mb/s, ≤ 1.2 Gb/s [ ] > 1.2 Gb/s, ≤ 5 Gb/s [ ] > 5 Gb/s, ≤ 10 Gb/s [ ] > 10 Gb/s 2.5 What do you think the situation will be in two years' time? [ ] 2 Mbit/s or below [ ] > 2 Mb/s, ≤ 34 Mb/s [ ] > 34 Mb/s, ≤ 155 Mb/s [ ] > 155 Mb/s, ≤ 622 Mb/s [ ] > 622 Mb/s, ≤ 1.2 Gb/s [ ] > 1.2 Gb/s, ≤ 5 Gb/s [ ] > 5 Gb/s, ≤ 10 Gb/s [ ] > 10 Gb/s 2.6 Please give us a list of the operational external connections you had in January 2006 (usable links excluding backup links): To which network: - Direct to GÉANT: - Direct to NORDUnet: - To GÉANT via the SEEREN or EUMEDCONNECT project or another NREN (please specify): - Direct to other research (including e.g. to NRENs, CERN, StarLight, Abilene) (please specify): (Please add as many lines as needed) - Direct connections to the Commercial Internet (excluding Internet Exchanges) (please specify): (Please add as many lines as needed - Peerings, connections to Internet Exchanges (please specify): Usable capacity in Mbit/s: Total: 2.7 What external connections do you expect to add or change during 2006? To which network (please specify as above): 2.8 Usable capacity in Mbit/s: What operational external connections do you expect to have in January 2008? To which network: - Direct to GÉANT or NORDUnet or via SEEREN/EUMEDCONNECT: Usable capacity in Mbit/s: 4 / 16 - Direct to other research (including e.g. to NRENs, CERN, StarLight, Abilene): - Direct connections to the Commercial Internet (excluding Internet Exchanges): - Peerings, connections to Internet Exchanges: Total: 2.9 What cross-border dark fibre (CBF) links do you have or foresee that you will get in the near future? Categories: A) to connect GÉANT2 countries not yet connected with dark fibre B) to serve the purposes of projects that involve more than two neighbouring countries C) interconnections between neighbouring NRENs or projects of clients of such NRENs Category of CBF (A, B or C – see explanation) Type of link, from where to where? Currently available – please specify purpose: production, testing, backup, other: Planned for the future – please specify planned start date and purpose: production, testing, backup, other: 2.10 Please provide the URL of a map of the topology of your network and/or (if different) a URL to a weather map of your network: 2.11 Do you own or lease dark fibre? If so, please indicate in the table below what percentage of your network (in kilometres in point-to-point distances) is dark fibre. Note: total does not need to add up to 100%! Present situation Expected situation, early 2008 Owned, % of network Leased or IRUs, % of network 2.12 Which technology or technologies do you use on the dark fibre? If you use WDM, which one do you use? [ ] DWDM [ ] CWDM Which framing do you use? [ ] Ethernet frame [ ] SDH frame [ ] G.709 frame 2.13 What types of routers/switches do you have? Vendor 2.14 Model What types of transmission technology do you manage on your backbone? Transmission technology 2.15 Vendor Model Remarks or further information regarding section two: 5 / 16 Section three: TRAFFIC In this section, we propose a distinction between different types of traffic by source or destination. Please take a look at the figure below, which attempts to illustrate the distinctions in terminology. NREN NETWORK Customer Connections T1 T3 T2 ALL EXTERNAL NETWORKS T4 T1 – all traffic from customer sites T2 – all traffic to customer sites T3 – all traffic to external networks T4 – all traffic to the NREN backbone External traffic = all traffic to GÉANT, the Commercial Internet, Internet exchanges, etc. (made up of T3 and T4 above) 3.1 Please give us an estimate of the total amount of external traffic (in Terabytes2) in 2005 as defined in the picture above: 3.1.1 T3 TB 3.1.2 3.2 T2: TB Approximately what percentage of the T3 and T4 traffic as given above was to/from the Commercial Internet? 3.3.1 T3 % 3.3.2 3.4 TB If you have it available, we would also appreciate an estimate of the total amount of traffic in Terabytes in 2005 of the other two types of traffic as defined above: 3.2.1 T1: TB 3.2.2. 3.3 T4 T4 % What was the volume of traffic to/from your network in January 2006 (in Terabytes)? 3.4.1 T3 TB 3.4.2 T4 TB If available: 3.4.3 3.4.4 3.5 2 T1: T2: TB TB Please give us your rough estimate of where there is congestion (if any) in your network and of the percentage of the total number of client institutions that are affected by congestion at this level: Note: 1 byte = 8 bits. Thus, a sustained average traffic of 1 Mb/s over one year equals 3.9 Terabyte. 6 / 16 % of institutions experiencing no or very little congestion % of institutions experiencing some or moderate congestion % of institutions experiencing serious congestion Total (should be 100%) Campus LAN Metropolitan or regional network Access network NREN backbone External connections 3.6 Are you undertaking any activities to promote the use of IPv6? If so, which? 3.7 Does your network support IPv6 multicasting [ ] Yes, on an experimental basis [ ] Yes, as a production service [ ] Not yet, but we are planning to introduce it in the next year or two [ ] We do not plan to support this in the foreseeable future 3.8 Remarks or further information regarding section three: Section four: FUNDING AND STAFFING Some NRENs provide services only to the Research or Education communities in their country. Others provide services to other sectors as well, for example because they administer the country-code tld. For the sake of comparability, we would like to ask you to provide information only about the activities for the Research or Education communities in your country in this section. For short, we have called these ‘NREN activities’. 4.1 Is your budget year equal to the calendar year? [ ] YES [ ] NO, it runs from ………. to ……………… 4.2 What was your organisation’s total budget for 2005 (or 2005/2006)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 4.3 How much of this budget was dedicated directly to NREN activities (see explanation above)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 4.4 What is your organisation’s total budget for 2006 (or 2006/2007)? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 4.5 How much of this budget is dedicated to NREN activities? (In millions of euro at the current exchange rate) 4.6 Please give us an estimate of the sources of your NREN-related income (for 2006 or 2006/2007) Source Users/clients Government/public bodies The EU (e.g. for Framework Programme projects) Other sources TOTAL 4.6.1 Percentage of income 100 % Does this budget include the amount of the EU subsidy for GN2 that your NREN receives? [ ] YES [ ] NO 7 / 16 4.7 How do you charge your clients? [ ] We do not charge them directly [ ] We charge a flat fee, based on bandwidth [ ] We charge a traffic-based fee [ ] We use a combination of flat fee and usage-based fee [ ] Other (eg. some, but not all, please explain): 4.7.1 How do clients pay who are connected through a MAN or regional network? [ ] They pay both to us and to the MAN or regional network [ ] They pay one fee for their connection [ ] They are not charged directly [ ] Other, please explain: 4.8 What is the total number of paid staff directly employed by your organisation (not outsourced)? 4.9 What is the number of staff engaged in NREN activities (see explanation above)? 4.10 Some of the staff could be working part-time. We would like to know the number of staff as given in 4.9 above, but in full-time equivalents (FTEs): 4.11 On average, how many people (in FTE) are working for the organisation as subcontractors or on outsourced basis (for NREN activities)? 4.12 Please provide a breakdown of the staff engaged in NREN activities (as defined above) (all in FTEs): Total personnel NOC Other Technical staff Administrative and financial staff User support and training staff Others not included elsewhere Total (should be the same as above) 4.13 Breakdown of staff working on NREN activities directly employed by your organisation: (take number from 4.10:) Breakdown of personnel working on NREN activities but employed by others (outsourced): (take number from 4.11:) Please give us an indication of the main expenditure categories in your budget (for 2006 or 2006/2007). Expenditure category Salaries and general office costs Equipment (switches, routers etc.) Transmission capacity (IRUs, leased lines, optical equipment etc.) Other 4.14 Percentage Please indicate how much of the following network levels (equipment + transmission capacity + manpower) are paid for through the NREN budget (and not by some other body): (please mark n/a if this level does not exist in your network) Level Percentage paid through the NREN budget External connections NREN backbone Access network 8 / 16 Metropolitan or regional networks Campus LAN 4.15 Remarks or further information regarding section four: Section five: SERVICES Detailed information sharing and collaboration is becoming more and more important for many NRENs. The purpose of the questions in this section is to give interested NRENs a first idea of who is doing what. It can be used by others as a starting point for a further exchange of information, for example within the framework of the TERENA Task Forces or the Joint Research Activities in the GN2 project. Note that many questions are the same as those of last year – in those cases, we only ask you to double-check that the information we have is still correct. 5.1 Network Operations Centre (NOC) 5.1.1 [ ] It is provided by the NREN [ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation IF SO: 5.1.1.1 Full name of the organisation (in English): 5.1.1.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet): 5.1.1.3 Abbreviation in English (if applicable): 5.1.1.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s): 5.1.2 Is it at the main NREN address (as listed in section six below)? IF NO: 5.1.2.1 Visiting address: 5.1.2.2 City/postal code of visiting address: 5.1.2.3 Postal address (if different from above): 5.1.2.4 City/postal code of postal address: 5.1.2.5 Fax: 5.1.2.6 Phone: 5.1.2.7 General e-mail address: 5.1.2.8 Website: [ ] YES [ ] NO 5.1.3 Who is the main contact person? What is his/her direct e-mail address? 5.1.4 Does your NOC serve all your customers? [ ] YES If NO: which categories of customers are NOT served by your NOC? [ ] NO 5.2 5.2.1 Performance Monitoring and Management 5.2.2 Do you have a website that lists your monitoring tools (traffic map, etc.) ? [ ] YES [ ] NO If yes, please provide the URL: 5.2.3 Do you have traffic statistics on your website? [ ] YES If yes, please provide the URL: [ ] NO 5.2.4 Do you have a looking glass on your website? [ ] YES If yes, please provide the URL: [ ] NO 5.2.5 Do you have any other tools that are perhaps not publicly available but that could nevertheless be useful for troubleshooting the network? (e.g. the iperf tools installed on several workstations on the network, such as: http://e2epi.internet2.edu/pipes/pmp/pmpswitch.htm.) Do you have a Performance Enhancement & Response Team (PERT)? [ ] YES [ ] NO If yes, please provide the contact e-mail address: Please also provide the URL, if applicable: 9 / 16 5.3 5.3.1 Authorisation and Authentication infrastructure 5.3.2 Who is the main contact person? What is his/her direct e-mail address? 5.3.3 Do you have a website or web pages with information about your AA infrastructure ? [ ] YES [ ] NO If yes, please provide the URL: 5.3.4 Do you run an AA federation? [ ] YES IF YES, is it… [ ] Shibboleth-based [ ] Shibboleth-compliant [ ] Neither Does your federation have a policy? [ ] YES If YES, please provide the URL: How many institutions belong to this federation? [ ] It is provided by the NREN [ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation IF SO: 5.3.1.1 Full name of the organisation (in English): 5.3.1.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet): 5.3.1.3 Abbreviation in English (if applicable): 5.3.1.4 Abbreviation in the national language(s): [ ] NO [ ] NO 5.3.5 Do you belong to another federation and if so, which? [ ] edugain [ ] eduroam [ ] others, please specify: 5.3.6 Do you use a schema? IF YES, what kind is it? [ ] YES [ ] NO 5.3.7 Do you operate a Certification Authority? [ ] YES [ ] NO 5.4 5.4.1 Security Incident Response 5.4.2 [ ] The NREN has a CSIRT that is accredited with the Trusted Introducer [ ] The CSIRT is currently an accreditation candidate with the Trusted Introducer [ ] Our NREN does not have a CSIRT or it is not accredited 5.4.3 Do you have a website or web pages with information about your work in the area of Security Incident Response? [ ] YES [ ] NO If yes, please provide the URL: 5.5 Does your NREN participate in other [ ] It is provided by the NREN [ ] It has been outsourced to another organisation Internet-related activities? Type of activity RIPE CENTR ISOC IETF ccTLD registry Neutral Internet Exchange Other: 5.6 Type of participation Bandwidth on Demand (lightpaths or point-to-point dedicated bandwidth services at layer 2 or below) 10 / 16 5.6.1 What layer 2 protocols do you allow users to transport? [ ] Ethernet [ ] SDH [ ] ATM [ ] Others: 5.6.2 Do you currently offer or are you planning to introduce a Bandwidth on Demand service? [ ] YES, we currently offer such a service [ ] NO, but we are planning to introduce it within the next year or two [ ] UNSURE - we want to find out first if there is user demand for it [ ] NO 5.6.3 If YES, how do you provide Bandwidth on Demand services? [ ] Through manual provisioning processes carried out by the NOC [ ] Via a provisioning tool (please specify): [ ] In another way (please specify): 5.6.4 How do you handle bandwidth reservations (if any) in your network? [ ] Reject requests if they exceed available reservable bandwidth [ ] Reject requests until we can provision more bandwidth [ ] Accept requests anyway, rely on statistical multiplexing/sufficient overprovisioning 5.6.5 If you have an on-line monitoring tool for the Bandwidth on Demand Service or other on-line information, please provide the URL: 5.6.6 Can you give any indication of the current uptake of your BoD services? 5.6.7 Who is the main contact person? What is his/her direct e-mail address? 5.7 5.7.1 Grid services 5.7.2 Are Grid Services Provided by [ ] The NREN [ ] Institutions with the support of the NREN [ ] Institutions alone [ ] Discipline based distributed groups or Virtual Organisations [ ] Other 5.7.3 What is the geographical extent of Grid Services? [ ] Connected to international Grids [ ] National [ ] Regional within the country 5.7.4 Does your NREN actively participate in any EC funded Grid activities? [ ] YES – which: [ ] the EGEE/EGEE2 project [ ] other, please specify: 5.7.5 Do you have a website or web pages with information about your Grid services? [ ] YES [ ] NO If yes, please provide the URL: 5.7.6 If Grid Services are currently running or planned, what disciplines are running Grid enabled applications? Are grid services currently running over your network? [ ] YES - please proceed to question 5.7.2 [ ] NO Is your NREN planning to introduce or facilitate grid services within the next year or two? [ ] YES [ ] NO High Energy Physics Other Physics Computational Chemistry [ ] NOW RUNNING [ ] NOW RUNNING [ ] NOW RUNNING 11 / 16 [ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW [ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW [ ] PLANNED [ ] DON’T KNOW Other Chemistry Biomedical Astroscience Earth Science Climatology Other – please state: [ [ [ [ [ ] NOW RUNNING ] NOW RUNNING ] NOW RUNNING ] NOW RUNNING ] NOW RUNNING [ [ [ [ [ ] PLANNED ] PLANNED ] PLANNED ] PLANNED ] PLANNED [ [ [ [ [ ] DON’T KNOW ] DON’T KNOW ] DON’T KNOW ] DON’T KNOW ] DON’T KNOW 5.8 IP Telephony 5.8.1 Do you run IP telephony in your organization (in general, not only in the NREN offices? [ ] YES [ ] NO If YES, on which protocols is the service based? [ ] SIP [ ] H.323 [ ] Other: 5.8.2 Do you send IP traffic to your Telco(s) using IP instead of PSTN/ISDN? [ ] YES [ ] NO [ ] BOTH types of traffic 5.8.3 If available, we would like to get the URL to where you describe your IP Telephony deployment: 5.8.4 Approximately how many people do you currently connect to your IP Telephony deployment? 5.9 Video conferencing 5.9.1 Do you offer video conferencing? [ ] YES [ ] NO 5.9.2 If YES, we would like you to describe the type of service: 5.9.3 Can you describe the general usage policy? 5.9.4 Is GDS supported? [ ]YES [ ]NO If Yes, what prefix is used 5.9.5 If available, we would like to get the URL of the official site for video conferencing services: 5.9.6 Who is the main contact person for videoconferencing services? 5.10 User support 5.10.1 Does your NREN facilitate or support the work of specific groups of users? [ ]YES [ ]NO If YES, please list the categories of users that you provide support for: Category Currently providing support, Planning to introduce, if so, please briefly describe the type when; please briefly describe of support: the type of support: High Energy physics Chemistry Biomedical Astroscience Arts Humanities Others - please list: 5.10.2 Who is the main contact person for user support? What is his/her direct e-mail address? 5.11 Public Relations and communications 5.11.1 Do you have at least one part-time person working on public relations and communications for your NREN? [ ] YES [ ] NO 12 / 16 If so, please give us the number of persons working in this area for your NREN, in FTE: 5.11.2 Does the NREN have a dedicated budget for P.R. and communication? [ ] YES [ ] NO 5.11.3 Who can TERENA use as contact person for PR and communications matters? What is his/her direct e-mail address? 5.12 TERENA Task Force participation TERENA supports joint European work to develop and test new networking technologies and applications. TERENA brings together technical specialists in Task Forces and innovative projects. In many cases, these Task Forces work together closely with relevant activities in the GN2 project. We would like to know how you see your current participation in the TERENA task forces; any remarks or suggestions about these are welcome as well. Task Force TF-CSIRT (security) TF-EMC2 (middleware) TF-LCPM (portfolio management) TF-Mobility TF-NGN (advanced networking) TF-PR (public relations) TF-VVC (voice/video) Currently participating 13 / 16 Would like to participate What are your interest areas in research/development and future service deployment? 5.13 Current Essential future Potential future development Infrastructure SDH Giga Ethernet Wavelength Testbed access Wavelength Service Deployment Wireless LAN 802.1x authentication Mobile IP eduroam Diffserv/QoS Multi-domain PIP MPLS Service Deployment Multicast Light paths for high-end users Access for roaming end-users Access for students in dormitories/on campus Access for employees from their homes Access for students who live offcampus Middleware Directory Services PKI services Identity Management Systems Grid support infrastructures Application level Teaching and learning applications Video Conferencing Streaming Media Instant messaging VoIP (internal) VoIP (across the WAN) Management Traffic Monitoring Charging / billing systems Web Server content management Web Server usage analysis Information Content indexing Disaster preparedness Performance Enhancement and Response Team (PERT) Others (please specify:) 5.14 Remarks or further information regarding section five: 14 / 16 Will follow other NRENs No interest Section six: BASIC INFORMATION 6.1 Full name of the organisation (in English): 6.2 Full name of the organisation in the national language(s) (please use the Latin alphabet): 6.3 6.4 Abbreviation in English (if applicable): Abbreviation in the national language(s): 6.5 Visiting address: 6.6 City/postal code of visiting address: 6.7 Postal address (if different from above): 6.8 City/postal code of postal address: 6.9 Country: 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 Fax: Phone: General e-mail address: Website: Convention used for individual e-mail addresses: (please specify/explain, eg. [firstname].[lastname]@[NRENname].[ccTLD] …) 6.15 6.16 6.17 Year the first research network operations started: Year in which research networking was started as a dedicated organisational unit: Year in which the NREN was founded in its current form: 3 6.18 If you have a short description of the history of your organisation on your website, please provide a URL to it: 6.19 Form of organisation: [ ] Separate legal entity in its own right [ ] Not a legal entity of its own, but part of a larger organisation. If so, please give the name of the parent organisation (in English): [ ] Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation 6.20 What is the formal relationship between your organisation and your government? [ ] We are a government agency or part of a ministry [ ] The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body [ ] There is an indirect relationship (for example if at least half the members of your Governing body are appointed by research and education institutions that in itself are (largely) government-funded) [ ] No formal relationship [ ] Other. If so, please explain: 6.21 Please briefly describe the governing structure of your NREN (in terms of members, governing body, decision making process, etc.): 6.22 If you have a description of your governing structure on your website, please give the URL: 6.23 Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of your Chief Executive Officer(s): 6.24 Please give the title(s), first name(s), last name(s) and job title(s) of the Head of your Technical Staff: 6.25 What is(are) his/her direct e-mail address(es)? 3 Please compare the answers given here with the answers of some of the other NRENs you are familiar with. 15 / 16 6.26 We would appreciate it if you would be able to give us a short description of major changes that occurred in your network during the past year or that you foresee for the coming year (structural changes, major technology upgrades, changes in the user base, etc.) 6.27 We would be interested in receiving your feedback, both regarding the Compendium 2005 and this questionnaire. Both general comments and specific comments (e.g. about questions that you found difficult to understand or to answer or of limited value) would be appreciated. Form completed by: Date of completion: Thank you for your assistance! Please return before the 15 th of April 2006 to: [email protected] 16 / 16