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University of Malaya will issue the invitation letter after receiving an official approval. Hanan will have a meeting with Dr Abdullah and Johari at UM on the upcoming workshop after the middle of April.
It does not appear possible for UM to fund someone from NUST or Bebo. We have a contingency plan. However Les believes, and and sent email to Abdullah stating, that it it is critically important to have someone from NUST at the workshop. Abdullah asks if UNIMAS or UTM could fund the NUST person.
For attendees Anjum pointed out it would be good to it is important to try and get 2 representatives from each of the 20 public Malaysian universities. One participant would be from the computer division (more to do with installing and maintaining), the other from Faculty (more for the research side). It would also be good to get a non MYREN University and someone from Malaysia Telecom. Bebo will provide contacts at MIMOS and Manipal.
Funding/Proposals
Johari reported that the FRGS proposal had been accepted. It is for 75K MRs (~$35K). It is for 5 people.
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Assuming we can get these issues addressed, our legal folks think we could seek DOE approval and enter into an agreement with these other universities. We need to hear back from UTM and UM whether we need/want to pursue this further. It will probably be a considerable effort. UTM & UM will need to address 1. We all need to think about 3. 4 is easy, 2 is doable, 7 and 8 are tricky.
Les has sent HostFinder.pl to Johari to possibly assist in finding hosts. Status?
UTM
The UTM Pinger site is http://pinger.fsksm.utm.my/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl to get the data. .
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It is not easy to find such sites in those states. Obvious targets are universities, for example UUM in Kedah and UNIMAP in Perlis, but those sites are not ping-able. One way is to approach these universities and explain to them about PingER project and request for the ping packet to be enable. Les has sent HostFinder.pl to Johari to possibly assist in finding hosts.
UM
Since the traceroute is working, "we" can start to make a routing study similar to https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Routing+from+UNIMAS. Badrul has a student who will be working on the case study and will coordinate with Saqib at UTM and Johari at UNIMAS to combine results and to put together a paper for the Malaysian ISI Journal probably around the end of June - Progress?
NUST
Raja has mailed to the SLAC International Studies Office his documents towards the DS-2019 process. (3/29/2013). They were submitted to the Stanford campus Bechtel international center 4/4/2013. We await campus to create the DS-2019 documents(s). Once they are ready, we will pick up and send to Raja. Typical turnaround is a few days (< 2 weeks).
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Future meeting - Les
Next meeting Wednesday 10 24 April 2013 8:00pm Pacific Daylight Time, Thursday 11 25 April 2013 8:00am Pakistan time, Thursday 11 25 April 2013 11:00 am Malaysian time.
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