Dear Euro-IX members, I would like to remind all members of the 1st Euro-IX General Meeting: Time: 17.30 - 20.00 (hopefully an earlier finishing time) Date: Monday the 1st of October 2001 Venue: Meeting Hall IV on the 2nd floor of the Prague Congress Centre (RIPE40) Location: Trida 5 Kvetna 65, Prague 4, Czech Republic (please look at www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/current/ripe-40/ for further details on the venue) There will also be a Euro-IX presentation at the EIX WG meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the exact time and location is still to be announced. As far as nominations go, the current Executive Board has so far received the following nominations: Arnold Nipper DE-CIX Germany Christian Panigl VIX Austria Fearghas McKay United Kingdom Jan Torreele BNIX Belgium Job Witteman AMS-IX The Netherlands John Souter LINX United Kingdom Valeria Rossi MIX Italy please submit additional nominations to board@euro-ix.net (Note: The newly elected board will need to convene shortly after the General Meeting to appoint the President, Treasurer and Secretary. This may be on Monday night or Tuesday morning, so if you are one of the nominees please keep these dates in mind!) The Agenda for the 1st General Meeting: 1. Opening - Agenda revue 2. Euro-IX status 3. Latest policies - Overview of minutes from the 1st Euro-IX Executive Meeting 4. Budget - 2001 - 2002 - Membership fees - Board member allowances 5. Election - Final call for nominees - Address to members by nominees - Election of new Euro-IX Board - Counting/announcement of votes 6. Web site overview 7. Suggestions for future plans (open discussion) 8. Presentation at EIX WG RIPE40 9. PoA and next General Meeting 10. Close Note: The General Meeting is for the members of Euro-IX but is open to all who are interested. However the voting will be strictly controlled to 1 vote per Euro-IX member. Hope to see you all in Prague, Serge Radovcic Euro-IX Secretariat info@euro-ix.net www.euro-ix.net