FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS

FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS

Document title:		Secretariat’s Report
Document number		f-out-00066	Document source:	Teresa Marsico
Document status:		Preliminary	Date of this status:	2000/10/26
Change history:
2000/10/26	Initial draft

Report on FIPA Secretariat activities

8 July - 10 October 2000

Annex 1	FIPA Membership List
Annex 2	FIPA Membership - Missing Statutes
Annex 3	List of FIPA reflectors
Annex 4	List of the FIPA Members Official Representatives

During the period 8 July - 10 October 2000, the following main activities have been performed:

FIPA Membership

The current List of FIPA Members is shown in Annex 1.

The collection and formatting of the economic data for the current FIPA Accounts have been performed.

The invoices relevant to the Membership fee for the period 1st July 2000 – 30th June 2001 have been issued and dispatched via air-mail. The Official Representatives of FIPA Members are invited to fax to the Secretariat a copy of the evidence of the effected payment.

In Annex 2 the list of the still missing Statutes is shown.

The List of the FIPA Members Official Representatives is given in Annex 4. Members’ delegates are reminded that the Official Representatives are the only points of contact for the official correspondence between the Secretariat and Member Companies. It is very important that Companies nominate its representatives and any change or any modification in their address is notified to the Secretariat.

The following new Members have already joined FIPA for the 2000-2001 Membership: WELCOME.

SGI Soluciones Globales Internet – Tres Cantos, Madrid

WebV2, Inc., – San Francisco

Web site moving

Since 15 September 2000, Fujitsu Labs of America host the new FIPA web site.

During the transition period, the Secretariat gave support and assistance for the web migration on the new server.

The home page for FIPA is still available at the URL

http://www.fipa.org

Two FIPA Mirrors are fully working at

- COMTEC (JP) http://fipa.comtec.co.jp/index-e.html

- UMBC (USA) http://fipa.umbc.edu/

Electronic mailing list management

Since 15 September 2000 Fujitsu Labs of America host the new FIPA mailing lists server running Majordomo software.

As decided in Baltimore meeting, 14 reflectors (mailing lists) have been established and are fully working. List of the new reflectors is shown in Annex 3.

The Secretariat remains reachable at the following two addresses:

secretariat@fipa.org

teresa.marsico@fipa.org

FIPA delegates are reminded that:

The Delegates whose e-mail address is modified are reminded to auto-subscribe the new address, auto unsubscribe the old address and to inform the Secretariat in order to update the Data Base and to introduce the correction in the reflectors for which the auto-(un)subscribe facility is not implemented.

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The Secretariat invites FIPA delegates to get in touch for any incorrectness, shortcomings on the secretarial activities/services.

Any remarks and suggestions will be more than welcome!

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ANNEX 1

FIPA 2000-2001 Membership

10 – October 2000

	Member	Company	City
1	Assoc.	AEGIS	Le Bourget du Lac
2	Assoc.	Arthur D. Little - Cambridge Consultants	Cambridge
3	Principal	Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações e Técnicas de Informatíca- ADETTI	Lisboa
4	Principal	British Telecommunications	London
5	Principal	Broadcom	Dublin
6	Principal	Center for Autonomous Systems, NADA, KTH	Stockholm
7	Principal	Compendim Technologies, LLC	S.Diego, CA
8	Principal	Comtec Co., Ltd.	Sendai
9	Principal	CSELT - Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.	Torino
10	Principal	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Lausanne
11	Principal	Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute	Taejon
12	Principal	France Télécom	Paris
13	Principal	Fujitsu Limited	Tokyo
14	Principal	Global InfoTek, Inc	Vienna
15	Principal	GMD Fokus	Bonn
16	Principal	Hewlett Packard Company	Palo Alto, CA
17	Principal	Hitachi	Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
18	Principal	IBM Corporation	Armonk, NY
19	Assoc.	Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine	London
20	Principal	Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica	Povo (TN)
21	Principal	KDD R&D Laboratories	Kamifukuoka, Saitama
22	Principal	Kyocera DDI Institute of Future Telecommunications, Inc.	Tokyo
23	Principal	Lockheed Martin Corporation	Bethesda, MD
24	Principal	Lost Wax Media Ltd.	Richmond, Surrey
25	Principal	Lucent Technologies	Murray Hills, NJ
26	Principal	MITRE Corporation	McLean, VA
27	Principal	Mitsubishi Electric Corp.	Kanagawa
28	Principal	Motorola	Schaumburg, IL
29	Principal	NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center	Greenbelt, MD
30	Principal	NEC Corporation	Minato-ku, Tokyo
31	Assoc.	Nihon Unisys Ltd.	Tokyo
32	Principal	Nippon Hoso Kyokai	Tokyo
33	Principal	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation	Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
34	Principal	Nortel Networks	Harlow, Essex
35	Assoc.	OKI Electronic Industry, Co Ltd	Tokyo
36	Principal	Pioneer Electronic Corporation	Meguro-ku, Tokyo
37	Principal	PopNet Agentscape AV	Berlin
38	Principal	Robert Bosch GmbH	Hildesheim
39	Principal	Rome Laboratory	Rome. NY
40	Principal	Sandia National Lab	Livermore,CA
41	Assoc.	SGI Soluciones Globales Internet	Tres Cantos
42	Principal	Siemens AG	München
43	Principal	Sixth Element Group Ltd.	Rechovot
44	Principal	Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer	Paris
45	Principal	Sonera	Helsinki
46	Principal	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Palo Alto, CA
47	Principal	Tampere University of Technology/Digital Media Institute	Tampere
48	Principal	Telia AB	Farsta, Stockholm
49	Assoc.	Teltec Ireland	Dublin
50	Principal	The Boeing Company	Seattle, WA
51	Principal	Toshiba Corp.	Minato-ku, Tokyo
52	Principal	Tryllian BV	Amsterdam
53	Principal	Universidad Carlos III	Madrid
54	Principal	University of Helsinki	Helsinki
55	Principal	University of Karlskrona/Ronneby (HK/R)	Ronneby
56	Assoc.	University of Texas at Austin	Austin
57	Assoc.	University of West Florida	Pensacola
58	Principal	Victor Company of Japan, Co. Ltd.	Yokohama, Kanagawa
59	Principal	WebV2, Inc.	San Francisco

ANNEX 2

LIST OF COMPANIES NOT HAVING SIGNED THE FIPA STATUTES

10 october 2000

	Company	City	Statutes
1	Lucent Technologies	Murray Hills, NJ
2	OKI Electronic Industries, Co Ltd	Tokyo

ANNEX 3

List of FIPA reflectors

10 October 2000

	Reflector	Description	Access	Type
1	agentcities@fipa.org	AgentCities WG	FIPA members	Working Group
2	agree@fipa.org	Agreements Management TC	FIPA members	Technical Committee
3	announce@fipa.org	External interest (used to be cfp@fipa.org)	Moderated	Organisational
4	arch@fipa.org	Architecture TC	FIPA members	Technical Committee
5	board@fipa.org	Board of Directors	All send	Organisational
6	chairs@fipa.org	TC and WG Chairs	FIPA members	Organisational
7	chat@fipa.org	General discussion	All	General Forum
8	comm@fipa.org	Agent Communication TC	FIPA members	Technical Committee
9	fab@fipa.org	FIPA Architecture Board	All send	Organisational
10	gateways@fipa.org	Gateways TC	FIPA members	Technical Committee
11	image@fipa.org	Image Committee	All send	Organisational
12	membership@fipa.org	All FIPA membership (used to be members@fipa.org)	Moderated	Organisational
13	mfg@fipa.org	Product Design & Mfg WG	FIPA members	Working Group
14	workplan@fipa.org	Discussion about work plans	All	General Forum

ANNEX 4

Fipa Official Representatives

10 October 2000

	COMPANY	LASTNAME	SURNAME	CO_PHONE	Facsimile	email
1	AEGIS	Pierre	Denis	+33 4 79 25 26 05	+33 4 79 25 08 23	denis.pierre@univ-savoie.fr
2	AEGIS	Etienne	Jean-Louis	+33 4 79 25 26 05	+33 4 79 25 08 23	jletienne@wanadoo.fr
3	Arthur D. Little - Cambridge Consultants	Martin	Sean	+44 1223 420024	+44 1223 423373	sean.martin@camcon.co.uk
4	Arthur D. Little - Cambridge Consultants	Smith	Ron	+44 1223 420024	+44 1223 423373	ron.smith@camcon.co.uk
5	Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações e Técnicas de Informatíca	Botelho	Luis Miguel			Luis.Boteho@adetti.iscte.pt
6	Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações e Técnicas de Informatíca	Trigueiros	Maria José	+351 1 790 30 64	+351 1 793 53 00	mjtrig@iscte.pt
7	British Telecommunications	Nicol	Richard C.	+44 1473 64 3210	+44 1473 64 8571	richard.nicol@bt.com
8	British Telecommunications	Shepherdson	John	+44 1473 605470	+44 1473 642459	john.shepherdson@bt.com
9	Broadcom	Evans	Richard	+353 1 60 46 000	+353 1 67 61 532	re@broadcom.ie
10	Broadcom
11	Center for Autonomous Systems, NADA, KTH	Christensen	Henrik I.	+46 8 790 67 92	+46 8 723 0303	hic@nada.kth.se
12	Center for Autonomous Systems, NADA, KTH
13	Compendium Technologies Inc.	Spydell	Andy	+1 619 553 3129	+1 619 268 8315	aspydell@compendium-tech.com
14	Compendium Technologies Inc.	Saunders	Patrick J.	1 619 533 3130	1 858 268 8315	psaunders@compendium-tech.com
15	Comtec Co., Ltd.	Suguri	Hiroki	+81 22 222 2591	+81 22 222 2545	suguri@comtec.co.jp
16	Comtec Co., Ltd.
17	CSELT -Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.	Bellifemine	Fabio Luigi	+39 011 228 6175	+39 011 228 6190	fabio.bellifemine@cselt.it
18	CSELT -Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.
19	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
20	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Faltings	Boi	+41 21 693 2738	+41 21 693 5225	Boi.faltings@epfl.ch
21	Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute	Park	Sang Kyu	+82 42 860 5641	+82 42 860 6645	skpark@etri.re.kr
22	Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute
23	France Telecom	Bouron	Thierry	+33 2 96 05 14 82	+33 2 96 05 19 56	thierry.bouron@cnet.francetelecom.fr
24	France Telecom	Sadek	David	+33 2 9605 3131	+33 2 9605 3530	david.sadek@cnet.francetelecom.fr
25	Fujitsu Limited	Takada	Yuji	+81-92-852-3251	+81-92-852-3272	yuji@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
26	Fujitsu Limited	Wako	Junichi	+81 45 476 4586	+81 45 476 4749	wako@sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp
27	Global InfoTek, Inc.	Emami	Karen	+1 703 938 0400	+1 703 319 0814	kemami@globalinfotek.com
28	Global InfoTek, Inc.	Nigam	Alok	+1 703 938 0400	+1 703 319 0814	anigam@globalinfotek.com
29	GMD Fokus
30	GMD Fokus	Tschichholz	Michael	+49 030 3463 7215	+49 030 3463 8215	tschichholz@fokus.gmd.de
31	Hewlett Packard Company	Holland	Jeremy	+1 650 857 4163	+1 650 852 8488	jerremy@exch.hpl.hp.com
32	Hewlett Packard Company
33	Hitachi
34	Hitachi	Funabashi	Motohisa	+81 44 959 0215	+81 44 966 4673	funa@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
35	IBM Corporation	Levine	David W.	+1 914 784 7427	+1 914 784 6054	dwl@watson.ibm.com
36	IBM Corporation
37	Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine	Mamdani	E. H.	+44 171 594 6316	+44 171 823 8125	e.mamdani@ic.ac.uk
38	Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine
39	Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
40	Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica	Caprile	Bruno	+39 461 314 519	+39 461 314 591	caprile@irst.itc.it
41	KDD R&D Laboratories Inc.	Nishiyama	Satoshi	+81 492 78 7321	+81 492 78 7510	tomo@kddlabs.co.jp
42	KDD R&D Laboratories Inc.	Yoshihara	Kiyohito	+81 492 78 7330	+81 492 78 7510	yosshy@kddlabs.net
43	Kyocera DDI Institute of Future Telecommunications, Inc.	Tanaka	Takaya	+81 3 5469 1331	+81 3 5469 1332	takaya@kdi.co.jp
44	Kyocera DDI Institute of Future Telecommunications, Inc.	Hamai	Tatsuaki	+81 3 5469 1331	+81 3 5469 1332	hamai@kdi.co.jp
45	Lockheed Martin Corporation	Dukes-Schlossberg	Jan	+1 350 354 5292	+1 408 742 0731	Jan.Dukes-Schlossberg@lmco.com
46	Lockheed Martin Corporation	Pow	Charley	1-408-756-2805	1-408-756-2920	charles.pow@lmco.com
47	Lost Wax Media Ltd.	Osborn	Steve	+44 020 8948 5166	+44 020 8948 8948	steve.osborn@lostwax.com
48	Lost Wax Media Ltd.	Lunn	Ian	+44 020 8949 51 66	+44 020 8949 8948	ian.lunn@lostwax.com
49	Lucent Technologies
50	Lucent Technologies	Towle	Thomas T.	+1 630 979 7303	+1 630 713 1921	ttowle@lucent.com
51	MITRE Corporation	Tyler	John G.	+1 703 883 65 11		jtyler@mitre.org
52	MITRE Corporation	Piszcz	Alan	+1 703.883.7124	+1 703.883.3308	apiszcz@mitre.org
53	Mitsubishi Electric Corp.	Kino	Shigenori	+81 467 41 2981	+81 467 41 2137	kino@isl.melco.co.jp
54	Mitsubishi Electric Corp.	Koike	Kazuhiro	+81 467 41 2981	+81 467 41 2137	koikekaz@isl.melco.co.jp
55	Motorola	Burg	Bernard	+33 1 6935 2529	+33 1 6935 2501	bernard.burg@crm.mot.com
56	Motorola
57	National Astronautics and Space Administration	Brown	Barbara	+1 301 286 4438	+1 301 286 1768	barbara.e.brown.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
58	National Astronautics and Space Administration	Truszkowski	Walt	+1 301 286 8821	+1 301 286 1768	walt.truszkowski@gsfc.nasa.gov
59	NEC Corporation
60	NEC Corporation	Onimaru	Fumio	+81 3 3798 6595	+81 3 3798 9213	onimaru@epc.ho.nec.co.jp
61	Nihon Unisys, Ltd.	Tokano	Toru	+81 3 55 46 73 95	+81 3 55 46 78 49	toru.tokano@unisys.co.jp
62	Nihon Unisys, Ltd. 2	Hoshina	Tsuyoshi	+81 3 55 46 73 94	+81 3 55 46 78 49	tsuyoshi.hoshina@unisys.co.jp
63	Nippon Hoso Kyokai	Enami	Kazumasa	+81 3 5494 2300	+81 3 5494 2309	enami@strl.nhk.or.jp
64	Nippon Hoso Kyokai
65	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation	Kogure	Kiyoshi	+81 744 93 5250	+81 744 93 5285	kogure@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp
66	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation	Tohkura	Yohichi
67	Nortel Networks
68	Nortel Networks	Hadingham	Rob	+ 44 1279 402775	+ 44 1279 402047	rgh@nortelnetworks.com
69	OKI Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.	Nagasaka	Atsushi	+81 3 3454 2111	+81 3 3798 3290	nagasaka@okilab.oki.co.jp
70	OKI Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
71	Pioneer Electronics Corporation	Gayama	Shinichi	+81-3-3763-2111	+81-3-3763-3081	s-gaya@orl.pioneer.co.jp
72	Pioneer Electronics Corporation
73	PopNet Agentscape AG	Covaci	Stefan	+49 30 5900 478 13	+49 30 5900 478 99	covaci@agentscape.de
74	PopNet Agentscape AG	Zhang	Tianning	+49 30 5900 478 23	+49 30 5900 478 99	zhang@agentscape.de
75	Robert Bosch GmbH	Bauer	Sven	+49 5121 49 4918	+49 5121 49 17 4918	sven.bauer@de.bosch.de
76	Robert Bosch GmbH	Engelsberg	Andreas	+49 5121 49 4918	+49 5121 49 3010	andreas.engelsberg@de.bosch.de
77	Rome Laboratory	Gorniak	Mark	+1 315 330 7724	+1 315 330 2941	gorniakm@rl.af.mil
78	Rome Laboratory	Metzger	Richard	+1 315 330-7652		metzgerr@rl.af.mil
79	Sandia National Laboratories	Berry	Nina M.	+1 510-294-3842	+1 925 294 1225	nmberry@ca.sandia.gov
80	Sandia National Laboratories	Pancerella	Carmen	1 925 294 3538	1 925 294 3538	carmen@sandia.gov
81	SGI Soluciones Globales Internet	Garcia	Manuel	+34 91 80 64 640	+34 91 80 64 641	mgarcia@sgi.es
82	SGI Soluciones Globales Internet	Ruiz	Jose	+34 91 80 64 640	+34 91 80 64 641	jruiz@sgi.es
83	Siemens AG
84	Siemens AG	Kober	Rudolf	+49 89 636 53384	+49 89 636 41423	rudolf.kober@mchp.siemens.de
85	Sixth Element Group Ltd.	Dardik	Alex	+972 8 9362 888	+972 8 9362 220	alexd@segdotcom.com
86	Sixth Element Group Ltd.	Bacari	Laura	+972-8-9362888	+972-8-9362220 >	laura@segdotcom.com
87	Societe' Nationale des Chemins de Fer	Gitton	Sylvain	+33 1 5342 9306	+33 1 5342 9314	sylvain.gitton@sncf.fr
88	Societe' Nationale des Chemins de Fer
89	Sonera	Laamanen	Heimo	+358 40 588 2223	+358 2040 64365	Heimo.Laamanen@sonera.com
90	Sonera
91	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Arnold	Geoff	+1 781 442 0317	+1 781 442 0868	geoff.arnold@sun.com
92	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	Stout	Kathleen	+1 781 442 0948	+1 781 442 0868	kate.stout@sun.com
93	Tampere University of Technology/Digital Media Institute
94	Tampere University of Technology/Digital Media Institute	Koivuniemi	Kari	+358 3 3653 988	+358 3 365 3966	Kari.Koivuniemi@cs.tut.fi
95	Telia AB	Koudouridis	George	+46 8 713 8393		george.p.koudouridis@telia.se
96	Telia AB
97	Teltec Ireland	Jennings	Brendan	+353-1-7045816	+353-1-7045092	brendan.jennings@teltec.dcu.ie
98	Teltec Ireland	Ward	Liam	+353 1 704 5758	+353 1 704 5508	liam.ward@teltec.dcu.ie
99	The Boeing Company	Bradshaw	Jeffrey M.	+1 425-865-6086	+1 206-865-2965	jeffrey.m.bradshaw@boeing.com
100	The Boeing Company	Greaves	Mark	+1 425 865-2140	+1 425 865-2965	greaves@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com
101	Toshiba Corp.	Kawamura	Takahiro	+81 44 549 22 37	+81 44 520 1841	kawamura@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
102	Toshiba Corp.	Ohsuga	Akihiko	+81 44 548 5474	+81 44 520 5856	ohsuga@ssel.toshiba.co.jp
103	Tryllian BV	Karman	Christine	+31 020 888 40 60	+31 020 888 4326	Christine@tryllian.com
104	Tryllian BV
105	Universidad Carlos III	Valverde-Albacete	Francisco J.	+34-1-6249172	+34-1-6249430	fva@tsc.uc3m.es
106	Universidad Carlos III	Bousono-Calzon	Carlos	+34 91 624 9952	+34 91 624 9430	cbousono@tsc.uc3m.es
107	University of Helsinki	Alanko	Timo	+358 9 7084 4220	+358 9 7084 4441	timo.alanko@cs.Helsinki.FI
108	University of Helsinki	Raatikainen	Kimmo	+358 9 7084 4243	+358 9 7084 4441	kimmo.raatikainen@cs.Helsinki.FI
109	University of Karlskrona/Ronneby (HK/R)
110	University of Karlskrona/Ronneby (HK/R)	Gustavsson	Rune	+46 457 787 92	+46 457 161 03	rune.gustavsson@sikt.hk-r.se
111	University of Texas at Austin	Barber	K. Suzanne	+1 512 471 6152	+1 512 471 5445	barber@mail.utexas.edu
112	University of Texas at Austin	McKay	Ryan M.	+1 512 471 5350	+1 512 471 5445	rmckay@lips.utexas.edu
113	University of West Florida	Suri	Niranjan	+1 850 474 3430	+1 850 474 3023	nsuri@ai.uwf.edu
114	University of West Florida
115	Victor Company of Japan, Co. Ltd.	Shoichiro	Saito	+81 468 36 9851	+81 468 36 0420	saitosh@krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp
116	Victor Company of Japan, Co. Ltd.	Maruyama	Toshihiro	+81 468 36 8942	+81 468 36 8540	toshi@krhm.jvc-victor.co.jp
117	WebV2, Inc.	Steiner	Donald	+1-415 538 3468 x102	+1 415 348 0836	Donald.Steiner@webv2.com
118	WebV2, Inc.