TERENA NREN Compendium 2006
Organisational Information

Updated: 25 May 2006 at 21:29
Organisation:
Users / Clients Network Traffic Funding & Staffing Services Basic Information Organisational Information
6.19 Form of organisation
(x)Separate legal entity of its own
( )Not a legal entity of its own
( )Not a separate legal entity and also not part of a larger organisation
Name of the parent organisation (in English)  
6.20 Formal relationship between the organisation and the government:
( )We are a government agency or part of a ministry
( )The Government appoints at least half of the members of our Governing body
(x)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, please explain below
Major part of RENAM Council (Governing body) members are appointed by research and education institutions and some members are representatives of ministries and state agencies
6.21 Brief description of the governing structure:
The Council of RENAM Association is the governing organ of the Association according to its Statute. The Council consists of well-known scientists of Moldova, research institutions' managers, information systems and networking specialists, which represent the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Universities of Moldova, and other scientific and educational institutions. The Council produces strategy decisions on RENAM network and information systems development directions, consideres and adopts technical suggestions. The Council is headed by its elected Chairman.
Between Council meetings the Association is governed by Co-presidents of the Association. In 1999 two co-presidents were appointed.
The Council of the Association appoints executive managers staff with RENAM Executive Director as a head, which is responsible for all current activity of the Association. The activity of Association's Executive staff is supervised by General Director of the Association.
Other parts of RENAM organizational structure:
- Executive managers - heads of RENAM departments
- RENAM Director Executive Department technical experts Committee
- RENAM NOC team personnel
6.22 Description on website:
http://www.renam.md/r_a_1.html
6.23 Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Grigore Secrieru
Title of the job
Executive Director
Chief Executive Officer (2)
Mr. Boris Varzari
Title of the job
Vice Executive Director
6.24Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Peter Bogatencov
Email
Title of the job Vice Executive Director
6.25Chief Technical Officer (2)
Dr. Tudor Cibotaru
Email
Title of the job Vice Executive Director
6.26 Short description of major changes that occurred in the network during the past year or that are foreseen for the coming year:
In 2005 the Council of RENAM Association nominated Professor, academician Andrei Andries as General Director of the Association.
New universities were connected to the common NREN infrastructure: State Pedagogical University „Ion Creanga”, State Agrarian University, University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics „N. Testemiteanu”, Balti State Pedagogical University „A.Russo”.
Wireless links as back-up highway connections and access network connections were installed within Chisinau MAN backbone.
The connection to the communication node in Balti City was upgraded up to 8 Mbps and wireless technology backbone was implemented in Balti City.
6.27 Feedback:
Some differences between EDIT template and viewing one (Section 4, Q4.2, for instance) could promt mistakes in filling in the required values into respective fields.

Section 5, in 5.13 - It's unclear, why is there double occurrence of "Mobile IP" within "Infrastructure" subsection of the list.

Remarks or further information regarding this section