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Computing & Information Services

Committee members in attendance: David Schiff, Paul Hovda, Akihiko Miyoshi, Marianne Colgrove, Dena Hutto, Karen King, Ed McFarlane, Christine Mack, Luc Monnin, Sonia Sabnis, Stephen Wissow, Marty Ringle, Molly Thurston Parker

Absent: Jon Rivenburg, Alex Botero-Lowry

David Schiff called the meeting to order at 10:03 a.m.

Strategic goals update review (continued from last meeting)

Marty asked the committee if there were any questions about the strategic goals update not addressed at the prior meeting. As no one had any questions or comments, Marty said that he will send the update to the President’s staff for their information.

CALEA status briefing

Marty briefed the CPC on the nature of recent CALEA revisions. The regulations now apply to ISPs, including colleges and universities. These revisions raised the question of whether or not colleges have to modify their equipment to comply with the regulations. The current interpretation of CALEA is that colleges like Reed will be compliant if their ISPs are compliant.

CALEA requires us to take steps to identify who is using our network at any given time. Accordingly, we are moving to require all users to authenticate when they connect to the campus network. We will probably keep network usage logs only for a limited amount of time.  Guests of the college and library patrons will be provided very limited network privileges without rigorous identification.

Aki asked if lab machines that CIS does not manage will require network authentication. Marty responded that users of those machines will require network credentials as they do for the IRCs and other departmental labs. If a department wants their machines’ access restricted further, CUS can set up a list of authorized users.

RIAA update

Congress has sent letters to approximately thirteen schools with the highest number of RIAA & MPAA offenders, requiring the school presidents to respond to a very detailed survey about their schools anti-piracy measures. Marty noted that the CPC should be aware of the requirements listed in the letter. He asked the committee if they felt Reed should enter into an agreement with a legal downloading service, such as iTunes or Movielink. David noted the importance of protecting the intellectual property of artists. Ed said that it would help to walk through the survey carefully and look at Reed’s rationale for not complying with certain areas. Marianne noted it would be easy to have a site that pointed to all the legal services without endorsing any or entering into any agreements with the companies. Marty said that CIS staff is developing answers to the survey and will have it completed for the first CPC meeting in the fall.  He pointed out that we are taking numerous steps to educate the community to copyright issues.  For example, we put articles on the subject into the Technology Survival Guide and the Quest; we send out mass emails; we hold forums with students; and, in the coming year, students will be required to take an online quiz about copyright issues in order to activate their computer account.

Since the hour was drawing to a close, Marty stated that we will resume the discussion at the first fall CPC meeting. We will also discuss email as an official form of Reed communication.

The meeting adjourned at 10:58 p.m.