Fourth edit. Attendance. Murat Apohan Lynn Batten Tom Berson Christian Cachin Andy Clark Ronald Cramer Yvo Desmedt Stuart Haber Shai Halevi Helena Handschuh James Hughes Markus Jakobssen, Antoine Joux Kwangjo Kim Susan Langford Arjen Lenstra Javier Lopez Tsutomu Matsumoto (represented by Junji Shikata) Raphael Phan Bart Preneel Jean-Jacques Quisquater Serge Vaudenay [Andy] Thanked Bart for his help. Approval of the agenda Approval of the Crypto 2006 minutes as published. Action items. (Andy's document) Program Chair C2008: David Wagner General chair C2008: Susan Langford Distinguished lecture: Gilles Brassard Visas [Yvo] Prof Wang was denied a Visa because "she was refused a Visa by the US because she was only attending, not speaking". Andy requests any documentations possible to help resolve the issue. EC 2007 [Javier Lopez] 389 attendees, 13 awaiting visa, 13 not payed, 4 unknown. A number of cases of attempted fraud. Thanks to Helena, Shai, Christian for help. The break even is 400 and with the additional sponsors the revenue may be $15,000. 100 registrations are late. Treasurer Report [Helena] See Presentation. Discussion on the membership fees. The treasurer recommended no change in the membership fees. Guidelines [Andy] Motion to approve the General Chair chair Program Chair guidelines. [Lenstra] second. Discussion of Archivist recommendations (included in draft) and the announcement email. Motion passes 15 - yes, 0 - no, 2 - abstentions Action Andy send guidelines and get signatures from each of the existing PC and general chairs. [Christian] Steering Committee. discussion of the document. [Andy] Motion to: 1) Adopt the document as a board and 2) forward the document to the existing steering committees for final board approval at Crypto 07. [Yvo] second Motion passes 16 - yes, 0 - no, 1 - abstentions Action Andy send guidelines to current and future general chairs. [Serge] Discussion about page 6, program chair submissions and advisory PC members. AC 2008 [Kwangjo] Proposal for AC2008 in Melbourne with Lynn Batton as General chair. [Andy] Motion to accept Melbourne proposal as proposed. [Berson] second Motion passes Unanimously. [Andy] Discussion of Program Chair for AC 2008. 2 candidates selected, Action Andy to contact potential chairs. Completed, after the meeting Josef Piepryzk accepted. Election Committee Tom Berson (chair), Serge Vaudenay, James Hughes will serve on the election committee. JoC EiC Committee Antoine Joux, Bart Preneel, Yvo Desmedt, Ronald Cramer . Newsletter [Hughes] Newsletter status was given. Action Hughes, Chase general chairs to send summaries. JoC report Report sent BoD prior to meeting Membership Secretary [Shai] Presentation given. Action Shai open discussions on the server upgrade and discuss at Crypto07 Archivist [Andy] Report. Action Andy will make recommendations to the board on the role and responsibilities of the Archivist to be discussed at Crypto07. Springer [Jennifer] Presentation provided Action hughes add invitation to the JoC and LNCS index notification to the newsletter. Asiacrypt Steering Committee [Kim] Provided status. CHES Steering Committee [JJQ] Ches 2008 in Annapolis, MD, USA FSE Steering Committee [Bart] Motion FSE 2008 accept the proposal for Lausanne, CH [Arjen] second Motion passed 15-0-1 TCC Steering Committee [Bart] Comments about coordinating the dates of our workshops so that they do not conflict [Andy] Motion that the board approve the TCC 2008 proposal for NYC [Yvo] second Motion passed 16-0-1. PKC Steering Committee [Ronald] 2007 66 registered participants, 2008 will be held in Barcelona, 2009 will be held in the US, Crypto 2007 [Andy] Presented Status Action Hughes Newsletter for individuals interested in conference proposals and Crypto General chair should contact members of the BoD. EC2008 [Morat] Presented status Governance of Program Committees [Serge] Provided a presentation. EC2009 [Bart] No proposals for EC 2009 have been received so far; the location will be chosen at Crypto 2007. Teleconference of Board meeting [Andy] conference calls into the board meetings are challenging and the use of proxies are recommended. BoD section on www.iacr.org Action Christian to reorganize the BoD section. Some of the information is old. [Andy] meeting closed at 15:50.