1. Application Technology Area Reports 20 th APAN Meeting Current WGs –Education is closed but new WG covered this area should be initiated, ASAP. –Multimedia? needs some re-considering. –HDTV –eScience New WGs –Medical needs approval. The candidates of new WGs –Authentication/Middleware (Heather Boyles/Okabe) –eCulture (Kameoka)

2. HDTV WG Meeting (8.24) Reports: -Member reports & updates (ALL) -Uncompressed HDTV over IP Trials (GIST JongWon Kim on behalf of ANF HDTV WG) –- Stereo HDV over IP: System update and its demonstration (Kiyoung Lee – GIST) Discussions (all participants) -Discussion on HDTV over IP collaboration to promote collaboration on Uncompressed HDTV & HDV -Charter Review (if required)

3. HDTV & AG Session (8.25) Putting the "Ultra" in UltraGrid: Full rate Uncompressed HDTV Video Conferencing (USC ISI Ladan Gharai & Univ of Glasgow Colin Perkins) [Remote] High Definition Video over IP status in Australia (AARNet Andrew Howard) Low Latency HD: the 'Shared Spaces' and 'Undersea Window' Projects (Jeremy Cooperstock and John Roston - McGill University) i-Visto: Uncompressed HDTV over IP Transmission System for TV Broadcasting Industries (Tetsuo Kawano, Kenji Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Ogura, Hiroyuki Kimiyama, Mitsuru Maruyama, and Keiji Harada - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) Stereo HDV over IP: System update and its demonstration (Kiyoung Lee, Seokhee Lee, and JongWon Kim - GIST) [Demo] Progress with Access Grid Clustered Displays and PAL/NTSC Video [Remote Presentation via AG] (Christoph Willing - University of Queensland) High quality video support for the AG (JongWon Kim and ACE Project Team – GIST) Integration of Advanced Video/Speech Codecs for Access Grids (Barz Hsu - NCHC)

4. e-Science WG Current Chair: –Lee Hing Yan, NGO, Singapore Co-Chairs: –Piyawut Schichaikul, NECTEC, Thailand –V. Balaji, NOAA, Princeton University, USA –Jane Hunter, DSTC, Australia University Members: –Chris Elvidge, NOAA, USA –Simon See, APSTC, Sun Microsystems, Singapore

5. Medical WG in APAN Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan Shuji Shimizu, MD, PhD Email: shimizu@surg1.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp 2005.8.25@Taipei

6. Goals 1. To combine medical team and engineering team. 2. To expand our system in Asia-Pacific regions. 3. To improve the system with developing technology. 4. To obtain medical standarlization and to provide patients with better healthcare. 1. Medicine is one of the most important issues for people. 2. Medicine needs updated system in cooperation with CIT. Backgrounds

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8. Chairpersons Shuji Shimizu, MD, PhD Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan shimizu@surg1.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp Ho-Seong Han, MD PhD Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Seoul, Korea hanhs@snubh.org