October 6, 2003, 2 p.m.
IACC 204
Present: Bates, Egeberg, Entzel, Kapaun, Latimer, Nygard, Pikalek, Ross, Schlecht, and Wittrock
Approved on October 20, 2003
1. Minutes
- The minutes for the September 29
meeting of CITPG were approved.
2. ITS
Update
1. ITS is gathering faculty researchers' needs for ArcIMS support. A meeting is scheduled IACC 204A (North) at 1:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in IACC 204 North. Please inform faculty who wish to collaborate with other researchers of this preliminary discussion.
2. HECN South licenses McAfee Antivirus for the PC and Virex for the MAC. Our current license expires in June 2004, so we would like to know whether the campus is satisfied with the products. Please gather what feedback you can and provide it to Jim Ross to take to the meeting in Mayville this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2003, where he will compare notes with the other NDUS campuses.
3. NDUS IT Coordinators meet this week at Mayville, and the next ITS Update will include the HECN-South Site (NDSU) and HECN North Site (UND) reports, as well as the NDSU Campus report. Each campus reports progress and plans to the IT Coordinators on a regular basis, and it has been ITS practice for several years to share those reports with CITPG.
3. LAN
Student Organization Discussion
Joe Latimer requested that CITPG address the experiences of the LAN student organization. The LAN student organization is a recognized student organization with full status. The group is involved in gaming, they form a local area network for gaming and would like to have one machine, not connected to the LAN, available to download patches from the network to be burned on a CD and used to upgrade LAN machines. The LAN is not directly connected to the campus network. There is a lack of consensus about the interactions that led up to the email exchange included below. However, the group feels they have been unfairly singled out by ITS security personnel. Dick Jacobson stated to David Wittrock that he felt this organization represented a security threat to the campus network and that he was primarily concerned with off campus members of the LAN group bringing infected machines on campus, infecting the machines of the campus users, thus posing a threat to the campus network when students reconnected to the network.
The CITPG discussion acknowledged the security concerns of ITS. This is a major concern on our campus at this time. However, some members expressed concern about what they felt was a heavy-handed response on the part of ITS toward this particular group. We also discussed the implications of this “policy” for any faculty and students who bring a laptop to campus and for visitors to NDSU who bring a laptop and would like to connect to the campus network. Jim Ross will talk to ITS staff regarding our conversation. Dave Wittrock will attempt to find out whether it is common practice for campus student organizations to have non-student members.
Meeting adjourned at 3:20 p.m.