The management of VSIX is implemented through 3 bodies:
- Technical-Scientifical Committee of the University of Padua Centro di Calcolo (CTS)
- Operators Committee
- Executory group
Technical-scientifical committee of the University of Padua Centro di Calcolo (CTS)
Tasks and functions:
- To provide guidelines for the activity of NAP-NET, and to supervise the activities performed by the Operators Committee and the Executory group
- To approve and/or modify the technical regulations of VSIX, including all related dispositions; to verify their coherence with the Inspiring Principles, in coordination with the Operators Committee
- To define, once a year, the participants' dues; to suitably update all related dispositions, after having consulted the Operators Committee
- To review membership applications and to authorize the consequent activation of service, after verifying compliance of requests to entry requirements
- To settle any internal controversies
The Operators Committee is composed by a representative of all operators within NAP, a representative of the CCA (appointed by the CTS), and a technician of the Veneto Region Information Systems Unit (in the framework of the existing agreement between the University of Padua and the Veneto Region).
The Operators Committee annually appoints a coordinator and meets upon request of the coordinator or of at least one third of its members, with a week’s notice. Its tasks include:
- NAP service auditing
- Annual verification of Executory Group
The Executory Group is the technical and executory structure of the CCA, maintaining the NAP service.
Its aims are:
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- To manage premises equipped as service.
- To operate on technical facilities.
- To operatively manage the activation of new applications.
- To intervene whenever malfunction or configuration errors of participants’ equipments compromise smooth functioning of the net or part of it.
- To monitor and report on NAP functioning.
- To manage helpdesk and secretarial activities for the whole structure.