Any individual can join the advisory council.
AAC provides advice on research directions including recommendations on user requirements, key applications, technologies to enhance the user experience, performance management, and network research priorities as well as instructional directions to follow including recommendations on user requirements, useful topologies, preferred methodologies for instruction, reliability, performance, and scheduling priorities. These individuals would be generally responsible on their campus in billing, cost accounting, interface with users in other departments, and generally administrative functions of internet working. TAC provides advice on technology, including recommendations on hardware, software, interoperability issues, performance management, and network research priorities.