Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 13 January 2009
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEDT on 13 January 2009 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Tony Hill, Narelle Clark, Gerry White, Jerry Leeson, Robert Gregory, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Ross Kelso, Paul Brooks 1.2 Apologies: Kevin Karp, Gunela Astbrink 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting 2 December 2008 , Moved: GW, second: RG, passed 3. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 3.1 - HR to follow up sponsorship lead passed on from Board members - ongoing with future agenda items to include specific names of sponsorship prospects 3.2 - HR to arrange for email to be sent to ISOC members who have indicated that they wish to be a member of ISOC-AU - carried over 3.3 - PB to contact Internode (Simon Hackett) regarding upgrade of membership - carried over. 3.4 - "ISOC-AU approve in principle participation in an IETF meeting in Brisbane in 2012" - Motion to be held over until key issues regarding financial risk are resolved. HR to pursue. - HR to circulate a report with a recommendation for subsequent motion. A question to answered in the report is ISOC-AU or ISOC under-writing the event - Closed (see discussion below) 3.5 - GW to investigate table of metrics for content of headings to be included in ED report - Closed (see discussion below). 3.6 - CLO to follow up with insurance options via mail list so that decision can be made by the end of the month - Closed. New action item: CLO to follow up by email . 3.7 - HR & KK to discuss Privacy matters and Ministerial responsibility - Closed (see discussion below) 3.8 - HR to combine the existing ISP filtering documents prepared by PB and TH as a seed document for eventual submission to DBCDE and/or media release - Closed. 3.9 - GW, AMcR & HR to meet and investigate internet content filtering possible special purpose presentation by appropriate - Closed. 3.10 - Discussion of GW's report on ED report metrics to be held at January meeting - closed (see discussion below). 3.11 - HR to approach NBN bidders (esp smaller bidders) with a view to receiving sponsorship - carried over 4. New and Carried Over actions 4.1 Executive Director's Report 4.1.1 Written report accepted as circulated by email 4.1.2 - Actions arising from the ED Report - in future, the ED should include in her report suggested action items arising from the report - HR, RG and KK to develop a response to the ALRC Recommendations - due at the PM&C on 26 January - HR, CLO and RG to discuss the outcomes/recommendations of HR's meeting with ACMA (see ED Report) and make develop recommendations to the Board/members on ISOC-AU involvement with the issue 4.1.3 GW paper on Metrics for ED Report The meeting accepted the paper's recommendations and thanked GW for the paper. ED to report as proposed, with the suggested metrics used and, as necessary or appropriately, modified. ED reports on meetings attended to be included as appendices to the Report. 4.1.4 ED Paper on Proposed Meetings - HR to follow up with Tanner's advisor on attending a Board teleconference meeting - The two TCCM meetings to be held in 2009 are as follows: - Meeting on NBN to be held on 26 March in Melbourne at Maddocks. Subcommittee to plan the meeting on NBN to include GW, NC and RK. The Board to hold a face to face meeting in Melb on the same day (26 March) for a strategy day discussion. RG to confirm venue. - Third TCCM meeting to be held in conjunction with Strategy Day on 5 May in Sydney at Google - Andrew to confirm venue. Theme of the meeting "unacceptable' content, looking at the 'tools' to address the issues, with filtering seen as one of the tools. Subcommittee to plan the meeting to include GW and CLO 4.1.5 ISOCAU involvement with IETF meeting (ED paper circulated) The meeting agreed that ISOC-AU should in principle, support ISCO-AU involvement. HR (with CLO) to clarify any ISOC-Au exposure to financial risk with ISOC and seek a written MoU on ISOC-AU's involvement. 4.2 Treasurer's Report The treasurer's report was accepted 4.3 Revenue Sub-committee No Report 4.4 Sponsorship The meeting noted with thanks to CLO AusRegistry's sponsorship donation of $22,000. 4.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee No report 4.6 Director's Representations CLO has attended the IGF and ALAC meetings - details to be provided later. 5. Membership Issues (1 min) No report 6. SIGs Report (5 mins) 6.1 IPv6 SIG CLO noted that there was a great deal of discussion on IPv6 at the last ICANN meeting, which she would like to post to the IPv6 list. NC to ensure CLO on that list. 6.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) No report 6.3 Accessibility & Usability No report 7.1 Meetings Attended No report 7.2 Review of progress by Director's in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day - carried over 8. Any Other Business 8.1 TH referred to the item in the Maddocks newsletter of Identity Jacking and would like it to be placed on the ISOC-AU website, with proper attribution. Action item: RG to locate the item and email HR with details, with HR to arrange for the item to be put on thee website. 8.2 CLO noted that HR will be attending the ICANN summit in Mexico in the first week of March, as a delegate. 9. Next meeting - 3 February 2009 at 5.45 pm AEDT 10. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU