Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406
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The meeting started at 5:45pm AEDT on 26th February 2001 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society.
Attendance: Gunela Astbrink, Tony Hill, Kate Lance, Leni Mayo, George Michaelson, David Thompson, Greg Watson, Erica Roberts
Proposal to accept the draft minutes for January as a true and correct record. Proposed: Greg Watson, Seconded: George Fong, motion passed unanimously.
Minutes - George F - A great deal of time has been
taken up in respect of our leading role in organising the ICANN conference. This
is unde control and further sponsorships have been secured. Current
estimations appear to put ISOC-AU's position in a slight surplus David Thompson chairs the Audit Committee. Met for the
first time last week. Terms of reference have been confirmed. Reported at the
last meeting. Currently looking at a format to consider and assess financial
activity. Not in place as yet but this is being worked on. The Audit Committee
will be assessing the current proposals for a vehicle novated lease arrangement
for the Executive Director as part of his salary package.
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- Privacy Policy . Leni has been working on this with
assistance from George F. Draft Privacy Policy has been tendered to the Board.
The draft was put for acceptance by the Board. Proposed by Leni, seconded by
George F. Passed unanimously. The Board was pleased to welcome Senator
Kate Lundy to the Board meeting. Senator Kate Lundy is the Shadow Minister for
Sport, Youth Affairs and Assisting on Information Technology. She has been and
continues to be a vocal representative in respect of ICT issues and cyberspace.
Senator Lundy spoke in detail about various issues related to ICT and in respect
of the formulation of the ALP's policies and concerns in relation thereto. A
full account of Senator Lundy's address to be written up and provided on the
ISOC-AU website.
Resignation: Tamzin Taylor -
The Board noted with regret the resignation from the Board of Tamzin Taylor.
Tamzin is moving to London to pursue a new professional opportunity. The Board
wished her well. Replacement for Tamzin? Greg Watson to set up a
committee to make an ad hoc appointment for the Board. The committee comprises
Tony, Greg and George F. New Lawyer - Deacons have withdrawn their pro bono
services as ISOC-AU's lawyers as a result of a restructuring of pro bono
services generally across the firm. The Board noted its gratitude to Deacons for
the valuable service it had provided to ISOC-AU. George F indicated that he had
spoken to a firm willing to consider the provision of pro bono services. George
F and Tony will discuss and put a proposal to the law firm.
To be held 26 March 2001
The meeting closed at 7:15pm.
Greg Watson
INDIVIDUAL
Andrew - Bi-annual strategy session.
Anne - Potential sponsors: Adobe, Corel - initial contact due 19/3
ED - pay & super - almost done
Audit Committee, Treasurers - Business Activity Statement (BAS) -
28 April - need to transit to new Treasurer - PAYG - due soon
Erica - Newspaper article - postponed at this point in time because of
ICANN
David - Potential sponsors: WWF - follow up contact due 19/3
Audit Committee - Tax review by John Howard - contact then papers to be
provided
George F- George F to approach Vice Chancellors at Ballarat and Bendigo
Unis - set dates in conjunction with Tony Hill.
Leni, George F - ISOC-AU Privacy policy (assistance from George,
Leni) - directors email vote due by 19/3 - submit to Privacy Commissioner
- advice from accountant pro bono - pending new Treasurer
George F - new lawyers - to arrange this with a law firm that had agreed
to consider the provision of pro bono services.
George M - interest bearing account - postpone pending new
Treasurer - operating address for ATO - signed copy of audited accounts, forward
to auditor
Greg - Age article for January - topic 'What is ISOC-AU?' - Potential
sponsors: Turbo Linux - initial contact due 19/3
Kate - Potential sponsors: tba - initial contact due 19/3
Leni - - Potential sponsors: Intel - initial contact due 19/3
. NetRegistry - declined
Simon - report on Advanced Networking Program - Potential sponsors:
Internode - contact due 19/3
Tony - Jobs email list - Tony to follow up Melbourne IT and Cisco
interest
- low end membership and ISPs
- Tony to followup individual ISP members re organisational membership
- check organisational membership for ACT PCUG, ATUG
- Follow up sponsorship with Internode, Primus, TransACT
- follow up relationship between ISOC and ISOC-AU membership
- Telstra: Tony to confirm publicity
- Tony to follow up roster of monthly drafting of articles.
- ICANN Melbourne meeting - nearly complete! Final organising committee meeting
to go
- Tedicore: Tony to work with Tim and Gunela on
opportunities
- auDA Name Panel
- auDA Competition Panel
- Smart Internet Technology CRC
- options for administrative support,
incl proposal for additional secretariat person
- privacy and AIIA
- community network conference proposal
- audit committee record of meeting
- audit committee draft role - done
- attendance at INET 2001/ICANN Stockholm
- Draft marketing plan
- Doubling the size of ISOC-AU
- Ian Peters nomination for TIO - done
- TIO rep to address Directors meeting
- ISOC-AU Sponsorship of Names Council - done
- salary sacrifice car - done
- discussions to fill director's vacancy
JOINT
Tony, Kate, Greg - follow up on strategy discussion
Anne, Tony - finalise employment arrangements
George M, George F, Anne - explore alternative banks - April
Tony, Anne - follow up membership administration
Tony, George M, Anne, Leni, David - audit committee
4.1 Executive Director's Report
4.2 Audit Committee's Report
4.3 Adhoc Committees
5. Resolutions on Notice
6. Policy Discussion or Guest Speaker
7. Any Other Business
8. Next Meeting
18. Confirmation
Signed as a correct and
complete record of the above meeting.
President, ISOC-AU