Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801
Minutes of Directors' Meeting 24 February 2002
The meeting started at 11:53am AEST on Sunday 24th February 2002 and
took place in a meeting-room at the North Sydney offices of Cisco,
kindly provided by them for our directors' and face-to-face strategy
meeting. Tony Hill was chairman.
1. Attendance
Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Ross Kelso, Anne Greiner, Tony Hill,
Kate Lance, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Andrew McRae, Galen Townson, Gerry
White. Jeremy Malcolm attended via teleconference.
Apologies: George Michaelson, George Fong.
2. Minutes of Previous Meeting
Proposal to accept the draft minutes for January as a true and correct record.
Proposed Gerry White, seconded Gunela Astbrink, carried unanimously.
3. Actions Arising from the Minutes
- Sydney meeting - organised by Kate and Andrew.
- Vacancy on the Board: Narelle Clark has been co-opted to the board &
ASIC notification been processed.
- Bookkeeper: from Canberra (as discussed in last meeting) is
transferring accounts into MYOB. Hovtek Pty Ltd (Foundation Member)
has supplied a licensed version of MYOB updated to v. 11 for Board use
of treasurer bookkeeper etc.
- Cheryl will update funding list before sending to Kate.
- Telstra: loss of funding - Kate and Tony followed-up but no response yet.
4. Executive Director's Report
* Attended meeting 31st January at Monash, Centre for Community
Networking Research, on conference to be held in June.
* 4th February, Discussions with Craig Ng, Maddocks lawyers, about
using their premises for an ISOC-AU event with Tony speaking.
* On 8th February attended SETEL Forum on improving SME involvement
with the Internet. Gave brief presentation on
ISOC-AU and suggested measures to increase SME confidence in security
and privacy.
* Provided ATUG with eps version of our logo for inclusion on their
program for their conference. Promoted ATUG conference on our members
list.
* With ac3, started organising a one-day conference on future
networks. After various emails, held teleconference 22 February with
Phil McCrea and Paul Davis (CTO), arranging May conference to be held
at their site in Sydney.
A Motion was put that:
"We must publicize what we put up on web site, Lists and Press
releases: - information concerning bugs, certification, advisory
matters, alerts and comments on other Organizational and
Instrumentality activities, etc. should be included". Proposed:
Anne Greiner, seconded: Narelle Clark, carried: unanimously.
5. Membership
- Discussed as an aspect of issues below.
6. Resolutions on Notice
- Nil.
7. Discussion
7.1 ASIC issues: some reports and updates have been late.
We have rectified all historical issues now and must keep things in
order by the following processes:
- Gerry will forward changes from CCH alerts he receives.
- A checklist needs to be made and kept. This is now in the Directors
calendar on the site.
- Now our online relationship is possible and established so from now
issues such as have occurred should not re-occur.
- The registered office address is Maddocks, and the Company Secretary
(Gunela) is registered and receiving mail direct.
7.2 SPAM issues: NOIE has become active in this area and we have offered
to assist.
Action: Tony and Kate to complete letter.
7.3 ISP code of conduct: consumer protection, ACA have requested
assistance for development of guidelines. A Code would be preferable
when technical standards are developed for user performance.
Guidelines can be developed into Codes.
Action: Tony and Kate to attend ACA meeting to develop draft. CLO to
distribute the ACA telecomm doc. Members, eg Kim Davies might help with
ISP input, Narelle and Anne for technical input.
7.4 NSW Censorship Bill: Comments prepared by Jeremy with member
consultation, approved by the Board and submitted electronically. Have
received acknowledgement.
7.5 NZ Special Interest Group: Discussed, further information should
be forthcoming.
8. Any Other Business
Jeremy: special treatment issues of online content need to
be solved. Jeremy to redraft options, find info on review
process.
Cheryl: reprint request of Tony Hill's presentation
http://www.isoc-au.org.au/Media/keynote.html , for use in E-Commerce
and Internet presentations made to visiting trade delegations from
Oceania (as resource material). Approved by the Board.
9. Next Meeting
Meeting closed 13:08pm. Next meeting 25th March 2002.
10. Confirmation
Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.
Tony Hill
President, ISOC-AU