Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801

Minutes of Directors' Meeting 15 March 2004

The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 15 March 2004 and took place
by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association
of the Society.

1. Attendance

Tony Hill (Chair), Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kate Lance, Craig Ng, Gerry
White, Ross Kelso, Gunela Astbrink, Andrew McRae, Peter Ziebell,
Narelle Clarke (left 6:22 pm), Adam Creed, George Fong, Jeremy
Malcolm (until 6:45 pm).

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Minutes accepted - MOVED Craig Ng, SECONDED Peter Ziebell.

3. Actions Arising from the Minutes 

3.1 Actions
- all directors to seek out an organisational member 
- redirect help alias to iadirs not yet completed
- car expense information sent to Cheryl
- information on interested speakers sent to ATUG-WA
- outstanding expenses from forum with AC3 being followed up
- Tony, Kate and George attended TSA meeting on 10th March
- review of 13 points for election issues not yet done
- thanks to George, Peter, Adam and Tony on successful Ballarat TCCM
- ATCRC not yet followed up
- Parry Aftab meeting organised 
- Gerry asked to promote Hobart TCCM as a last minute reminder

3.2 Discussion on Parry Aftab's work

It was suggested that Directors support discussions about .xxx TLD e.g.
com, .net and .org. A 'cyber angels' type service is being established
for child safety. Parry is prepared to release books for ISOC-AU to
give away. The suggestion was made that ISOC-AU could circulate a white
paper to members. auDA has put the white paper to their Directors for
comment.  Directors were not unanimous and suggested that there should
be a check with ISOC before proceeding further.  Cheryl to send url for
Parry Aftab to Directors (www.aftab.com).

4. Reports
4.1 Executive Director's Report 
    Distributed prior to meeting - report accepted.

4.2 Financial Reports
    Treasurer pointed to need for more sponsorship George asked to
    follow up with iPrimus and IBM Tony and Narelle agreed to follow up
    Optus. Financial report accepted.

5. Membership Issues
   An interesting application from India received. 

6. Resolutions on Notice
  (none)

7. Discussion 

7.1 Meetings attended:
- Jeremy attended meeting at NOIE on 27th February 
- Cheryl attended meeting of ACIF CAC on 16/17th February 
- Cheryl attended auDA National Reference Group for Geographical 
  Names on 23rd February 
- Narelle and Cheryl met with Parry Aftab on 25th February 
- George attended IAP meeting on ?????  
- Craig attended Intelligent Cities conference on 13th February

7.2 Discussion with TSA
Tony, Kate and George met with TSA on 10th March.

7.3 Ballarat TCCM 
This was a very successful event - thanks to Peter, George, Adam and Tony.
     
8. Any Other Business

8.1 Hobart TCCM
- to be held on 17th March
- further contacts to be followed up

8.2 ACA tender for QoS monitoring
ISOC-AU will look at tender document to assess possibility. Closing 
date is 30th March.

8.3 ATUG membership
This has been followed up by Tony. ATUG is not paying any membership of 
other associations. ISOC-AU to seek reciprocal membership.

8.4 Current DCITA funding
ISOC-AU should apply for next round of funding when applications solicited.

8.5 Comindico
John Stuckey to be asked to address a Directors meeting for his views on
IPv6, industry structures and VoIP, as well as to comment on Comindico's 
contribution to Internet development.

8.6 TCCC
Gunela was nominated as nominee and Ross as Alternate - will need to have 
formal endorsement. MOVED Cheryl, SECONDED George.

8.7 ACIF CAC
Jeremy and possibly Cheryl will attend next meeting on 9-10th August.
Cheryl will attend workshop on 20-21st May.  The new direction and
strategic plan is important and need to monitor guidelines currently
being developed.  ACIF will have a new compliance mark to be launched
to industry in June and publicly in October, 2004.

9. Next Meeting
Meeting ended at 7.05pm. Next meeting by teleconference on Wednesday,
21st April 2004, at 5:45 AEST.

10. Confirmation
Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.
Tony Hill
President, ISOC-AU

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