Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 13 March 2006

Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801
Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 13 March 2006


The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 13 March 2006 and took place by
way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of
the Society.


1. Welcome

1.1 Attendance:
Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Cheryl
Langdon-Orr, Kate Lance, Andrew McRae

1.2 Apologies:
Greg Adamson, Adam Creed, Jeremy Malcolm, Peter Nissen, Gerry White


2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Accepted - Moved: Gunela, Seconded: Cheryl


3. Actions Arising from the Minutes

3.1 Carried over - All directors to contact their accounting contacts
    to find an auditor for next financial year
3.2 Done - Tony to sign MoU with APNIC and send back
3.3 Done - Kate to put APNIC MoU info on website
3.4 Done - Tony to keep CLO informed on IPV6 conference funding
3.5 Done - Cheryl to report on Mark Vaile event, launch of Unlocking 
China's Service Sector Report

New actions:

3.1 Carried over - All directors to contact their accounting contacts to
    find an auditor for next financial year
3.2 Kate to put Vaile report on website and distribute to membership
3.3 Kate to circulate existing marketing documents to Board
3.4 All directors to make their contribution to the SWOT by a target date 
    of Monday 27 March 2006
3.5 Approach to be made to ISO Chapter delegates mailing list regarding 
    this initiative.
3.6 Gunela to approach Peter Coroneos (IIA) regarding web accessibility
    awards


4. Reports

4.1 Executive Director's Report
Director's report accepted.

4.2 Financial Reports
Financial reports accepted as presented. Agreed that a f2f (Subject Matter:
Financial Planning) meeting be arranged in Canberra - tentative date May 22.

4.3 Revenue Sub-committee
Revenue committee report accepted as presented
    4.3.1 Consider RSC working papers:
          - a listing of our external relationships, and,
          - a rudimentary SWOT analysis.
    4.3.2 Proposal for consideration by Board:
          As a first step in raising revenue, that ISOC-AU commence
          a specific immediate direct marketing campaign to boost
          Enterprise level membership.

- Initiative was confirmed and three action items extracted and recorded.

4.4 Sponsorship
Sponsorship committee report accepted as presented.


5. Membership Issues
No membership issues were raised.


6 SIG Reports

6.1 IPV6
- 2 meetings held since last meeting 

- Endorsement was given for exchange of letters for joint hosting of IPv6
Summit between ISOC-AU & AEEMA, and possibly CRC Smart Internet

- Report accepted as presented.


6.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise)
No report presented

6.3 Accessibility & Usability
No report presented


7. Discussion

7.1 Directors will email to the board mailing list the meetings that they
have attended. Lists received to date included:

7.1.1 Tony Hill 
15/02/06          IPv6 Forum Downunder
16/02/06          National ICT Industry Alliance
16/02/06          CIO Executive Council
16/02/06          IIA Annual Gala Dinner
21-23/02/06       IPv6 World Congress, Las Vegas
06/02/06          ISOC-AU IPv6 SIG
13/02/06          ISOC-AU IPv6 SIG

7.1.2 Cheryl Langdon-Orr
13/02/06          auDA Board Meeting Melbourne.
15/02/06          ACIF CC Teleconference Meeting.
21-22/02/06       ACIF CC F2F Meeting Sydney.
22/02/06          IPV6 Tele-conference
23& 24/02/06      ACIF CC WG activity CC Position paper on Final
                  Morgan Disney Report and response paper(s) from ACIF Board.
27/02-03/03       APIA/ISOC-AU Open Forum & APRICOT Conference WA.
10/03/06          auCD preliminary work prior to first Board Meeting
                  (online & teleconf)

7.1.3 Gunela Astbrink
27.2-3.3.06       APRICOT and APIA/ISOC-AU Open Forum

7.1.4 Narelle Clark
16/02            IIA Annual Gala Dinner
06/03            ISOC-AU IPv6 SIG
13/02            ISOC-AU IPv6 SIG
27/02-03/03      APIA/ISOC-AU Open Forum & APRICOT Conference


7.2 AIOF at APRICOT
Report presented by Gunela Astbrink. Congratulations are recorded to Gunela,
Cheryl, Jeremy, Kate, and Narelle for organising the event. Thanks to Optus
are also recorded for supporting the event with communications infrastructure.

Motion: In principle support for establishing an MOU with APIA, moved:
Narelle, seconded: Gunela.


8. Any Other Business

8.1 ISOC France President to visit Sydney.

Meeting with ISOC-Fr President to be held on Monday April 3 at Maddocks.
Endorsement was given for this Maddocks event with ISOC France to be a
TCCM. NICTIA members also to be invited.

8.2 Web accessibility awards in conjunction with IIA, TEDICORE, and AIMIA.
Gunela to approach Mr Peter Coroneos

8.3 ED Kate Lance to be away on leave and arrangements were made to cover
her duties.

8.4 AUUG Conference coming up in Melbourne and a call was made for 
Melbourne directors to possibly deliver a paper.

8.5 Links with ACMA have been built up as result of participation at
Apricot. Further opportunities to buildon the relationship with ACMA are 
to be pursued.


9. Next meeting

The meeting closed at 7:00pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference
at 5:45 pm AEST on 10th April, 2006


10. Confirmation

Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.

Tony Hill,
President, ISOC-AU