Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting 21 April 2004

The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 21 April 2004 and took place by
way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of
the Society.

1. Attendance

Present: Tony Hill (Chair), Narelle Clarke, Adam Creed, George Fong,
Ross Kelso, Kate Lance, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jeremy Malcolm, Andrew McRae
(left after John Tierney's talk).

Apologies: Gunela Astbrink, Craig Ng, Gerry White, Peter Ziebell. 

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Minutes accepted - MOVED George; SECONDED Cheryl.

3. Actions Arising from the Minutes

3.1 Actions
- all directors to seek out an organisational member
- redirect help alias to iadirs completed (Kate)
- Cheryl followed up outstanding expenses from forum with AC3
- Tony met with Daryl Williams' advisor re '13 points'
- George followed up ATCRC with Leith Campbell: ATRC keen for more
  publicity on IPv6; they have courses thereon; George & Tony to consider
  package for ATCRC to attract them as sponsor/member.
- George yet to follow up with iPrimus and IBM re sponsorship
- Narelle is progressing matter of Optus sponsorship

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

4.2 Financial Reports
Cheryl reported that two major sponsors have been invoiced but no
payments received yet. To seek Craig's advice on our formal response in
getting refund from Zurich and dealing with penalty from VicWork.

5. Membership Issues
Plan for renewal process: Cheryl to send first email invoices to members
by early (eg, 3rd) May; then follow up with paper invoices by June. Tony
is to revise last year's accompanying 'blurb' and get to Cheryl before 3
May for inclusion in email invoices. This time will highlight oportunity
to auto-rebill.

6. Resolutions on Notice
6.1 Levels of 04/05 fees to remain at current levels. MOVED Narelle;
SECONDED Cheryl. CARRIED

6.2 IIA Spam code development process: Jeremy to be chair on behalf of
WAIA; consumer organisations to be consulted though not directly
involved; draft to be circulated to ISOC-AU board soon. Proposal that
ISOC-AU endorses processes outlined. MOVED: Narelle; SECONDED Cheryl
CARRIED

7. Discussion
7.1 Meetings attended
* Cheryl - CTN meeting 26th March
* Cheryl - auDA Education Committee 5th April
* George & Cheryl - auDA New Geographical Names 6th April
* Gunela - TCCC meeting 30th & 31st March

7.2 Discussion with TSA
A special Director's teleconference will be held Wed 5 May to focus
discussion on initial proposal.

7.3 Canberra TCCM
Due on 22 April.

7.4 Thirteen Points
Held over until next meeting

8. Any Other Business
8.1 DCITA Funding bid
Due 7 May; could ask for $75K

8.2 Next CTF
Nominally in October in Sydney; could align with NICTA; suggest overseas
speaker (via IAP funding?); Good topics sought - convergence of
applications, CANARIE ideas about optical networks; get out to national
audience on GrangeNet?

9. Address to directors from John Tierney, Acting CEO of Comindico

- John Tierney has just taken over as acting CEO of Comindico until the
  Board permanently fills the position.
- Two topical but unconnected events: the end of John Stuckey's contract,
  and the retrenching, after long-term consideration, of about 15% of
  staff (30 people).
- The Board has just adopted new business and financial plans, and will be
  going to capital markets for more funding.
- The broad mission of the company is unchanged: the convergence of data
  and voice through IP communications.
- The principal components of the network, the interconnect agreements,
  the products are now all in place.
- The major objective is backhaul and last mile services; Comindico
  is participating in a wireless pilot of a community access network at
  Shepparton.
- The replacement of the copper CAN is a longer term concern (Tony Hill
  suggested this could be a good issue for the next Connecting the Future
  event).
- Comindico continues to play a key role in the Competitive Carrier
  Coalition, along with Primus, Macquarie, Powertel and Hutchinson.  

10. Next Meeting
Meeting ended at 7.00pm. Next meeting by teleconference on Monday 24th
2004, at 5:45 AEST.

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

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