Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 11 April 2005

The meeting commenced at 5:45pm EST on 11 April 2005 and took place by
way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of
the Society.

1. Attendance
Gunela Astbrink, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Kate Lance, Cheryl
Langdon-Orr, Jeremy Malcolm, Craig Ng, Narelle Clark (Minutes)

Apologies: Gerry White, Andrew McRae, Adam Creed, George Fong

2. Minutes of Previous Meeting
Minutes of the last meeting were accepted - Moved Ross Kelso/seconded 
Jeremy Malcolm

 
3. Actions Arising from the Minutes
Cheryl:
- Sent a sponsorship invoice to Telstra 
- actioned term deposit as per her report
Tony:
- initiate dialogue to engage NICTIA about Internet Governance.
- discuss and solidify ISOC-AU's policy position regarding IPv6 - 
  SIG to be started
George:
- progress iPrimus, IBM, Neighbourhood Cable and Ampwest
- Communications sponsorships - pending
Gunela:
- Organised Philip Smith (APIA, APRICOT) to speak at this teleconf 
Kevin:
- distributed paper on meeting on professionalism in ICT industry

4. Reports
4.1 Executive Director's Report held over to next meeting.
4.2 Financial Reports
Cheryl Langdon-Orr reported that: new term deposit taken up, current 
operating account positive. DoCITA amount due. No accounts payable.

5. Membership Issues
NICTA has registered as an enterprise member. The Board noted its 
thanks to NICTA.

6. Guest Speaker: Philip Smith, CISCO re Apricot & Asia Pacific
Internet Association

Philip outlined his role at Cisco, as an advisor at large across the
Asia Pacific region in general technical issues. Philip was a founding
member of the LINK internet exchange in London and also has worked for
a number of large ISPs around the world and the NOGs (Network operators
groups) including set up of SANOG.

APRICOT is run by APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association) and
www.2006.apricot.net 22 Feb - 3rd March 2006 hosted by WAIA.

Directors raised some options for assistance: Jeremy Malcolm was
nominated as the liaison between ISOC-AU and APRICOT. Directors noted
that ISOC-AU is keen to support the conference.


7. SIG Developments
- Youth SIG apologies from Emil for this meeting, Kate to ensure he
  is on the IAMEMS list.  - IPv6

The formation of an IPv6 SIG was moved Narelle Clark / Kevin Karp

The following list of SIGs was proposed:
SIG - Director Sponsor 
Accessibility Issues - Gunela Astbrink
Spam - Jeremy Malcolm
IPv6 - Tony Hill, Narelle Clark
Education - Kevin Karp
Youth - Cheryl, (Emil to lead)
Proposals were sought from Directors to cover the SIGs


8. Discussion (23 min)
Meetings attended?
- Many directors attended DTF05 - deemed to be a great success
- Gunela attended the TCCC meeting 7 April
- Ross and Adam attended the CTN conference on USO 2-23 March
- CTN council 22nd March attended by Ross
- Kevin attended DoCITA meeting 23 March 
- Narelle and Tony attended a meeting 7 April with Mike Biber of 
  the IPv6 Forum.
- Face-to-face strategy meeting 5th April [minutes circulated by Tony]


9. Any Other Business (5 min)
Issues paper released by Senator Coonan's office.

Summary of actions noted:
Tony to send out IPv6 invitation after Directors review
ALL: review IPv6 proposal
Kate: check Emil is on IAMEMS list
Gunela, Jeremy: review DTF06 co-location with APRICOT 2006 with 
APRICOT organisers

Directors to distribute a SIG proposal to the Board and then to the 
IAMEMS list:
Accessibility Issues - Gunela Astbrink
Spam - Jeremy Malcolm
IPv6 - Tony Hill, Narelle Clark
Education - Kevin Karp
Youth - Cheryl, (Emil to lead)

10. Next Meeting (1 min)
Meeting closed at 6:55pm.
The next teleconference is MONDAY, 9th May 2005 at 5:45pm ADST.

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

Tony Hill,
President, ISOC-AU