Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 10 April 2006
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 10 April 2006 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Greg Adamson, Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Adam Creed, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kate Lance, Peter Nissen, Gerry White 1.2 Apologies: Jeremy Malcolm, Andrew McRae 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted - Moved: Narelle, Seconded: Ross 3. Actions Arising from the Minutes 3.1 Progressed - further suggestions welcome - All directors to contact their accounting contacts to find an auditor for next financial year 3.2 Done - Kate to put Vaile report on website and distribute to membership 3.3 Done - Kate to circulate existing marketing documents to Board 3.4 Done - All directors to make their contribution to the SWOT by a target date of Monday 27 March 2006 3.5 Done - Approach to be made to ISO Chapter delegates mailing list regarding this initiative. 3.6 Done - Gunela to approach Peter Coroneos (IIA) regarding web accessibility awards 4. New actions: 4.1 Director's to return to Revenue Sub-Committee regarding their views on the 'What's in it for me?' question. 4.2 Narelle and Tony to get together regarding Optus Sponsorship. 4.3 Kate to remove BankCard from membership renewal form 4.4 Tony to come back to board via email with suggestions re ANP 4.5 CLO to follow up with Chris Disspain to gauge his interest. 4.6 Tony to follow up to prepare a proposal for consideration of IPV6 training. 4.7 All directors to consider (individually & collectively) response to prospect of abolishing of representational membership class in auDA and to forward such to the list. 5. Reports 5.1 Executive Director's Report - Discussion held on penetration of Moodle into the eLearning marketplace. - Director's report accepted. 5.2 Financial Reports - Financial reports accepted as presented. 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - RSC needs director's to consider the 'What's in it for me?' question wrt ISOC-AU membership and answers to the question. - RSC report accepted as presented. 4.4 Sponsorship - Meeting with Optus Management April 21, 11am regarding sponsorship. - Sponsorship committee report accepted as presented. 5. Membership Issues Motion: Keep membership fees as is for next Financial Year, Moved Narelle, Seconded Cheryl - Passed Motion: ISOC-AU should introduce a new level of corporate membership at a higher fee of approximately $2,000pa, Moved Tony, Seconded: Gunela - passed Motion: BankCard to be removed from this year's renewal Moved Cheryl, Seconded Narelle, Passed 6 SIG Reports 6.1 IPV6 - IPV6 summit progressing well with dates settled at 20,21 & 22nd of November, 2006 - Report accepted as presented. 6.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) No report presented 6.3 Accessibility & Usability - Discussion held with Peter Coroneos re web accessibility awards with recommendation being to not propose a new award. - Tony to discuss 7. Discussion 7.1 Directors meetings attended have been emailed and those received to date included: 7.1.1 Tony Hill 25- 31Mar ICANN Wellington 27 Mar ISOC Wellington 27 Mar IPv6 SIG 28 Mar ICANN AP RALO 28 Mar Internet NZ 3 Apr National ICT Industry Alliance 3 Apr ISOC-AU TCCM 5 Apr DCITA 5 Apr IPv6 SIG 6 Apr Canberra Business Council Innovation Task Force 7 Apr CRC Smart Internet Technology 7.1.2 Cheryl Langdon-Orr 21/03/06 ACIF CC Business Committee Meeting F2F ACIF N. Sydney 25-31/03/06 ICANN Meeting Wellington NZ. 28/03/06 ACIF CC Teleconference Meeting. 28/03/06 ACIF CC Framework for Future WP Teleconference Meeting. 03/04/06 TCCM Meeting Sydney 10/04/06 auDA Board Meeting Melbourne. 7.1.3 Ross Kelso 29-30/3/06 CTN Annual Conference, Sydney 31/3/06 CTN Council, Sydney 7.1.4 Greg Adamson 21/03/06 IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (Australia) founding meeting 4/04/06 IEEE Victoria Section executive 7.1.5 Narelle Clark 21/3/06 AWISE Board Meeting 27/3/06 IPv6 Summit Planning Meeting 31/3/06 Consensus Software Awards - judging day 3/4/06 TCCM/ISOC-FR update held by ISOC-AU at Maddocks 7.1.6 Kevin Karp 3 Apr ISOC-AU TCCM 7.2 Board meeting re-structuring - The meetings are to be re-structured such that items requiring decision are circulated prior to the meeting so that the time of the meeting is spent making the actual decision and only discussing items if there are new aspects to be covered. 7.2 Sydney TCCM 3 April No discussion. 7.3 GrangeNet/Advanced Networks Program - Should ISOC-AU be lobbying for the retention and renewal of the ANP and in particular GrangeNet? Tony to come back to board via email with suggestions. 7.4 f2f Canberra, 22 May 2006 Date confirmed. 7.5 Chris Disspain PIR nomination CLO to follow up with Chris Disspain to gauge his interest. ISOC-AU is happy to support him if he is interested. 7.6 Renewal of isoc-au.org.au domain name Approval was granted. 8. Any Other Business 8.1 IPV6 Training via ISOC-AU Tony to follow up to prepare a proposal for consideration. 8.2 Board emailining procedures Be careful cc'ing external parties in emails to the board list. No need to cc KL in emails 8.3 ED Kate Lance may not be travelling Overseas as previously notified 8.4 Gunela Astbrink reported on discussions held with Richard Neville 8.5 Cheryl Langdon-Orr reported from the auDA board that the representational membership class may be abolished from auDA. CLO asked for ISOC-AU board to consider individual and collective reactions to such a proposal. 9. Next meeting The meeting closed at 7:12pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45 pm AEST on 8th May, 2006 10. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU