Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 16 April 2007
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 16 April 2007 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, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Jeremy Malcolm, Andrew McRae, Peter Nissen, Holly Raiche, Gerry White, Anne Lord 1.2 Apologies: Tony Hill 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted: moved NC, seconded KJK 2.1 Presentation by Anne Lord 3. Actions Arising from previous Minutes 3.1 Board needs to arrange 1 day a week of ITOL & association related web work - TH to arrange contract for maintenance of ISOC-AU web site - in progress incorporated into 4.2 3.2 A motion needs to be prepared for consideration at the next board meeting to establish a staffing committee to oversee issues associated with contracting of ISOC-AU work. NC to prepare motion - in progress incorporated into 4.2 3.3 GA to arrange Accessibility TCCM - in progress 3.4 Directors to prepare questions in preparation for KR attending the April Board Meeting - done 3.5 HR to prepare email for nomination of Chris Disspain for PIR .ORG - done 3.6 HR to follow up CITEC - in progress 3.7 HR to circulate 2 OECD discussion papers to iaboard - done 4. New Actions 4.1 ISOC-AU to provide Chapter related contribution to ISOC 4.2 Board needs to arrange 1 day a week of ITOL & association related web work - TH to arrange contract for maintenance of ISOC-AU web site - Establishment of Employment(or some other name) sub-committee 4.3 GA to arrange Accessibility TCCM - in progress 4.4 HR to follow up CITEC - in progress 4.5 All board members: Send action items for F2F to KJK for incorporation into agenda 4.6 All board members: Send intended details for attendance at F2F to HR 5. Reports (25 min) 5.1 Executive Director's Report - Written report accepted as circulated via email. 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Written Financial reports accepted as circulated via email. 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - Revenue committee - no report presented. 5.4 Sponsorship - Sponsorship committee - no report presented but thanks expressed to Andrew McRae for work on Google sponsorship 6. Membership Issues - None 7 SIG Reports 7.1 IPv6 SIG - IPv6 Summit - Progress - 19-21 November in Canberra IPV6 Summit 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) - No report presented. 7.3 Accessibility & Usability - No report presented. 8. Discussion 8.1 Calendar for 2007 8.2 2007 Face to Face - Tentative schedule of May 1 in Sydney at 10am to 3pm, at Google. - All director to provide travel arrangements and prospective agenda items. 8.7 Meetings attended. Andrew McRae - 27/3 Embedded Systems Roundtable (NSW DSRD, NICTA, AEEMA (Exploration and discussions about development of an embedded systems industry in NSW/Australia) 9 Any Other Business 9.1 Call for Papers/Presentations for PacINET 2007 sent to Chapter Delegates and the IAMEMS Background to be provided by CLO in short form at the meeting in terms of merit of whether our participation by offering a paper (our ITOL work on IPv6 comes immediatly to mind for example) which can be either remote or by attendance... CLO participated all sessions last August via remote participation and several remote papers were given in those sessions and worked well,though seeking possible funding to send someone to present might be worth considering. General background on PACINET can be found at http://www.picisoc.org/tiki-index.php?page=PacINET%202007 by ways of further briefing to the Board. Item carried over to next meeting. 10. Next meeting The meeting closed at 7:04pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45pm AEST on 14th May, 2007 12. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Narelle Clark, Vice-President, ISOC-AU