Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting 24 May 2004

The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 24 May 2004 and took place by
way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of
the Society. Meeting duration: 50 minutes
     
1. Attendance
Tony Hill (Chair), Kate Lance (ED), Ross Kelso, Jeremy Malcolm, George
Fong (left at 6:38 p.m.), Adam Creed, Craig Ng, Gerry White, Gunela
Astbrink, Cheryl Langdon-Orr.

Apologies
Peter Ziebell, Narelle Clark, Andrew McRae
     
2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Minutes accepted
MOVED George Fong SECONDED Ross Kelso
     
3. Actions Arising from the Minutes
Kate - Information to Treasurer sent for inclusion in membership invoices
Kate - DCITA funding application completed
Tony - 13 Points revision not actioned
Tony & George - ATCRC sponsor/membership package being progressed
Cheryl - Membership renewals to be sent out in early May
Cheryl - Treasurer to send material to Secretary on Workcover response(s)
George - Meeting for coming week to progress iPrimus and IBM sponsorship 
Narelle - No progress on Optus sponsorship reported
     
4. Reports
   4.1 Executive Director's Report
       - report distributed prior to meeting

   4.2 Financial Reports
       - sponsorship funding from Telstra received
     
5. Membership Issues
   - Membership renewals
     Moving towards an automated system
     Kate to add wording for credit card debit
 
6. Discussion
 - Meetings attended
 George and Cheryl - auDA geographical domain names meeting on 11th May
 Tony - meeting with Teleconferencing Association on 6th April
 Tony - farewell to Malcolm Compton, Privacy Commissioner, on 7th April
 Narelle - National ICT Industry Alliance meeting on 22nd April
 George - ABC Country Show 
 Cheryl - ACIF-CAC on 13th-14th May.

 - TSA-ISOC-AU paper discussed. Proposal to take discussion forward:
   MOVED Gerry White SECONDED Craig Ng. 

 - ICANN At-Large involvement - Adam
     o goal is to gather and take on board input into ICANN processes
     o much of the input comes from ISOC chapters
     o a way of maintaining ICANN information to ISOC
     o attendance at ICANN meetings is useful
    Action: Adam to check out and report back on the processes for 
    involvement and the level of resources that would be required.

7. Any Other Business

7.1 The Newcastle TCCM will be held in late June.

7.2 A suggestion from Fred Baker re previously expressed interest in
    hosting the 2005/2006 INET conference received by email. 
    Action: Kate to respond re the level of sponsorship required.

7.3 WAIA application for APRICOT
    Action: Gunela to organise a talk at a Director's meeting.

7.4 SPAM code:
    - Jeremy has circulated SPAM code to Directors
    - the SPAM code affects email and is essentially for ISPs and 
      service providers	
    - Another code is being developed for emarketers
    - the WAIA code is now out-of-date and may fade away
    - strengths of the code include:
      o requirements for ISPs to provide SPAM filtering (although this 
        may cost users)
      o education of ISPs and users
      o ISPs have to cooperate with ACA and High Tech Crime Unit
  
8. Next Meeting
    - next meeting of Directors will be by teleconference at 
      5:45 p.m. AEST on 21st June.
    - Gerry White will be an apology as he will be overseas

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

Tony Hill
President, ISOC-AU

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