Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 9 May 2005
The meeting commenced at 5:45pm EST on 9 May 2005 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Tony Hill (Chair), Kate Lance (ED), Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kevin Karp, Andrew McRae, Gerry White, George Fong, Narelle Clark, Craig Ng, Adam Creed (joined at 6:05pm), Jeremy Malcolm, Gunela Astbrink. 1.2 Apologies: Ross Kelso. 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted - Moved: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Sec: Gunela Astbrink 3. Actions Arising from the Minutes * IPv6 proposal completed and has been reviewed by Directors * Emil has been put on IAMEMS list * Information has been distributed about DTF06 co-location with APRICOT 2006, although more details needed for decision. * SIG proposals to be considered further include: - IPv6 (Tony) - education and competition (Turing Test issue) (Kevin) - governance (Jeremy) Craig will send governance info to all Directors - accessibility and usability (Gunela) 4. Reports 4.1 Executive Director's Report Director's report accepted DCITA application to be signed and sent 4.2 Financial Reports Financial reports accepted as published A new auditor to be sought: Moved: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Sec: George Fong 5. Membership Issues Timetable is on schedule. Resolution: That membership fees remain unchanged for 2005/06: Moved: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Sec: George Fong 6. Discussion (20 min) 6.1 Meetings attended - Craig, Kevin and Tony attended the NICTA conference on internet governance on 13th April - Tony attended the ICT alliance meeting on 14th April - Cheryl attended the auDA Board on 15th April - Craig and Kevin attended the talk by Helen Coonan on the value of ICT on 21st April - Cheryl attended the Consumer Council of ACIF working on the Operations Manual Working Group on 27th April and 4th May - Tony attended the Innovation Forum on 29th April - Tony attended the CISCO networking trends conference on 2nd May - George attended the ENUM launch on 5th May - Cheryl attended the AFTRS Seminar on 6th May 6.2 Discussion about the Regulatory Forum, June 2005 - ABA and ACA will come together - ACMA - there will be a new regulatory framework about content and carriage - the Forum needs to be about the internet and convergence and carriage - speaker could be from CTN, AFTRS, Telecommunications Ombudsman - target 60-100 people - Craig happy to assist if postponing until August as preferred time - IPv6 could be a large exercise in November - some suggestions for topics included: . Content regulation and the internet . Regulatory regime . Internet technology and converged regulatory environment . Key words include content, carriage and regulatory issues . ACIF, Consumer Council are suggestions for partnership. Holly could be approached . It was suggested that ISOC-AU become an organisational member of ACIF. Costs between $1500 & $2000. Alternatively ISOC-AU could develop an MoU with ACIF . It was agreed that August would be the best time and that theme be about the 'converged regulatory environment' . Partners for the event should include SPAN (Ian) and ACIF (Holly) . Level 44, Grosvenor Place uses video conferencing for $1000/day with morning and afternoon tea plus lunch. They provide two waiting staff @ $41 or $30 per head. Dialogue in three streams would work. Best time is a Wednesday. 6.3 Sponsorship renewals Sponsorship renewals sent. Need to wait until end of month for Telstra and CISCO. 7. Any Other Business 7.1 Phillip Mason DCITA, Manager of WSIS and WGIG processes, is focusing on internet governance. Points raised in discussion included: - consultation is occurring on civil society - Australian issues need to be fed into the international scene - there is a need to encourage membership of ISOC-AU - Tony to follow through by speaking with DCITA - Jeremy offered to be involved in this work 7.2 ISOC is holding a congratulatory meeting for Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for which Andrew is collating the Australian contribution. 7.3 New organisational members have been invoiced. There is a need to follow this through. 8. Next meeting The meeting closed at 7.15pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45 pm AEST on 14th June, 2005. 9. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU