Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801

Minutes of Directors' Meeting 21 June 2004

The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 21 June 2004 and took place by way
of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the
Society.  Meeting duration: 45 minutes.
 
1. ATTENDANCE
Tony Hill (Chair), Kate Lance (ED), Ross Kelso, Jeremy Malcolm, Craig
Ng, Gunela Astbrink, Peter Ziebell, Narelle Clark (joined 6.08pm),
Andrew McRae (joined 6pm).
 
APOLOGIES
Gerry White, Adam Creed, George Fong, Cheryl Langdon-Orr.
 
2. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
Minutes accepted, Moved - Craig Ng; Seconded - Peter Ziebell.
 
3. ACTIONS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
3.1 Completed
Kate:
- Add wording for annual automatic debit to membership forms
- Fred Baker's email - reply re sponsorship needed for 2005/2006 INET
Cheryl:
- Send out membership renewals 
Gunela:
- Philip Smith (Secretary of APIA) has agreed to speak to Directors
about APRICOT on 15th November.
 
3.2 Carried over
Tony:
- with George, progress ATCRC sponsor/membership package
- 13 Points revision
George:
- Progress iPrimus and IBM sponsorship
Narelle:
- progress Optus sponsorship
Craig:
- advice on Workcover response(s), pending material from Cheryl
Adam:
- report back on processes and level of resources required for ICANN
At-Large involvement.
All directors:
- Sign up a new organisation member
 
3.3 New action
Tony:
- chase Cisco re sponsorship
- talk to Cheryl re follow-up membership invoices
- email iamems commending auDAs decision to reduce fees for domain names
- nominate for auDA names policy review panel
Kate:
- to arrange for subscription only directors list to replace iadirs
 
4. REPORTS
4.1 Executive Director's Report
- report distributed prior to meeting
 
4.2 Financial Reports
- report held over due to Cheryl's absence
 
5. MEMBERSHIP ISSUES
- email notices of membership renewals have been sent; next follow-up
step (early July) would usually be to snail-mail out paper invoices
though consideration could be given to prior individual email contacts
- Cheryl has sole access to membership database
 
6. DISCUSSION
- Meetings attended or to be attended
Tony - UMelb Law School last Friday re FTA impact on IP
Craig - has joined advisory board of UMelb Centre for Media & Comms law;
to attend and present paper at ICANN meeting mid July in Kuala Lumpur
Gunela - to attend next TCCC meeting in July
 
- TSA-ISOC-AU proposal
Tony has met Jim Holmes and discussed various issues; likely feedback
from TSA board meeting in next few weeks
 
7. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
- The Newcastle TCCM will be held Wed 23rd June.
- Due to sustained spam on iadirs list, Kate to arrange with Connect
setting up of subscription only version, eg. iaboard; also attend to
'help@'
- Narelle is dealing with Kate on code for an IPv6 Web-based survey
-Tony to email iamems commending auDAs decision to reduce fees for
domain names
- Tony recommends ISOC-AU should be represented on auDA panels; will put
his name forward for auDA names policy review panel
 
8. NEXT MEETING
- The next meeting of Directors will be by teleconference at 5:45 p.m.
AEST on 19th July.  Apologies in advance from Craig Ng and Andrew McRae.
 
9. CONFIRMATION
Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.
 
Tony Hill
President, ISOC-AU

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