Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 14 June 2005

Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 14 June 2005


The meeting commenced at 5:50 pm EST on 14 June 2005 and took place by way
of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the
Society.

1. Welcome

1.1 Attendance:
Gunela Astbrink - from about 6.15pm, Narelle Clark, Adam Creed - from about
5.55pm, George Fong, Tony Hill (Chair) - left about 6.40pm, Kevin Karp, Ross
Kelso, Kate Lance (ED), Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Andrew McRae - left about
6.47pm, Jeremy Malcolm, Craig Ng - left about 6.05pm.

1.2 Apologies:
Gerry White

2. Resignation of Director and Election of New Secretary
2.1 Resignation

Craig Ng regretfully tendered his resignation as a director and secretary of
the ISOC-AU board, to take effect immediately, so as to avoid any perception
of conflict of interest regarding his ongoing role as advisor to the board
of AuDA.  He emphasized that this would not affect his commitment to
continue to be the pro-bono advisor to ISOC-AU, on matters that do not
present a conflict of interests to the work performed for auDA.  

In addition, he offered to continue to co-host and to assist in arranging
face to face meetings on issues of interest to the ISOC-AU membership,
as a "friend" of the society, rather than in any official capacity.
Maddocks, Sydney office, would continue as the registered office of
ISOC-AU.

The Board expressed its appreciation for his significant contribution to
ISOC-AU and accepted his resignation with deep regret.  Moved: Cheryl
Langdon-Orr, Seconded: George Fong.

2.2 Election

Kevin Karp agreed to accept the role of company secretary.  Moved: Cheryl
Langdon-Orr, Seconded: Ross Kelso
Craig Ng was happy to brief Kevin regarding the duties of secretary and
in particular the timetable and reporting requirements of ASIC.  Craig left
the meeting at about 6.05pm.

3. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Subject to minor amendments to draft
Accepted - Moved: Jeremy Malcolm, Seconded: George Fong

4. Actions Arising from the Minutes

Tony: Spoke to DCITA re WSIS and WGIG processes on Internet governance;
DCITA application and copies were signed and submitted.

Andrew: E-mailed members, collated and sent Turing Award congratulations to
ISOC.

Directors to distribute a SIG proposal to the Board and then to the IAMEMS
list; SIG proposals for consideration include:
  - IPv6 (Tony)
  - education and competition (Turing Test issue) (Kevin)
  - governance (Jeremy) Craig would provide governance info for all Directors
  - accessibility and usability (Gunela)
    Kevin has already proposed that the Education and Training SIG should instead
    be named Skills and Expertise.  Accepted.

5. Reports

5.1 Executive Director's Report
Director's report accepted

George offered to assist Kate in making contact with Geelong people for next
consultation event.  Propose 5pm start, Tony to be there; guest speaker to
be highlighted in notices.

5.2 Financial Reports
Financial reports accepted as published

Cheryl recommended that a financial forecasting exercise should be
undertaken around September.

6. Membership Issues
Dues are still coming in.

7. Discussion

7.1 Meetings attended
* Tony:
  - Chaired VoIP summit 10 May
  - Attended ATUG regional conference cocktail
  - Held two meetings with DCITA 12 May
  - Attended IPv6 coalition meeting in Washington 24-26 May
  - Attended Australia/Korea Broadband Summit 8-10 June
  - Attended meetings with ISC, CNNIC, CERNET

* Ross:
  - Attended CTN Council meeting 16 May
* Kate, George:
  - Attended IPv6 event in Ballarat 10 May
* Cheryl:
  - Preparatory telephone meeting for ACIF CAC 11 May
  - ACIF CAC meetings 26 and 27 May
  - Teleconference on Consumer Credit Code Review 31 May
  - 14 June AuDA board meeting

7.2 Tony's recent overseas trips 
  - US for IPv6 meeting, China for the Optical Internet conference, and Korea 
    for the Australian/Korea Broadband summit.
  - IPv6 draft letter to Senator Coonan accepted with minor amendments; Tony
    will now send it off
  - Met with KR-NIC, ISOC Korea, Ministry of Information and Telecommunications
    2010 is Korean deadline for IPv6 introduction
  - Tony and one another invited to speak at Global IPv6 summit in Seoul 21 July

7.3 Regulatory Forum, August 2005
  - Date of 19 August proposed for joint event with ACIF CAC
  - TIO, CLC and CTN re-booked; ATUG interested

8. Any Other Business

8.1 AUUG Conference Sydney 19-21 October 
  - Andrew will present a paper in ISOC stream; Tony also to be approached on
    IPv6 topic; also could consider other speakers.

8.2 SIGs
  - Kevin's proposal for a Skills and Expertise SIG was accepted.  Moved: Kevin,
    Seconded: Cheryl.  George will send Kevin a copy of a relevant paper by
    Whitehorse Consulting

  - Idea flagged of a Regional and Rural SIG

8.3 DTF'06 (with APRICOT)
  - Agreed theme is Ubiquitous Networking and the Internet
  - George offered to assist Kate on a sub-committee to commence broad
    planning
 

9. Next meeting

The meeting closed at 6.52pm.  The next meeting will occur by teleconference
at 5:45 pm AEST on 11th July, 2005.
 

10. Confirmation

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

Tony Hill, 
President, ISOC-AU