Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 6 July 2010
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEST on July 6 2010 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Paul Brooks, Narelle Clark, Robert Forsyth, Robert Gregory, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Gerry White, Holly Raiche 1.2 Apologies: Gunela Astbrink, Ross Kelso 1.3 Absent: 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting June 1, 2010, Moved: JL, second: RG, passed 3. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 3.1 HR to chase up the content filtering letter to determine if ISOC-AU can participate and will submit a final appeal for modifications from iamems - done. 3.2 HR to liaise with KL on having newsletter on website as a compendium of meetings attended, submissions made, etc - ongoing. 3.3 NC to liaise with PPS on transition of lists to dual stack - done 3.4 HR to purchase a renewed ISOC-AU pull up sign to the maximum cost of $350. Moved: PB, seconded: GA, passed. 3.5 HR to continue to follow up with ACCAN on content filtering activities - ongoing 3.6 Follow up ISOC-AU/APNIC activities: HR to call Anne Lord and Skeeve Stevens -ongoing, PB to contact James Spencely - onging 4. New and Carried Over actions 4.1 HR to liaise with KL on having newsletter on website as a compendium of meetings attended, submissions made, etc. 4.2 What is status of banner - HR 4.3 Clarify arrangement for sponsor for banner - HR 4.4 Check availability of inexpensive banners from, for instance, Officeworks - HR 4.5 HR to continue to follow up with ACCAN on content filtering activities 4.6 Follow up ISOC-AU/APNIC activities: HR to liase Anne Lord to arrange collateral for the APNIC meeting and to continue discussions with potential sponsors, PB to continue discussion with James Spencely 4.7 HR to forward report on hearing on Melbourne Cyber Security 4.8 HR to email to CLO invoice sent to ACCAN 4.9 HR to formalise any sponsorships as required 4.10 HR to draft form of words for targetted sponsorship arrangements 4.11 HR to complete and submit application form to PPS 4.12 KK to include agenda item: HR has proposed the following: "I have been approached by the Melb. Convention Centre as to whether we'd be interested in being involved in an APRICOT meeting in 2013/2014/2015.They would foot most of the bill. I am seeking further details and may have them by the meeting" - to be held over to next meeting 5. Reports 5.1 Executive Director's Report 5.1.1 Acceptance of ED report - ED Report distributed via email. - RG and HR reviewed Melbourne Cyber Security hearing - The ED report was formally received by the Board 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Treasurer's report distributed via email. - Treasurer reviewed highlighted points from report. - Treasurer needs to be re-assured that bookkeeper is liaising with the auditor regarding finalisation of accounts for FY 2010 - Treasurer verbally reported that on June 2 ISOC-AU received first ISOC payment of $US4,724.00 ($A5,506.47) - Treasurer asked to what account ACCAN payments are to be paid - AMcR reported that the Google payments for last year and this year are due to be made with last year's already having been made - 3 payments to be co-authorised. - The ED report was formally received by the Board 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - No report presented. 5.4 Sponsorship - HR to formalise any sponsorships as required - CLO requested that an agenda item be created for sponsorship arrangements at the next F2F meeting 5.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.6 Employment Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.7 Director's Representations - TH: Asia Pacific IP v6 Taskforce - TH: Launch of the National Cyber Security Awareness Week 2010 - CLO: ASIA Pacific regional IGF - CLO: ACCAN Cyber-Security for people with Disabilities - NC: ICANN - NC: ISOC - PB: ACCAN National Conference and Consumer Summit 2010 6. Membership Issues 6.1 Confirmation that invoices have been sent. 7. SIGs Report 7.1 IPv6 SIG 7.1.1 Organisation and sponsorship to the 2010 IPv6 Summit is progressing well 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) 7.2.1 Nothing to report 7.3 Accessibility & Usability 7.3.1 Nothing to report 8. Discussion 8.1 Review of progress by Director's in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day - item nolonger required in minutes 8.2 Sponsorship proposal - to include both Narelle's proposed budget for attendance at ISOC meetings. 8.3 PPS Sponsorship formal application 8.4 HR has proposed the following: "I have been approached by the Melb. Convention Centre as to whether we'd be interested in being involved in an APRICOT meeting in 2013/2014/2015.They would foot most of the bill. I am seeking further details and may have them by the meeting" - to be held over to next meeting 8.5 HR has raised the following: "APNIC - we need to review what else needs to be done for our presence at the meeting in August" 9. Any Other Business 9.1 Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee IT Law forum in November 2010 RG and Craig Ng may be attended 10. Next Meeting The meeting closed at 6:56pm. Tele-conference to be held on 3rd August, 2010. 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU