Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801
Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 20 August 2007
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 20 August 2007 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society.
1. Welcome
1.1 Attendance: Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Jeremy Malcolm, Holly Raiche, Gerry White
1.2 Apologies: Ross Kelso
1.3 Absent: Greg Adamson
2. Minutes of Previous Meeting
Accepted: moved NC, seconded KJK
3. Actions Arising from previous Minutes
3.1 Secretary to request Treasurer to distribute finances report when her workload permits - Done
3.2 Secretary with Treasurer regarding dispatching of this years renewal notices - Done
3.3 HR to send date of AFR article referring to IPv6 and Web 2.
- 3rd July & June 26 respectively.
3.4 GW to prepare a timeline for lobbying training for directors. To be done.
3.5 KJK to email to HR "ISOC-AU What's in it for me?" document - Done
3.6 HR to circulate a request for comments on date of next meeting tentatively scheduled for 20th August, 2007 - Done
3.7 KJK to formulate a list of criteria for a new Director, distribute to the board for approval with a view to distributing to IAMEMS requesting volunteers to fulfil the role. Not Done
3.8 GA and HR to liaise on developing application for auDA Foundation grant - Done
3.9 All directors to review Strategic Plan for next Board meeting - Done to be carried over
3.10 HR to circulate Strategic Plan, showing changes discussed at Board meeting - Done to be carried over
3.11 TH to convene meeting of remuneration subcommittee.
4. New Actions
4.1 - Sub-committee (consisting of TH, GA and HR) formed to provide briefing papers for OECD and ISOC
4.2 - JM, HR, NC and TH to participate in a discussion to formulate ISOC-AU's input into ISOC's upgraded position regarding NN
4.3 - HR & JM to prepare joint ISOC-AU and WAIA (and SAIA if possible) submission to Experts Taskforce
4.4 - HR to draft a submission to auDRP
4.5 - HR to recirculate latest version of Principles. Resolution, and approval to publish on website, to be completed on the list
4.6 - HR to consult with Board list to refine the issues regarding a secondary market for domain names
4.7 - JL, & NC to question KL to find out how our pages are constructed and then to determine the best way to implement Google Analytics.
4.8 - AMcR to check the source of spam arriving at the Board mailing list(s). Secretary to possibly followed up with KL.
4.9 - CLO to liaise with JM to discuss a possible WAIA membership introductory offer.
5. Reports
5.1 Executive Director's Report
5.1.1 Acceptance of ED report
- Written report accepted as circulated via email.
5.2 Treasurer's Report
5.2.1 Acceptance of Treasurer's report
- Written report accepted as circulated via email..
5.3 Revenue Sub-committee
5.3.1 each Board member to meet with Kevin and Holly to discuss possible contacts and strategies for fund raising campaign
5.4 Sponsorship
- No report presented.
5.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee
- No report presented.
5.6 Director's Representations
- TH & CLO represented ISOC-AU at PACINET
6. Membership Issues
- CLO to liaise with JM to discuss a possible WAIA membership introductory offer.
7 SIG Reports
7.1 IPv6 SIG
- IPv6 Summit 2007, 17 speakers accepted
- Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force meeting to be held in Canberra with IPv6
Summit, hosted by ISOC-AU
7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise)
- No report presented.
7.3 Accessibility & Usability
- June meeting with HR and others has postulated the possibility of establishing a mailing list.
8. Discussion
8.1 review any progress made on achieving tasks as per the Strategic Plan
8.2 Whether/what this chapter would like to do to celebrate Onewebday. If there is support for a Onewebday project, that a subcommittee be formed to begin planning for ISOC-AU's Onewebday activities
- If there are any volunteers willing to take up this task then they are welcome to do so.
8.3 ISOC-AU briefed by Tom Dale of DCITA about meeting in Korea and Australia's involvement in it. HR not sure if anyone will be attending either the OECD Technology Foresight Forum on the Participative Web meeting in Canada this October or the later meeting in Korea, but it is open to ISOC-AU to have input
- Sub-committee (consisting of TH, GA and HR) formed to provide briefing papers for OECD and ISOC
8.4 ISOC-AU participation in this process (on-line public consultation which is part of the ISOC preparatory process for the OECD Ministerial in June 2008). Maybe a subcommittee of Directors/other interested parties to develop responses, and then post to iamems?
- See 8.3 - issue appears to be the same
8.5 Board endorsement on developing a submission to the review of .au Dispute Resolution Policy (auDRP) to remain an effective and appropriate dispute resolution mechanism. The closing date for submissions is Friday 21 September 2007.
- HR to draft a submission to auDRP
8.6 DCITA Expert Taskforce has released the draft Guidelines for the assessment of proposals for new commercial open access high speed broadband network infrastructure in capital cities and major regional centres. Written comments to be forwarded by Wednesday, 29 August 2007.
- HR & JM to prepare joint ISOC-AU and WAIA (and SAIA if possible) submission to Taskforce
8.7 Proposed Motion: Board endorsement of the ISOC-AU Principles and their being put onto the ISOC-AU website
- HR to recirculate latest version of Principles and resolution to be completed online
8.8 Proposed Motion: any/all Board members to provide feedback on the ISOC-AU position on the issue of the introduction of a secondary market for domain names - which HR can then feed back onto the Names Panel
- HR to consult with Board list to refine the issues
8.9 Proposed Motion: That ISOC-AU implements Google Analytics on its web site to monitor usage.
- JL, & NC to question KL to find out how our pages are constructed and then to determine the best way to implement Google Analytics.
8.10 Discussion Item: Net Neutrality
- Disclaimer: NC does not represent Optus in her discussions on the board.
- JM, HR, NC and TH to participate in a discussion to formulate ISOC-AU's input into ISOC's upgraded position regarding NN
9 Any Other Business
Motion: HR to be sent to a Web Writing workshop funded out of TCCM funds.
Moved CLO, seconded: GA, Passed
10. Next meeting
The meeting closed at 7:10pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45pm AEST on 10th September, 2007
11. Confirmation
Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.
Tony Hill,
President, ISOC-AU