Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 11 September 2006
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 11 September 2006 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Adam Creed, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Kate Lance, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jeremy Malcolm, Peter Nissen 1.2 Apologies: Gunela Astbrink, Andrew McRae, Gerry White, Greg Adamson 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted: moved RK, seconded KJK 3. Actions Arising from previous Minutes 3.1 Must keep on pursuing sponsorship - canvas member networks for potential sponsors, check out new areas, not just infrastructure. 3.2 Revenue Sub-Committee to follow up Optus sponsorship initiative - Done 3.3 KK to review and complete consumer protection questionnaire of Huong Ha - Done 3.4 KL to put link on site to AE ShareNet podcast - Done 3.5 KL to put thank-you to PPS on ITOL IPv6 for e-Business site - Done 4. New Actions 4.1 Must keep on pursuing sponsorship - canvas member networks for potential sponsors, check out new areas, not just infrastructure - All Directors 4.2 Revenue Sub-Committee to follow up Optus sponsorship initiative plus Sensis & Austrade representatives. 4.3 KK to contact 5 prospective directors seeking volunteer for standing re-election 4.4 CLO to contact Craig Ng regarding AGM 4.5 CLO to investigate new member enquiry re contact was via a Designing the Future conference (Duncan MacAuslan ACMA, referred via Paul Brooks) 5. Reports (25 min) 5.1 Executive Director's Report - Director's report accepted. 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Financial reports accepted as circulated via email. - Minor typographical change needed. 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - Revenue committee - no formal report presented. - Opportunities with Optus. - Sensis to be pursued at NSW and National level. - Further investigation with Gerald Seeber at Austrade to be explored. 5.4 Sponsorship - Sponsorship committee - no report presented. 6. Membership Issues - CLO to investigate new member enquiry re contact was via the Designing the Future conferences (Duncan MacAuslan, ACMA) 7 SIG Reports 7.1 IPV6 - Report presented under item 8.2. 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) - No report presented. 7.3 Accessibility & Usability - No report presented. 8. Discussion 8.1 Meetings Attended 8.1.1 Cheryl Langdon-Orr 13/06/06 auDA Board Meeting 23/06/06 ACIF CC Teleconference 05/07/06 DCITA Digital Content Forum 13/07/06 Meeting with Craig Ng ISOC-AU & ITOL issues 14/07/06 ITOL Steering Committee Teleconference 19/07/06 ACIF CC/BC Meeting Teleconference 01/08/06 CTN TIO review meeting 08/08/06 Launch of CGNA's in Sydney 08/08/06 auCD Board Meeting 09/08/06 ACIF CC/BC Meeting F2F 09/08/06 Orientation of new ACIF CC Members 10/08/06 ACIF CC Meeting F2F 14/08/06 auDA EGM and Board Meeting (open) 15/08/06 auCD Launch Melbourne 15/08/06 Meeting with Kate in Melb re Contract and ITOL issues 17/08/06 auCD Launch Darwin 21/08/06 ITOL Steering Committee Teleconference 22/08/06 ACIF Future Wireless Forum 23-27/08/06 attend PacINET (remote 0600 - 1500 hrs daily) 29/08/06 ACIF CC/BC Meeting Teleconference 31/08/06 BBL banking and term deposit paperwork with Andrew at Galston 01/09/06 21/08/06 ITOL Steering Committee Teleconference 01/09/06 Prime Ministers Speech at Australia India Business Council Lunch 07/09/06 ITOL Business Modeling SC Meeting 12/09/06 CA (nee ACIF) Future Mobile Forum 8.1.2 Ross Kelso 17/08/06 Consumers Telecommunications Forum via teleconference 8.1.3 Kevin Karp 29/08/06 Launch of Privacy Awareness Week, Office of Privacy Commissioner - Hon Philip Ruddock (AG) 31/08/06 Launch of VisAsia, Art Gallery of NSW - Hon Alexander Downer (DFAT), Mr Gerard Seeber (Austrade) 8.1.4 Peter Nissen 16-17/08/06 Collections Council of Australia National Summit 18/08/06 VET Access to Bandwidth Project Meeting 21-23/08/06 eResearch Middleware Camp ??? Macquarie University 8.1.5 Tony Hill 10/08/06 IPv6 SIG 21/08/06 NICTIA discussions 22/08/06 IPv6 SIG 24/08/06 APNIC 29/08/06 NICTIA 30/08/06 NICTA IBAG & ISAG 31/08/06 auCD Launch Canberra 31/08/06 DCITA 05/09/06 Department of Defence 06/09/06 ACT Government 06/09/06 AGIMO 08/09/06 NICTA 8.2 IPV6 for e-Business - ITOL IPV6 for e-Business progress report presented by Tony Hill 8.3 IPv6 Summit progress - IPV6 Summit report presented by Tony Hill 8.4 AGM planning, new auditor resolution - Kate Lance presented list of requirements including: - Adam, Gerry, Gunela, + 1 other need to stand for re-election five prospects, KK, JM, CLO, RK & AMcR - to decide among selves - Location and Date decided as 8am, 6th of December in Canberra 8.5 Letter to the Prime Minister on China FTA - ISOC-AU need to be aware of the contents of the ASR letter - directors have had an opportunity to review the letter and there was no comment generated. 9 Any Other Business - None 10. Next meeting The meeting closed at 6:22pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45 pm AEST on 9th October, 2006 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU