Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors' Meeting 18 October 2004The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 18 October 2004 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Attendance Tony Hill (Chair), Kate Lance (ED), Narelle Clark, Ross Kelso, Craig Ng, George Fong, Andrew McRae, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Adam Creed, Gunela Astbrink, Gerry White Apologies: Jeremy Malcolm, Peter Ziebell 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Read and accepted MOVED Narelle Clark SECONDED Ross Kelso 3. Actions Arising from the Minutes Completed - Tony met with TSA Board - Tony & Gunela met re prospects for improved Internet access for International Council of Women regional meetings. - Fred Baker's questions were sent to iamems - AGM date/location on directors' list sorted out - table of directors' attendances for Annual Report sent to Cheryl - publicity for TCCM on 28 October was sorted out - Leith Campbell to address teleconference organised for meeting - ACE is being followed up re continuing membership - Workcover response(s) completed and there is an almost full refund - Brisbane City Council approached about a room for TCCM on 28 October - an email has been sent to Adam Radford re CTF'04 postponement to '05 Not done - Prepare words for resolution on self-assessment as non-profit organisation for ATO - not done - iPrimus and IBM sponsorship has not been progressed - Organise Philip Smith (APIA, APRICOT) to speak at teleconference 4. Reports 4.1 Executive Director's Report ED's report discussed and accepted. 4.2 Financial Reports - Resolution on solvency for auditor Agreed to have a short meeting at 5:45 on 25th October, to draft a resolution on solvency for AGM - Need a resolution on self-assessment as a non-profit organisation for the ATO: MOTION: That from 1st July 2000 to 30th June 2004, ISOC-AU has operated as a non-profit organisation. MOVED Cheryl Langdon-Orr SECONDED Craig Ng 5. Address by Leith Campbell, CEO Australia Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre Sarah Craze, Brendan O'Dea, Greg Crew and Leith Campbell joined the teleconference at 6:25 pm. Chair invited Leith to address the meeting. 1. ATcrc Leith is the CEO of the ATcrc, which shares a vision of Internet everywhere and promoting IPV6. ATcrc undertakes industry-relevant research in universities to transfer outputs to industry as well undertaks training of postgraduates. In addition there are six research partners - UWA, Curtin, Monash, CSIRO, RMIT, Uni of Victoria as well as Ericsson and Vodaphone plus QPSX ad Tait Electronics in NZ as supporting partners. ATcrc undertakes R&D in telco industry, especially in relation to IPv6 and mobile devices with a focus on next generation. There are four existing research programs: applications program, networking program (IP related systems), wireless technologies, communication electronics for high speed devices and mobile devices. Research programs have a focus on education and training and commercialisation. 2. IETF There is an applications program at Monash University, which is working closely with IETF to have an effect on standards. The program is focussed on fast hand-overs for mobile devices and wireless. Samsung in Korea is a partner for implementations. A new standards working group is seeking to detect rapidly changing IP and developing a new standard for duplicate address detection. 3. Ipv6 An Ipv6 test bed at Monash is looking at video streaming and raising issues about Ipv6 interacting with Ipv4. One day training courses are being run on IPV6 protocols on topics such as: basics, addressing and routing, Ipv6 & Ipv4 coexistence and transition and mobile Ipv6 services. Discussion Q: Are you looking at fibre and wireless issues as well as application and security issues? A: Yes Q: Where are courses being run? A: Melbourne; Telstra labs in Sydney, Melbourne and Launceston; and a tutorial session as part of the ATNAC conference was held in Melbourne. GrangeNet was running Ipv6 courses in education. General discussion about Ipv6: - China is running an Ipv6 network in education - the business case for Ipv6 and service levels are difficult - mobile Ipv6 is a niche area Other discussion: - SmartInternet CRC is testing applications in homes - The IT CRC Council is providing a lobby voice and industry partners - Leith suggested that a joint course between ATcrc and ISOC-AU would be a good idea - ISOC-AU members want to participate in IPV6 activities - Ipv6 would be a good focus for a one day seminar - Leith suggested that ISOC-AU could get a report back regularly from IETF through a special interest group mechanism Leith was thanked for his presentation and guests were thanked for their attendance. 6. Membership Issues - ACE has joined - ACS is seeking to rejoin - AARNet has joined 7. Discussion Meetings attended: - George attended the National Reference Group for geographical names on 23rd September - Cheryl attended the Code of Practice annual operational review industry panel on 7th October - Cheryl attended auDA Board on 11th October, consumer's forum on 13th October and ACACAC on 14th October - Gunela and Ross attended ACA consultation in Brisbane on 5th October - Tony attended CRC for interactive design meeting on 12th October. 8. Any Other Business - AGM - Craig to draw up a resolution to change the quorum - Craig proposed a constitution change to quorum for meetings of 15 members or 10% of membership whichever is the greater - Brisbane TCCM organised - Designing the Future conference discussions with GrangeNet and SmartInternet with a musical performance over the Internet could be possibly held in February - TSA - ISOC-AU discussion - It was agreed that Phillip Smith would be an invited speaker in the new year. 9. Next Meeting Meeting closed at 7.15pm. Next meeting by teleconference at 5:45pm ADST on 15th November, 2004. 10. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU