Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 3 November 2008
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEDT on 3 November 2008 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Gunela Astbrink, Paul Brooks, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Jerry Leeson, Holly Raiche, Gerry White 1.2 Apologies: Narelle Clark, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Andrew McRae, Jeremy Malcolm 1.3 Absent: 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting October 7, Moved: GA, second: KJK, passed Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting October 15, Moved: JL, second: RK, passed 3. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 3.1 - HR to follow up sponsorship lead passed on from Board members. 3.2 - HR to arrange for email to be sent to ISOC members who have indicated that they wish to be a member of ISOC-AU - ongoing 3.3 - PB to contact Internode (Simon Hackett) regarding upgrade of membership. 3.4 - "ISOC-AU approve in principle participation in an IETF meeting in Brisbane in 2012" - Motion to be held over until key issues regarding financial risk are resolved. HR to pursue. - HR to circulate a report with a recommendation for subsequent motion. A question to answered in the report is ISOC-AU or ISOC under-writing the event - ongoing. 3.5 - GW to investigate table of metrics for content of headings to be included in ED report - ongoing. 3.6 - CLO to follow up with insurance options via mail list so that decision can be made by the end of the month - ongoing. 3.7 - ISOC-AU to prepare submission in conjunction with IPv6 Forum Downunder to Federal Government Infrastructure Australia, KK to send requirements document to HR. HR to follow up with IPv6 Forum Downunder - done. 3.8 - HR & KK to discuss Privacy matters and Ministerial responsibility - ongoing 3.9 - HR to examine status of IAMEMS & IAMEMS-ANNOUNCE mailing lists trying to update and improve quality - ongoing 3.10 - HR to provide submission to TH and both to attend the Select Committee On National Broadband Network meeting - done. 3.11 - HR to work out printing of new brochures - done. 4. New and Carried Over actions 4.1 - HR to follow up sponsorship lead passed on from Board members. 4.2 - HR to arrange for email to be sent to ISOC members who have indicated that they wish to be a member of ISOC-AU - ongoing 4.3 - PB to contact Internode (Simon Hackett) regarding upgrade of membership - ongoing. 4.4 - "ISOC-AU approve in principle participation in an IETF meeting in Brisbane in 2012" - Motion to be held over until key issues regarding financial risk are resolved. HR to pursue. - HR to circulate a report with a recommendation for subsequent motion. A question to answered in the report is ISOC-AU or ISOC under-writing the event - ongoing. 4.5 - GW to investigate table of metrics for content of headings to be included in ED report - ongoing. 4.6 - CLO to follow up with insurance options via mail list so that decision can be made by the end of the month - ongoing. 4.7 - HR & KK to discuss Privacy matters and Ministerial responsibility 4.8 - HR to examine status of IAMEMS & IAMEMS-ANNOUNCE mailing lists trying to update and improve quality 4.9 - HR to combine the existing ISP filtering documents prepared by PB and TH as a seed document for eventual submission to DBCDE and/or media release. 4.10 - HR has support of board to further investigate possibility of IETF board meeting. 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 - No report circulated 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - No report presented. 5.4 Sponsorship - No report presented. 5.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.6 Employment Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.7 Director's Representations - TH attended the auDA, 23 Oct 2008 - RK attended CTN AGM, 21 Oct 2008, RK re-elected as chair for CTN 6. Membership Issues - No issues 7. SIGs Report 7.1 IPv6 SIG 7.1.1 Organisation proceeding smoothly but registration numbers are less than expected. 7.1.2 ISOC having meeting an e-meeting on Wednesday, TH will be attending. 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) 7.2.1 Nothing to report 7.3 Accessibility & Usability 7.3.1 Rajnesh Singh attending dinner meeting in Brisbane on Tuesday 4 Nov 2008. 7.3.2 Meeting held with Anne Lord 8. Discussion 8.1 Meetings Attended - Gunela Astbrink: - meeting with Anne Lord, ISOC Senior Manager, Chapter and Individual Memberships 28.10.08 - Ross Kelso: - CTN Board meetings 21 & 22 October - Gerry White: - Speaker at Software Freedom Day. Digital Domain. Melbourne, 20th September. - ACS, Melbourne Branch. The World Internet Project. 15th October. - Eric Beecher and Brad Howarth, Digital Harbour, 23rd October. - Senate Select Committee, NBN, 28th October. 8.2 Review of progress by Director's in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day 8.3 Relationship with WAIA (see email from President) - HR has held preliminary discussions with WestNet technical representative. - ISOC-AU has a low profile in WA. Existing profile mainly centred around JM's activities. 8.4 Paul Brooks has requested: "I've had some feedback from DBCDE that they did not want to proceed with the paper - could you please add an agenda item on DBCDE and ISP filtering thanks." - DBCDE have let the preparation of our report to lapse. State of play has moved on. - DBCDE feels they will proceed with "something" but the definition of the "something" has not been determined. - HR to combine the existing documents prepared by PB and TH as a seed document for eventual submission to DBCDE and/or media release. 9. Any Other Business (4 min) 9.1 The ED has made the following request of Board members: "On the IETF meeting, I still have not had a reply from my additional queries about what hosting the IETF meeting will mean for ISOC-AU. But this may be a very handy way out. If the Board is comfortable with this, I am happy to call the Professor and see what they are willing to do. (and check whether Jamal is correct in what he has said the Prof. is prepared to do" - ED has support of board to further investigate. 10. Next Meeting The meeting closed at 6:31pm. Tele-conference to be held on 2nd December, 2008. 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU