Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes 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