Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 3 November 2009
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEDT on 3 November 2009 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, Ross Kelso, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Holly Raiche 1.2 Apologies: Paul Brooks, Robert Gregory, Gerry White 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting Oct 6, Moved: RK, second: KK, passed 3. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 3.1 HR to pursue invitation to Nick Gruen - ongoing 3.2 HR to follow up with Michael Griffith regarding publication of public blog initiative - ongoing 3.3 HR reported issue being progressed through ICANN including its final report on fast fluxing and the joint GNSO/ALAC committee on Registrants’ rights. HR and CLO to report to Board and members on progress of committee - Closed HR and CLO reported ICANN has established two working groups on the RAA/Registrants/ Rights with CLO as a member of both and HR a member of one. New action item: HR and CLO to report to Board on progress of RAA work. 3.4 HR to circulate draft MoU (on IETF) and follow up with Anne – Closed HR reported contact with Drew Dvorshak of ISOC who is in charge of IETF event – IETF planning now in ISOC hands. New action item: HR to confirm with Drew both that ISOC-AU will not have financial obligations but confirm ISOC-AU’s ongoing interest in and support for an IETF meeting in Australia. 3.5 HR to draft text for SIG page, with GA and KK to provide text for Accessibility and IPv6 SIGs and link. HR to liaise with KL to have SIG page, with text and link for the two SIGs – closed. 3.6 NC to liaise with KK for link for SIG for the history project. RG to provide text for paragraph on the history project. HR to liaise with KL to put onto SIG page – Closed Text for Disability text and IPv6 text already drafted. New Action item: RG to provide text on history project. Once text available, KL to add to SIG. Then HR to draft text for SIG page and liaise wih KL for link to SIGS on home page. 3.7 HR, CLO and GW to have teleconference on new management of MYOB system of ISOC-AU and report back to the Board – Closed. Teleconference held. New action item: CLO to distribute MYOB software to GW and HR and then to PPS to put on their server. 3.8 CLO to forward outstanding invoices to HR, for distribution to all members. – Closed New action item: HR to send out invoices to individual members, either as receipt for those who have paid or reminder to those who have not. 3.9 TH to send copy of signed contract to KK - closed. 3.9A HR to provide Board with plan on funding presentations including ATUG funding of travel or arranging TCCM meeting. In future, ED to circulate planned expenditure to Board for discussion, input and approval prior to expenditure - closed 3.10 RK to provide text for overview page with summary of ISOC-AU position and list submissions/activities - closed. HR to lisise with KL for NBN page under Activities - ongoing. 3.11 Material on Directors should be put on website on ‘About Us”. HR to liaise with KL - ongoing. 3.12 GW to prepare summary of comparison between worldwide and Australian internet filtering for consideration of Board - ongoing. 5. Reports 5.1 Executive Director's Report 5.1.1 Acceptance of ED report – the report was accepted 5.2 Treasurer's Report CLO reported that the auditor has received the material to prepare the annual financial report. The Treasurer’s report was accepted. 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 CLO has been reelected as the Chair of APRALO and the Chair of ALAC. She attended the ICANN meeting in Korea and attended a range of meetings including for APRALO, ACLA and meetins/working groups of ICCAN. HR and PB gave evidence to the Parliamentary inquiry into Cybercrime. HR gave presentations on the ISOC-AU position on the telco amendments, as part of the ATUG meetings in each capital city on the issue Upcoming: PB to present at the ISOC-AU/ATUG meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on the CA paper on the NBN. HR will attend the ACCAN Board meeting which will be her last meeting as ACCAN Deputy Chair (as a consequence of the required balloting process, 5 of the 9 Directors will be rotated of the Board). HR has been appointed, as a representative of ISOC-AU, to the ACCAN Standing Advisory Committee on Consumer Affairs – for which she will receive sitting fees. Motion that HR participate in the ACCAN Advisory Committee on behalf of ISOC-AU. Moved, NC, seconded RK. Carried. 6. Membership Issues 7. SIGs Report No report presented 7.1 IPv6 SIG 7.1.1 Brief verbal report given by TH that Summit arrangements proceeding smoothly with 26 registrations received already. 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) 7.2.1 Nothing to report 7.3 Accessibility & Usability 7.3.1 GA reported that she is revising materials used for PacINET, to give to accessibility workshop at the IGF meeting. 8. Discussion 8.1 Review of progress by Director's in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day 9. Any Other Business 9.1 HR to nominate for position on the auDA new 2TLD Advisory Panel. Application has been submitted 9.2 HR to remind iamems of auDA AGM in Perth on 19 October. Proxies must be provided by COB 15 October. CLO will be attending for those who may want to give her their proxy. HR to circulate information to members. Information circulated and item closed. 9.3 The meeting congratulated PB on his appointment as NBN Lead Consultant for Communications Alliance. 9.4 Reciprocal membership with ISOC-AU. CLO said that, in the past, the practice has been to simply to process such memberships as a full member, but at nil cost. The meeting agreed the practice should be continued. New action item: CLO to provide TH with briefing points for interview with ABC News on ICANN new IDNs and more generally, the history of the Internet. 10. Next Meeting Tele-conference date to be confirmed once financial report is received to consider financial report. Tele-conference for standard Board meeting to be held on 1 December 2009 The AGM is to be held in Melbourne on 9 December. 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. The meeting closed at 6.55 pm. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU