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Minutes of Directors' Meeting 15 December 2003

1. Attendance

Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Adam Creed, George Fong, Tony Hill, Ross 
Kelso, Craig Ng, Kate Lance, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jeremy Malcolm.

Apologies: Andrew McRae, Gerry White.


2. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Some minor corrections made in title of Minister Thomson, Victorian
Minister for Small Business and ICT.
Moved Cheryl, Seconded George.  Carried.


3.  Actions arising from previous Minutes

* George and Cheryl to catch up on issue of IBM sponsorship - pending
* Tony to contact ATUG with regard to membership - ongoing
* APRICOT - Letter of support - prepared and ready for signing by Tony 

Actions arising from Strategy Meeting (Taken from Strategy Document)
* Kate: put up Gerry's Links to educational on-line courses
* Tony: to review 13 points for election issues
* All directors to seek out an organisational member 
* All directors to seek new members


4.  Reports

4.1 Financial Report - provided by CLO
A proposal was made that $10,000 be removed from Fixed Deposit to the
operational account.  Moved George. Seconded Cheryl. Carried.

4.2 ED's Report
ED report circulated. Kate thanked for another comprehensive set of
activities.


5. Executive Elections

Tony Hill relinquished the chair to Kate Lance, Executive Director, 
for the purposes of the elections.

Nominations:

President - Tony Hill was nominated and he accepted.
Moved Gunela Astbrink, Seconded Jeremy Malcolm
As there were no other nominations, Tony Hill was duly elected President

Vice President - Narelle Clark was nominated and she accepted.
Moved Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Seconded Gunela Astbrink
As there were no other nominations, Narelle Clark was duly elected Vice 
President.

Company Secretary - Craig Ng was nominated and he accepted.
Moved Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Seconded Adam Creed
As there were no other nominations, Craig Ng was duly elected Company 
Secretary.

Treasurer - Cheryl Langdon-Orr was nominated and she accepted.
Moved Craig Ng, Seconded Narelle Clarke
As there were no other nominations, Cheryl Langdon-Orr was duly elected 
Treasurer.

A vote of thanks was expressed to Cheryl Langdon-Orr with regard to the
hard work she had put in over the year as Treasurer.

At this point Tony Hill resumed as chair of the meeting.


6. Membership issues

It was noted that there was a worthwhile take up of Foundation
Membership and increasingly, the attractiveness of the same was that it
was perceived as marking those members as good corporate citizens.

7. Meetings attended

Cheryl Langdon-Orr and George Fong - regularly attending the Nation 
Reference Group meetings for Geographic 2LDs.

TCCC - attended by Tony Hill on 6/11/03

2/12/03 attended by Tony Hill - An invitation to address state Chamber 
of Commerce in NSW on domain names. There is follow-up with Tony with 
regard to advice and assistance on domain name renewal requests.

TCCC future delegates arrangements - Gunela Astbrink and Ross Kelso 
interested in being involved.


8. Any Other Business

Ipv6 - Narelle Clark emailed Mike Biber - no word.
ACTION: Narelle Clark to try to contact Mike Biber again.
ACTION: ATCRC to be contacted by Narelle and George Fong.
ACTION: Gunela Astbrink to talk to CTN about Ipv6
ACTION: Jeremy Malcolm to remind WAIA to renew.

* Director vacancies - it was proposed that Peter Ziebell, Project
  Director for GRHANet Limited, be co-opted to the vacant position on the
  Board. Peter has a background in regional connectivity issues and
  working with government agencies at numerous levels on telecommunications 
  and connectivity strategy.
  Moved Narelle Clark, Seconded Cheryl Langdon-Orr, carried

* Workcover - Cheryl Langdon-Orr confirmed that Workcover issues have been 
  and continue to be covered.

* Tony Hill - proposed a formal vote of thanks to Anne Greiner for her 
  work as Secretary over the past year.
  Moved Narelle Clark, Seconded Cheryl Langdon-Orr, carried.

* Formal thanks were expressed to Craig Ng and Maddocks Lawyers for the
  venue and hospitality for the AGM and strategy meeting.

* Formal thanks were also expressed to Narelle Clark and Optus for
  assisting in teleconference.


9. Next Meeting

It was agreed that all meetings for the year would be scheduled for the
Third Monday of each month. Next meeting 19 January 2004.  Meeting
closed at approximately 6pm.


10. Confirmation
Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.
Tony Hill
President, ISOC-AU

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