Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 12 December 2005
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 12 December 2005 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Greg Adamson, Narelle Clark, Kevin Karp, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jeremy Malcolm, Peter Nissen, Tony Hill, Ross Kelso, Kate Lance, Gunela Astbrink 1.2 Apologies: Adam Creed, Gerry White, Andrew McRae 2. Executive Elections President: Tony Hill, accepted Nominated: Narelle Clark, Seconded: Ross Kelso Vice-President: Narelle Clark, accepted Nominated: Tony Hill, Second: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Secretary: Kevin Karp, accepted Nominated: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Seconded: Narelle Clark Treasurer: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, accepted Nominated: Tony Hill, Seconded: Narelle Clark 3. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted - Moved: Ross Kelso, Seconded: Kevin Karp 4. Reports 4.1 Executive Director's Report Director's report accepted. 4.2 Financial Reports Verbal report of balances and forthcoming payments. Financial reports accepted as presented. 5. Membership Issues Nothing to report. 6. Discussion 6.1 Face to Face Report of F2F was verbally presented and accepted. 6.2 Revenue Sub-committee Following directors volunteered: Kevin Karp, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kate Lance 6.3 International Issues WSIS, AP-RALO and APRICOT discussed. 6.4 Potential DCITA Tender & auDA Foundation discussed 6.5 AIOF - APIA & ISOC-AU Open Forum Gunela presented report, small sponsorship being sought. Event is planned to be run cash positive as has been the approach for other ISOC-AU events. 6.6 Meetings Attended * Gunela Astbrink: 16-18 November - TCCC including presentation on IPv6 based applications on 17 Nov. * Greg Adamson: 22-24 November - IEEE Tencon, annual conference of the IEEE Asia and Pacific region. * Kevin Karp: 15/11/2005: ASR, Arthur Sinodinos Lunch 06/12/2005: Office of Privacy Commissioner, Meeting with Privacy & Consumer NGOs * Tony Hill: 12-19 Nov WSIS 28 Nov DCITA Connect Australia consultation 28 Nov AEEMA 02 Dec NICTIA Business 07 Dec ISOC-AU AGM 7. Actions Arising from the Minutes New actions: * Done - Cheryl to re-confirm room booking for Budget/Marketing face to face meeting and AGM * Done - Cheryl to arrange and distribute agenda for Budget/Marketing face to face meeting. * Done - Kevin to request status update for project funding * Done - Narelle to book post-AGM restaurant * All directors to contact their accounting contacts to find an auditor for next financial year. New Actions: 7.1 Kate to put Financial Reports on website 7.2 Cheryl to send CCCR notes to Kate for TCCM report. 7.3 Kate to write up the DCITA TCCM report in January 7.4 All directors to contact their accounting contacts to find an auditor for next financial year. 7.5 Jeremy to read APNIC MoU on web site and to initiate email report 7.6 Cheryl to distribute eCNA information 7.7 Peter to examine DCITA discussion paper and report to board 7.8 Gunela: Publish announcement of Human Rights award to Gerard Goggin 8. Any Other Business 8.1 APNIC MoU - Jeremy to read MoU on web site and to initiate email report 8.2 Association of Internet Researchers Conference - Greg to investigate & keep board informed. 8.3 eCommunity Network Association Special General Meeting to wind up association, further information to come from Cheryl 8.4 Paul Brooks at Consultel offer to assist work of directors (ACIF?) 8.5 DCITA Broadband Connect Australia $1.5 million incentive program & Clever Networks Program, Peter to calibrate views of members. 9. Next meeting The meeting closed at 7:00pm. The next meeting will occur by teleconference at 5:45 pm AEST on 23rd January 2006 10. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU