Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 2 December 2008
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEDT on 2 December 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, Robert Gregory, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae and Gerry White 1.2 Apologies: Paul Brooks, Narelle Clark, Ross Kelso, Cheryl Langdon-Orr 1.3 Absent: 2. Executive Elections President: Tony Hill Nominated KK, and seconded GW, no other nominations - elected unopposed Vice President: Narelle Clark Nominated GW, seconded GA , no other nominations - elected unopposed Hon Secretary: Kevin Karp Nominated GA, seconded GW, no other nominations - elected unopposed Hon Treas: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Nominated GW, seconded CLO, no other nominations - elected unopposed 3. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting November 3, Moved: GW, second: GA, passed 4. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 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 - done. 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. New and Carried Over actions 5.1 - HR to follow up sponsorship lead passed on from Board members - ongoing with future agenda items to include specific names of sponsorship prospects 5.2 - HR to arrange for email to be sent to ISOC members who have indicated that they wish to be a member of ISOC-AU - carried over 5.3 - PB to contact Internode (Simon Hackett) regarding upgrade of membership - carried over. 5.4 - "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 - carried over. 5.5 - GW to investigate table of metrics for content of headings to be included in ED report - carried over. 5.6 - CLO to follow up with insurance options via mail list so that decision can be made by the end of the month - carried over. 5.7 - HR & KK to discuss Privacy matters and Ministerial responsibility - carried over 5.8 - 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. 5.9 - GW, AMcR & HR to meet and investigate internet content filtering possible special purpose presentation by appropriate. 5.10 - Discussion of GW's report on ED report metrics to be held at January meeting. 5.11 - HR to approach NBN bidders (esp smaller bidders) with a view to receiving sponsorship 6. Reports 6.1 Executive Director's Report 6.1.1 Acceptance of ED report - Written report accepted as circulated via email. - Report by GW was distributed and has been accepted for discussion at next meeting. 6.2 Treasurer's Report 6.2.1 Acceptance of Treasurer's report - Written report accepted as circulated via email. 6.3 Revenue Sub-committee - No report presented. 6.4 Sponsorship - No report presented. - HR to approach NBN bidders (esp smaller bidders) with a view to receiving sponsorship 6.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee - No report presented. 6.6 Employment Sub-Committee - No report presented. 6.7 Director's Representations - GA attended the Telstra Consumer Consultative Meeting - TH represented IAOC-AU Tasmanian Premier's launch of Basslink - PB, in conjunction with Holly, presented to ACMA on how the Internet works (from the point of view of standards development) - PB, in conjunction with Holly, attended the ACS meeting on Internet Content Filtering and e-Security last Wednesday - PB for last Thursday's (27/11) UNSW event on Internet Content Filtering was unable to attend, but sent through a re-branded set of presentation slides (in ISOC-AU livery) from the earlier TCCM Internet Content Filtering presentation, which David Vaille was going to distribute as conversation-starters. 7. Membership Issues - No issues 8. SIGs Report 8.1 IPv6 SIG 8.1.1 2008 Summit has managed to break even despite current economic conditions 8.1.2 InternetNZ approached the SIG, and a joint teleconference was held with a group of interested NZ parties 8.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) 8.2.1 Nothing to report 8.3 Accessibility & Usability 8.3.1 Discussion list preparation is well underway 9. Discussion 9.1 Meetings Attended 10. Any Other Business 10.1 TH has continued discussions with ASR regarding reciprocal membership arrangements 10.2 TH raised ISOC's call for submissions regarding DNSSEC 11. Next Meeting The meeting closed at 6:56pm. Tele-conference to be held on 13th January, 2008. 12. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU