Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
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Minutes of Directors Meeting, 8 December 1999

The meeting started at 5:45pm AEST on 8 December 1999 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society.

1. Attendance

Attendance: Kate Lance, Tony Hill, Antony Healey, Greg Watson, David Thompson, George Fong, Erica Roberts, Andrew McRae, George Michaelson.
Apologies: Simon Hackett, Leni Mayo.

2. Appointment of Chair for Election

Kate vacated the chair. Erica Roberts nominated by Kate Lance as chair for the elections, seconded by George Fong. Passed unanimously.

3. Election of President

Kate Lance nominated by Greg Watson. Accepted by Kate. No other nominations. Kate Lance declared elected President.

4. Election of Vice-President

Greg Watson nominated by George Fong. Accepted by Greg. No other nominations. Greg Watson declared elected Vice-President.

5. Election of Honorary Treasurer

George Michaelson nominated by George Fong. Accepted by George. No other nominations. George Michaelson declared elected Honorary Treasurer.

6. Election of Honorary Secretary

George Fong nominated by Kate Lance. Accepted by George. No other nominations. George Fong declared elected Honorary Secretary.

7. Minutes of Previous Meeting

Kate resumed the chair for the rest of the meeting.

Proposal to accept the draft minutes for September posted to the list as a true and correct record. Proposed: Greg Watson, Seconded: David Thompson, motion passed unanimously.

8. Actions Arising from the Minutes

Treasurer's Report - Action: GeorgeM to talk to Kate offline about getting documents, etc. sorted out, on Web page, by time of AGM. - done
Situation with auDA - Action: Erica to supply suggested amendments, Kate to get release out as soon as draft is sorted out. - done
Proposed invitations to ISOC and chapter presidents - Erica proposed inviting people who might be here for IETF next March to visit, eg Don Heath (ISOC) and Doron Shikmoni, President of the Israel ISOC chapter. Leni also suggested John Gilmore, who would be here then too. Agreed to work on it. - discussion between Erica and Tony. Tony could contact Don Heath to facilitate further visits.
Action: Tony to work on IETF event.

9. Treasurer's Report

George M reported credit balance without major transactions. Bills in: AEEMA, Printers, late lodgement fee.
Action: George M to investigate size of the fee. Planning to provide more details in future Treasurer's reports. ED a little slow to submit last invoice due to pressure of ISOC-AU activities.

David Thompson departed as previously advised. Andrew McRae joined.

10. Executive Director's Report

Written report circulated to Directors on 7 December 1999 covering the four weeks to 8 December. This was a particularly busy period due to the high level of ISOC-AU activities, including:
- successful booth at Interop 99
- DCITA regional forum
- ISOC-AU Annual General Meeting
- ATUG Telstra wholesale forum
Tony also reported on progress with:
- cooperative research proposal including establishment of working group email lists (thanks Kate)
- article in Computerworld in association with an article by Richard Alston
- ABC radio interview on interest rates and the Internet

Action: Tony to visit Qld for discussion with DSTC.

11. Situation with auDA

Greg announced preferred pronunciation of auDA (ow-da).

Greg reported appointment of a CEO has proceeded to a preferred candidate. Looks like appointment will occur early in 2000. Situation with AUNIC and discussions with Geoff Huston. Robert Elz has written to auDA delegating .com.au.

Erica says that MIT issued a news release welcoming the Elz move. MIT has been operating under policies previously set by Elz which have recently been coming under increasing pressure. MIT is pressing for auDA to recognise the need for action on this. auDA is soon going to seek public comment over a two week period. ISOC-AU could consider its view on rules for .com.au. Members should be consulted.

Greg advised new information available on the web site: results of election, financial information.

12. Membership

Action: Kate to forward previous discussion on membership proposals to the Directors' list.

13. Corporate Sponsorship

Erica suggested that she and Tony work up the M-IT project, circulate to Directors list and after input, Tony to negotiate with M-IT.

Telstra letter has been sent. ANU is responding.

14. Y2K with ISOC

Agreed that this was not a prime interest of ISOC-AU. Kate will put a link to the USA site.

15. Any other business

- Endorsement of Sydney University "Science Lectureships Initiative" Action: Tony to check contents of proposed letter and proceed if appropriate, otherwise check with directors list.

- Congratulations on appointment of ACS as a Professional Society.
Action: Tony to write.

- Melbourne IT proposal to sponsor specific ISOC-AU project. Erica indicated generally this is the type of project that M-IT would consider supporting. George F indicated a high level of potential interest in Western and Central Victoria, would be a good testing ground. David - domain names are important. Maybe NOIE could be involved? Tony indicated that NOIE involvement could be sought for stage 3 larger regional. Kate - NSW and Vic do not have regional ISP groups. Action: Tony has spoken to the key person and will continue discussion.

- Quotes on BSA sought from journalist passed on by George F.

- GST registration if not less than $100k turnover. Action: George M to check ABN access. AntonyH, TonyH, GeorgeF, GeorgeM to work on GST subcommittee.

16. Next Meeting

To be held 18 January 2000. Meeting closed 7:00pm.

17. Confirmation

Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting.

Kate Lance
President, ISOC-AU