Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 2005
The Annual General Meeting of the Internet Society of Australia was held on Wednesday 7 December 2005 at the offices of Maddocks, Level 28 Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street Sydney NSW. The meeting commenced at 6:05pm. 1. Welcome Mr Tony Hill was Chair and welcomed members attending and on teleconference, and listed the items on the agenda. He noted that the Annual Reports and Accounts are available on the Society's web pages at: http://www.isoc-au.org.au/AGM2005/FinancialReport2004-05.pdf Apologies: Gerry White, Adam Creed, George Fong, Chris Chaundy, Andrew McRae, Philip Roberts, Craig Ng, Peter Nissen, Teresa Corbin, Gordon Freund, Robert Gillespie. 2. Notice of Meeting Motion: "That the notice of the Annual General Meeting 2005 be taken as read." MOVED Kevin Karp SECONDED Cheryl Langdon-Orr. PASSED. 3. Quorum A quorum for the meeting was established with 6 people present in person, 3 by teleconference and 13 applicable valid proxies (of 16 received), for which proxy forms were open for inspection. Motion: "That the 13 proxies be accepted at the AGM." MOVED Kevin Karp , SECONDED Cheryl Langdon-Orr. PASSED. 4.Executive Director's Report The Executive Director, Dr Kate Lance, presented her report for the year and was thanked for her excellent work on behalf of ISOC-AU. "It has been a year of substantial achievement for ISOC-AU, culminating in the very successful First Australian IPv6 Summit, held jointly with GrangeNet, TeleConnections and Smart Internet Technology CRC, in Canberra on 31 October to 1 November 2005. We have held a number of other events throughout the year. One series has been the successful Internet Update forums, with Maddocks, Lawyers. Others have been one-off events held with various other Internet organisations (see below). Our directors continue to voluntarily donate their time and resources in specialist areas, attending meetings and providing advice and services to a wide variety of Internet organisations. [A] Working with Our Members A growing membership area has been that of the Organisational Enterprise Members. This year we have been very pleased to welcome Ball Solutions Group, Internode, National ICT Australia, PPS Internet, and Verisign Australia as new Enterprise members of ISOC-AU. We continue to offer substantial benefits to our Organisational members, with publicity for their Internet-oriented activities, and invitations to special directors' teleconferences with guest speakers. We also promoted a number of events (many with concessions for our own members) on behalf of our Organisational members. [B] Meetings and Events Maddocks Lawyers have held a number of Internet Updates in conjunction with ISOC-AU. On 15 March Chris Disspain, CEO of auDA spoke on domain issues; on 4 August we had a joint session with Tony Hill on Internet developments and Alastair MacGibbon on Cyberfraud. On 29 September Michael Nelson, IBM, spoke on Internet Policy, Internet Governance, and the Internet Society. A very popular event was Dr Radia Perlman, speaking on the Mythology of Network Protocols on 29 November, an event sponsored by Optus and hosted by ISOC-AU, TSA, IEEE and AUUG. We held another of our one-day annual forums, Designing the Future'05, on 6 April with AC3 and the Smart Internet Technology CRC, which focussed on 'Ultra-Bandwidth and the Internet.' Another excellent one-day event was the Convergence, Content, Carriage and Regulation forum on 19 August. On May 10 an IPv6 Seminar took place under the ISOC-AU banner in Ballarat. The most ambitious and successful meeting we have ever held was the First Australian IPv6 Summit, 31 October to 1 November, organised in conjunction with GrangeNet, TeleConnections and Smart Internet Technology CRC. It attracted substantial government support and major local and international speakers, and participants were strongly in favour of it becoming an annual event. An IPv6 SIG has now been set up by ISOC-AU, endorsed as the vehicle for the IPv6 Forum Downunder. [C] Director Activities Directors have provided an ISOC-AU presence at numerous meetings during the year, including the Consumers' Telecommunications Network, au Domain Administration, the auDA National Reference Group for New Community Geographic Names, ACIF-Consumer Advisory Council, Telstra Consumer Consultative Council, Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group, ACIF Consumer Consultation, Australian Services Roundtable, the National ICT Alliance, Professionalism in ICT, IPv6 Washington, Australia/Korea Broadband Summit, and the World Summit on the Information Society. A major area of commitment continues to be the involvement of directors in other organisations and events. Cheryl Langdon-Orr continues her extensive work with auDA, while President Tony Hill became chair of NICTIA, the National ICT Industry Alliance. At the AUUG annual conference in October, directors Andrew McRae and Tony Hill, and member Ian Peter spoke in an ISOC-AU stream. Director Gunela Astbrink received a small grant from the TCCC on behalf of ISOC-AU to study user implications, specifically in accessibility and usability relating to IPv6 based applications. Kevin Karp has established an ISOC-AU Skills and Expertise SIG, and applied for funding from ISOC for the establishment of a Skills Register. Adam Creed drove ISOC-AU's successful application to be accredited by ICANN's Interim At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) as one of its At-Large Structures (the only Australian organisation to gain this accreditation to date). The ALAC provides advice to ICANN's Board and other constituencies on the activities of ICANN that relate to the interests of individual Internet users. ISOC-AU is also participating in discussions to establish the Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation for ICANN. [D] Telecommunications Consumer Consultation Meetings In 2004/05 we secured additional funding through the Telecommunications Consumer Representation Grant Program of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, to carry out a program of discussions with users of Internet services across Australia. Our objectives were: (a) to foster consumer input into the development of the Internet and self-regulation of the Internet industry in Australia, to fulfil the vision that `the Internet is for everyone!' and, (b) to ensure that maximum benefits flow to individuals and businesses as participants in society and the global information economy, and to draw input from all relevant stakeholders and organisations. Our TCCM program is now three meetings per year, and the first was held on 21 June 2005 at Geelong. The event was very well attended, and included a number of enthusiastic knowledgable students studying computing at the College, as well as local business, health and education workers. The meeting was facilitated by local members and directors, and all the TCCM reports are at http://www.isoc-au.org.au/TCCM/ [E] Sponsors and Supporters ISOC-AU could not operate without much-appreciated sponsorship from our Platinum sponsor Cisco, and in-kind support from Optus, Maddocks, Connect Internet Solutions, Hovtek Pty Ltd, PPS Internet and Kildanet Productions. Our thanks to them all. [F] Administration Once again the directors would like to place on record their enormous gratitude for the hard work of Honorary Treasurer Cheryl Langdon-Orr. Regrettably this year our Honorary Secretary Craig Ng departed the board, but his role has been taken on by new director Kevin Karp, who has offered a number of innovations to improve the efficiency of director teleconferences. We continue to encourage members to use their list to discuss ideas and issues with each other. We keep our web page as up-to-date as possible, with the approved minutes of directors' meetings, our annual accounts, reports of our activities and all other relevant information available on the site." 5. Resolution: Executive Director's Report Motion: "that the Executive Director's Report be taken as read." MOVED Gunela Astbrink, SECONDED Stephen Gillies. PASSED. 6. Resolution: Adoption of Accounts Tabled: Copy of questions directed to the Auditor for his responses. Motion: "that the profit and loss accounts, the balance sheet, the report of the directors and the auditor's and director's reports of the Society be received." MOVED Cheryl Langdon-Orr, SECONDED Kate Lance. PASSED. Motion: "that the profit and loss accounts, the balance sheet, the report of the directors and the auditor's and director's reports of the Society be adopted." MOVED Cheryl Langdon-Orr, SECONDED Stephen Gillies. PASSED. 7. Resignation and Election of Directors George Fong retired. There were 4 vacancies and 4 nominations: Greg Adamson, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill and Peter Nissen. Pursuant to Article 48.2 of the constitution of the Society, the number of candidates for election as directors is equal to the number of vacancies on the Board, a ballot was not held for election of the candidates. Motion: "That Greg Adamson, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill and Peter Nissen be appointed as directors." MOVED Kevin Karp, SECONDED Gunela Astbrink. PASSED. 9. Other Business Motion: "That the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting 2004 be approved." MOVED Kevin Karp, SECONDED Gunela Astbrink. PASSED. 10. Special Business: Motion of Thanks to George Fong Motion: "That George Fong, our longest serving director, be served with an expression of our thanks and appreciation for his contribution to the society upon his resignation and that the Society present him with a certificate of the Society's appreciation." MOVED Kate Lance, SECONDED Cheryl Langdon-Orr The meeting closed at 6:26 pm. Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU