IAC Minutes 03/08/01

MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF INTERNET NEW ZEALAND HELD ON 3 AUGUST 2001 AT THE OFFICES OF INTERNET NZ AT 12.15PM

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PRESENT: Peter Dengate Thrush (Chair), Sue Leader, Joop Teermstra, David Farrar, Frank March,

APOLOGIES: Jennifer Northover, Richard Bourne

P Dengate Thrush welcomed new members to the Committee, and expressed the hope that not only could the Committee now deal with a wider range of work, but the existing work would be more easily completed.

He explained that the work of the Committee was the same as most other Internet NZ Committees : identification of issues, consultation with members, preparation of drafting papers, further consultation and eventual acceptance of policy.

As previously, all expenditure approved by the Committee would be particularised, particularly on travel.

Current activities

The various current activities tended to be dominated by ICANN, particularly CCTLD related activities.

This included :

CCTLD contract with ICANN
Best practices
Redelegation
ccTLD Inc. "and ccSO".

Peter Dengate Thrush and Sue Leader will be continuing past actions in relation to all items including at the forthcoming meeting in Montevideo.

Other ICANN related activities

It was noted that most of the work to date had been within the DNSO, and in that were relatively restricted to CCTLD matters. There are a range of other DNSO activities that may be relevant to Internet NZ members.

D Farrar suggested that Internet NZ might join the Non-Commercial constituency as a member. It was agreed that there were a number of other possible ways of participating in the DNSO but that until work on the CCSO was complete no further action would be taken.

It was again noted that there was little Internet NZ contact with the ASO and PSO.

Individual Domain Name Owners Organisation

Internet NZ has supported the formation of a constituency for individual registrants. J Teermstra has been active internationally and locally, and has received Internet NZ support to attend ICANN meetings, in that regard. He indicated that he planned to continue that work.

The various potentials offered by a constituency of the DNSO for individual registrants, the at-large membership initiatives, the role of individual CCTLDs, and a CCSO in sponsoring the rights of individuals was discussed.

It was agreed to form a subcommittee of J Teermstra and P Dengate Thrush to review the proposals in the at-large membership study report and to prepare recommendations for IAC. P Dengate Thrush was to contact R Bourne and J Northover to solicit input.

Activities outside of ICANN

It was noted that international affairs had a wider brief than ICANN, and the .nz delegation, although that had taken up considerable resources. Other items included :

Internet 2

Internet NZs role in relation to the recent meeting was noted. There may be a role for IAC in developing liaisons and relationships.

IETF

S Leader would follow up with Andy Linton who had recently been sponsored to attend for a report on the London meeting.
F March reported on the forthcoming APECTEL meeting scheduled to be held in Korea in September.
A number of international issues would arise and be work-shopped. The participation of the ITU was noted.

WIPO

A number of WIPO initiatives were of general interest to Internet NZ. These included the work on best practices for domain name dispute resolution in ccTLDs, and the second round of WIPO proposals, extending to protected pharmaceutical names etc.
It was agreed that close liaison with New Zealand Government officials interested in aspects affecting the net would be desirable.

South American Agreement

It was agreed to send a letter to the Government concerning the suggestion that the South American Free Trade Agreement was to include a requirement that domain name disputes would be referred to the UDRP. (ED to draft).

Other relationships

Peter Dengate Thrush noted that Internet NZ maintain formal relations with other organisations such as CENTR, APTLD, and others, and it was appropriate that formal steps be taken to maintain these relationships. It may be desirable to have individual Committee members appointed to manage these relationships.
A special relationship with Australia existed, and it would be advantageous for regular communications to be maintained with AuDa. It was agreed that the Chair would draw up a list of organisations with a view to formalising relationship management.

The meeting closed at 1pm.

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