Executive Committee Minutes - 15 January 2005

— filed under: NZNOG, ccNSO, Business-Plan, Interop

Minutes of a Meeting of the InternetNZ Executive Committee, held 15 January 2005.

Extracted version

Attendees:

Keith Davidson, David Farrar, Peter Macaulay, Chris Streatfield, Michael Wallmannsberger, Simon Riley, Gale Blikshavn (minutes)

Minutes of previous meeting and matters arising were deferred until next meeting.

Action points

Keith noted that those who had actions to review to keep list current.

E-Votes

Agreed to recommend to International Affairs Committee for one extra person to attend ICANN in Argentina for ICANNZ06 meeting preparation as the two people already going would be fully involved in other things.

Council e-vote for terms of reference for the INCANNZ06 committee.

NZNOG

Peter will chase Bruce Parkes and Grant to confirm meetings with Bill Norton. Citylink had requested half day with Bill Norton. Keith, Simon and Peter to liaise on Citylink request and who will be doing hospitality for Bill Norton during his visit.

Spending for NZNOG Chris noted cost and budget implications. Noted anyone going under auspices of Tech Committee will come out of tech budget. DPF/DH going under Antispam Task Force. Exec Committee resolved for Chris to be reimbursed travel expenses to NZNOG from officers travel budget. Gale to update Isabel. David noted there had been some communication breakdown between who was doing the Antispam conference, which was addressed.

Discussion held on future attendance at NZNOG. Noted to add provision be made in next year budget for staff and Council conference attendance.

ccNSO Ltd

It had been suggested to activate company and deposit our funds into it and for Ian and Joanna of TWNIC to act as Secretariat. Discussion was held on appropriate response. Keith to contact Chris Disspain to discuss. Noted we do have an account with ASB for ccNSO. David noted need decision on amount of contribution for ccNSO and ICANN by International an escrow account would not be required. Keith to raise issue on International Affairs list.

Operational Update

Pete wanted to defer till next meeting as staff meeting had been deferred due to absence of Jordan who was hosting Ian on request of PDT.

Telecommunications Act Review

Costs so far agreed were $10k looking at total cost $30k for completion (for end of financial year).

Noted that Michael Whitby input was desired and for he and Kath to work jointly on submission to cover legal aspects.

Excom resolved by consensus to increase by $20k funding for the review.

Interop

Pete updated meeting on recent meetings, minutes were up on Portal/initiatives/interop and noted funding hiatus. Action: Project Status report to be completed. Keith noted reality was we were on hold for 6 weeks once budget was spent. Action: Peter to take decision to next Project meeting. Simon noted specific questions would need to be answered prior to next Council meeting.

ED Overseas Travel

In Committee

Comms Review

Chris doing further focus groups with random internet users. Simon noted wanted to put some numbers into business plan for stage 2 of comms implementation plan.

Pacific Island to NZNOG

Keith noted 3 specific people had expressed interest in attendance at a cost of $1k each, and requested funding out of special projects fund. Agreed by consensus. Action: Keith to progress with Pacific Island representatives.

UNESCO will be contributing $2000 in addition to the $3000 from INZ Special projects for travel assistance to NZNOG

Meeting Dates

Michael tabled draft schedule out to 2006 for review to avoid clashes with international conferences. Action: Michael to add as agenda item to approve at next meeting. Simon noted inclusion of members consultations and members meetings.

Business Plan

David tabled draft plan which was discussed on a per item basis.

Strategy 1 Letter to be sent to .nzoc to re-exam a couple of budget lines. Action: Chris

Strategy 2 Cyberlaw fellowship rollover as candidate not identified.

Strategy 3 no issues

Strategy 4 Antispam campaign - further workshops and setting up agency reflected in costs. PAG ongoing. Internet Safety Group funding agreed to increase budget line with provisio of receiving detailed proposal/projects.

Strategy 5 Discussion taking interop out of strategy 5 and transfer to

Strategy 8 but agreed to leave where it is for now, with an annual contribution in the future of $25k keeping in line with requests to other organisations for funding.

Peter left meeting

New line for communications materials - agreed to include $30k, noting Communications plan would be in place before business plan approved which will refine costings.

Strategy 6 New UN funding would be available next financial year, by time budget getting into members hands more information would be available. WSIS consultation budget allows for two people to attend. Simon noted budget line for bringing international speakers for WSIS increased to $30k.

Action: Jordan to be subscribed to UNDP Asia Pacific Governance. Chris to send URL to Gale.

Strategy 7 - Follow up with Peter re cost splitting invoicing for receptionist. Keith noted including capex line was reasonable to be discussed further.

Strategy 8 no issues.

There was discussion of overall budget and projections. Noted Special project fund budget line was cumulative to allow for new initiatives currently unforeseen.

General Business

Mush network issue was raised by Simon and discussed in committee.

Meeting closed 12.52.

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