Executive Committee Report to Council - 17 December 2005
The Executive Committee met on 8 December and on 17 November 2005. The Committee:
- Agreed to develop a policy for appointing InternetNZ representatives to external bodies to be submitted to Council for approval at the 4 March 2006 meeting. (Note: this has been prepared earlier and is in this Council' s agenda for this meeting.)
- Endorsed the ED' s work in progress on acquiring a lease on the 10 th floor of Exchange Place.
- Referred ED' s proposal to join ISOC to the International Committee seeking a joint proposal to Council.
- Reviewed progress on the draft Strategic Plan.
- Reviewed the Secretariat workload and noted that the staff are focussed on ICANNZ06 and there is no discretionary resource available in the first quarter of 2006. The Committee endorsed ED' s proposal to hire temporary staff in the first quarter of 2006 to assist with administration.
- Agreed to invite Josh Silver to a session with Council if time and logistics permit.
- Discussed David Farrar' s draft paper proposing a structural review of InternetNZ. The Committee agreed to submit the paper to Council.
- Received an update on website progress and agreed that website in progress should be shown to Council at or before its 17 December meeting.
- Reviewed the Council agenda for 17 December.
- Agreed that a report on the results of the Council self-evaluation should be provided to Council for information. This is included in the Executive Director' s report.
- Adopted the budget for the ICANN 2006 Conference in Wellington, which was recommended to the Committee by the ICANNZ06 Task Force. A copy is attached for Council' s information.
Next meeting: The next meeting of Executive Committee is 10 February.
Recommendations
THAT the report be received.
