Report of the Legal & Regulatory Affairs Committee 13/10/04

Attendees: Keith Davidson, David Farrar (Chair), Peter Macaulay, Chris Streatfield, David Harris, Rick Shera, Debbie Monahan, Grant Forsyth, Gale Blikshavn (minutes)

David F welcomed Chris Streatfield to the committee and attendance by staff.

1. Review of Business Plan
2. Project Fund Applications
3. Parliamentary Internet Caucus
4. Internet Law Conference 22-23 November 2004
5. Spam
6. Terms of Reference

1. Review of Business Plan

Cyberlaw Fellowship
It was noted that was still no successful applicant. The position would be readvertised in November however it was likely that the $85k would not be spent this financial year and it was agreed the money would be put forward to the next financial year. However if applicant is not identified in the third round of advertising then alternative approaches may be required.

Protect the Internet
PAG - Noted a meeting of PAG to be arranged

Action: PM Peter to contact Jim Higgins regarding PAG. Some issues were coming up were New Zealand software patents and review of Act in relation to ?obviousness?.

Internet Safety Group
Budget had been spent as allocated. Liz Butterfield would be part of Legal and Reg Committee in the future.
Grant Forsyth joined the meeting.

ENUM
Noted there was a $30k provision in the budget and working group had been set up but nothing was forthcoming at this stage. Noted to ask ENUM working group to write requesting meeting with Reg Hammond regarding specifics on how the Government will be developing policy as to ENUM registry. Grant suggested a draft policy be developed and then table to Government. He also noted the E164 (denoting +64 NZ country code) had already been delegated to NAD (Numbering and Administration Deed) to manage the numbers. It was also noted that the .4.6 numbers were held by the ITU.

It was noted that ENUM working group was due to meet.

Action: PM Peter to request Brendan to arrange for ENUM working group meeting prior to Council meeting on the morning of 29 October. 15 mins to be allocated for ENUM at the next Council meeting.

Action: GB Gale to move ENUM link to home page and notify MW of agenda items.

2. Project Fund Applications

• Noted that if ISG put forward a proposal this will be discussed via email.
• David F noted a $20k potential project detailing the history of the internet in NZ perhaps on a ?wiki? (live) basis. It was noted by David H that his experience of wikis were they had not been successful.
• CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams) ? DH queried that NZ has no global representation on CERTs. David F queried who funds them, in the Netherlands it is government funded and in Australia it is funded by the ACA.
  Action: PM Peter to talk to contact at CCIP. Action PM DPF noted task for new research person to compare CCIP and CERTs. Action CCIP newsletter to be put up on website.
  Action: PM Peter to obtain all CERT 2nd level domains.
  Action: GB Note to add as agenda item for the next Council meeting under Legal and Reg Committee report.
• Government about to review Telecommunications Act and issue paper will be out by December. May wish to allocate some funds to submission to either issues or response to it.

3. Parliamentary Internet Caucus

David F spoke to the tabled proposal. Peter noted Peter Isaacs may wish involvement. A neutral mail-list specific for MPs and department heads could be set up. Small changes were made to the document (attached). The paper was approved and
Action: David F to be tabled with recommendations to the next Council meeting.

4. Internet Law Conference 22-23 November 2004

Brochures for the conference were tabled and noted press pass to be issued for Computer World. Members were to be encouraged to attend and apply for funding if required. 2 free tickets had been made available to InternetNZ.

5. Spam

David H updated meeting on recent trip to Busan and this will be circulated once complete
Action: DH . He noted that he was the only representative from New Zealand and that the majority of other countries attending had sent government representatives. The general thrust of the meeting was on phishing which had overtaken spam. Latest statistics from June 2004 were that 84% of mail over internet was spam. This had dropped recently to 73% (DF noted this was probably due to the hurricanes in Florida) but was expected to reach 84% again in March next year. David H also noted where previously Australia had accounted for 6% of spam that this was now down to zero which indicated their new legislation was working well.

David F noted no progress on the legislative front here

Action: DF David to circulate issues paper to committee.

Chris/Keith and Peter updated the committee on a recent meeting held at MED which raised several areas of key concern. The meeting went into committee.

Action: DF Antispam Taskforce to meet with MED. Noted that TCF is incorporated society therefore a legal entity.

6. Terms of Reference

Due to time constraints the terms of reference will be circulated by email Action: DF. Chris noted if no changes were required no vote was necessary.

Meeting closed 4pm

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