Phone: Frank March, Alistair Dixon.

In attendance: Jordan Carter, Richard Wood.

Opened: 3.04pm

1.  Apologies

Mark Harris

David Diprose

Julian Kersey

Jamie Baddeley

Jennifer Northover

2. Minutes of Last meeting – 12 April 2007

Minutes adopted as a true and correct record, with the addition of apologies from David Diprose.

3. Action Points/Matters Arising from the Previous Minutes

Progress on Cyberlaw microsite – The Cyberlaw template design has been reconstituted into WordPress and expected to add live content during May.

Parliamentary Internet Caucus – Colin Jackson, David Farrar and Jordan Carter will attend the first of these, for which InternetNZ has organised a panel to discuss Digital Television involving Russell Brown and Jason Paris.

4. Broadband Campaign

a(i). Operational Separation/Structural Separation

InternetNZ recently filed a submission on operational separation to the MED. Thanks were expressed to Michael Wigley and Simon Riley along with praise for their work on the submission.

InternetNZ will prepare a submission to the MED on Telecom’s submission, which is about structural separation, and for which there is a deadline of May 15. This was discussed by a number present and it was noted that there was no favour for structural separation if it involves legislation.

Generally the group was interested in encouraging the Government and Telecom to negotiate around structural separation.

AP. Submission to MED on Telecom’s structural separation submission

a(ii). Digital Communities/Regional Networks

Simon Riley reported on a meeting hosted by MED and LGNZ Regional Networks Group. This brought together the Government networks: KAREN, GSN, Health, Education and Kordia along with the broadband challenge applicants who were successful in getting their funding. Frank March was appointed chair of the group. These meetings are expected to occur every three to four months.

Frank explained how operational issues would be handled by a sub-group.

Judith kicked off a discussion on E-regions, explaining its forward looking approach.

Jordan proposed a Tiger Team to work on Network Funding issues. Peter, Simon, Judith and David Farrar volunteered.

AP. Jordan to organise first meeting of Tiger Team.

b(i) Rural Broadband

Simon suggested June as likely timing for a workshop. Waiting for TSO discussion document. E-regions material will also be relevant input.

It was noted that TUANZ should be acknowledged for their work in this area and cooperation with TUANZ stressed.

b(ii) Operational Separation

Jordan advised that a session has been organised with key opinion leaders related to Telecom’s structural separation proposal.

b(iii) Digital Communities

Simon reported that the e-cities prospectus is out and copies are available from the office.

b(iv) Fibre to the home workstream

David Farrar advised a taskforce was proposed to the Minister and the subject has become a workstream at the Government’s planned Digital Strategy Summit.

Frank advised the Summit is set for October 2-4 at the Hyatt with the third day being technical.

AP. Jordan to propose a list of names for the Government’s Fibre to the home working group.

5. Tel.Con.8, TUANZ Telecommunications Day, and other Events

TUANZ Telecommunications Day is set for May 31^st in Wellington, and TelCon8 is on June 8 in Auckland. It was noted these are both events useful for networking.

Another event, and one where InternetNZ will have a stand is Convergence run by the Broadband and Wireless Forum. This proved useful last year for attracting members.

6. Copyright

No further action required at this stage.

7. Peering

Jordan reported that the external peering group has done a lot of its work in terms of consulting stakeholder groups and is now analysing and preparing a report.

Simon noted that the Telecom has a proposal for local interconnection has attracted a reasonable amount of support.

8. Internet Code of Practice

No further progress at this stage.

9. Parliament Internet Caucus

Parliamentary Internet Caucus – Colin Jackson, David Farrar and Jordan Carter will attend the first of these, for which InternetNZ has organised a panel to discuss Digital Television involving Russell Brown and Jason Paris.

10. Cyberlaw Fellow

Richard advised that a drinks and nibbles event has been organised to welcome Philip Greene to the role of Cyberlaw Fellow. This will be held on Thursday May 24 at 5.30.

AP. Susi to circulate welcome event information.

AP. Lunch with Cyberlaw fellow to be scheduled for next PubPol meeting.

11. Anti-Spam

David reported on meetings held with Department of Internet Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development. InternetNZ’s intellectual knowledge is proving invaluable to the Anti-Spam authority. An Anti-Spam manager is soon to be appointed at the DIA, which has -7 people working on the subject to some degree each. There has been an IT workshop to spec the processes required.

David and Richard attended a Comms workshop. There will be a general pamphlet produced for the public and another for businesses with a broad acceptance of working through groups such as BusinessNZ to reach businesses.

12. Related organisations

a. NetSafe

Jordan attended a recent NetSafe meeting where there was a presentation on CERT from Paul Hortop from Certstation. This led to a discussion on the need for a CERT in NZ. Frank had attended a conference on CERT and said it is clear New Zealand is out of step with education of small business owners about botnets.

A further discussion ensured on Cleanfeed.

b. ISPANZ

Nothing to report this month.

c. TUANZ

InternetNZ is considering how to proceed following TUANZ’ interest in peering.

David is now on the TUANZ policy committee.

13 General business

Date of next meeting: June 14.

Meeting closed: 4.45pm.
 

Signed as a true and correct record:    

 
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David Farrar, Vice President, CHAIR