Phone: Chris O’Connell, Michael Wallmannsberger

In attendance: Jordan Carter (in Auckland), Richard Wood, Keith Davidson, Campbell Gardiner (Wellington on teleconference)

Opened: 2.08pm.

1. Apologies: Colin Jackson, Pete Macaulay, Judith Speight, Chris Abbott, Rick Shera.

*Note that Chris Abbott has replaced Alistair Dixon as a representative from TelstraClear.

2. Minutes of Last Meeting – 14 June 2007

Minutes adopted as a true and accurate record.

3. Action Points / Matters Arising from the Previous Minutes

CyberLaw management committee - meeting arranged to discuss sponsorship.

MFE and MCH -  ongoing – MCH meet with Richard and Jordan and they’ll be putting out a paper later in year.

NGN – ongoing - David and Jordan to meet with Telecom.

PIC Topic Survey data – ongoing

Invitation to Keith Norris to join public policy group – on hold until next council in place

4. Broadband Campaign

a. Update on Activity since previous meeting

         i. Op Sep / Structural Separation Submissions

The Minister has announced he will consider Telecom’s proposal in more depth. This has introduced a delay from August/September until October/November.

b. Next Steps

         i. FTTH Paper proposal

Jordan reports the fibre tiger team has met to identify the issues and determine a goal. A paper will be prepared including options. This will be launched around start of November, for potential discussion on the Day 3 agenda.

David Farrar noted that we need to seek endorsement from high profile people for the document. We may also need to contract people to flesh out options and this may well not be able to be done until post-AGM.

Chris said we need to look be talking to local council planners and strategists.

AP Chris to provide a list of key names at local government level

AP Chris to be put on email loop for fibre tiger team

5. Tel.Con.8 Report Back (DPF and JC)

David Farrar reported that the event was better than previous years and the star of the event was David Stewart from Ofcom. He rebutted a lot of the FUD and myths about how separation works.

InternetNZ had a high profile and the Minister made reference to the organisation a couple of times.

Jordan was on a user perspectives panel on the regulatory framework. Feedback from the organisers was that it went well.

David Farrar noted that Ernie Newman’s presentation was interesting, giving a good picture of the current issues more bluntly than others.

(David Diprose departed meeting)

6. Digital Strategy 2.0 Summit

Keith noted that there were issues of progress and changes were made to engage the DSAG in putting together the programme for day 1 and 2. We are still doing Day 3 and roles have been clarified regarding TUANZ/MED/InternetNZ. Event date in November/December is still to be determined.

Chris suggested that all organisations should have their plan pre-prepared and bring to the event, not rely on the event itself.

7. Copyright update

The report back date for the Copyright Amendment Bill has been delayed until end of July and the state of it is unclear in respect to the success or not of our proposed changes.

8. Peering update

Telecom has presented a proposal and it is looking more useful than their previous proposal. It was suggested that Telecom proposal is ISP centric and doesn’t take enough consideration of MUSH networks through multilateral peering.

InternetNZ’s peering group has reached the end of defining peering and is tying up loose end around transit cost, where the real issues appear to be. A final report is likely in August.

9. Parliament / Self Regulation Updates

a. Parliamentary Internet Caucus

ICT Week is a subproject of the PIC. Meeting with HiGrowth/ICT-NZ was held this week. There looks to be broad agreement on the way forward. The date of the event is still be clarified whether September or later, and there may be some cost factor involved for InternetNZ. A project manager/sponsor is still to be determined.

10. Cyberlaw Fellow

Management committee meets next week.

11. Anti-Spam

a. Update on progress since last meeting

David Farrar reported that the manager of the antispam unit is Joe Stewart. They have hired most staff and will be set to be up and operating by Sept 6. This week the working party of the Spam Code of Practice met and reached agreement on all submissions. Now step is to produce final code and have it signed off.

InternetNZ also had a meeting with the Marketing Association and several Auckland ISPs on whitelisting. A sensible workable model was presented by MA, who are driving it. It will be a good incentive for marketing companies to sign up to the MA Code of Practice.

12. Related organisations

a. NetSafe

AP. Report back who will attend NetSafe next few months in place of Jordan

b. ISPANZ

AGM is in August. Richard will be speaking and facilitating. Jordan helped with facilitating a strategic planning day for the organisation.

c. TUANZ

David notes that people of the quality of Michael Foley are standing for InternetNZ while still on TUANZ board and that can only be beneficial for the two organisations.

Chris noted upcoming TUANZ events -  Innovation awards, a second telco day, and business interactive awards are anticipated this year. The later could involve some cooperation with InternetNZ.

d. Operational

Keith noted harmonious relationships with all related organisations including ICT-NZ, whom have a new associate membership that may well suit us.

13. General Business

a. REANNZ meeting

Chris noted that a recent REANNZ meeting was very valuable and should have been more widely known about.

b. NGI-NZ

There was a discussion about NGI-NZ and it was agreed there is still a need for NGI-NZ – the job is not over.

AP – staff to recommend how NGI group be continued

c. History of the Internet

Keith – book is pretty much written. Looking like early next year for distribution.

Meeting closed: 3:47

Date of Next Meeting: TBC

Signed as a true and correct record:

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David Farrar, Vice President, Chair