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Technical Committee Meeting Minutes 02/12/02

Committee:

Chair:

  • Richard Bourne

Members

  • Bill Parkin, David Zanetti, Don Stokes, Drew Whittle, Nick Wallingford, Jonathan Ah Kit, Simon Riley

In attendance:

  • Richard Bourne, Don Stokes, Simon Riley

Audio Conference:

  • Nick Wallingford

Apologies:

  • Jonathan Ah Kit, Bill Parkin

InternetNZ Strategic Plan

A teleconference to specifically deal with the Tech Ctte strategic plan has been suggested, before Christmas.  This teleconference will be used to identify the Tech Ctte stakeholders (which is a subset of the societies stakeholders) and to agree on an initial budget to submit to council.

Action Point:  Richard Bourne to arrange a teleconference

Tech Ctte Budget Planning

Online Collaboration

An initial budget of $20K is suggested for online collaboration.  This will be raised at the next council meeting.  A system purchase will only occur after a successful trial of a system by all councillors.

Consulting Services

Tackling SPAM

A suggestion was made to commission someone to write a couple of SPAM discussion papers.  With an attempt to try to define SPAM, look to discourage SPAM activities and suggest how to protect against SPAM.  This was seen as a good "public interest" activity.

Emerging Technology "Watch-dog"

There are several "emerging" technologies that the society (through the Tech Ctte) should be monitoring.  These include the NGI project and IPv6. 

NGI - Next Generation Internet

Contact should be made with Neil James to discuss if/how we might get involved in this project.  This would be worthwhile even if only to increase the committees understanding of this new technology and the opportunities it presents.

IPv6

Budget for two people to attend the annual Apricot conference would ensure the Tech Ctte keeps abreast of these types of technologies.  Other conference attendance may also be recommended.

IPv6

The formation of an IPv6 working party was suggested.  The WP would need a chair and champion.  There would be a need to get involved in activities within the international arena, including participation at the Apricot conference.  Input from Frank March and Andy Linton was suggested, to assist the ctte in determining exactly what involvement should be undertaken.

A suggestion of a "Plug Feast" was tabled.  Anyone with IPv6 equipment, expertise or interest would be invited to participate in a technical session of connecting disparate (multi-vendor) IPv6 compliant equipment.  This could provide a useful forum for exchanging ideas as well as assessing the support for IPv6 from vendors.

Status: No change from last month.

Action Point:  Further on-list discussion needed before a recommendation is to be presented to council.

InternetNZ Web Site

A review of the current web site is required.  This should be done in conjunction with the new Executive Director. 

Action Point:  Discuss with new ED in the New Year.

Online Collaboration

Simon Riley has presented a suggestion to use the demo version of Meeting Works for online collaboration of the Tech ctte.  Drew Whittle has agreed to provide an NT Server for this task. 

Action Point:  Simon Riley to work with Drew to get the demo up and running.

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