Executive Director's Report to Council 06/07/01

INTRODUCTION

May I first congratulate the newly elected Councilors, and wish you all well with the new Council term. My report will be brief as in the period between the last Council Meeting and the first meeting of the new Council I have been overseas for the ICANN Stockholm meeting, we have prepared for and run the AGM, and prepared for today's Council Meeting.

ICANN STOCKHOLM

The Chair of the International Affairs Committee will report on this meeting. I'd like to note that the unanimous vote to withdraw from the DNSO and form a Country Code Supporting Organisation, and the adoption of the Best Practices Guidelines is a major achievement, which in itself is the result of over two years hard work be everyone involved.

ADMINISTRATIVE MOTIONS

With the change of Officers we need a new motion for cheque signatories. In the past we have authorised people to sign and this then has to be renewed regularly. I suggest the Council authorise Offices rather than persons, and that the motion allow for the changes which will arise out of the Constitution changes. I request that someone move:

"THAT any two of the following be authorised to sign cheques on the Society's behalf: the Chair, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Director; and that when the Constitutional changes are duly passed by the SGM of the Society that the authorised signatories become any two of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Director."

LOGO COMPETITION

At the AGM the members decided to rebrand with the name InternetNZ with the following motion:

AGM01-54 (MOVED: Chair/Farrar) "THAT the Internet Society of New Zealand commence rebranding itself as InternetNZ and the Society will run a public competition for a new logo to go with our new name, the process to be completed in 2 months. The Society will continue using the existing logo in the interim" CARRIED

This process has begun. AN offer from 2Day.com to sponsor the competition to a value of $2000. The terms have been passed to Council for consideration. I will be working with a marketing firm to plan the publicity for the Competition next week. Before I can do this I need a decision from Council to either accept the sponsorship offer from 2Day or volunteers to seek other sponsorship.

RECOMMENDATION : "THAT the Council accept 2Day.com's offer of sponsorship for the logo competition under the conditions detailed in the offer."

LEGAL ADVICE ON AGM MOTION RE DIRECTORS OF DOMAINZ

The legal advice arrived this morning and has been circulated for your information.

MODERATION

Two letters relating to Moderation of .nz 2LD's have arrived recently.

1. Letter from NZ Defense Force with notice of change of person acting as moderator from to Murray Russell to Warren Quennell. The only action by required Council is to acknowledge the notification of change.

2. Letter from State Service Commission regarding impact of the SRS proposals on moderated domains. I received this yesterday, and as this is a policy issue I sent copies to the Interim Chair and the Chair designate. There is a timeframe indicated of July 31 for response.

CHANGE OF NAMESERVERS, CHANGE OF ADDRESS

I have instigated the change process with IANA to get the .nz secondaries changed and also the change of premises for the Society. I discussed this extensively at Stockholm with Herbert Vitzthum the ICANN/IANA ccTLD Liaison Officer and was assured that the process would be raid. Next Monday marks three weeks since the notification went through, and despite a follow-up I have had no acknowledgment from IANA. Herbert did acknowledge and confirm the original request.

HELD OVER BUSINESS

1. Society Documents - at the final meeting of the previous Council the following motion was passed:

"01/58 MOVED: (Chair/Hine) That The following policy be adopted to provide a framework for the maintenance of confidential documents by ISOCNZ with effect from adoption of the addendum referred to therein CARRIED"

In order for this to be implemented the Addendum must be written. Council needs to appoint a person or persons to complete this. Former Councilor John Hine actually wrote the Policy after discussions with Cr Heath and myself.

RECOMMENDATION : THAT the Council ask John Hine to work with the Executive Director to write the Addendum"

2. ISP Forum - an ISP Forum was planned for mid-July, however the Ed recommended that with the press of other business that this be deferred until Late September/early October, and the outgoing Council decided that the content and timing of the Forum should be left to the incoming Council. This needs discussion, but as the Agenda for this meeting is full, may I suggest that either the Council appoint two Councilors to work with the Executive Director on this, or that the planning be referred to the Social Impact Committee in the light of their successful work on the Road Shows.

INTERNET SAFETY GROUP

As agreed, I have met with representatives of the "Netsafe Trust" - the group working for Internet Safety for Kids. I was impressed with their approach to the issue, which is that of training schools, parents, and kids to take responsibility for safe Internet practices and behaviour for children rather than an ISP-liability approach. They have offered to speak at the ISP Forum and would like our involvement in their conference next year. I will continue to network with the group and will bring any specific proposals to Council.

Sue Leader
Executive Director

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