President's Report to Council 28/09/02

The inaugural meeting was held on Friday 20 September. The draft detailed Terms of Reference are currently with the DFTF members, and will be available for Council's approval at Saturday's Council meeting.
Rick Shera did not accept a position on this Task Force. I therefore request Council's approval for Chris Streatfield's appointment to this group.

Normally Admin Ctte meetings are advised to Council, and Councillors are welcome to attend as observers. I neglected to inform Council of a meeting of the Admin Ctte held on Friday 20 September.
Budgetary work will commence shortly for the 2003 / 2004 financial year. It is hoped that the Strategic Planning Task Force outcomes will be available to coincide with budget preparation.
Rick Shera advised there has been a perception of advantage granted to the Registrars who are participating in the Registry trial. To be referred to the DNC and NZOC for consideration.
The IP number blocks ex Domainz have been successfully transferred to InternetNZ by APNIC.
After a review of upcoming issues for Council and InternetNZ, it was felt appropriate to recommend to Council a change of dates of Council meetings, with the next meeting recommended for Friday 8 November, and the following meeting for Saturday 14 December. I would suggest that the meeting for Friday 8 November be scheduled as an all day meeting, with a break-out period for Committees and Working Groups to meet during the day.
Next meeting of the Admin Ctte is scheduled for Friday 16 October.

Solid work from this group has continued and it is almost at its concluding stages having produced its report.

I am disappointed with the slow progress of committees and working groups this year - some are yet to be formed, and many have not yet even concluded their terms of reference. I urge Chairs to take the lead and progress the work of their groups. We have a considerable backlog of work already, and are already in catch-up mode if we are to achieve our objectives for the year.

Has been a busy time for the President since the last Council meeting, with a number of meetings F2F and teleconferencing.
Obviously it is too late to organise the summit / conference for November, but we must progress this item at the Council meeting if we are to hold an event early next year.
The QA undertaken on the SRS project indicated that all parties except Domainz were compliant at the review point, and a further check will ensure Domainz's compliance shortly. All is set for a launch date of the SRS on 14 October.
New mail lists are being set up for the Chairs of Council, Registry Co, Domainz and NZOC, and for the ?CEO's? of the 4 organisations. Also for the Domainz Future Task Force.
.maori.nz got away to a slightly bumpy start on launch date, but has settled down with a reasonable take-up of names, and plenty of good publicity.
High media contact in the past few weeks, with issues including .maori launch, Internet safety, the Paul Adams ISP filtering bill, Police and porn, NGI and other issues. Aardvark noted for criticising InternetNZ for being non-controversial presently!

That Chris Streatfield be appointed to the Domainz Future Task Force, in place of Rick Shera.
The detailed Terms of Reference for the Domainz Future Task Force be approved.
The change of dates of Council meetings to 8 November and 14 December be approved.