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President's Report to Council 17/10/03

Status: Accepted at Council Meeting 17 October 2003

Since the last Council meeting of 29 / 20 August, I have:

  • chaired a meeting of the Executive Committee 8/10/03
  • attended to final settlement from Domainz sale to MelbourneIT and conclusion of Domainz's Stabilising Registrar Agreement
  • attended Domainz handover ceremony to Melbourne IT 5/9/03
  • attended AntiSpam workshop 4/9/03
  • attended part of Patent Advisory Group teleconference 10/9
  • attended NZOC meeting 25/9/03
  • sent 355 emails and read 1,750 emails relating to INZ
  • numerous phone calls
  • many media interviews on spam, Verisign wildcards, Local Loop Unbundling, Jetstream pricing, Domainz sale, WSIS and ICANN
  • Background discussions for Holmes Show on antispam
  • missed the members consultation meetings in Auckland and Wellington and antispam workshop last week, due to illness.

I am very grateful to our Executive Director who now assumes the vast majority of the load for external communications, and considerable credit is due to Pete for the increasing profile for InternetNZ. It does seem difficult to break through the barrier from the IT media into main stream media, and many of the issues we are dealing with currently, should be of higher interest in the general public arena.

As we get into the middle of our year I am heartened by the work that is happening amongst our committees and working groups. While we are spread quite thinly on such a broad range of issues, I believe we have been able to draw in some excellent additional expertise both from within the membership and the industry, and we are making solid progress in many areas. However, there are still some areas where we are not progressing, probably mostly in technical areas, but I am confident that we will see momentum in this area soon.

Following the resignation of David Zanetti as director of NZRS, I propose the following process for the appointment of a replacement director:

  1. The NZRS board have been requested to provide a list of the necessary skill set & strengths sought for the vacancy.
  2. The President, Treasurer, NZOC Chair and NZRS Chair be appointed as the interview committee.
  3. That the interview committee post the position description on the InternetNZ website.
  4. That applications for the position be invited on the members list, through the Institute of Directors and any other avenues the interview committee deems appopriate.
  5. Interviews to occur during November.
  6. Recommendation from interview committee for appointment, to the Dec Council meeting.

The only significant task I am personally struggling to attend to for InternetNZ presently is the drafting of an InternetNZ submission to the Commerce Commission on Local Loop Unbundling. I remain hopeful that I can still make the deadline of 16 October.

Keith Davidson
9 October 2003

Recommendations:

  1. That the President's report be accepted
  2. That the process for appointment of the replacement NZRS director be approved
  3. That the interview committee composition be approved

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