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Vice President's Report to Council 29/08/03

Version 1.0 - 22 August 2003
For: Council on 29 August 2003
Status: Public

While the Vice-President is not obliged or even expected to report to Council on his or her activities, I will attempt to do so regularly, if for no other reason than to increase awareness of what issues InternetNZ is involved with.

Acting Secretary

  • Ran election for new Secretary

Admin Committee

  • Attended two meetings
  • Drafted key targets for Executive Director
  • Revised paper on dividend requirements

Sale of Domainz

  • Provided some analysis of final bids
  • Drafted reports to (NDA members of) Council
  • Assisted President with final negotiations
  • Drafted communications material for sale
  • Signed sale agreement (yay!)

geek.nz, IPv6 and DNSSEC

  • As VP, arranged and chaired meeting between interested parties
  • Wrote summary and paper for Council

Governance & Constitutional Committee

  • Attended one meeting
  • Wrote opinion piece on pros and cons of Exec Committee

Legal & Regulatory Committee

  • Chaired a meeting (in Auckland)

Spam

  • Wrote a paper proposing details of an anti spam campaign
  • Read David Harris' comprehensive white paper on spam
  • Attended meeting with DMA and others re spam in Auckland
  • Drafted complaints re Shane Atkinson spamming
  • Handled several media inquiries re spam issues

DET Patent

  • Arranged approval for legal advice from AJ Park
  • Liased with reps of affected businesses
  • Drafted paper on establishing Patent Advisory Group

Cyberlaw

  • Given feedback to Simon Riley on proposed agreement
  • Sought input from L&R Committee

Digital Copyright

  • Drafted letter to ISPs on this issue

Terrorism Bill

  • Examined clauses regarding duty to assist Police with computer access
  • Drafting letter to Minister re re-wording

Media

  • in absence of ED, along with President handled media inquiries on various topics including viruses

Final SRS Report

  • commissioned Doug Mercer to write this

Strategic Planning

  • attended Strategic Planning Day and liased with Strategic Planning Taskforce on associated issues

E-mails

  • far too many

David Farrar
Vice-President

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Last updated 22 August 2003

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