APTLD Board Meeting Minutes
Minutes
of the APTLD Board Meeting, Friday 30 May 2003
Venue:
Board Room, Level 3, MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Present:
1.
Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah / .my (Chair)
2.
Chris Disspain / .au
3.
Yumi Ohashi / .jp
4.
Chan-ki Park / .kr
5.
Richard St. Clair / .nu
6.
Peter Dengate Thrush / .nz
7.
Joanna Tso (Alternate) / .tw
Secretariat:
Ian Chiang
Apologies:
Professor Qian / .cn
In
attendance:
1.
Shariya Haniz Zulkifli / .my
2.
Craig Ng / Maddocks/AuDa
3.
Hiro Hotta / .jp
4.
Sukjin Hong / .kr
1.
APTLD Board Meeting Call to Order
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1.1. Ramesh welcomed Board members to the
inaugural Board meeting of APTLD Association.
1.2. According to the procedure, we are to appoint
office bearers, but we’ve done so at AGM six month ago, we have
Chairman: Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah/ MYNIC;
Senior Vice Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush/
InternetNZ;
Vice Chair for Membership: Yumi Ohashi/ JPRS;
Vice Chair for Treasure: Chan-Ki Park/KRNIC, and
Board Members:
Vincent W.S. Chen/TWNIC,
Hualin Qian/CNNIC,
Chris Disspain/auDA and
Richard St. Clair/Internet Users Society NIUE
(.nu)
And we will record that to the minutes. Peter
moved to make the record and Chris seconded.
1.3. Peter moved to ask the
secretariat to arrange the opening a bank account in Taiwan in the name of
APTLD and make report of the progress at the next board meeting. Richard
seconded.
1.4. Peter suggested establishing a timetable for the
preparation of our strategic plan and budget, having the following steps, and
Richard seconded.
(1) Call for input from members in Sept/Oct
(2) Draft plan and budget accepted by board in
Nov/Dec
(3) Notice to members in Jan
(4) Approval at AGM in Feb
(5) Invoices for subscriptions issued early March
1.5Peter suggested setting up
working group under Vice Chair for membership to establish strategic plan for
APTLD outreach. Chris, Chan-ki and Richard volunteered to join the working
group.
2.
Other Business
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2.1. Peter added one matter
regarding ccTLD funding to ICANN budget. It was stated that ccTLD needs to
contribute 1/3 if ICANN budget. This is a false assumption, which the Budget
itself acknowledges.
2.2. Chris said that in the past,
it is assumed that ccTLD would fund the budget at the end of a year when there
was a shortfall of income, and the excuse was that ccTLD did not pay.
2.3. Peter stated that it was
important to separate cctld "fees" to ICANN under contract from
"dues" payable to the ccNSO. He imagined that our current
contribution to ccTLD Secretariat should go to ccNSO. It is a separate issue to
fund to ICANN budget. When there’s a larger membership, there’s no point of
writing up two fees.
2.4. Chris also added that there is no reason that
ccNSO should pay for ICANN staff.
3.
Drafting the Communiqué
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3.1. Chris suggested that in the
communiqué, we should state that APTLD is expecting ccNSO bylaw’s coming, not
to mention we had a good meeting as Rameah added. Some points about response to
the responses, forming outreach working group and responses to make comment in
the next week, useful discussion on ccNSO and continuous discussion on this
issue on-line were suggested to included in the communiqué. The chair agreed
that he was would prepare and circulate a draft communiqué after the meetings
4.
Linkage with other Regional TLD
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4.1. Peter said that he has
personal communication with Centr, and they have an upcoming meeting in
Budapest; however, he wondered how other regional TLD such as Lacnic is doing
with their meeting. He suggested that maybe we can extend invitation to other
regional TLD to our meeting around APRICOT.
4.2. Shariya asked about inviting
them to attend our meeting as associate members. Chris said that it is to
invite them as guest to APTLD meeting. Peter stated that when we used to have a
meeting with ICANN, we invited guest from other regions to join us. This is
also a chance to help the AfriTLDa set up their work.
4.3. Ramesh suggested that as
part of strategic planning, we should look into establishing relationship with
other regional organization to the next AGM in conjunction with Apricot.
Resolution:
we will go to prepare invitation for the next AGM in conjunction with APRICOT.
5. End
of Meeting
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5.1. Peter moved to thank Ramesh and Shariya for
chair and hosting this meeting and helped with the hotel arrangement.
5.2. Board Meeting was adjured at 1616 as proposed
by Ramesh Kumar Nadarajah of MYNIC, MIMOS Berhad and seconded by Yumi Ohashi of
JPRS.
END OF
MINUTES OF BOARD MEETING OF 30 MAY 2003
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