APTLD Wellington Board Meeting Minutes

23 November 2003
 Wellington, New Zealand

Venue: Ground Floor, E-Vision, Wellington, New Zealand

Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush

Attended by: Chan-Ki Park, Chris Disspain, Richard St Clair, Shariya Haniz Zulfikli, Vincent WS Chen, and Yumi Ohashi

Observed by: Edmon Chung, Hiro Hotta, Jeff Yeh, Parkpoom Tripatana, Phisit Siprasatthong, Stafford Guest, and Yung-Jin Suh

Secretariat: Joanna Tso, Ian Chiang and Ching Chiao        

 

 

1. Meeting called to order at 16:54

 

2. Review of Previous Board Meeting Minutes

 

2.1 Busan Board Meeting

Peter moved to adopt the meeting minutes, with no objection, the minutes is adopted as true record of the meeting.

 

2.2 Carthage Ad-hoc Board Meeting

Peter noted that the Carthage ad-hoc meeting was to call board’s attention to the meeting and noted the ad-hoc meeting minutes. Unanimous approved and noted the ad-hoc meeting minutes.

 

3. Resolutions

 

3.1 CENTR Observership Application

The board resolved to admit CENTR as an APTLD observer and welcame them. The resolution was moved by the Chair, and seconded by Taiwan, the resolution was carried unanimously.

 

3.2 .tk Membership Application

Yumi moved to ordinary membership application by .tk be approved. Seconded by .nu. Motion carried unanimously.

 

3.3 Secretariat Report

Chan-ki as Treasure moved to accept Secretariat’s financial report presented. Motion seconded by Shariya. Motion carried unanimously.

 

3.4 Committees and Work Groups

The chair moved the following Committee and WG be in operation for 2004: 

 

Membership/Sponsorship Committee

Chair: Yumi Ohashi

Members: Chris Disspain, Chan-ki Park, and Richard St. Clair

Mailing List: mem-con@aptld.org

 

ICANN Relations Committee

Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush
Member: Chris Disspain and Shariya Haniz Zulkifli

 

Technical Committee

Chair: Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut

Members: Chris Disspain, Yumi Ohashi, Hiro Hotta, Chan-ki Park and each member ccTLD’s technical experts

Mailing list: tech-com@aptld.org

 

Constitutional Committee

Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush

Members: Shariya Haniz Zulkifli, Stafford Guest

Mailing List: con-com@aptld.org

 

Meeting Committee

Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush
Members: Chris Disspain

Mailing List: meet-com@aptld.org

 

Audit Committee

Chair: Chan-ki Park

Members: [To be advised]

 

Motion carried unanimously. The Board required the charters and mailing list of the committees be updated by the end of December.

 

4. Strategic Plans for 2004

 

4.1 Meeting and Events schedule

 

4.1.1 Secretariat Appointment schedule

Moved to adopt the schedule as below, and motion carried unanimously.

 

1.           

Draft Job Description of Secretariat Requirement

By end of April

2.           

Approval of Secretariat Requirement

By end of May

3.           

Call for proposal to operate APTLD Secretariat

1st July ~ 31st August/2004

4.           

Assemble proposals and send to Board for confirmation on Candidates’ Qualification

10th September

5.           

Announce the list of Candidates for member’s reference

13th ~ 17th September

6.           

Voting bullet sent to Board Members

20th September

7.           

Voting period

20th ~ 24th September

8.           

Voting result approval

27th ~ 30th September

9.           

Voting result announcement

1st October

10.       

If a tie occurred, a 2nd voting

4th ~ 8th October

11.       

2nd voting result approval and announcement

11th ~ 15th October

12.       

Transfer secretariat Operation to newly elected Secretariat

18 October ~ 31 December

 

4.1.2 Board election schedule

Moved to adopt the Board election schedule: 

 

1.           

Call for voting representative of each ccTLD member

1st December, 2003

2.           

Confirmation on voting representative of each ccTLD member

9th Jan, 2004

3.           

Call for Candidates nominated by voting representative of each ccTLD member

9th – 16th Jan

4.           

Confirmation on Candidates’ Qualification

16th – 19th Jan

5.           

Announce the list of Candidates

20th

6.           

Voting bullet sent to voting representative of each ccTLD member

27th Jan

7.           

Voting period

27th – 3rd Feb

8.           

Voting result approval

4th – 6th Feb

9.           

Voting result announcement

9th Feb

10.       

If a tie occurred, a 2nd voting

10th – 13th Feb

11.       

2nd voting result approval and announcement

16th – 18th Feb

 

Motion carried unanimously. The Chair moved to appoint Peter Macaulay and Hiro Hotta as the Scrutiny for the 2004 Board election. Motion carried unanimously.

 

4.1.3 Meeting schedule for 2004

Moved to adopt the Meeting schedule for 2004 as follow:

26 February – KL, Malaysia

18 July – KL, Malaysia

Between 4-6 November – Perth, Australia.

Motion carried unanimously.

 

4.1.4 Membership Committee Activity for 2004

Moved to approve the Membership Committee activity for 2004 as below, proposed by the Membership Committee. Motion carried unanimously.

 

Time

Event

Action

By

Feb 2004

AGM (APRICOT)

Promote thru Website, postal mail, etc. – to become known

MemCom & Sec

 

 

Cooperate with APRICOT, APNIC…

For joint workshops…

MemCom & others

 

 

Contact individually to known TLDs

Anyone

 

 

Progress sponsorship (ki, vn, ws and mn)

Sec & MemCom

Jul 2004

Meeting (ICANN)

Promote thru Website, postal mail, etc. – to add sponsorship target

MemCom & Sec

 

 

Study possibility of applying to other fellowship programs

MY & MemCom

 

 

(AP educational session)

TechCom or others

Nov 2004

Meeting

Workshop

TecCom or others

 

 

Sponsorship target PI

MemCom & Sec

 

4.1.5 Resolved to consider the question of alternate Board Member at our next AGM.

 

4.2 Financial Plan

The Chair moved that the Board adopt the financial on the page 24 with the following additional points:

-20,000 set aside for sponsorship in 2003 to be carried forward to the year 2004
-Additional sum of 20,000 to be allocated in 2004 for the Sponsorship Program.
-10,000 for the technical workshop in conjunction with APRICOT in February 2004 and APTLD Perth Meeting in Australia in November.

Motion seconded by Chris. Motion carried unanimously.

 

5. Appreciations to Local Host

Shariya moved to thank the InternetNZ for hosting a wonderful meeting and the hospitality extended to all members. The Board seconded by clapping hands.

 

6. Meeting adjourned at 1730