2004 APTLD Board Meeting Minutes (draft)

26 February 2004

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Venue: State Room, Palace of the Golden Horses

Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush

Board Members in attendance: Chris Disspin, Hualin Qian, Yumi Osashi, Chanki Park, Richard St. Clare, Shariya Haniz Zulfikli, Vincent Chen

Secretariat: Joanna Tso, Ian Chiang and Ching Chiao

 

Peter opened the meeting and congratulated and welcomed the newly elected Board Members. 

1           Election of principle officers for 2004

1.1          Chris nominated Peter to be the Chair. Richard seconded. Chairmanship is passed from Peter to Chris. Chris called for another nomination. Board Members voted in favour of Peter unanimously. Peter resumed the chairmanship.

 

1.2         Peter nominated Yumi for the position of Vice Chair of Membership, and seconded by Chris. Board Members voted in favour of Yumi unanimously.

 

1.3         Peter nominated Chanki for the position of Vice Chairman of Treasure and seconded by Shariya. Board Members voted in favour of Chanki unanimously.

 

1.4         Chris nominated Shariya for the position of Senior Vice Chairman, seconded by Chanki. Board Members voted in favour of Shariya unanimously.

2          Arising AGM resolutions
Peter noted there hasn’t been any issue arising during the AGM which requires further action from the Board.

3          Other Business:

3.1         Yumi called for Board’s approval of two Associate Membership applications from Afilias and Register .com.
Peter said according to the constitution, both ordinary membership and associate membership have to be organization or individual from the AP region, but Afilias and Register .com do not meet that requirement.

Chris moved to grant Afilias and Register.com with APTLD observership, and Peter added according to the constitution, the Board has the power to grant observership to any individual or organization.

3.2        Shariya: According to the constitution, the board can cease the membership of any member who does not pay the membership as prescribed by the Board.

3.3        Peter asked the secretary to send out notice to schedule a Board meeting to discuss the upcoming KL meeting.  The time frame will be about 3 weeks after the Rome meeting.

3.4        Peter: Do we want to organize the AGM as a 1 and half day meeting instead of a one-day meeting to provide sufficient time to conduct the discussions?

Chris: The next AGM will take place in 2005, it should be looked at it when we do the meeting planning for 2005, and the AGM should be a 2-day meeting.

 

4          Communiqué
Peter: I will undertake the job to work with the Secretariat on presenting a draft communiqué to be finalized by the Board in Rome.

 

Board Meeting adjourned at 16:50