2004 APTLD Board Meeting Minutes (draft)
Venue: State Room, Palace of the
Golden Horses
Chair: Peter Dengate Thrush
Board Members in attendance: Chris Disspin,
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
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
Board Meeting adjourned at 16:50