ISOC Document Title: Minutes of 26 August 1996 ISOC Board of Trustees Executive Committee Meeting Author(s): F. Greisen (Secretary) Date: 1996.09.05 Committee: BoT Executive Document: 96-010 Revision: 1 Supersedes: Status: Maintainer: F. Greisen Access: Unrestricted
Phone Conference
26 August 1996
12.00 to 13.30 GMT
Scott Bradner
Vint Cerf (until 13.00)
Shigeki Goto
Frode Greisen
Don Heath
Larry Landweber
Don is now giving organizational membership recruitment and payment high priority. At this time, about 500 k$ out of the 865 k$ budget income from org. members is in hand. Various ways of increasing contact with org. members to keep them on board were discussed.
The preliminary accounts from INET'96 indicate a net surplus of 125 k$ (USD) which is around 60 k$ lower than last year. On the other hand, more staff has been accounted to the conference this year. Don will send an overview of this to the executive.
Marty Burac will start in September and his title was discussed. The executive had no objections to the title Executive Director but an officer title would require a BoT resolution and it was not clear why he should be an officer. For budget reasons Don will put further recruiting on hold for a few months.
Scott has worked with Jon on the budget for the International Top Level Domain plan and Don will now take over the initiative and especially look at insurance. The present plan has IANA appoint 3 members to the ad hoc selection committee, while the IAB and ISOC each should appoint 2 members. The executive stressed the need for an international committee.
Larry Landweber, Dan Lynch, Fred Baker and Tomaz Kalin have volunteered for the trustee nomination committee. After nominating a new transport area director a call for a new IETF nomination committee chair will be sent out within the next week or so.
Don had received a request for new chapter policy papers from Australia but reported they were in the works and being discussed with chapter representatives. As previous chapter policies were decided by the BoT the new policies will also be sent to the trustees for comment and subsequent voting.
Will be called around early October.