Board Meeting No. 110

1 April 2014

13:30-15:30 UTC (9:30AM-11:30AM US Eastern)

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Agenda

13:30-13:35
1. Welcome, Apologies and Declaration of Conflicts–B. Hinden (5 mins.)

13:35-13:45
2. Consent Agenda–B. Hinden (10 mins.)

  • Approve the minutes of the 109th meeting of the Board of Trustees.
  • Ratify the e-vote on approval of the minutes of the 106th meeting of the Board of Trustees.
  • Ratify the e-vote to revise the 2014 elections timetable.
  • Ratify the e-vote on the Board Governance Committee’s guidance to the Nomcom.
  • Ratify the e-vote to appoint Arthur Reilly and Hartmut Glaser to the PIR Board of Directors.
  • Ratify the e-vote to approve the 2014 IAB slate.

Resolution 14-xx Approve Consent Agenda
RESOLVED, that the following items contained in the Consent Agenda were approved and ratified:

Approve the minutes of the 109th meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Resolution 14-XX: Approve the minutes of the 109th Board meeting.
RESOLVED that the minutes of the 100th meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on January 30 in Santa Monica, California, is approved.

Ratify the e-vote on approval of the minutes of the 106th meeting of the Board of Trustees
Resolution 14-xx Approval of minutes of the 106th board meeting
RESOLVED that the minutes of the 106th meeting of the Board of Trustees held November 22nd and 23rd in Buenos Aires, Argentina are approved.

Ratify the e-vote to revise the 2014 elections timetable.
Resolution 14-xx: Adopt revised elections schedule
RESOLVED that the ISOC Board of Trustees adopts the following revised elections timetable:

  • Call for Nominations: 29 October 2013
  • Nomination Period Closure: 28 December 2013
  • Nominations Committee Deliberations Ends: 11 January 2014
  • Candidates Announced, Petition Period Opens: 27 February 2014
  • Petition Period Closure: 13 March 2014, 23:59 UTC
  • Final Candidate Slate Announced/Candidate Forum Begins: 14 March 2013
  • Ballots Posted (e-mail): 25 March 2014
  • Voting Closes, Election Date, Ballots Counted: 25 April 2014
  • Certification of Election, Challenge Period Opens: 2 May 2014
  • Challenge Period Closes: 7 May 2014
  • Challenge Response Period Ends, Results Finalized/Announced: 12 May 2014
  • Annual General Meeting: 27 June 2014

Ratify the e-vote on the Board Governance Committee’s guidance to the Nomcom.
Resolution 14-xx: Approve Board Governance committee guidance to the Nomcom
RESOLVED that the ISOC Board of Trustees adopts the Board Governance Committee Guidance to the 2014 Nomcom.

Ratify the e-vote to appoint Arthur Reilly and Hartmut Glaser to the PIR Board of Directors.
Resolution 14-xx: Approve appointment to the PIR Board of Directors.
RESOLVED that the ISOC Board of Trustees appoints Arthur Reilly and Hartmut Glaser to the PIR Board of Directors for the period starting at the beginning of the mid-year 2014 PIR Board meeting and ending at the end of the day before the start of the mid-year 2017 PIR Board meeting.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board thanks the all of the people who were nominated for consideration for this position.

Ratify the e-vote to approve the 2014 IAB slate.
Resolution 14-xx: Approve the 2014 IAB slate.
RESOLVED, that the 2014 IAB slate consisting of the following individuals is approved:

IAB Slate Selection of Nomcom 2013

  • Mary Barnes, Polycom
  • Marc Blanchet, Viagénie (incumbent)
  • Ted Hardie, Google
  • Joe Hildebrand, Cisco
  • Eliot Lear, Cisco (incumbent, 1 year term)
  • Brian Trammell, ETHZ

FURTHER RESOLVED, that he ISOC Board thanks the IETF NomCom and its Chair, Allison Mankin, for their time and hard work.

13:45-13:50 
3. Welcome New ISOC Chapters-B. Hinden (5 mins.)

PROPOSED RESOLUTION: Resolution 14-xx: ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes New Chapters
RESOLVED, that the ISOC Board of Trustees warmly welcomes the new InterPlanetary Networking Chapter of the Internet Society which was chartered and approved since the last Board meeting.

13:50-14:15 
4. Financial Items (25 mins.)

PURPOSE:

PROPOSED RESOLUTION: None Required

14:15-14:35 
5. IASA Update-C. Griffiths/R. Pelletier (20 mins.)

PURPOSE:

  • Review of the 2013 Preliminary Year End Financial Statements
  • Update on key 2013 accomplishments and key 2014 developments

PROPOSED RESOLUTION: None required

14:35-14:40
6. AOB (5 mins.)

Executive Session

14:40-15:00
7. IAB Update–R. Housley (20 mins.)

PURPOSE: Review Strategic Developments

PROPOSED RESOLUTION: None required

15:00-15:30       
8. PIR Review–M. Botterman & B. Cute (30 mins.)

PURPOSE:

  • Review of the 2013 Performance and Preliminary Financial Statements
  • High level Update of 2014 Strategic Programs
  • Approval of the PIR’s Registry Service Evaluation Process requests to amend prior Registry Agreements with ICANN

PROPOSED RESOLUTION:
Resolution 14-XX: Approval of the submission by Public Interest Registry of Registry Service Evaluation Process requests to amend prior Registry Agreements with ICANN.
Be it RESOLVED that the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society approves PIR’s submission of ICANN Registry Service Evaluation Process requests, as approved by the PIR Board of Directors on 22 March, 2014, for permission to:

  • offer .орг domain names in languages other than Russian;
  • offer second level domains under the Hindi Registry Agreement; and
  • provide Registry Lock Services in for PIR’s six new TLDs.

Further RESOLVED, if the RSEP submissions are accepted by ICANN that the Board of Trustees authorizes PIR to execute amendments to the affected Registry Agreements with ICANN, which authorize PIR to offer the services described above.

15:30 
9.  Adjournment

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