If you have a unique perspective on the Internet industry and would like to share it with other members, why not become a guest blogger? We are offering you the opportunity to showcase your expertise, share valuable knowledge and further support the Internet community in Australia by featuring your articles on our blog.
If this is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch with us at admin@internet.asn.au
It was great to see all the members who attended our end of year celebrations in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
Although staff were only able to attend events in their hometown, board members did a fantastic job welcoming and taking care of members in our place.
If you attended an event, we would love to hear your feedback and ideas on future events you would like us to run. Please get in touch at events@internet.asn.au
We are once again Platinum Sponsors of APRICOT! The nine-day summit will run from Monday 21st February – Thursday 3rd March 2022. Similar to previous years, it will consist of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums, all designed to share the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific Region.
Please note that Peering Personals will not run in the usual ‘on demand’ style. Peering coordinators will need to submit their Peering Personals prior to APRICOT 2022 conference week to ensure their information can be included in a master slide deck. On the day of the Peering Forum, the session chairs will give the floor to each operator who has submitted their Peering Personal. For more information about this change, please see the APRICOT website
WA-IX turns 25 this year, and we’re hoping to celebrate this fantastic milestone with an event! The current Covid situation does pose some challenges, and our team are working together to determine the best and safest way for everyone to help us celebrate.
Stay tuned for event updates!
We are passionate about cultivating a more inclusive Internet industry! We created the IAASysters@AusNOG program in 2021 to help us achieve this by supporting and enabling women to access the valuable technical content and business networking opportunities that come from the AusNOG conference.
This program is based on the international systers.org and systers@IETF programs and offers ten sponsored attendees the opportunity to participate in the Australian Network Operators Group (AusNOG) conference and our IAASysters@AusNOG workshop.
Applications for the ten sponsored attendee places have been received and are currently being reviewed.
Sponsored attendees will receive:
If Covid has other plans, we will continue to be agile in our response and postpone accordingly.
Details for the IAASysters@AusNOG workshop:
Date: Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Time: 9:00am AEDT – 3:00pm AEDT
Location: The Fullerton Hotel, Sydney
For more information about our program, please visit the IAASysters@AusNOG information page.
The IAASysters@AusNOG Program is proudly brought to you with the help of our sponsors.
Members in NSW, WA, SA and VIC would have received their invitation to enjoy an afternoon or evening with our board members and staff to celebrate the end of the year. The decision to organise these events was only very recently made, and events in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne have been confirmed and invitations have been sent!
We appreciate that some states are in the early days of recently returned freedoms and are aware that not everyone will be racing to attend in-person events. However, if you would like to attend the event in your state, please head over to our events page for more information.
Dr Karen Lee, Senior Lecturer in the UTS Faculty of Law, is undertaking research into the ways in which codes of practice are drafted; and why industry participants choose to engage in or disengage from in code development.
Using the development of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (C628: 2019) as a case study and interviews with differently situated members of the telecommunications industry, the research seeks to identify the consultation mechanisms used; the difficulties encountered when soliciting engagement; the barriers to participation (if any) that industry participants of all sizes might experience; the effect these mechanisms and barriers might have on the code development process, and measures that might be taken to alleviate or overcome these barriers in order to enhance the responsiveness of industry rule-making activities.
For further information about the project (UTS ETH21-6356), please contact Dr Lee at karen.lee@uts.edu.au.
We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to David Hooton for his service to our Board as Chair over the past two years. As the Chair, he has helped the association achieve many things, including the transition to a company limited by guarantee.
We are pleased to inform members that David will continue to serve on the Board as a nominee of corporate member, Field Solutions. We are very fortunate to have him remain on the Board!
Another virtual AGM this year kicked off with Matthew Enger’s Acknowledgement of Country. The Chair, David Hooton, officially opened the meeting just after 5pm AEDT acknowledging the previous AGM minutes, thanking the staff and the Board for all their hard work and extending a special thanks to Matthew McDonough and Washif Ahmed for their service to the Association.
Deputy Chair, Matthew Enger, provided a quick report of the audited financials and the motion that Crunch Auditing be adopted as the IAA auditors for FY 21-22 passed.
CEO, Narelle Clark, provided an update from the operational staff that looked back over the past year. The report was a testament to what a busy year it has been, providing insights drawn from our IX statistics and finishing off with thoughts for the future.
Returning Officer, Kitty Hibble, announced the nominees and election results for the Board Election, with both Daryl Collins and Richard Thompson being elected for three-year terms and Nate Garr a one-year term.
If you would like to view any of the documents contained in our AGM pack, including our beautiful Annual Report, please head over to our website.
We would like to thank all the members who voted in the election and attended the meeting. We hope to see you at the next AGM, who knows, and it may even be in person!
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