Council Meeting
Date: 31 Aug 2007
Time: 11:15-12:30
Chair: Jianping Wu

1. Adaptation of agenda

2. Attendance-Lawrence (SingAREN), Ho Pull Tak (HARNET), Ta Ba Hung (VinaREN), Panjai (APAN-TH), Bruce (AARNet), Sures (MyREN), Denis (ASTI), Nimal (LEARN), Francis (SingAREN), Jun Li (CSTNET), Ranjan Kumar (ERNET), Kent Leung (HARNET), Sunyong Han (ANF), Min-Hong Tsai (AGSC), Hsin-Ten Chen (APAN-TW), Yu-Lin Chang (APAN-TW), Mark Cordy (REANNZ), Konishi (APAN-JP), Shigeki Goto (APAN-JP), Wu Qian (CERNET), Jianping Wu (CERNET), George McLaughlin(Videoconference), Vimolrat (APAN Sec), Pujan (APAN Sec)

Members Absent: PERN (PK), BAERIN (BD)

3. Motion 1-Custody Account
-Temporary bank account is proposed by SingAREN
-Seconder from CN
-Motion is voted and No Objection is received.

4. 2nd Motion-APAN Legal Entity
Dedicated people are required who can look through.
Sures and Ho Pull Tak are decided to be volunteers.
Lawrence proposed DYKim for another volunteer.

-Proposer- Lawrence
-Seconder- Sures, DYKim
-DYKim will chair for this team.
-No Objection is received.

Ho Pull Tak (HARNET)-informed that company limited is only possible way to established in Hong Kong, shares policy can be used,  and members have to bear if bankrupt.
Surplus will not be distributed to individuals.
Formation of company is long process and it is not guaranteed to be approved by the government.
Tax will be based on Profit.
It will be registered and will have to pay registration fees.


5) APAN By Laws 6.3

Inclusion of immediate past chair to the Coordinating Committee which comprises of APAN Chair, Vice Chairs, and Treasurer.

Proposer-Lawrence
Seconder-Mark Cordy
Voted
No Objection is received.

6) Election
-will be in Hawaii meeting, six months prior to the expiry of positions.
-WG Chairs is elected by the Area director.

7) Future APAN meeting-

-In future council meeting will be held before the General Assembly and results will be produced at the General Assembly.

No objection is received.

8) Motion to set up GENI Task Force--

-USA and JP has stared GENI Projects.
-It is Long term project till 2015.
-Naming is required who can lead.
-GENI would be a good contribution to Internet.
-APAN Chair will nominate the GENI TF chair and there will be GENI workshop in USA in Oct 2007.

No Objection is received.

9) TEIN Organization
-Lawrence's PPT files to all Primary members.
-Members of TEIN Organization- Chalermpol, BK KIM, Bruce, Lawrence
-1st draft schedule is expected to be released on September-October 2007,
-2nd draft schedule is expected to be released on November 2007.

10) AOB
-Due to TEIN3 and APAN organization, changes would occur for SEA group (Lawrence)
-It is agreed to discuss via email.