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Minutes of the TLDA Board Meeting
Held via Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
on June 20, 2001 at 23:02 CDT. Board Members Present: Gene Marsh
Leah Gallagos
Patrick Corliss
Bradley Thornton
John Palmer The President, Gene Marsh called the meeting to order as the meeting Chairman. Gene Marsh made a motion: MOTION 1 BY GENE MARSH That the board dispense with the vote on the last meeting's minutes. THE VOTE: YES: GENE MARSH, BRADLEY THORNTON, LEAH GALLAGOS, JOHN PALMER, PATRICK CORLISS
TOTAL: YES: 5 THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. Gene suggested that Leah run the meeting as he was short on time and could not be present for the entire meeting. Gene Marsh made another motion: MOTION 2 BY GENE MARSH That Leah Gallegos be appointed as vice-chairperson for this meeting only VOTE: YES: Gene Marsh, John Palmer, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: Leah Gallegos
TOTAL: 4 YES, 1 ABSTAIN. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. Gene then went over the agenda for the meeting: Mailing lists, director nomination date, director vote date, membership issues and temporary extension of previous deadlines, website move, publication of meeting logs and domain name (TLDA.NET and TLDA.ORG) move. John Palmer discussed what needed to be done to move TLDA.ORG under the control of the organization. He suggested we have ZoneEdit do the DNS for the domain. Currently, the domain is in Gene's name. He will need to get online with his registrar (Dotster) and change the NS records as well as transfer the name to the organization itself. Also, Patrick Corliss will transfer TLDA.NET (for e-mail lists) to the organization as well. Discussion the proceeded as to how this would affect the website and in what order these things should be done. Leah Gallegos made a motion: MOTION 3 BY LEAH GALLEGOS John Palmer will set up a ZoneEdit account for the TLDA zones and will coordinate with Gene Marsh to change the nameservers to those neccessary for administration via ZoneEdit. Then John will also coordinate with Gene to transfer the registration from his account at Dotster to a TLDA account at Dotster. MOTION SECONDED BY BRADLEY THORNTON VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton. ABSTAIN: Patrick Corliss, Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTALS: 3 YES, 2 ABSTAIN. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. Discussion the turned to the mailing lists. Bradley Thornton indicated that he would set up mailing lists for the TLDA and would allow them on his servers for a dollar a year. This agreement would last one year and would include up to ten lists. Also, that the domain TLDA.NET be used for mailing lists and TLDA.ORG for the website. Leah Gallegos made a motion which was withdrawn and replaced by a motion from John Palmer: MOTION 4 BY JOHN PALMER John Palmer will set up, in the same ZoneEdit account as TLDA.ORG, TLDA.NET and will inform Patrick Corlisss of the name server addresses. Patrick Corliss will then change the name server designations listed with Tucows for TLDA.NET to those servers. John Palmer will then coordinate with Bradley to put the proper records in the zone file for TLDA.NET to implement the mailing lists. Parrick Corliss will set up a new Tucows account and will then transfer the domain TLDA.NET to that account. MOTION SECONDED BY PATRICK CORLISS VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, John Palmer, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: Bradley Thornton, Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G)
TOTALS: YES: 3, ABSTAIN: 2. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO The website was discussed next. John Palmer indicated that it should be moved from VRx since Richard Sexton had indicated that he no longer wished to host it. Bradley suggested that John Palmer host the site. He agreed. Leah Gallegos made a motion MOTION 5 BY LEAH GALLEGOS John Palmer will host the TLDA.ORG website for the consideration of one dollar per year under contract to the TLDA, Inc. He will coordinate with whatever parties are neccessary to complete the transfer and will report to the Board when this is complete. MOTION SECONDED BY BRADLEY THORNTON VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: John Palmer, Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTALS: YES: 3, ABSTAIN 2. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO The next topic was the extention of the tenure of the interim board to July 31, 2001 so that it can complete its work and transition to the newly elected board. The by-laws need completion and need to be adopted and elections need to be held. Leah Gallegos made a motion: MOTION 6 BY LEAH GALLEGOS That the tenure for the Initial Board of the TLDA will be extended from June 16, 2001 through July 31, 2001 SECONDED BY JOHN PALMER VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTAL: YES: 4, ABSTAIN: 1. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. The next topic: ByLaws. Gene and Bradley have drafts but they need to be merged and updated. This can be done by the Board on the Board mailing list. John Palmer suggested that one person should be responsible for compiling all of the changes into one document. Leah agreed to take on this task. Leah Gallegos made a motion: MOTION 7 BY LEAH GALLEGOS The board will use the tldaboard mail list to collaborate on completion of the the bylaws. We will have an IRC meeting in one week (Wednesday night, 11PM EDT June 27 (0300 UTC June 28). Leah Gallegos will compile suggestions every two days until there is a final product on which to vote and adopt. MOTION SECONDED BY JOHN PALMER VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Patrick Corliss, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton. ABSTAIN: Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTAL: YES: 4, ABSTAIN: 1. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. The next topic discussed was dated for membership outreach, nominations, candidate statements (campaigning) and finally elections. Leah Gallegos made a motion: MOTION 8 BY LEAH GALLEGOS The following dates will be set for completion of the intial board tasks and election for the permanent board: June 28-29 - outreach for membership (email all known TLD holders), June 28-29 outreach for membership, July 6, open nominations for board candicacy, July 13 - 20 candidacy statements and election for permanent board July 27 - 29, 2001. MOTION SECONDED BY JOHN PALMER VOTE: YES: Leah Gallegos, John Palmer, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTAL: YES: 4, ABSTAIN: 1. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO. Discussion then turned to the problems with Board Member Richard Sexton and his lack of participation and disruptions. John Palmer made a motion: MOTION 9 BY JOHN PALMER For the remainder of the term of this interim board, the office of VICE PRESIDENT is hereby eliminated. The current occupant of that office will be a regular board member and not an officer. Furthermore, if the PRESIDENT is unable to chair a meeting, the SECRETARY will have this responsibility. If the bylaws do not allow this, then a current director will be placed in the position of VICE PRESIDENT until the new board is seated. SECONDED BY PATRICK CORLISS VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Patrick Corliss, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton. ABSTAIN: Gene Marsh (proxy by Leag G.)
TOTAL: YES: 4, ABSTAIN: 1. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO Leah Gallegos thanked all of the board members for a productive meeting and made a motion: MOTION 10 BY LEAH GALLEGOS That this meeting now adjorn. SECONDED BY BRADLEY THORNTON VOTE: YES: John Palmer, Leah Gallegos, Bradley Thornton, Patrick Corliss. ABSTAIN: Gene Marsh (proxy by Leah G.)
TOTAL: YES: 4, ABSTAIN 1. THE MOTION IS AGREED TO The meeting was concluded at 01:41 CDT, June 21, 2001.
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