Update from the Board Chair 

18 July 2023

Dear DotAsia members,

The most recent Board meeting of the Organisation was held last week, on Thursday 13 July. We deferred this meeting from the end of June, but it was in effect the ‘June meeting’ of the Board. 

This email is a very brief report back on key decisions taken, as promised in my first report-back to youil.

The main matters dealt with by the Board during the meeting were these:

• We ran through the draft Audit Report for DotAsia for the FY ending September 2021, and agreed to schedule a meeting for the Board to discuss the audit with the Auditors as part of general good governance practice.
  
  

• We considered a number of matters related to Namesphere, which had its company AGM in June. This discussion included the settlement funds arising from the settlement of the .box litigation mentioned in my last update.
  
  

• We worked on the agenda for our upcoming Face to Face meeting, which is planned in September alongside the APTLD meeting in Seoul.
  
  

• We worked through the quarterly operations and financial reports for the company for the period ending 30 June 2023. 

We also adopted the minutes of the 31 May meeting, which will be posted at the following URL along with other Committee meeting minutes: https://www.dot.asia/dotasia-organisation/agm-and-board-meetings/ 

As I reported last month, the Board remains conscious that the Elections Committee review of the 2023 elections is continuing, looking at complaints about how the election was conducted. 

I am advised that the Committee continues to work through the advice from the independent legal counsel and is in the process of finalising its report. Once the report is concluded, the Board will consider it and work through it, and report back to members and stakeholders on the findings. 

At our June meeting the Board has planned to consider the matter of by-elections for the current Board vacancies. We did not do so at the meeting, and we are likely instead to do this after the Election Committee report and recommendations are received. 

The next ordinary meeting of the DotAsia Board will be held in the first week of August, deferred by a week to allow for participation by several directors and key staff at the APIGA event in Seoul at the end of July. 

In closing, I once again would like to thank you again for your continued interest in, and support for, DotAsia.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please do contact me.

Yours sincerely

Jordan Carter