Nominet communique from the April Board meeting now available – DomainNews

Tuesday, 17 May 2011 03:54 Domain News
The communique from Nominet April Board meeting is now available to view.Nominet’s Board of Directors met on 19th April 2011 and discussed the following issues :
The Board congratulated Lesley Cowley on her award of Director of the Year Chairman’s Award at the Institute of Directors London and South East awards and her appointment as Chair of the country codes Name Supporting Organisation of ICANN.
Software and hardware roadmaps for future resilience, flexibility and scalability of Nominet’s IT systems have been prepared and are being reviewed.
A pre-certification audit for the BS25999 business continuity standard has been successful.
The first issues group meeting under the new policy development process has taken place.The topic is domain names used in connection with criminal activity. There is a high level of engagement from a wide range of interested stakeholders.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee attended the Nominet offices on 18th April as part of the launch of Nominet as host for the new W3C office for UK and Ireland.
Moreover,Nominet planned the forthcoming events :10th – 12th May: Internet World17th May: .uk Policy conference25th May: AGM16th June: Member lunch, Cheltenham19th – 24th June: ICANN Singapore
You can read the communique here .