>      Forgive my lack of knowledge of the history of the proposal - while 
>      Geoff Huston's document was on the INTIAA site, I couldn't see anything 
>      on who chose iiNet + Internode, nor why.

Nobody has. We've simply put our hands up and said "we'd like
to do it, and here's our proposal".


>      Are other interested parties 
>      being given sufficient chance to bid agaist the proposed initial 
>      administrators, or is it only open to INTIAA members ?

iiNet is not a member of INTIAA.  I don't know if Internode
is either.


>  Has there been a pulic call for expressions of interest ?

Have a read of the papers at http://www.intiaa.asn.au/dns/

MM