"This proposal therefore is not a solution to the expectation of name
functionality that  many users of the Internet implicitly expect with
the name system, as the equation of the name system to a de facto
Internet directory service is a strongly entrenched belief."



Either you understand the real dimensions of the problem or you don't.







At 05:35 PM 13/07/99 +0930, Stephen Baxter wrote:
>> >> >bidder in order to fund the forums and NOCs and auDAs, ADNAs etc etc
>> >> 
>> >> There's nothing new under the sun
>> >> 
>> >> www.aunic.net/doms.html - August 1996.
>> >> 
>> >> to quote:...
>> > 
>> >[SNIP]
>> 
>> You appear to have missed my point. Please unsnip it and read it carefully.
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>Thanks - I did read. It was also written during a time when domain names
>under nearly all .au SLDs took 1 month if they were fast.
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>The document also talks of 1000 SLDs as an example - the only place a
>number that large has been mentioned in this debate. 
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>I want to see more SLDs under .au and have seen no argument that we should
>not try to do it ?  
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>What else is auDA for ? Competition under com.au - public ownership of the
>local loop may be eaiser !
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