1/ Subjective rules are by definition unfair to someone.
2/ The rules themselves seem to stem from an academic background ie. 
a mix of the hallowed halls and that lovely old Australian tendency 
to monopoly (read Telstra et al) with its distrust of letting people 
make up their own minds about things.
3/ Let the market decide. Make it easy to buy and sell domains and 
the problem is sorted.
4/ For fairness I believe that the large generic list  should be 
opened by having an application period and then a random selection 
process for each of the domains. If only one person applies for a 
domain then they get it. (at the normal price). If there are a 
hundred then IT MUST BE random.
5/ I believe that the foolishness about cyber piracy should be seen 
as the smoke screen it is.  It seems to me that only Melbourne IT 
gains from wrapping us in red tape. I'd rather McDonalds  the Butcher 
get McDonalds.com.au if they are faster off the draw.

Matthew King

>So why do they have the policy in the first place.  Reason given is that
>would be unfair otherwise.  If you gave "weddings" to one company, it would
>sound like they are representing all weddings and be detrimental to other
>wedding companies.
>
>Personally I don't think this is the only reason but who knows what
>motivates policy decisions of any sort -  theory, practice or ideology?
>
>Patrick Corliss
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