At 5:05 PM +1100 24/11/00, Richard Archer wrote:
>At 16:43 +1100 24/11/00, George Bray wrote:
>
>>May I propose that the .info.au space be used for generic 
>>information, and set up so that registration is free and automatic. 
>>All existing companies, councils, departments, institutions, NGOs 
>>and government registered entities would have an entry from day 1.
>
>Yahoo (and others) already offers a similar service in a much more
>user friendly, interactive manner with a search engine.

However, Yahoo and their ilk aren't guaranteed to have registration 
info about the entities.

>And all this without the Australian taxpayer having to foot the bill :)

I'd be happy to have my taxes going toward more support of online 
infrastructure, and I think it would benefit the country if the 
government did a better job guiding, not repelling, the 
communications and IT&T industries.

	George