With all due respect, why would people waste their time ?
Until someone puts together the needed servers, networks,
operations, etc. to allow them to FREELY register under .AU
then there is not much to say.

Also, with new TLDs entering the IPv4 "proof-of-concept
phase all around the world, the market demand for .AU may
go down. It may go to zero if it is not opened up. People
have lives and have no time to deal with control freaks.
Look at the situation with .US, it still has not recovered
from the years of restrictions. They can hardly give it
away at this point. In a day or two, .US will be put on the
block one more time.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm
"May 30, 2001: A notice of intent to issue a Request for Quotations (RFQ)
for management and coordination of the usTLD appears in Commerce Business
Daily. The RFQ will be issued on June 11."


TLDs are not like gold or oil. They are becoming a dime a dozen.
Companies are finding they need 10 or 20 of them to make a viable
business. Maybe one of the reasons .AU has never been opened up
is because people are afraid there will not be any demand. If .AU
is not opened up, then it will drift further from the end users.
It has already been removed from the prime 2,048 IPv8 slots. It
will likely drift off into IPv16 cyberspace where people can debate
these topics for a few more years. In the meantime, others are
more interested in fun new TLDs **.


Jim Fleming
http://www.DOT-NZ.com **
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Keegel [mailto:djk§cyber.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:20 AM
To: dns§auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] Submissions to Competition Panel


I'm surprised that June 9 has come and gone, and there is only one
submission posted for the second round of comments at
	http://www.auda.org.au/panel/competition/submissions.html

I was hoping to read a few other submissions (or even better, some
discussion on lists like this) before deciding whether to put in a
submission myself, and if so what to say/emphasize.

In the past*, auDA seems to have posted the comments submitted late
(after the nominated closing date).  But there is no assurance that
submissions received after the closing date will be read by the
relevant Panel at its next meeting (which would of course limit
the submission's usefulness).

(*) Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

So if you have something to say about competition in .au, please
write something and submit it for the panel!!  Hopefully there may
still be time for submissions received in the next couple of days
to be considered by the competition panel at their next meeting
(depending on when that is).

I'm also surprised that no one seems to have commented on a new
position in the second report:

   4.3.3 ...  in the implementation strategy detailed in section 5
   of this report, the Panel recommends that auDA tender all the
   existing open 2LDs (including asn.au, com.au, id.au, info.au,
   net.au and org.au) to a single registry operator.

Of course you should read the Panel's Report to put this in context,
especially if you are writing a submission to the Panel.

The Name Panel and Dispute Resolution Working Group also have papers
available for public comment (also notionally closing on June 9).

__________________________________________________________________________
David Keegel <david&#167;keegel.wattle.id.au>  I speak for myself, no one else.

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