I won't bother writting a long response to Vic's rant.

I'll state again that I was referring to the .edu.au and
.gov.au domains.

The occupants of these domains have different requirements
for domain registration policies and procedures than the
occupants of for-profit domains.

In these domains, the users of the domain are the people
behind the browser, not businesses seeking a web presence.

ADNA and IIA has a long history of ignoring these different
requirements and, considering that Vic states he is a
director of IIA and that he was wearing his "IIA hat" when
writing his e-mail, I can now see how that happens.


Finally, I have no idea what

> ...you want to throw stones at commerical exploitation, I
> suggest you look around your own work place.

is referring to -- recall that my workplace is the
University of Adelaide.  Unless of course it's the large
mainly-volunteer effort by people at universities in
providing services to Internet users that ISPs then on-sell
for a profit :-)

Cheers,
glen

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 Tel: (08) 8303 3936           Information Technology Division
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