Mark Hughes wrote Wednesday, 6 June 2001 5:54 PM:

> Of course, maybe there's another reason for Robert not saying
> anything.....its just possible that over a decade of watching domain name
> issues in .au he has a much better perspective than any of us, and reckons
> that most of the argy-bargy about this verus that and yes vs no is in the
> longer term scheme of things pretty insignifcant, and therefore he very
> sensibly doesn't waste his time and energy making comments :)

Robert Elz expressed views in a submission he made in March 2001 to auDA in
response to the Second Public Consultation Report of the auDA Name Policy
Advisory Panel <http://www.auda.org.au/panel/name/submissions/elz.html>.
Readers may wish to draw their own conclusions.

I'm a member of the Name Policy Advisory Panel and Competition Model
Advisory Panel.

Ian

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