Jo,

As no doubt auDA will, I hope it takes a hard line (as in 'ignore') those
who want to start to disrupt the process when they had previous
opportunities during the 'public consultation' period to air or submit their
ideas or concerns or those that can't accept the popular outcome which is in
step with current thinking and needs.

Kerry Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Lim" <jo.lim&#167;auda.org.au>
To: <dns&#167;auda.org.au>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] Media Release


> As required by auDA's Constitution, the policy changes announced in
today's
> media release are the result of extensive public consultation undertaken
by
> an Advisory Panel comprising 30 people representing a wide cross-section
of
> the Australian Internet and non-Internet community. The Name Policy
Advisory
> Panel was established in June 2000 after an open call for nominations to
> which over 60 people responded. Over the course of 12 months the Panel
> released 3 reports for public consultation (in Nov 2000, Feb and May
2001).
> All working papers and minutes of meetings were posted on the auDA
website.
> See http://www.auda.org.au/panel/name for more information.
>
> It is true that Robert Elz has expressed his views, at the Panel's
> invitation. Many other people have done the same, as you can see from the
> list at http://www.auda.org.au/panel/name/submissions.html In addition to
> formal submissions received by the Panel, there was some lively discussion
> on the DNS and other mailing lists when the reports were released. Panel
> members took all views into account, including those of their respective
> constituents, when developing their final recommendations.
>
> While auDA and the Panel are highly appreciative of the foresight
> demonstrated by Robert Elz in putting into place the current policies
aimed
> at preserving the .au domain for future users, surely there comes a point
> when we must acknowledge that the future is here. auDA's clear
> responsibility is to respond to public comments and submissions that
> overwhelmingly favour change over maintaining the status quo.
>
> Regards
>
> Jo Lim
> Chief Policy Officer
> .au Domain Administration
> ph 03 9226 9495
> fax 03 9226 9499
> mob 0410 553 233
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Archer [mailto:rha&#167;juggernaut.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, 20 August 2001 4:49 PM
> To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> Subject: Re: [DNS] Media Release
>
> Given the content of this media release, I would hardly be surprised if
> Robert Elz has expressed concern over the hand-over of .AU to auDA.
>
> The statements in the media release indicate that auDA has given no
> consideration at all to the views Robert has previously published
> regarding his approach to .AU management, that is to preserve the .AU
> name space for future generations of Australian netizens.
>
> AuDA's expressed policy of selling generic domain names, opening up
> id.au to individual registrants and creating new 2LDs all flies in the
> face of Robert's existing policy.
>
> I would fully support Robert Elz should he attempt to maintain the
> status quo while his concerns were addressed.
>
>  ..Richard.
>
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