There would be a lot of resources required by the registrar (from what
I can tell, it looks like you expect to have only ONE registrar) to
support changes to DNS details and authentication issues.  I expect
there would need to be a large help desk to assist people who hardly
know what the Internet is, to update their DNS records (or to deal
with those who mucked up their DNS details).

Those sort of registrar functions do not seem like the sort of thing
Government would consider to be within its core competencies, so I
doubt Governments would be very interested in taking them on
(especially if they are supposed to provide services for free).

Ari Maniatis wrote:
] I put forward a proposal about 12 months ago, vaguely along these lines. For
] a rough overview look at:
] 
] http://www.ish.com.au/solutions/domainProposal.html
] 
] I will pursue this further after the current efforts with competition are
] implemented.
] 
] I would also like to hear from anyone who is interested in working with me
] to make this proposal more workable. I anticipate quite a lot of work is
] needed to evaluate the costing and viability.
] 
] 
] Ari Maniatis
] 

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 David Keegel <djk&#167;cyber.com.au>  URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management