At 5:54 PM +1100 4/12/96, Roland Turner wrote:

>I agree with this. Despite the proliferation of wierdo domains used by
>Oz ISPs, I think that there is some benefit in having just one
>commercial domain for Australian commercial users.

Or at least standardise it and make it match Australian corporations law.

>Michael: Do you as yet have a concrete proposal for the joint
>administration of a 2LD? (If the answer is "read all of the papers
>referred to in the proposal", then say so. I'll get it done soon :-)) If
>so, is such a technique able to be used in concert with Melbourne I.T.?
>Immediately?

The main problem is that the .au DNS server needs to be able to point one
server which is authorative about .com.au.  Hence this needs to be in the
control of someone other than any of the competitors (combatants?) and they
both need to be able to insert new domains into it.  Also, their needs to
be some mechanism to ensure none of the companies adds the same name at
once.  According to the DNS, the .com.au DNS servers are:

Authoratative answers can be found from:
(munnari.OZ.AU)                    inet address = 128.250.1.21
(munnari.OZ.AU)                    inet address = 128.250.22.2
(mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU)                inet address = 128.250.1.22
(mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU)                inet address = 128.250.37.150
(orb.ISI.EDU)                      inet address = 128.9.160.66
(mx.nsi.NASA.GOV)                  inet address = 128.102.18.31
(yalumba.connect.com.au)           inet address = 203.8.183.1

And here my understanding and knowledge of DNS falls down...  DNS gurus
enter stage left please!

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