> >Then all hell breaks loose.
> >Peter Gerrand raised this scenario at the last meeting and especially
> >given the current trend of 'outsourcing' IT putting these roles into
> >government hands would be bad.
> 
> Putting public functions of administering public resources into the
> area of responsibility of publically operated agencies is _bad_??

I think Steve's point is that the current trend with government
is to privatise many functions.  So we could have the farsical
situation that we ask the government to run a portion of the .AU,
and they go and put it out to commercial tender to run the
process.


> ((geez - is this an alternate reality problem in Adelaide, or just a case of
> substance abuse  that I'm seeing here ?   :-) ))

Now now.  Croweaters do have their problems, especially with
respect to football, but the need sympathy and understanding.

MM