I would suggest that while the various DNA's need representation, and I
think Peter Gerrand, both because of his Greate academic background, and
founding of the first DNA is an obvious choice for such an appointment -
should not be SECRETARY or hold any "office" on the board.

I wouldn't even think he should have voting privledge when it concerns the
appointment of other DNA's - if at all as he could obstruct other courses of
action "unrelated" to appointing a DNA that could obstruct a vote of
appointment.

I think this needs to be seriously looked at in light of no action in 12
months.

I also think that the structure and nominations of the board should also be
looked at now.

This inaction is costing OUR INDUSTRY a lot of moolah in Australia.

People on this list have some weird attitude when it comes to domain names -
Saying "...you can get a .com or a .net though..." is ridiculous. You are
literally pushing clients away to other service providers that CAN provide
the basic service they wish. Why would you do that ?

Keep the $$$ in Australia at least....

Sheesh.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dns§iia.net.au [mailto:owner-dns§iia.net.au]On Behalf Of
> Kate Lance
> Sent: Monday, 11 May 1998 13:46
> To: dns§iia.net.au
> Subject: Re: DNS: ORG.AU
>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 1998 at 01:00:33PM +1000, Peter Clark wrote:
>
> > I would suggest to the Acting Chairman of ADNA that Peter
> Gerrand should not
> > be on the board of the organisation as he has a vested interest
> in keeping
> > other Registrar's out of the "industry?". This is an obvious conflict of
> > interest and the question still remains. If ADNA has made
> little/no headway
> > in 12 months perhaps this is part of the reason ?
>
> You need to find out more about the structure of the ADNA Board: the
> Articles allow up to 6 Board members as representatives of the Full
> Members and 2 representing the Associate members:
>
>     Any Organisation that is a non-profit organisation, its objects
>     including  the development and furtherance of the Internet or
>     aspects of the Internet, may apply to be a Full Member.
>
>     Any Domain Name Administrator may apply to become an Associate
>     Member.
>
> Peter Gerrand is on the Board, up front, as a domain name administrator.
> The influence of any single interest on any Board is supposed to be
> balanced by the other Board members, who are -all- responsible for an
> organisation's progress or lack of it.
>
> If you believe the membership structure is flawed and is the cause of
> ADNA's problems then perhaps you need to suggest a different one.  But
> right now, this is its legal structure.
>
> Kate Lance
>
>