On Monday, June 22, 1998 7:41 AM, James Austin[SMTP:jea§rainer-group.com] wrote:
§> Whatever might happen, it would not be that - the University of Melbourne
§> has nothing whatever to do with the AU namespace (other than being an
§owner
§> of MelbourneIT which is a manager of COM.AU).   Managing AU doesn't
§generally
§> need any urgent attention, should I vanish, there would be plenty of time
§to
§> find some other person, or body, to take over before it became a problem
§that
§> it was running on self control (the last substantive change in AU itself
§was
§> a couple of years ago...).
§
§If this is true why is it so hard to do it with you here?
§
§If it would be so easy without you it should be even simpler with you.
§
§I would think you could start as chairman of the new body.
§or is that to easy?
§

I believe that Robert Elz just stated that he has no intention
of driving that process and also does not know how to build
consensus. Apparently he is an academic, not a business
person or manager.

I suggest that you identify and document the TOP 8 people
in the .AU TLD and take that story to the IANA and get the
delegation changed if that is what those 8 people vote. If
Robert Elz is one vote out of 8 and he votes no, the IANA
should be given that information.

Just remember...July 4, 1998 is coming...

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"The nearer any government approaches to a republic
the less business there is for a king."

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com - 0:196 .MALL
1998 - The Year of the C+§