The national dns mailing list has become frustratingly useless for
its intended purpose.  Given the current efforts of NOIE to foster
a new process for consultative management of *.AU, a forum is
required for discussion of the Australia DNS structure and future.

I have created a new mailing list:

	dns§waia.asn.au

You may subscribe to this list by sending the word "subscribe" to

	dns-request§waia.asn.au

This is not a moderated list, but it has a few standard
restrictions:

o Only people subscribed to the list may send email to the list
o No attachments/encoded postings
o No more than ten messages per participant per day
o No Adam Todd

The list will initially be managed by myself and Kim Davies,
of WAIA.  However, in the longer term, I'd like to see someone
else take on the task (Tony Barry has already been mentioned and
would be an excellent choice).  Modification of the list policy
is up to participants, and will be implemented in a timely
fashion.

The intent of the list is to provide a constructive forum for the
discussion of the *.AU name space, and other issues of specific
interest to the Australian DNS community.  I'd encourage interested
parties and stakeholders to subscribe, so that we have a useful
method of communicating on this important issue.

For shell users:

    echo subscribe | mail dns-request§waia.asn.au

Regards

Michael