Folks,
I have to say that I think this sort of post is unacceptable. A more
constructive approach would be to explicitly state what sorts of service
and performance indicators for that service are desirable, rather than
simply slinging off at an individual. This helps nothing towards gaining
the desirable outcome that is "requested(?)" within the post. We need to
determine what *exactly* is broken about the current systems, rather than
using fora, like this one, to have a go at those with the existing
responsibilites.

Furthermore, it also does not express what evidence there is of technical
hitches, nor of what has been done to determine that there are no obvious
technical hitches! [thank you George]


So, so that I don't appear to be just as bad, this person is saying that
s/he has attempted to register a domain name in the *.org.au name space
and found an unacceptably high turn around time. What is therefore
acceptable? Two hours? Two days? 7 days? How should the domain first be
propagated? Simply by the requisite two dns hosts? Or via a central cache?
What sort of infrastructure is necessary to ensure sound registration
processes? What sort of business processes? All electronic with an
ecommerce registration. (hey, I can recommend a cool SmartPay TM system :)

I think you get the idea...

C'mon folks, let's not implode now - the end is in sight...

Oh, and I don't think it is stuffed, actually, *.optus.*.au
works fine as does everything in *.edu.au I ever had anything to do
with... though come to think of it there was a problem with
something in the rno.net.au namespace once upon a time... but
nswrno.net.au always seemed to work... hmmmm

Cheers


Narelle

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Narelle Clark                                   ph: +612 9342 6503
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Technology & Planning
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vicc§cia.net.au wrote:

> just how long does it take to get a delegation request
> through the .org.au process?

[snipped for propriety]

> just how long does it take for ********** to get off *** butt and do ***
> job?
>
> if **** cant do *** job then **** should give it to a commercial
> company that can. it is simply not tolerable that organisations
> like lifeline are made to suffer because the dns system in this
> country is totaly stuffed.