Noting the comment below that this is a general forum for discussing
Australian Domain issues, hoping this is not a FAQ (I've looked) I hope
someone might be able to point me in the right direction:

I am interested in whether other Governments have addressed the policy issue
of appropriate domains for 'corporatized' government instrumentalities - ie
should they register domains in .com.au, .gov.au or both? 

Our perhaps simplistic reasoning is that any entity that is ultimately
responsible to a Minister should register in .gov.au.  However, as many of
these also have an ACN number, they are also eligible to register in
.com.au.

all constructive comments gratefully accepted

thanks in advance

J Tizard
SA Government

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Corliss [mailto:patrick§quad.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 1:07
To: dns§waia.asn.au
Subject: [DNS] Fw: Were you consulted?


As this is a general forum for discussing Australian Domain issues, you
could
safely say that the wide consultation did not extend to Australia.

Patrick Corliss

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law <froomkin&#167;LAW.MIAMI.EDU>
To: DOMAIN-POLICY&#167;LISTS.INTERNIC.NET <DOMAIN-POLICY§LISTS.INTERNIC.NET>
Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 0:56
Subject: Were you consulted?


>As you may know, ICANN suddenly announced last week that it has formed
>Election and Nominating Committees, without any visible public input.
>The announcement is at
>http://www.icann.org/announcements/icann-pr09may00.htm .
>
>Commentary suggesting that there were a few flaws in the process can be
>found at http://www.icannwatch.org
>
>In response to this criticism, ICANN CEO Mike Roberts is quoted in today's
>New York Times as saying that "Icann directors and staff worked hard to
>consult widely in the process of forming these committees,"
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/16capital.html .
>
>As far as I can tell, no one I know was consulted, and am I in touch with
>a lot of people interested in ICANN.  My suspicion is that if ICANN did
>engage in consultations at all they were limited to participants in the
>late gTLD-MOU and/or representatives of large corporations.
>
>In order to test this intuition, I would be very interested in hearing
>from anyone who was actually consulted by ICANN prior to this
>announcement, whatever their affiliation.
>
>[This message is being cross-posted widely; please feel free to circulate
>as appropriate until May 25, 2000]
>--
>
>A. Michael Froomkin   |    Professor of Law    |   froomkin&#167;law.tm
>U. Miami School of Law, P.O. Box 248087, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA
>+1 (305) 284-4285  |  +1 (305) 284-6506 (fax)  |  http://www.law.tm
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