On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Rowe, Joshua wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Individuals can use http://www.id.au/ or if you believe there should be a
> new 2LD for individuals why not make a submission to the Name Policy
> Advisory Panel on their Public Discussion Paper on New 2LDs.

I think there's nothing wrong with the current selection of .au 2LDs
(flame-proof underpants now on) - just some policy issues.

There is something to catch everyone who wants a domain, right through to
the individual who can register a free .id.au.

One argument from people who dis-like .id.au is that they have to register
a sub-domain of a 2LD of .id.au. However, I doubt any one single person
would be happy to volunteer their time to look after all of .id.au if it
was a free-for-all for 2LDs, and no commercial organisation is going to be
happy looking after it unless .id.au's atracted a registration cahrge.

By splitting .id.au up into it's nine sub-domains, you're splitting the
work up into managable chunks that can be assigned off to volunteers and
hence kept free (for the majority of them).

(and I doubt this policy will change while kre looks after id.au and .au)

PD

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