1. Have you had any offlist response?

2. I have reread this several times. It would not be a waste of your time to
explain this further (starting from simple). You are, as you know, onto
something quite significant here.

3. Apparently one Dave Keegal is the person responsible for aunic and is
expected to reply to you after the public holiday here today.

4. I have also reread several times your Multiple TLD Cluster post to dnso
which Patrick Corliss forwarded to me. Do you suppose you could also do a
further explanation (starting from simple).

It may be that you have already posted something already that I can just
read but I couldnt find anything.



> From: "JIM FLEMING" <JimFleming&#167;prodigy.net>
> Reply-To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 03:45:33 -0500
> To: <dns&#167;auda.org.au>
> Subject: RE: [DNS] Submissions to Competition Panel
> Resent-From: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 16:44:39 +0800
> 
> 
> With all due respect, why would people waste their time ?
> Until someone puts together the needed servers, networks,
> operations, etc. to allow them to FREELY register under .AU
> then there is not much to say.
> 
> Also, with new TLDs entering the IPv4 "proof-of-concept
> phase all around the world, the market demand for .AU may
> go down. It may go to zero if it is not opened up. People
> have lives and have no time to deal with control freaks.
> Look at the situation with .US, it still has not recovered
> from the years of restrictions. They can hardly give it
> away at this point. In a day or two, .US will be put on the
> block one more time.
> 
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm
> "May 30, 2001: A notice of intent to issue a Request for Quotations (RFQ)
> for management and coordination of the usTLD appears in Commerce Business
> Daily. The RFQ will be issued on June 11."
> 
> 
> TLDs are not like gold or oil. They are becoming a dime a dozen.
> Companies are finding they need 10 or 20 of them to make a viable
> business. Maybe one of the reasons .AU has never been opened up
> is because people are afraid there will not be any demand. If .AU
> is not opened up, then it will drift further from the end users.
> It has already been removed from the prime 2,048 IPv8 slots. It
> will likely drift off into IPv16 cyberspace where people can debate
> these topics for a few more years. In the meantime, others are
> more interested in fun new TLDs **.
> 
> 
> Jim Fleming
> http://www.DOT-NZ.com **
> http://www.unir.com/images/architech.gif
> http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif
> http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Keegel [mailto:djk&#167;cyber.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] Submissions to Competition Panel
> 
> 
> I'm surprised that June 9 has come and gone, and there is only one
> submission posted for the second round of comments at
> http://www.auda.org.au/panel/competition/submissions.html
> 
> I was hoping to read a few other submissions (or even better, some
> discussion on lists like this) before deciding whether to put in a
> submission myself, and if so what to say/emphasize.
> 
> In the past*, auDA seems to have posted the comments submitted late
> (after the nominated closing date).  But there is no assurance that
> submissions received after the closing date will be read by the
> relevant Panel at its next meeting (which would of course limit
> the submission's usefulness).
> 
> (*) Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
> 
> So if you have something to say about competition in .au, please
> write something and submit it for the panel!!  Hopefully there may
> still be time for submissions received in the next couple of days
> to be considered by the competition panel at their next meeting
> (depending on when that is).
> 
> I'm also surprised that no one seems to have commented on a new
> position in the second report:
> 
> 4.3.3 ...  in the implementation strategy detailed in section 5
> of this report, the Panel recommends that auDA tender all the
> existing open 2LDs (including asn.au, com.au, id.au, info.au,
> net.au and org.au) to a single registry operator.
> 
> Of course you should read the Panel's Report to put this in context,
> especially if you are writing a submission to the Panel.
> 
> The Name Panel and Dispute Resolution Working Group also have papers
> available for public comment (also notionally closing on June 9).
> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
> David Keegel <david&#167;keegel.wattle.id.au>  I speak for myself, no one else.
> 
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