The new policies although approved aren't implemented yet (concurrent with
competition), but yes, whois information is highlighted as being a priority.

As for the responsibilities - there's minimum technical requirements for
registry and registrar detailed in the Competition Panel report - see
attachment C (although the html anchor doesn't seem to work)
http://www.auda.org.au/panel/competition/papers/finalreport.html#ATTC

http://www.west.net.au/asn.au/test.cgi 'kinda' works for registered asn.au
domains.

Given that asn.au domains are free I'm not sure what level of
service/performance satisfies your expectations.

It's interesting to note asn.au's registrar was 1 of the 2 registrar
founding members of auDA - something positive from my perspective
http://www.auda.org.au/archive/adna/PressReleases/26June1997.html

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Best [mailto:andrew_best§pacific.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, 10 September 2001 5:10 PM
> To: dns§auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] Registrars in .au
>
>
> Afternoon all.
>
> Im hoping this is the correct forum to ask this question.
> Does AuDA stipulate what the responsibilites of a registrar in .au are?
>
> For example, there is no whois database for any .asn.au domain.
> Does AuDA require that any party acting as a registrar maintain a whois
> database of the domains they register?
>
> Found out that whois doesnt know who/where to query for .asn.au while
> building a tool to tell me which registrars we/our customers have domains
> registred with.
>
> cheers
> Andrew
>
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