Could someone comment on what exactly are the repercussions of this
agreement. 

Is this just an agreement handing auDA control of the .au name space or
does this mean .au domains are now subject the same UDRP process as top
level domains ?

Thanks,

Lee Sanders
Network Engineer



At 12:16 PM 26/10/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>From:
>http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-25oct01.htm
>
>
>Marina del Rey, California, USA (25 October 2001) - The Internet for
>Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced the signing of its first
>formal agreement with a country code top level domain (ccTLD) operator. The
>agreement is with the auDA, the operator of the Australian ccTLD registry
>for domain names that end in the suffix, .au.
>
>"It is not surprising that the Australian ccTLD would be the first to sign
>an agreement," said ICANN President/CEO, M. Stuart Lynn. "The Australian
>Internet community and the Australian government have a longstanding
>commitment to ICANN. Australia has a well developed Internet community due
>in no small measure to the pioneering work of Robert Elz." Elz, an engineer
>at the University of Melbourne, has managed .au since it was established.
>Earlier this year, it was announced that .au would be turned over to auDA.
>
>auDA - which stands for ".au Domain Administration" - is a non-profit
>company that was established in April 1999 by the Australian Internet
>community. Subject to Australian government oversight, auDA, will now act as
>the industry self-regulatory body for the .au namespace, with responsibility
>for introducing competition in the Australian domain name registration
>space, evolution of .au names policy, and the introduction of an Australian
>domain name dispute resolution process.
>
>"This is a significant milestone for Australia's Internet users and for the
>global Internet community," observed Chris Disspain, CEO of auDA. "We are
>pleased to have signed an agreement with ICANN, and are committed to our
>role in ICANN's larger mandate of coordinating global Internet stability."
>
>Australia was an early participant in the Internet, beginning with the
>Australian Computer Science Network (ACSnet) in the mid-1970s. The .au ccTLD
>was delegated to Robert Elz in March 1986, shortly after the Internet
>domain-name system was deployed in 1985 by the University of Southern
>California's Information Sciences Institute (which then performed the
>Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions under contract to the
>United States Government). Robert Elz has been a long-standing leader in the
>development of the Internet in Australia, and has selflessly served in a
>volunteer capacity since his appointment as .au ccTLD's manager. Australia
>has a population of nearly 20,000,000, of which over an estimated 8,000,000
>are Internet users.
>
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