All,

Would I be terse in suggesting that these submissions are pretty sad?
Except for the conf.au one that is... that has significant merits.

I suggest for the sake of simplicity that the .au TLD take on some of
the commonly used new TLD's... 

create:
.info.au
.biz.au

open:
.conf.au
.id.au

How complex does this really have to be?

Is Australia going to go stupid and register other domains like .web.au
.shop.au .music.au .tourism.au .church.au .club.au tm.au ? They simply
are not needed and only dilute the usefulness of the web for finding
information.

They also make things more difficult and expensive for those looking to
protect their trademarks and product names.... is this a valid point?
maybe not ;-)

These are really just a waste of time, and will only make the internet
even more harder to find things...

...Skeeve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Corliss [mailto:patrick§quad.net.au] 
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:40 AM
> To: [dns]
> Subject: [DNS] New 2LD Proposals (to date)
> 
> 
> The closing date for new 2LD proposals is 14 June 2002.
> This is what has been submitted to date:
> 
> ONE CITY ONE SITE WORKING PARTY - received 31/05/02
> Proposal
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/ocos-part1.pdf
> Attachments
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/ocos-part2.pdf
>  
> PATTERSON, David - received 30/05/02
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/patterson.txt
> 
> TEARLE, Mark - received 27/05/02 
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/tearle.pdf
> 
> LIM, Richard - received 21/05/02
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/lim.txt
> 
> PAPPAS, Michael - received 16/05/02 
> http://www.auda.org.au/policy/submissions/pappas3.html
>   
> Regards
> Patrick Corliss
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