Ian I raised this issue of an apparent change of .asn.au eligibility policy with Chris Disspain and Jo Lim (AusRegistry present) at the auDA public Seminar in Canberra recently. I did so on the basis that the Small Business Coalition <www.setel.com.au/sbcmembers/index.htm> is a coalition of registered small business associations, but it is not an incorporated association and therefore would not be eligible to apply for a .asn.au domain name. So associations that formed "partnership" arrangements would not be eligible for a .asn.au domain name on my interpretation of the proposed eligibility policy. Chris said he would address this issue and his response to me was positive. Hopefully, your concern will also be addressed. Someone - not the auDA Board that I can see from published Board decisions - appears to have rewritten the eligibility policy at the implementation stage. IMO, the current policy should stand, unless there are compelling reasons for changing the policy and they are published. I'm was a Name Policy Advisory Panel Member. Ian -- Ian Johnston, Policy Consultant Small Enterprise Telecommunications Centre (SETEL) www.setel.com.au mailto:ian.johnston§setel.com.au 02 6258 3409 (B/F) 02 6259 7777 (B) 0413 990 112 (M) SETEL is a national small business consumer association advancing the interest of Australian small business as telecommunications and e-commerce consumers -----Original Message----- From: Ian Smith [mailto:smithi§nimnet.asn.au] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:20 AM To: dns§lists.auda.org.au Subject: [DNS] Incorrect .asn.au eligibility description on AusRegistry AuDA and all, On checking out www.ausregistry.com.au nine days prior to the new system 'going live', I was somewhat concerned to find their stated eligibility requirements for .asn.au domains would exclude our association .. so I dug through all this one more time; yes I've been keeping an eye on it! I've reformatted most quotes below for mail readability: from the current http://www.auda.org.au/register/ ======= .asn.au Associations and Non-Profit Organisations The .asn.au domain serves for incorporated bodies, political parties, trade unions, sporting and special interest clubs, and partnerships between disparate organisations. Registrar: Connect West ======= hunting back via http://www.auda.org.au/policy/panel-name-2000/ ======= Name Policy Advisory Panel [..] Status The Panel's final recommendations were approved by the auDA Board on 8 May 2001. auDA aims to implement the Panel's recommendations by the end of the year. A full implementation plan and timetable will be published shortly. Panel Publications [..] 11 May 2001 Final Report on Domain Name eligibility and Allocation Criteria ======= that is, http://www.auda.org.au/docs/auda-name-eligibility-final.html ======= Table A: Purpose of Open 2LDs asn.au For 'associations'. Includes associations incorporated under specific state legislation, some incorporated bodies, political parties, trade unions, sporting and special interest clubs and 'partnerships' between disparate organisations. ======= Now the table at http://www.ausregistry.com.au/domains/au.html also says: ======= asn.au For 'associations'. Includes associations incorporated under specific state legislation, some incorporated bodies, political parties, trade unions, sporting and special interest clubs and 'partnerships' between disparate organisations. ======= However, ignoring the graphics, the introductory .asn.au page at http://www.ausregistry.com.au/domains/asnau.html states: ======= "joining the community" Who is eligible to register an .asn.au domain name? Strict policy ensures that only Australian incorporated associations, political parties, industry bodies and sporting interest groups are eligible for asn.au domain names. ======= (end quotes) The sentence above replaces AuDA's "sporting and special interest clubs" with "sporting interest groups" which is a different (subset) of bodies altogether, appearing to exclude NON-sporting special interest clubs, including social clubs, common law unincorporated associations and other bodies which are eligible given they can demonstrate legal acceptance. AusRegistry's primary (only) definition (stated as "strict policy") also omits AuDA's "partnerships between disparate organisations". Perhaps AuDA might suggest some wording here that is not misleading, especially for would-be new applicants who might read no further or be none the wiser regarding the range of bodies eligible to licence .asn.au domains? Perhaps a link to the full AuDA Eligibility and Allocation Policy Rules for (here eg) .asn.au, as qualified by the rules for all open 2LD, would not go amiss, to save inordinate amounts of hunting (or discouragement) for the uninitiated? From the current http://www.auda.org.au/docs/auda-policy-rules.pdf ======= 1. To be eligible for a domain name in the asn.au 2LD, registrants must be: a) an association incorporated in any Australian State or Territory; or b) a political party registered with the Australian Electoral Commission; or c) a trade union or other organisation registered under the Workplace Relations Act 1996; or d) a sporting or special interest club operating in Australia. ======= People with interest in .org.au might wish to scrutinise the description at http://www.ausregistry.com.au/domains/orgau.html in similar vein? Also and finally, from http://www.ausregistry.com.au/domains/idau.html ======= By registering an .id.au domain name Australian individuals can now be fully represented on the web. It is the only domain name that does not require the registrant to be a commercial entity. ======= The latter sentence is also inaccurate - re both .asn.au and .org.au Cheers, Ian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://www.auda.org.au/list/dns/ Please do not retransmit articles on this list without permission of the author, further information at the above URL. (321 subscribers.)Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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