Bruce and others

The "Smart number" and "radio frequency spectrum" analogies occurred to me
overnight.  I was researching them when your email arrived.

1. Trading of Smart numbers

ACMA officer advised relevant legislation:
Telecommunications Numbering Plan Variation 2004 (No. 1)
http://www.smartnumbers.com.au/app/action/legislation.

2. Trading of radio frequency spectrum licences

Radiocommunications Act 1992 provides for trading of spectrum licences
(Division 5).
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/300/top.htm
Licensees can negotiate in the open market with others to buy and sell
spectrum space as the need arises, or authorise third parties to use their
spectrum space.

Ian Johnston

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dns-bounces+ian.johnston=infobrokers.com.au§dotau.org
> [mailto:dns-bounces+ian.johnston=infobrokers.com.au§dotau.org]
> On Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 12:16 PM
> To: .au DNS Discussion List
> Subject: [DNS] Licensing 13, 1300, and 1800 numbers compared to domain
> names
>
> >
> > If your house is at 1 Blah Street, you can't sell that
> > discriptor to anyone, you can sell the associated asset and
> > the discriptor will go with it.  Some address discriptors
> > have a higher value than others such as in some parts of
> > major cities but it is due to the assets behind the
> > discriptor.  Domain names should be treated the same.
>
> Actually you don't get to choose your postal address and assign it to
> any house, nor typically can use choose any phone number in the
> geographic range.   A postal address is more like an IP address - it is
> used for routing.
>
> A more accurate analogy would be to consider 13, 1300 and 1800 numbers
> which are addresses that can be attached to particular locations.   They
> are available from the ACMA by auction (similar to how auDA allocated
> generic names), and it is possible to transfer the rights to those
> numbers.
>
> >From the ACMA site:
> http://www.smartnumbers.com.au
>
> "Rights of use (ROU) in relation to a particular smartnumber(r) may be
> traded".
>
> Note that with most telephones the numbers can be mapped to words.
> E.g 1300 MOVIES, hence these are a fairly close analogy to domain names.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
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