DCITA had advised those that submitted that if in DCITA's view the
submission contained potentially defamatory material, that they should
either alter it or have it blacked out.

Jsut covering themselves incase of legal action for libel, not trying to
alter the nature of the submissions.

Brenadn

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Purse [mailto:pursey§gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 5:16 PM
To: .au DNS Discussion List
Subject: Re: [DNS] DCITA Review - submissions posted


I have to say, I'm concerned that DCITA has blacked out text in those
submissions. I'm unsure as to the motivation behind it.

On 1/18/07, Ian Smith <smithi&#167;nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Josh Rowe wrote:
>  > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:12:34PM +0000, Kim Davies wrote:
>  > > Quoting Josh Rowe on Tuesday January 09, 2007:
>  > > |
>  > > | The submissions to the DCITA "Review of the structure and
>  > > | operation of the .au Internet domain" have been posted here:
>  > > | http://shorterlink.com/?7924AT
>  > >
>  > > I find it surprising that there weren't more public comments from
>  > > registrars. There is only a comment from Melbourne IT made public.
>  > >
>  > > kim
>  >
>  > There are now two extra submissions on the web site, the first from
>
> When did these turn up?  Thanks for the notice; I'd have missed them.
>
>  > NetRegistry and the second from the "Domain Industry Assocation"
>  > which says it represents the following registrars:
>  >
>  > Anchor Systems Pty Ltd
>  > AussieHQ Pty Ltd
>  > Australian Style Pty Ltd trading as Bottle Domains
>  > Discount Domain Name Services Pty Ltd
>  > Distribute.IT Pty Ltd trading as Click'n Go!
>  > Domain Central Pty Ltd
>  > Domain Directors Pty Ltd
>  > Enetica Pty Ltd
>  > Explorer Domains Pty Ltd
>  > IntaServe Pty Ltd
>  > Melbourne IT Ltd
>  > NetRegistry Pty Ltd
>  > Sublime IP Pty Ltd trading as GoDomains
>  > TPP Domains Pty Ltd trading as TPP Internet
>  > Wobygong Pty Ltd
>  >
>  > Both of these submissions have some text blacked out.
>
> Probably about you :)
>
> I find it interesting that Melbourne IT's submission is considerably at
> odds with these two closely idealogically aligned submissions in many
> respects, though I suppose they must have signed off on the latter?
>
> Cheers, Ian
>
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