the way the policy panel posed the question to the public stacked the
outcome. spooking people into thinking that the value in .com.au would
be trashed by opening up .au as is evident from some of the replies.

stating the proposition as one of preserving the value in .com.au while
opening up .au would have been the right way to pose the question.

there is a clear demand for registering in .au and auda and its policy
panel have a clear obligation to find a way to address that demand.

Vic




Tony Owen [tony§seol.net.au] wrote:
> > from memory 30% of people that responded to the
> > auda survey wanted to register directly in .au.
> >
> > that is called a demand.  auda has a clear charter to address that demand.
> 
> 
> 100% of people I interviewed today named me as the next preferred Prime 
> Minister. This clearly shows demand for my services. Unfortunately my 
> children have a vested interest in answering 'yes' to my survey.
> 
> I doubt that your 'demand' is based on a representative sample of those that 
> AUDA do represent.
> 
> I suggest some light reading on the history of the Gallup Poll .
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Gallup sent out hundreds of interviewers across the country, each of whom 
> was given quotas for different types of respondents; so many middle-class 
> urban women, so many lower-class rural men, and so on. Gallup's team 
> conducted some 3,000 interviews, but nowhere near the 10 million polled that 
> year by the Digest.
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Cheers Tony 
> 
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