Wouldnt the auction eliminate the first come first serve policy???


Kenneth Brownsmith
kb§kb.au.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Heath" <drew&#167;bluetongue.com.au>
To: <dns&#167;auda.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: Melbourne IT's records


> The system that I originally wrote in 1996 for Melbourne IT did keep all
> rejections in a separate database, so there is a record.
>
> I know that the system was overhauled in 1999, but it would have a similar
> database pile for rejects.
>
> Robert Elz was in charge prior to that, and having studied his email
system
> for dealing with COM.AU requests, I again know that there were records
kept,
> but whether they still exist or not, I can't be sure, other than to say
that
> I know that Robert did keep everything.
>
> At that time there were less than 9000 COM.AU domain names...
>
> If COM.AU were to move to be generic, then I have always thought that for
> any name that has been rejected in the past, there should be an auction,
> where each of the parties who had applied for the name in the past were
> informed of the auction, and these to be auctioned names were then sold
over
> a 3 month period.
>
> This could easily be done through a system like EBAY.COM.AU and the
profits
> then given to a charitable trust, or a fighting fund for general internet
> policy improval, or to fund AuDA
>
> There are a number of alternatives, but I think the above is by far the
> fairest mechanism...
>
> Andrew Heath
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew King [mailto:mking&#167;cinfo.com.au]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2001 11:05 AM
> > To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> > Subject: Re: Melbourne IT's records
> >
> >
> > This approach flies in the face of natural justice for those that
> > actually read or knew the registration rules and thus did not apply
> > for generic or reserved names.
> >
> > It would be quite unjust to proceed in this way as the current rules
> > would effectively enable a reservation process which it is clearly
> > stated not to be.
> >
> > I know a number of my clients that would seriously consider legal
> > action against any party that allowed this.
> >
> > >The market will sort itself out post sale.  I understand that
> > Melbourne IT's
> > >records are sufficient to track request after they took over the formal
> > >management in Oct 96.  Maybe records exist before then.
> >
> >
> > Matthew King
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