The second competition panel report states:

Recommendation 4.6 – Registrants
·       All registrants will be entitled to become members of auDA upon 
licensing a domain name, without additional charge.

This would seem to address your concerns.

Regards,

Greg

At 03:18 PM 6/06/2001 +1000, Dassa wrote:
>|> -----Original Message-----
>|> From: Cate Coorey [mailto:catecoorey§bigpond.com]
>|> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:58 PM
>|> To: dns§auda.org.au
>|> Subject: Re: [DNS] re-delegation of .au
>|>
>|>
>|>
>|> >I think what Chris means is that a number of auDA people (including all
>|> >auDA staff) have been in Stockholm for the ICANN meeting, so
>|> it may take
>|> >a little time for them to return to Australia and give more detailed
>|> >information about this topic.  I would hope that more details would be
>|> >available early next week.
>|>
>|> Thanks for that, I understand the delay now ( and why auDA fees
>|> are $100. )
>
>I'm afraid I can't understand why the membership fee is so high.  The fee
>of $100 would appear to be a real barrier to participation.  Personally I
>do not see any value in paying to share my expertise and/or
>knowledge/experience.  I see no reason why auDA can't be self funding from
>the services it provides and that participation at the member level with
>regard to policy and working groups shouldn't be fee free.
>
>Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.
>
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