I'm surprised that June 9 has come and gone, and there is only one
submission posted for the second round of comments at
	http://www.auda.org.au/panel/competition/submissions.html

I was hoping to read a few other submissions (or even better, some
discussion on lists like this) before deciding whether to put in a
submission myself, and if so what to say/emphasize.

In the past*, auDA seems to have posted the comments submitted late
(after the nominated closing date).  But there is no assurance that
submissions received after the closing date will be read by the
relevant Panel at its next meeting (which would of course limit
the submission's usefulness).

(*) Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

So if you have something to say about competition in .au, please
write something and submit it for the panel!!  Hopefully there may
still be time for submissions received in the next couple of days
to be considered by the competition panel at their next meeting
(depending on when that is).

I'm also surprised that no one seems to have commented on a new
position in the second report:

   4.3.3 ...  in the implementation strategy detailed in section 5
   of this report, the Panel recommends that auDA tender all the
   existing open 2LDs (including asn.au, com.au, id.au, info.au,
   net.au and org.au) to a single registry operator.

Of course you should read the Panel's Report to put this in context,
especially if you are writing a submission to the Panel.

The Name Panel and Dispute Resolution Working Group also have papers
available for public comment (also notionally closing on June 9).

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David Keegel <david&#167;keegel.wattle.id.au>  I speak for myself, no one else.