How can the industry progress when we have immature and ill-thought
commentary such as this?  How about _reading_ policies and _thinking_ about
things first?

[sigh] get a grip people - you're in business, not a kindergarten sandpit.

Andrew.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Lindon [mailto:info§humanrights.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 15 June 2001 12:57 AM
> To: domain-policy§open-rsc.org
> Cc: admin§tlda.org; dns§auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] au Domain Administration (Australian Company Number 079
> 009 340)
>
>
> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
>
> Please email kre§munnari.oz.au (cc all lists) to support
> the email application below for the revocation of
> auda.org.au
>
> Why? Because the au Domain Administration
> (Australian Company Number 079 009 340)
> should properly be addressed only at
> auda.com.au or possibly at auda.asn.com.au
> or even auda.gov.au but certainly not at
> org.au under current criteria.
>
> Your support is particularly urgent since the CEO of auDA stated
> on 14 June
> 2001 at about 12.40pm that, in relation to Mr Robert Elz, IANA
> .au delegate:
>
> > auDA has now applied to ICANN to re-delegate the .au domain
> > to us (full details are available at
> http://www.auda.org.au/redelegation/ ).
> > We would like to have done this with Robert's consent but,
> unfortunately, he
> > has not responded to our requests.
>
> > From: "Chris Disspain" <ceo&#167;auda.org.au>
> > Reply-To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:37:26 +1000
> > To: <dns&#167;auda.org.au>
> > Subject: RE: [DNS] org.au
>
> Please see the links provided by ceo&#167;auda.org.au below:
>
> http://www.auda.org.au/docs/redelegate.html     
> > Media Release
> > auDA requests ICANN to re-delegate .au.
> > Copyright 1999,2000 au Domain Administration (ACN* 079 009 340)
>
> http://www.auda.org.au/redelegation/
>
> > As the next step in the process, IANA will contact the current
> delegate Robert
> > Elz requesting his input and comment on auDA's request for
> re-delegation. IANA
> > emailed Mr Elz on 10 June 2001.
> > Copyright 1999,2000 au Domain Administration (ACN* 079 009 340)
>
> --------
> * ACN = Australian Company Number
> ---------------------------------
>
>
> FORMAL COMPLAINT TO CURRENT ORG.AU DELEGATE:
>
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Len Lindon <info&#167;humanrights.com.au>
> > Reply-To: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:02:39 +1000
> > To: <kre&#167;munnari.oz.au>
> > Cc: "dns&#167;auda.org.au" <dns§auda.org.au>
> > Subject: [DNS] FW: uaDA Pty Ltd is not an org.au
> > Resent-From: dns&#167;auda.org.au
> > Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:07:10 +0800
> >
> > Formal complaint to current .org.au Delegate:
> > Mr Robert Elz, Melbourne, Australia
> >
> > Action requested: revocation of .org.au
> > status for auDA Pty Ltd.
> >
> > Supported by:
> > (i) .org.au guidelines
> > (ii) Keegal posts on dns&#167;auda.org.au
> > (iii) .au guidelines (e.g. com/asn).
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Len Lindon <info&#167;humanrights.com.au>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:54:21 +1000
> > To: "dns&#167;auda.org.au" <dns§auda.org.au>
> > Subject: auDA Pty Ltd is not an org.au
> >
> > 1. How is it that a Proprietary Limited company
> > under the Corporations Act and other
> > corporate/business/government legislation
> > can be a .org.au?
> >
> > 2. Is there a procedure for challenging
> > this address when it should CLEARLY be
> > .com.au or maybe charitably .asn.au?
> >
> > 3. Just as the UDRP gives TM-holders
> > certain mediation rights (subject to
> > review by local court), does not
> > the .au delegation require certain
> > obligations of org.au addresses?
> >
> > 4. I fail to see how Tony Staley,
> > unelected by the supposed auDA
> > constituents, has any legitimacy
> > as the chair of auda.org.au
> >
> > 5. Assuming .org.au criteria apply.
> >
> >
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