Hello Ian and all,

I might be voicing the bleeding obvious... however it certainly seems as
though some of the registrars represented on this list favour a minimalist
code of conduct (if they favour it at all), offering very little
participatory requirements other than a guarantee against actions that may
impact on their own self-interests.

The purpose of an industry Code of Conduct is to realise standards that
protect the consumer first and foremost (obviously coming from a consumers
perspective).

We have recently witnessed events causing not only a severe breach of
consumer confidence, but more importantly, an obvious failing in the current
contractual process to ensure consumers are properly protected.

Registrars should be a part of the process to develop a Code of Conduct to
the extent of ensuring the Code is workable and not detrimental to ethical
business operations - however the Code must consider the requirements of
interested resellers and consumers, because these are the people most at
risk from any breaches of the code, or of a failure of the Code to properly
protect them from unethical operations.

To date, auDA has not actively sought-out sufficient community or reseller
opinions on the content of the draft.

Don Cameron


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