----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Hughes <effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au> To: <dns§auda.org.au> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:24 AM Subject: RE: [DNS] History of AUDA Well, I'll have a go at putting my two cents worth together - everyone else can add, disagree, enhance, detract, to this as they please - this is not an 'official history' - someone else may be able to provide some of the earlier history.......... The issue of how best to manage the .au domain namespace has been actively discussed for most of the last decade, and there have been several moves to set up an entity to manage the .au namespace. Some significant issues that have been relatively consistent over all the proposals are: * How to get an entity that is representative of the broad internet community * How to get that entity 'endorsed' by various sectors of the community * How the entity would be structured to enable input by the internet community into policy development * The requirement that the entity be non-profit The ultimate authority for the .au namespace is held by Robert Elz, and over the last decade Robert had passed to various individuals authority for different 2LDs within .au. These individual delegates, and Robert himself, were people committed to the long term stability of the .au namespace, and who all carried out their role for no recompense. The delegates, in addition to having policy control, also usually acted as Registrar - again, for no fee. A downside of the 'individuals as authority' model was that the existing delegates could not continue forever (unless being a 2LD delegate conferred immortality on them), but more significant was the lack of any method to enable the community to review or provide input to the policies that ruled when they applied for domain names. By the mid 1990's steadily increasing volumes of domain name applications - especially by commercial users - also stretched the limits of the 'unpaid volunteer' set-up, and was starting to affect some service levels. In 1996 & 1997 the Internet Industry Association (IIA) held a number of meetings to discuss options for resolving issues relating to service levels, authority over the .au namespace, and enabling community input into policy development. At the IIA convened meeting on 23 June 1997, Australian Domain Name Administration (ADNA) was formed as the entity to manage the .au namespace. The inaugural members of ADNA were: Internet Industry Association South Australian Internet Association Western Australian Internet Association Melbourne IT iiNet Technologies P/L ATUG Tradegate ADNA, however, did not receive support from all sections of the internet community; ADNA's constitution did not allow for individuals or companies to join as members - only associations. This drawback made it difficult to get the required level of support from across the community. Without complete support from the start, and with no resources, ADNA could not achieve enough to generate more support. Dedicated historians can consult ADNA information at http://www.auda.org.au/archive/adna/ In 1998, ADNA decided that it could not progress, and on 8 May 1998 ADNA wrote to Dr Paul Twomey at the Australian Federal Government's National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE, the area of government with involvement in .au domain name issues) and requested government assistance with the process to establish a self-regulatory body to manage the .au namespace. NOIE then became actively involved in facilitating the process, established a working group that led to the development of the existing auDA constitution, and the creation of auDA on 19 April 1999, replacing ADNA. auDA was still faced with the task that had confronted ADNA - i.e. generating broad community support, and enabling policy development by the Australian internet community. auDA was helped by a constitution that enabled all interested parties to become members of auDA, and significant milestones were: * the signing of agreements with various 2LD Registrars over a period from September 1999 thru August 2000 * the commencement of two major policy review panels in mid 2000 - giving the first real opportunity for the community to develop the policies that it wants for the .au namespace. * endorsement of auDA at the end of 2000 by the Australian government as the appropriate body to administer the .au namespace Regards, Mark Mark Hughes Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd effectivebusiness§pplications.com.au www.pplications.com.au 61 4 1374 3959 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Ayson [mailto:jim§philmusic.com] Sent: Thursday, 22 March 2001 23:24 To: dns§waia.asn.au Subject: [DNS] History of AUDA Hello, I am writing from the Philippines. I am doing some research on the history of AUDA as it is something I would like to propose as a more acceptable model for the admininstration of our .PH domain. I'd like to know when, how, and *why* a move was made to transfer the ccTLD adminstration from the original domain manager Robert Elz to AUDA and if there were any public debates about the pros and cons of this move. thank you in advance for any help and pointers, ------- jim ayson / jim§philmusic.com visit www.philmusic.com - the #1 philippine music web site Sign up for the Philippine Cyberspace Review - tracking the state of the Net in the Philippines since 1998 - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ph-cyberview -- This article is not to be reproduced or quoted beyond this forum without express permission of the author. 373 subscribers. 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