[LINK] auDA Public Board Meeting - Monday Aug 13 - Sydney

[Glen Turner]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 01:53 -0700, David Goldstein wrote:
> Hi Roger and anyone else interested!
> 
> The Names Policy Panel, which is what's being referred to here, met again this week and mostly discussed whether registrants should have the ability to transfer their domain name to another eligible person. And if so, how should this be done. Examples include a managed transfer system and an open auction system such as Sedo.

Personally, I'd like the policy to become more attuned to the
operational needs of business. For example, cutting off a
major domain with no notice other than spam-like e-mail,
on a Friday, with no out-of-hours support staff is
operationally unacceptable.

AARNet's sites have had two multi-day outages. Both of these
were because the .au DNS is not operated to the same standards
as the 99.999% availability of the packet-shuffling infrastructure.

Also, the .AU DNS is deficient in support for IPv6 and DNSSEC.

> There is also the issue of whether "the policy rules for asn.au, com.au, id.au, net.au and org.au be changed". Issues that have come up here is id.au is not very popular and where does someone go if they've got a hobby. There isn't really anywhere to go for a website for someone who just wants to, for example, put online their scrabble tips.

Even finer divisions in the .au namespace may not be desirable.
id.au is unpopular because of the lack of competitive pricing
for that domain.

Glen