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

[David Goldstein]

Glen,

A question about your comment on the cutting off the major domain with no notice - I'd be interested in more information if you wish to discuss this off-list, or on-list.

auDA has established a Security and Stability Advisory Committee as per the board minutes of June 07. See http://auda.org.au/minutes/auda-12062007/

Regarding DNSSEC, while not totally on this topic, security is an issue discussed at board meetings, and the minutes of the June 07 board meeting note:
"The board noted the
establishment of the SSAC, comprising individuals with a wide range of
technical and security expertise. In most cases SSAC activities will
directed by the board, however the SSAC will be able to act on its own
initiative where appropriate and subject to board approval. It is
expected that the first task of the SSAC will be a general threat
assessment of .au."

There is also a joint ISOC-auDA IPv6 working group that was established last year. I must find out what happened to it!

On id.au, I'm not sure what can be done about competitive pricing here. The cost from auDA is under $5 for all .au domains and every registrar sells them cheaper than .com.au domains. See http://whatsinaname.com.au/

David

----- Original Message ----
From: Glen Turner <gdt at gdt.id.au>
To: David Goldstein <wavey_one at yahoo.com>
Cc: Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>; Link Mailing List <link at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, 17 August, 2007 8:38:12 PM
Subject: Re: [LINK] auDA Public Board Meeting - Monday Aug 13 - Sydney

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






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