[LINK] Clth Dept Archival

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Sun Jan 13 10:36:40 AEDT 2008


We hand out the brickbats often enough.  Here's a bouquet.

DCITA is now DBCDE (or BCDE, or BroCaDE, or something).

The new Government's approach will differ significantly from the 
previous Government's, some of it spin, but some of it definitely 
substance.

I went looking for a particular document published under the old 
regime, and found it (quickly) here:
http://archive.dcita.gov.au/2007/12/broadband_blueprint

The home-page explains:  http://archive.dcita.gov.au/

I wonder if there's an AGIMO or NAA or NLA guidance note that the 
DCITA archival approach is compliant with.  If not, maybe we should 
write one!

[Aside:  This further implies that government domain-name management 
principles need to include recognition of the importance of defunct 
names.  In some cases that's tricky, e.g. DEWR was not that long ago 
Employment and Workplace Relations, but is now Environment and Water 
Resources.]


[Declaration (because this posting could easily sound like 
buttering-up):  I've had quite a few dealings with this part of 
DCITA/BCDE over the years;  but they haven't been a client for quite 
some time, and I'm not currently making any plays for work there.]


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