Two completely different flavours of acronym soup.
By ACA I was referring to the Australian Consumers Association - an
organisation which represent consumer interests.
Your ACA (Australian Communications Authority) does not have a good track
record in representing consumer interests, in my opinion.
Regards, Mark
Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au
www.pplications.com.au
+61 4 1374 3959
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-link@www.anu.edu.au [mailto:owner-link@www.anu.edu.au]On
> Behalf Of Chalmers, Alan J
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2002 09:33
> To: 'effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au'; Link Institute
> Subject: RE: [LINK] domain name self-regulation?
>
>
> Mark,
>
> That's not quite correct.
>
> I was the ACA representative on both Working Groups. In mid-2000, the ACA
> accepted auDA's invitation to join the Competition Policy panel and in
> December 2000, auDA accepted the ACA's request that it join the
> Names Policy
> panel. For the record, I also participated in the Dispute Resolution
> Working Group.
>
> Alan Chalmers
> Senior Policy Analyst
> Numbering Team
> Australian Communications Authority
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hughes [mailto:effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2002 11:56 PM
> To: Link Institute
> Subject: RE: [LINK] domain name self-regulation?
>
> The .au regulatory authority, auDA, has attempted to get ACA involvement.
>
> The two most significant reviews of the .au namespace in a decade were:
>
> * The domain name policy review - which reviewed the eligibility and
> allocation policies for the .au namespace
> * The competition policy review - which developed the model to introduce
> competition in the provision of .au domain names
>
> Those reviews were each done by a panel of people representing various
> sectors of the community (details of actual membership is available on
> auDA's web site www.auda.org.au/policy/new.html). For both
> panels auDA made
> a public call for membership, and in addition specifically wrote
> to the ACA
> (and to the ACCC) inviting them to participate in the reviews. The ACCC
> participated in both reviews. The ACA either didn't respond at all, or
> declined to participate.
>
>
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> Mark Hughes
> Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
> effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au
> www.pplications.com.au
> +61 4 1374 3959
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-link@www.anu.edu.au [mailto:owner-link@www.anu.edu.au]On
> > Behalf Of Jan Whitaker
> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2002 18:57
> > To: link@www.anu.edu.au
> > Subject: [LINK] domain name self-regulation?
> >
> >
> > Perhaps linkers would care to comment on a piece of information
> > I received
> > recently that the domain name management is based on an industry
> > 'self'-regulation rather than a 'co'-regulation philosophy. Does that
> > bother anyone else as it does me? Shouldn't there be some
> involvement by
> > say an ACA or ACCC rather than another TIO-like system that
> > doesn't do much
> > of anything to protect consumers?
> >
> > Jan
> >
> > JLWhitaker Associates
> > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
> > jwhit@primenet.com -- http://www.primenet.com/~jwhit/whitentr.htm
> >
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