From: 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 5:14 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: Review of auDA policy - restriction on geographic names in com.au and net.au

I must strongly support Question 1, that the present restriction on geographic names 
in the .com.au and .net.au be maintained. 

I support this assertion because I am one of the founding principals of the One City 
One Site Working Group (OCOS) and I believe that what we have achieved in the creation 
of the new 2LD geographic name space will be to no avail should these new addresses be 
allowed. 

Further, the original OCOS submission to auDA for the creation of these new 2LDs was 
supported by a large number of letters of support from an extremely wide-ranging group 
of community interests, including my Council, which permits me the time to be a part of 
the next stage of OCOS, the pilot project of Bathurst Community Website. 


It would be shame if all the hard work put in by a number of people over the years was 
eroded by the simple act of releasing geographic names into the commercial world of URLs. 


Thank you, 




Peter Fawkes
Manager Information Services
Bathurst Regional Council