From: Bennett Oprysa 
Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 10:43 AM
To: Jo Lim
Subject: geographic names

Jo,

The restriction on geographic names in the COMMERCIAL name spaces of 
com.au and .net.au should be lifted immediately.

These namespaces have been defined to be specifically for commercial 
use, government departments have had .gov.au, and now also the nsw.au 
etc spaces allocated specifically for use by councils and geographically 
separated communities.

As can clearly be seen from your responses so far, the vast majority of 
people in favour of keeping the restriction in place are in some way 
associated with the OCOS project. Their view seems to be that the 
removal of this restriction will have a major impact on the viability of 
their project. If this is the case, then the OCOS project was badly 
planned out and should never have been approved by auDA. You cannot have 
a restriction on the commercial .au name space for the sole reason of 
propping up OCOS.


Bennett Oprysa
Chief Operations Officer
Enetica Pty Ltd