From: Ron Stark 
Sent: Friday, 17 October 2003 7:39 PM
To: 'Jo Lim'
Subject: RE: [auda-members] auDA policy review - resellers

One of the conundrums the industry faces is that resellers who elect to comply with any 
Code of Conduct are those that are least likely to require regulation in any case.  My 
assumption is that those resellers that need control fall into two categories:

-	Resellers who through inexperience or naïvety breach the code,
in which case it's an ideal education forum

-	Resellers who elect not to comply, with the express intention of
undertaking unsavoury/illegal business practices that the code clearly prohibits.  We're 
already witness to the contempt in which a certain unofficial reseller holds auDA, the 
Code of Conduct, consumers and registrants.

It's the latter category of reseller who fall outside the jurisdiction, and therefore 
control, of both auDA and registrars.

The only practical way that I can see that is going to protect consumers and registrars 
it to mandate that only accredited resellers can resell domain names.  Even then our 
ability as an industry to police rogue players is limited to those that resell .au 
domains.

Ron Stark