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Mr Ned O'Meara Appointed To Policy Panel

snoopy

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Congrats Ned!

New appointments - Policy Review Panel and Interim Chair of auDA

Policy Review Panel

John Swinson, Chair of the Policy Review Panel, is today pleased to announce the members of the Panel as follows:

  • Demand class member Ned O’ Meara
  • Supply class member Brett Fenton, Melbourne IT
  • Consumer protection representative Narelle Clark, ACCAN
  • Peak business body representative To be advised
  • Academic representative Professor Andrew Christie
  • Government regulator Paul Zawa, ACCC
 

findtim

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Credit to auDA for choosing.......
the auda board had nothing to do with it, we chose john and he did the rest, which i think is a positive approach to the independence of the panel.
yes congrats ned and EVERYONE, it looks like john has done a great job bringing together a good mix of people .
this is probably one of the most important panels we have ever had.

tim
 

neddy

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Well done Ned. It's fantastic to have someone of your calibre on the panel.

Credit to auDA for choosing the person who is perhaps their greatest critic.

Thanks Shane - looking forward to it immensely. Though as Tim said, ostensibly my selection had nothing to do with auDA. It was all down to the Chair (John Swinson).

Panels and working groups are the backbones of auDA - vitally important. I have made the effort to be part and parcel of many over the years. Why? Because it is my lifeblood.

As I wrote today on Domainer, apart from the issue of direct registrations, potentially the most fundamental changes to auDA policy are going to be deliberated on the Policy Review Panel. To consolidate and update over 30 existing policies into just 3 is going to be exciting and challenging.
 

neddy

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Given my election last Monday as an auDA Demand Class Director, I am no longer able to be a member of the Policy Review Panel (PRP).

Whilst it hasn't been officially announced via a newsletter from auDA, I did notice that my replacement has been named on the auDA website.

I think we can all be so happy that John Swinson has chosen someone of the calibre of Luke Summers to be the Demand Class member on the panel. Full story on Domainer today.

Congratulations Luke! :)
 

eBranding.com.au

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Given my election last Monday as an auDA Demand Class Director, I am no longer able to be a member of the Policy Review Panel (PRP).

Whilst it hasn't been officially announced via a newsletter from auDA, I did notice that my replacement has been named on the auDA website.

I think we can all be so happy that John Swinson has chosen someone of the calibre of Luke Summers to be the Demand Class member on the panel. Full story on Domainer today.

Congratulations Luke! :)
Thanks Ned, much appreciated! :D

I'm very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important review.
 

eBranding.com.au

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There is a new set of minutes up today. Well done to Luke.

https://www.auda.org.au/assets/Uploads/prp-minutes-2017-12-14.pdf
FYI: there's an error in the minutes and I've asked for the document to be updated. One missing word completely changes the meaning of a sentence! The following paragraph doesn't make sense as it stands, given that the first sentence is at odds with the second:

Luke Summers indicated that he does support increasing restrictions in the existing 2LDs (e.g. com.au and net.au). Luke stated that he believes it is inconsistent to suggest that existing extensions need increased regulation and restrictions, but that the new direct registration option should have very limited rules and effectively be open to everyone, including businesses, not-for-profits and government.

It should be as follows:

Luke Summers indicated that he does not support increasing restrictions in the existing 2LDs (e.g. com.au and net.au). Luke stated that he believes it is inconsistent to suggest that existing extensions need increased regulation and restrictions, but that the new direct registration option should have very limited rules and effectively be open to everyone, including businesses, not-for-profits and government.
 

eBranding.com.au

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FYI: there's an error in the minutes and I've asked for the document to be updated. One missing word completely changes the meaning of a sentence!
The updated Minutes have now been published on the auDA website (https://www.auda.org.au/assets/Uploads/prp-minutes-2017-12-14-ver2.pdf).

The auDA Secretariat were very swift to update the document for me, which is greatly appreciated given that the error was due to an oversight on my part (I missed it when commenting on the draft minutes).
 

neddy

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Hot off the auDA website is the announcement by the Policy Review Panel (PRP) of some public policy review forums throughout February 2018. These are being held in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. This is a great initiative in my opinion. Gives people the opportunity to ask questions, and get answers.

More on Domainer.
 

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