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Sign up as auDA Demand Class members or lose your Job with us at ( Enter Supply company name here) !
auDA leadership is stacking the vote for the SGM. Lassie Leptos will be joining next.
It is important to renew on time, auDA doesn't want us as members, and who knows what games they'll play if it isn't in on time!
Let's renew today
Very odd that they wouldn't just answer the question. Does he not have the qualifications or are they playing political games by letting rumours build? Gut feeling is the latter.
Gaslighting.
People who gaslight typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.
4. Their actions do not match their words.
5. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
6. They undermine the target [victim] by gradually weakening them and their thought process
Sound Familiar?
heres a good article about it - smh.com.au
"Australian Internet Community" means those users and suppliers of services via the Internet who are based in Australia;
GAC Principle 9.1.8
all .au registrations require the registrant to be resident in Australia.
Nothing prohibits international applicant from being a member, even if local presence is required (again thats not in it) it could be argued that the registry and registrars are local and employees are subsidiaries (or to that effect).
"Australian Internet Community" means those users and suppliers of services via the Internet who are based in Australia;
Is auDA trying to Gaslight its Members?
In my opinion, the definition “Australian Internet Community” within the auDA Constitution is very relevant to the Boards decision about who is eligible as a member. Albeit clause 9 doesn’t specify the criteria for membership sovereignty, it’s absence should not detract from the whole document, which is given the meaning of, inclusive of all Australians.
PREAMBLE
Taking the view that the Internet Domain Name System is a public asset, and that the .au ccTLD is under the sovereign control of the Commonwealth of Australia, auDA will administer the .au ccTLD for the benefit of the Australian community.
auDA will administer the .au ccTLD for the benefit of the Australian community. auDA is composed of Supply and Demand Class Members and Directors, each belonging to the Australian Internet Community.
..based in Australia i.e. Resident.
Why would any foreign person be eligible to have a say in an industry that they cannot partake in?
9.4 Qualification for Supply Class Membership
9.5 Qualification for Demand Class Membership
- Only One Legal Person [employee] of a Registry Operator, Registrar, Reseller, or an association of membership qualifies for a supply class membership.
- Any Legal Person that does not qualify for Supply Class membership may apply to be a Demand Class Member.
A legal person includes Natural Persons – Belonging to, the Australian Internet Community, resident of Australia.
Foreign persons [citizens of another country] do not have the capacity to qualify for membership because they are unable to register a domain name in Australia, and to register a domain name in Australia requires them to be Australian residents.
3.2 Activities
b. establishing mechanisms to ensure it is responsive and accountable to the supply and demand sides of the Australian Internet Community;
g. ensuring its operations produce timely outputs which are relevant to the needs of the Australian Internet Community.
3.2 (b) & (g) established that both supply and demand sides are duely represented through Membership catagories for the purpose of establishing mechanisms to ensure the Board is “responsive and accountable” to the Australian Internet Community and those membership catagories are represented by Directors elected to those Membership catagories for the purpose of ensuring auDA’s operations “produce timely outputs’ relevant to the needs of the Australian Internet Community.
Both supply and demand are categorized by the definition “Australian Internet Community” for the benefit of all Australians, using and or supplying services within the framework of the .au DNS.
if the Board disagrees with the Constitution, why did we elect them?
I retract this Comment - After re-reading the Constitution I've changed my view, the entire constitution should read as a whole document, not in isolation to support a bias. I hope the Board can do the same.
Legal Persons...based in Australia. i.e. Resident.
Strange Linkedin profile for the auDA CEO Cameron Boardman?
A lot of people are asking why for someone in his position as auDA CEO he has no Linkedin profile showing details about auDA, his many past roles, where he studied, his qualifications, contacts etc.
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/search/cameron Boardman/all?commit=Search&utf8=✓
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-boardman-aa22091/?trk=public-profile-join-page
- https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/au_domain_administration_ltd_aud#outgoing-4446
- https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/auda_ceo_blair_cameron_boardman
- https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/cameron_boardman_llm_la_trobe_au
- https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/cameron_boardman_mba_monash_auda
- https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/au_domain_administration_ltd_boa#incoming-10216