A single body should be set up to deal with all the possible disputes over name registration. The panel stressed in its report that it was not aiming for compe tition for its own sake and other important considerations, such as the integrity of .au names, were taken into account. Domain name administration could be divided into commercial functions and policy-setting, it said, and there were questions about where the line between them should be drawn. AuDA would probably also delegate policy authority for those domains to the relevant authorities. AuDA should require registrars to include some minimum consumer safeguards in their reseller agree ments,'' the report says.
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