Talk:Australian Public Access Networking Association
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To mention that APANA sprung from the early 1990-1991 public UUCP network efforts, when it was known under pub.uu.oz.au, and there were even earlier informal UUCP links across Melbourne/Sydney/Newcastle/Brisbane. The 'formal'/'preferred' Internetworking infrastructure in Australia used licenced commerical systems (MHSnet) which were impractical to hobbyist Unix users.
Most early sites took advantage of the AUUG affiliate programme to be permitted a connection to AARNET.
As mentioned on Talk:Iinet, the Newcastle and Sydney hubs were the first Public Access Linux Systems in Australia. Many hub sites provided a form of dialin guest account up until the broadband era.
Lots of Juicy drama to maybe work into the article: 'The Melbourne Cabal' being exploited to form for-profit ISPs. The original APANA/Brisbane folding, and a few of its members forming BrisNet, and then a second APANA/Brisbane being created. APANA/Newcastle not becoming aparty of the Incorporation, and instead forming HNA.com.au, only to restore itself as APANA/Hunter after a constitutional change at APANA Inc. was considered to be compatible with the region's goals. APANA/Wollongong dissolving because no-one was left who understood Linux. 'The Death of the Melbourne Cabal'.
Maybe mention the spin-off commercial ISPs: Mira.net/Pacific Internet, Triode, Netscpace...
APANA has a Ministerial Exemption (details?) that excuses it from most of the Australian legislation involving ISPs.
List of the larger systems such as Suburbia Public Access Network, which continues to run over a decade since joining APANA (despite being disconnected by the greedy melbourne apana committee around 1995-1996)
- try again. proff was kicked out for being a spammer for suburbia.net. His drug-induced psychosis and a wannabe UnDeRgRoUnD UB3rhac|<eR didn't make him very popular either. 203.14.156.192 02:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Incorporation date; use of "APANA"
APANA was incorporated in Victoria in 1991. My recollection has the informal name of pubnet being used up until then. 203.14.156.192 02:24, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Ministerial Exemption"
No exemption has ever been issued, and certainly not by any minister.
The ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority), the regulatory body that administers the Telecommunications Act (Cwth) and considers exemption applications, did receive an exemption application from APANA. The ACMA concluded that APANA did not meet the requirements to be classified as a service provider and as such a need to consider the exemption application did not exist.
[edit] Name Error
The name in the Page Title is incorrect. It should read "Australian Public Access Network Association", not "Networking" as it is the title.
