ABOUT NAMESPACE ZA
Namespace ZA is an organisation formed as a result of co-operation between the present administrator of the .ZA domain, Mike Lawrie, and ISOC-ZA in order to better represent the South African Internet community on issues pertaining to responsiblity for the .ZA domain.

HISTORY
In November 1998, Mike Lawrie drew up Terms of Reference for the appointment of a committee to draft conditions to be used for and guidelines that are to be used by a new administration of the .ZA namespace.

On Thursday, 4 February 1999, the ISOC-ZA Committee chose sixteen people out of a list of nominees and volunteers to be on the Namespace Drafting Committee (DC).

After over a year of deliberation and public comment, the Drafting Committee completed its work and presented final documentation to ISOC-ZA in terms of its terms of reference. On 13 March 2000, the proposal was provisionally approved in principle and adopted by the ISOC-ZA committee. The ISOC-ZA committee called for a public comment period, ending on 14 April 2000.

On 1 November 2000, ISOC-ZA passed a resolution to proceed with implementing the recommendations of the Drafting Committee.

On 31 August 2001, Namespace ZA held its founding meeting. Interested parties were invited to attend and the board was elected.

Comments on the Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill by Namespace ZA

Draft ECT bill submission - 2002-04-24

(See ECT Bill Index for document in Word and TXT formats)

Please indicate your support (or other comments) on the NameSpace ZA's submission on the ECT Bill here