SKYSCAPE had offered IANA/Jon Postel to fund the ".ca" domain at no
cost and no prejudice based on the premise and understanding that the
Canadian government had stopped funding the project. SKYSCAPE was willing
to fund the existing infrastructure as is (our cost).
How generous. But, Canadian ISPs have been working the issue for
the last two years in conjunction with the previous naming authority.
Having a new play blunder his way into the game seems unwise.
>SKYSCAPE had offered IANA/Jon Postel to fund the ".ca" domain at no
>cost and no prejudice based on the premise and understanding that the
>Canadian government had stopped funding the project. SKYSCAPE was willing
>to fund the existing infrastructure as is (our cost).How generous. But, Canadian ISPs have been working the issue for
the last two years in conjunction with the previous naming authority.Having a new play blunder his way into the game seems unwise.
Uh, we have been asking for the past two years. We are hardly new at
this. In fact the CAIP has endorsed our proposal to repatriate the
canadian ip registry.
To the best of my knowledge this is not true. The issue of a Canadian IP
Registry appears to no longer be on CAIP's agenda. For instnace it is not
mentioned at all in the report given April 24th at the CAIP AGM
http://www.caip.ca/agmrepor.htm
In fact, here is a quote from a Government of Canada report found at
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_indps/itt/engdoc/3g12.html in the
Executive Summary section:
The report finds that the economic cost of a Canadian IP registry would
be high. Construction, or set-up costs would exceed $100,000, while the
registry would probably suffer an operating loss, after deduction of
fees to its users, of approximately $400,000 in its first year of
operation. These costs would need to be absorbed by the Canadian ISPs,
or passed on to customers.
Offsetting benefits which might make such costs tolerable could not be
identified.
The Government of Canada does not appear to support repatriation of the
IP registry function either.
Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing.
But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms.
-- Randy Bush
I was not at the last CAIP meeting, but as far as I know there has been no
endorsement by CAIP to repatriate IP registery.
There was some discussion a year on doing this and CANARIE even offered to
partly fund the costs of developing the registery.
But I believe a consensus arose that it would be far more valuable for Canada
to participate more actively in North American registery bodies such as ARIN.
We would have a lot more influence on registery issues if we participate in
North American forum rather than building our own services.
Bill