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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: can.uucp
Subject: Re: Adhocnet
Message-ID: <89Jun27.081644edt.11740@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 89 12:16:37 GMT
References: <637@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <1989Jun23.101803.6850@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1563@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
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Tom Molnar writes:

>> That address is bogus. Gateways should reject it.  There is no such
>> registered 2ld under CA.  Until it IS registered, adhocnet.ca should not
>> be used. Period.

Russ Forster replies:

>	Thats a bit harsh don't you think?  Did you ever think we just might
>	be trying to get registered?  No I think not.

You can't expect gateways to .ca to do anything sensible if you pick a name
out of a hat and *then* try to get it registered.  In fact, even if you get it
registered first, you can't expect to start using it until it propagates to
the Internet name servers for .CA (a matter of hours/days at most), and the
UUCP and NetNorth tables (days to weeks).

>			We are attempting to register as .MtRoyal.AB.CA
>	but that has not yet gone through (its been over 2 months now).

When the forwarders are already decided (do you have yours?), and there are no
objections to your choice of name (which I doubt there is in this case), and
the check is in the mail, I've seen registrations go in quite quickly.  I see
no trace in the UUCP registry archives of discussions about mtroyal.ab.ca, and
have seen no requests to registry@ai.utoronto.ca either, which may just mean
that you are applying via some other channel.  Any idea of where/why your
application is stuck?

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4