Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: .bc.ca domain park Message-ID: <1422@geac.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 09:34:50 EDT Article-I.D.: geac.1422 Posted: Sun Sep 20 09:34:50 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 18:36:03 EDT References: <8709172332.AA15132@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Distribution: can Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 44 In article <8709172332.AA15132@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Rayan Zachariassen writes: > >It'd be a bit difficult for Rick to set up a .bc.ca seeing as that >a .ca already exists, and he isn't the person responsible for it >(John Demco is); and John isn't likely to set up anything until >all requirements are clear. > This is inconsistant with the expressed wilingness of UUNET to distribute to a .bc.ca subdomain. Perhaps you mean you request he refrain from doing so until you get the top-level domain set up? >We're in the final throes of doing this now. The registration forms >etc. exist in draft form and have been discussed. I'm still trying >to get the namespace split up in a consistent manner (anything that >decreases the namespace explosion problem, is better than everything >at the second level...), and things in general are progressing. > Your aims are worthy, but I fail to see any progress. If you plan to provide administration of the Canadian domain, perhaps you would be so kind as to state your plans publicly (ie, in this forum), in sufficent detail to allow the majority of canadian sites to consider and discuss them. For goodness sakes! Post your discussion draft and criteria. My personal opinion is that your heart is in the right place, but you're keeping me in the dark about plans which directly affect me, and hat is probably *not* a good thing to do. This is canada, we have a tradition of negotiating things, not springing a fait acompli.. --dave (Gentle readers: The last comment may be regarded as a flame directed at more than one person/group: if your ears are burning, you may conclude that I'm addressing you. Other persons need not feel insulted, unless you particularly wanted to be flamed (;-)) -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.