Hi Alan, Aug. 26. 2001
As far as i understand, and i haven't read the NAFTA fine print, there are
aspects of Canadian Life that are not subject to the "Free Trade" of Nafta.
One of those areas is certain aspects of culture.
>From my perspective, the .ca namespace is part of Canadian culture and
should remain so.
I see business as a subset of culture, and not the other way around.
Cultural expression and/or identity can exist without business transactions.
Business cannot exist without culture.
Imo, it is up to Canadians to determine in a democratic fashion how we
choose to utilize this namespace. This should not be a NAFTA issue.
Perhaps Californians should lobby Icann to set up .CAL
or .California etc.
This would give Californians a unique identity in the namespace, and
Canadians as well.
regards,
Swerve
> From: AlanDeRossett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 09:19:16 -0700
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: CIRA investigates your customers - watch out
>
> Eric thanks for spoting my typo,
> I would be happy to help you register a yourcompany.locality.state.us name and
> support your right to do so. The U.S. Department of Commerce has the
> http://www.NIC.US hosted with Verisign and must abide by the NAFTA "Free"
> Trade
> agreement as well. I also want to
> push the U.S. Department of Commerce into opening up the name.US space without
> all
> the locality stuff. Many Californians want a .CA name and I suspect many
> Canadians
> would register .US names as well. Piror to the current CIRA system of
> investigation California Companies could just hire a Candaian ISP to register
> it
> for them.
>
> Alan DeRossett
> Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
>
> Eric Paynter wrote:
>
>> Alan DeRossett writes:
>>
>>> If CIRA wont honor the NAFTA Fair Trade agreement allowing US companies
>>> equal
>>> access too the Canadian Market (ie:Name Space) Maybe US companies will
>>
>> LMAO! And I suppose that .us should be opened up to Canadians as well...
>>
>> -Eric P.
>>
>> p.s. it's "Free Trade" not "Fair Trade"... North American Free Trade
>> Agreement.
>>
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