Hi Swerve,
As I mentioned earlier .CA is also part of California culture prior to Canada
coming into being as the first federal union in the British Empire on July 1, 1867.
California was a sovereign Nation until 1850 when the US took control our state
abbreviation is still .CA
I question CIRA's credibility when they fail to adhere to their own rules i.e.:
BritneySpears.CA (Britney is not a Canadian) If a .CA name is registered like
Burbank.CA it clearly is not promoting Canadian Culture. Lots of .CA names were
registered by Canadians for Americans with friends put down as contact. If I
register a .CA name with real information then CIRA rejects it. CIRA is controlled
by Canada which
approved the service provider clause under NAFTA. Nic.MX has an open registration
policy for .MX as does the Nic.US with the current locality issues. As far as
Business being an extension to Culture I agree and I see no reason to start dividing
up the internet along Nationalism issues. Letting me register few Ca.domains for
Native Californian's certainly wont hurt any Canadian's.
Alan DeRossett
Digital Starlight Communications Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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