If CIRA's procedure actually enforced their policy, I'm sure we would all be reasonably happy with it. But it doesn't.
All it really does is prevent people with unusual names from registering .ca domains. "John Smith" can register as many domains as he likes, regardless if that is his real name. I have to take issue with your points. It does not make registrar's lives easier because now it takes a experienced tech to fix CIRA's error. I have repeatedly pointed out these problems to CIRA and the response varies from defensive rationalisation to blank stares.... To solve the problem, register the domain with the closest approximation that CIRA will accept. When it completes, Email Support and we will get CIRA to fix it. -- Robert Rivers OpenSRS Technical Operations http://www.opensrs.org/Support_FAQ.shtml Paul Andersen wrote: > > Preface: If you are going to argue that enforcing CPR is a silly idea > don't bother reading on because the efforts of CIRA are based on enforcing > this policy. > > 1) The strict checking was put in to make registrar lives easier. CIRA did > the digging after manually by hand making a list of the most common > mistakes accross all registrations. > > 2) They posted the proposed rules for about 2 months and let registrars > comment. Many registrars found some errors and they were struck. > > 3) CIRA does allow for a method to put the registration through > regardless (e.g. you feel that the checking has made a mistake). Your > registrar needs to support this. > > 4) They don't try and recognize every name. It is strictly a blacklist of > patterns that should not occur (like inc in a personal name or the lack of > inc in a corporate name). If you have found a flaw in the checking you are > more then welcome to ask TuCows to forward this on to CIRA for you. > > Cheers, > > Paul > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Doctor PC - Brian O'Donnell wrote: > > > It is bad enough that CIRA insists on not allowing a company to register a > > domain name unless it is incorporated, but now they won't let my customer > > register a domain name because they don't recognize the customer's name!!! > > > > How the h*ll are they supposed to recognize every f**king name in the > > world?!!? There are such things as immigrants to this country. Some names > > have punctuation in them. That is part of the name!!!! Now CIRA wants every > > registrant to change his or her name to some regular expression that fits > > their ridiculous insane policy! > > > > I am really pissed off now. This customer has been patiently waiting for a > > week for the last attempt to time-out so that he could re-submit the reg > > request with his proper name. Now he has to make up a name to register it > > under. > > > > Anyone else finding this a problem? > > > > Brian O'Donnell (but don't take out my apostrophe -- that would change my > > name) > > Doctor PC > > www.doctorpc.ca > > > > > > --- > Paul Andersen (InterNIC:PA137) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-Gate Communications Inc. T: +1 (416) 447-7700x23 > > "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody > appreciates how difficult it was." - NANOG
