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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: registration -vs- forwarder policy
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- Organization: York University
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:22:10 GMT
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- In article <C07r77.4ut@uunet.ca> smd@uunet.ca (Sean Doran) writes:
- >CA does a number of things right, notably the assurance of proper
- >nameservice for anything that has a cooperative Internet forwarder,
- >X.400 routing, and a listing in the UUCP maps. All of these have been
- >good political decisions.
-
- sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
- | Well I wouldn't agree with that. There is currently (unlike the .us
- | or standard NIC domains) no requirement for having an Internet Domain
- | Name Server to support your domain. Down south it *is* required. You
- | can't get registered in .com or .us unless someone is willing to
- | support an MX for you.
-
- Ok, here's a factual disagreement and a policy question. Lets put the
- policy question up for debate...
-
-
- As I understand it, and organization with a discontinuous net (ie,
- no internet mail forwarder) in Canada can register a domain name. In
- the United States this is untrue. There you can have an IP network
- number allocated, but you cannot have a domain name without a mail
- forwarder (and someone to hold your MX records, as a practicality
- issue).
-
- The U.S. position has been criticized because a company cannot
- ``reserve'' their domain name. The Canadian position has been
- criticized because the domain is unreachable.
-
- Is this an either-or situation? Is there a middle ground? Is there
- a necessary relationship with the allocation of an IP address?
- Does the .ca domain registrar actually place the domain entry into a
- DNS server without any A or MX records? What effect does this have on
- email?
-
- Ok folks, lets have at it (:-))
-
- --dave
-
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