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- From: edhew@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
- Subject: UUCP liason introduction to can.domain
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- Organization: [resent by] The CANDOM gateway and Propagation Society
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:25:09 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- Before I go commenting on a number of issues, I should take a moment
- for the benefit of those who may not yet know me, and post a general
- personal introduction, interspersed with other useful bits of
- information. Hopefully others will also offer introductions.
-
- I, and hopefully others will be posting some backgrounders just as
- soon as we get a chance to bring them up to date. I'm also hoping
- that I'll have time to evolve a FAQ, or better yet, assist some
- other kind hearted party in doing so.
-
- I'll spare everyone a blatant commercial and stick to what I hope is
- relevant. I was invited join the CA Domain Committee as a replacement
- for Rayan Zachariassen who had been on it since it's inception. This
- was coincidental with my replacing Mark Moraes as Canadian UUCP Map
- Coordinator, given that it made sense that whoever does the UUCP maps
- should represent those listed therin. I consider both of these to be
- essentially volunteer positions. All this happened just this last
- March (92), and it certainly has been intensive on-the-job training.
-
- I understand my duties on the .CA Domain Committee to be multi-faceted.
- The best description I could come up with is "UUCP Liason to the .CA
- Domain Committee", which means that I serve as person who accepts
- applications, answers questions, and generally interfaces with the
- others on the committee, on behalf of the Canadian UUCP committee.
-
- In greater detail: I'll receive an registration inquiry and forward
- the relevant documentation, then usually engage in a q&a series
- resulting in an application. The application is then checked and
- required corrections and/or missing information are requested. Once
- the application appears to meet the applicant's requirements and
- looks like I can substantiate it's approval by the committee, it's
- submitted. If we've got things right, no one will object, resulting
- in registration 7 days from committee submission. If we've missed
- something, or messed up in our intended application of the "rules",
- then this gets clarified or resolved and the application (sometimes
- ammended) is approved. While nasty things like holidays and "real
- work" may interfere, I'm told that we're getting things done a lot
- faster these days. The exception is that we've found that we must
- change the "rules" to be equitable and fair to all concerned.
-
- Ah, the "rules". I'll let others more qualified than I, spell out
- exactly what is required of the administrative scheme for the .CA
- hierarchy naming conventions. What is important at the moment is the
- committee is right now expending a fair amount of time and effort in
- reworking the "rules" to be fair, reasonable and sensible in all known
- respects. These same "rules" must be workable for the exponential
- explosion of .CA namespace use in the very near future, corresponding
- to the connectivity explosion we're witnessing. What's interesting
- is that the UUCP community appears to be applying for .CA subdomains
- at a rate greater than other registration sources.
-
- Private correspondence I've engaged in with various members of the
- Canadian UUCP Community has been invaluable in providing information
- that needed to be brought to the committee. I see a similar requirement
- to facilitate flow of information from the committee to the community,
- basically to ensure that no one is grasping in the dark without adequate
- information. The technical needs the committee must accomodate and the
- needs of the UUCP community need to be brought together, which means
- that everyone needs to know what people not previously heard from have
- to say. I'd like to thank Stuart Lynn for suggesting the creation of
- can.domain so that we can greatly enhance the dialog we already have.
- I'd also like to thank John Demco for his kind offer to support
- can.domain with informational and other relevant postings and his
- active efforts to bring can.domain comments to the committee. Lastly,
- my thanks to Sean Doran at UUNET Canada for instantly agreeing to
- facilitate broad propagation of this newsgroup.
-
- Finally, this isn't my pet newsgroup. It's here because interested
- members of the UUCP Community have asked for it. Let's see how much
- we can help each other on the issues at hand. I hope to be able to
- post the revised .CA application form and instructions soon. There's
- not much sense posting the existing one unless revision takes too
- long, as that revision is intended to go a long way towards solving
- some of the perceived problems that lead to the creation of this
- newsgroup.
-
- --ed (Ed Hew)
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