The current state of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority
(CIRA), the not-for-profit corporation that manages the dot-ca domain
space, is looked at by Professor Michael Geist in this report in The
Toronto Star.
With its annual general meeting this week, Geist looks at the reasons
for the organisation's decline in discussions on the internet in
Canada. In CIRA's early years, "engaging Canadians was viewed as a top
priority" says Geist and there was an active campaign to gain their
interest.
Today, he writes, CIRA has been largely absent from public policy
discussions while the biggest failure has been how Canada "has fallen
behind other country-code domain names in allocating resources toward
Internet public interest initiatives."
He gives examples of Nominet in the UK, along with the Austrian,
Australian, Dutch, Italian, French, Rwandan and Congolese ccTLD
managers, who have all given significant support to initiatives aimed
at furthering the use of domain names and/or the internet in the
respective countries.
Geist believes CIRA needs to follow some of these initiatives to further its public policy role.
To read Professor Geist's article in The Toronto Star in full, see: www.thestar.com/news/article/698457
To register your .CA domain name, check out EuroDNS here.
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