======== CA Subdomain Registration Procedure for Ontario, UUCP Sites, unaffiliated organizations, and others registering through this Liaison to CA Registry. Last revised: by Ed Hew: Tue Sep 19 23:26:53 EDT 2000 Original: by Rayan Zachariassen: November 22, 1987 Documentation: ============= Please read and understand the following documents (in recommended order): introduction The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Domain application CA Subdomain Application Instructions faq CA Subdomain Registration Frequently Asked Questions procedure CA Subdomain Registration Procedure for this liaison This documentation applies to applications for registration with CDNNET prior to the transition to CIRA in Nov 2000, typically for: - Ontario organizations, - the UUCP community, - unaffiliated organizations, such as: - Net-Providers without direct CA Registry Domain Committee representation - others who may choose to submit their application directly to a liaison. There will be a replacement document dealing with procedures for CIRA once CIRA is ready to accept applications for new CA subdomains. Note that all CA subdomains must be re-registered with CIRA before Nov 1, 2000 when CIRA begins operation. Information about pre-registration of existing CA subdomains with CIRA is available under URL: http://www.registry.ca/cira-info.html After reading the instructions and procedure, follow the specific application instructions in the "application" document to prepare your application, and then the procedure here to submit it. For those with Web browser capability, additional documentation and various search engines and interfaces are available under URL: http://www.registry.ca/registry.html Some general notes about this liaison: ===================================== This CA Domain Registry liaison has historically handled applications arising from the UUCP pseudo domain since the inception of the CA Domain in 1987. We also process those from unaffiliated organizations since 1992. Responsibility for applications from the Province of Ontario was later delegated, and we often handle those from other provinces. You may submit your application through any CA Domain Committee liaison who will agree to handle it, so you are not necessarily limited to working with any specific liaison, though you should always choose one that is _authorized_ to handle CA subdomain applications for registration with CDNNET (see: http://www.cdnnet.ca/registry.html), or use a knowledgeable consultant dealing directly with an authorized liaison. A consultant will likely charge their own fees in addition to the application fee. This liaison has no external funding benefits, and thus must be entirely self-funding. Your application fee offsets the cost of the resources required to perform CA Registry tasks. The personal and professional time and expertise spent on such tasks is donated by this liaison as a continuing volunteer effort for the benefit of Canadian organization connectivity within the global community. Application fee: =============== You may remit by either VISA (using the web form), or by sending a cheque for the application fee along with a paper copy of your application, at the same time as you first submit your application. This hard copy should be one single page with only your actual application form, from your "Subdomain" to your NS* and "Notes" fields inclusive, clipped from either your manual submission or from the copy immediately returned to your specified contact address by the syntax parser if you submitted using the Web application interface. Be kind to the environment, do *not* send a printout of the entire Web interface, just your one-page application to ensure proper attribution of your cheque. Identify the subdomain applied for on your cheque. No cover letter is necessary. The application fee is $50 plus GST = $53.50. (GST #88630 9954 RT) Your cheque, bank draft, or money order must be drawn on a Canadian or U.S. financial institution and made payable to "CA Registry". You may issue a single cheque when remitting application fees for multiple applications, specifically noting all the applications it is to be applied to. Registrations with CDNNET incur no subsequent annual fees, but new registrations with CIRA will. The application fee is NOT refundable or transferable in the event your application fails or should you choose to withdraw it for any reason. Be careful not to misrepresent the true information for the organization. Note that in applying for a CA subdomain, it is incumbant on you to provide such supporting evidence as may be required to substantiate claims and justifications for the level of registration desired, as detailed in the current CA Domain "application-form" document. Ammendents to your application to secure registration may be required if such evidence cannot be provided. Fees remitted or incurred will be attributed to the subdomain ultimately created from such an ammended application. While an applicant may arbitrarily withdraw their application at any time during the process or request subsequent de-registration, this does not does not release any obligation incurred. Your canceled cheque will be your receipt and your copy of the application form should suffice for a payment document. CA Registry is not funded for long-distance telephone calls or accounting procedures. Requests for additional financial documents, invoicing, receipts, and telephone calls may only be provided at the applicant's additional expense, time and facilities permitting, and are strongly discouraged. This liaison may on occasion extend the courtesy of processing your application in good faith on receipt of the electronic copy of your application form. This does not release you from your obligation to remit the application fee promptly as outlined above. Payment must be processed within one (1) month of submission of the application form by electronic mail or via the Web interface, otherwise the application and the registered subdomain may be retracted and all tables purged of information related to the withdrawn subdomain. Application fees should be mailed, following the directions above, to: CA Registry 199 Silver Aspen Cr. Kitchener, Ontario N2N 1H5 Be aware that unregistered subdomains remain available to the first applicant who successfully completes the registration process. Anyone may request an opinion prior to submitting an application with no obligation, being careful to ensure that such a request is clearly marked as such, lest it be mistaken for an actual application incurring an application fee. Applications: ============ A CA Registry Web application form interface is available at URL: http://www.registry.ca/ca.regform.html If you do not have access to a Web client, submit your application form by electronic mail to . Your application form must be sent as plain text. Do not use any encoding schemes or MIME attachments. Send manual application forms and other correspondence by electronic mail to: registry@cs.utoronto.ca You will be contacted via email at the address you provide if there are any problems with your application. You will be notified via email when the registration process is complete. If DNS was specified and is operational on your listed nameservers, routing information pertaining to your subdomain will be distributed. Once notified of registration, you are free to make use of your new domain name. Any prior use is not sanctioned, should not be expected to work, and will carry great risk of lost email. Routing and Map entries: ======================= At all times, maintaining connectivity and routing for your subdomain is the responsibility of your organization. Ensure that your records with the CA Domain authorities are kept current. There are two predominant types of routing, one current, one obsolete. DNS (Domain Name Service) DNS provides direct connectivity information for your subdomain via the directly-connected Internet. You must properly complete the Nameserver fields in your application form, otherwise no routing information can be installed at the time of registration. You must install the proper and necessary DNS "Resource Records" on your listed nameservers. This is more fully described in your operating system networking documentation and many good books on the subject. Pathalias (map entries) The UUCP (pathalias) maps were maps frozen Aug 1, 2000, and the global UUCP mapping project is being terminated at the end of 2000. Today, you should ensure that you have a proper MX record for your subdomain - this is what email sender systems will look for. Pathalias once provided email routing data to the hosts in your subdomain based on the link data in the map entry you would have submitted to the old global UUCP mapping project. Those sites without access to DNS would use pathalias to route email to you, according to the map entry in your provided link data. This was more fully described in the Canadian UUCP Map Coordinator's FAQ and the pathalias documentation. If you do not understand these mechanisms, you may contract with a knowledgeable third party, often your Internet Service Provider. Updating your CA subdomain registration form or DNS data: ======================================================== You can at any time request an update of your CA subdomain registration form and/or the master DNS entries on the CA Domain primary nameserver for your subdomain by completing the appropriate form found under URL: http://www.registry.ca/ca.regform.html If you do not have access to a Web browser, you can ask this liaison to forward your update to CDNNET by sending the necessary correcting information via email to: registry@cs.utoronto.ca If you are not listed as the Administrative or Technical contact for the subdomain in question, you must either include an authoritative request from the appropriate person currently listed as being responsible for that subdomain, or have them place the request themselves. The listed Technical contact for the subdomain will receive an acknowledgment when the update task is complete. There is currently no fee for updates. ============================================ Please contact the undersigned with any questions or concerns. Ed Hew