rayan@ai.toronto.edu.UUCP (11/23/87)
CA Subdomain Registration Procedure for UUCP Sites Updated November 22, 1987 Please read and understand the following documents (in recommended order): The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA CA Subdomain Application Instructions CA Subdomain Registration Questions and Answers CA Subdomain Registration Procedure for UUCP Sites The first two of these documents are generic and distributed to all sites. The last two are specific to the UUCP community. After you read the instructions and procedures in this document, follow the instructions in the Application Instructions document in preparing your application, and the instructions here in submitting it. To submit your application, you must transmit your application form by electronic mail to the registry address given below. At the same time, you must prepare a check for the registration fee, and mail it along with a paper copy of your application to the postal address given below. Identify your organization on the check. No cover letter is necessary. The annual registration fee is $50. The check must be made payable to "University of Toronto". Other forms of payment are strongly discouraged. Payment must be processed within 2 months of submission of the application form by electronic mail. If no payment has been received at that time, the application and the registered subdomain name will be retracted and all tables purged of information related to the subdomain. You will be notified when the registration process is complete (including distribution of routing information pertaining to your subdomain). After this notification, you are free to make use of your new domain name. Any use prior to this is not sanctioned, and will carry much greater risk of lost mail. At all times, maintaining connectivity and reachability of your subdomain will be the responsibility of your organization. Certain connectivity information can only be affected by the CA authority, or the UUCP map coordinator for Canada. The registration process will include any necessary activity in this regard, through the UUCP liaison to the CA authority. If any of the information in the subdomain application is outdated, it is your responsibility to take appropriate action. The application form you submit will be transformed into a UUCP map entry for the domain map files. This entry will only change when the application form itself is updated or renewed. Connectivity information must be given in map entries corresponding to the gateway hosts of your organization. You are very strongly encouraged to submit updated UUCP map entries of this type coincident with your subdomain application. If they are to take effect immediately, they should be sent directly to the UUCP map coordinator for Canada, at the address path@ai.toronto.edu (aka: path@utai.uucp). Otherwise they may be submitted along with your application form, to be distributed when your registration is completed. Note that you must fill out the forwarders section completely. If you only include a UUCP forwarder, there is no guarantee or commitment that mail from non-UUCP networks will find its way to you. It is your responsibility to track down and obtain agreement from the administrator of a host on another network, to act as a forwarder for your subdomain. The requirements of a forwarder includes that they must know what to do with mail coming in destined for your subdomain. There may be mechanisms in place to do default routing properly from other networks, but do not assume so unless you read an announcement to that effect. In addition to permanently modifying its own tables, the forwarder may need to distribute routing information on its own network. It is your responsibility to ensure this happens. For an Internet forwarder, the UUCP CA Registry will arrange for the appropriate information to be distributed on the Internet, through the CA authority. If you have questions or concerns in connection with submitting an application, feel free to enquire at the addresses given below. Rayan Zachariassen Send application forms and other correspondence by Electronic Mail to: registry@ai.toronto.edu, or registry@utai.uucp Annual fees should be mailed, following the directions above, to: CA Registry Computer Systems Research Institute Sandford Fleming Building, Room 2002 10 King's College Road University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4