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CA Subdomain Application Instructions
Updated November 20, 1987
Please fill out an application form and submit it to one of the networks
of which your organization is a member. The network chosen is not
important but only one registration form may be submitted. This document
describes the form and includes a sample. It is recommended that you edit
the sample form and change the information as appropriate for your
organization. Please note that this registration is being made on behalf
of your entire organization. As such, it is important that you are
authorized to speak for your entire organization in this matter and that
you obtain the agreement of all interested parties within your
organization prior to submission.
A list of network registries is given below. Your network may charge a fee
for the registration service. Your network may also require further
information. Unaffiliated organizations wishing to reserve a name for
future or internal use may register directly with the CA Registrar for an
annual fee of $50. Currently the registrar cannot accept telephone
requests.
Subdomain:
The name of the subdomain applied for. This will be of the form
"yourorg.location.CA".
"location" is a name pre-assigned to the smallest registered
geographical region covering the branches or significant activity of
your organization. In the case of organizations where the smallest
geographical region is deemed to be Canada, the location subdomain will
not exist. These provincial and territorial abbreviations (as defined
by Canada Post) will be used at the second level: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB,
NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, PQ, SK, YK. Municipal subdomains, when required,
will be at the third level and will use unabbreviated names of
municipalities.
"yourorg" is a string that encodes the proper name of your organization
in a widely recognized fashion that will be unique to your parent
domain. To simplify the introduction of standard directory services,
"yourorg" should make sense standing alone. The use of an abbreviation
is recommended, if your organization has one that has already gained
national recognition, especially since subdomain names will be widely
distributed and will appear on letterheads and on business cards.
You may mix upper and lower case, or use all upper or all lower case.
Software will ignore case, and most users will probably type all lower
or all upper case, depending on their terminals. You should capitalize
it as you wish it to appear in machine generated lists, such as the
return address generated in your outgoing electronic mail. Hyphens may
be used to separate words if necessary or consistent with normal
references to the proper name of your organization. Their use is
generally discouraged. Legal characters are letters, digits, and the
hyphen, and upper and lower case are considered the same.
In accordance with the semantics of the domain name system, the parent
authority (registrar) for your subdomain is the final authority on all
matters relating to registration and subsequent use of your subdomain
name. In particular, the CA domain registrar has authority for all
second level names. Your subdomain name must be approved by the parent
authority before it is used in outgoing mail.
For example:
MegaCo.CA Nationally active company.
WidgetCo.PE.CA Company.
CityAutoLtd.Melville.SK.CA Small business or proprietorship.
AlphaBetaU.CA Nationally known university.
SmytheColl.ON.CA College.
Organization:
The full name of your organization.
Type:
Type of organization.
For example:
For-Profit Corporation
Non-Profit Corporation
For-Profit Partnership
Proprietorship
Ph.D. granting university
High School
Federal Government Branch
Provincial Government
Military Branch
Description:
A short paragraph describing your organization.
Admin-Name:
Admin-Title:
Admin-Postal:
Admin-Phone:
Admin-Mailbox:
The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and electronic address
of an administrative contact for the organization. This is the contact
point for administrative and policy questions. This person will rarely
be contacted, and the primary reason we need this information is to
know who to contact if the technical contacts have left, so we
recommend that you choose someone you expect to be around and in a
position of authority for many years. It is recommended that a properly
maintained generic address is used to reach the appropriate contact.
For example:
Admin-Name: John Smith
Admin-Title: Administrative Assistant
Admin-Postal: Dept. of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Admin-Phone: +1 204-555-1511
Admin-Mailbox: admin@AlphaBetaU.CA
Tech-Name:
Tech-Title:
Tech-Postal:
Tech-Phone:
Tech-Mailbox:
The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and electronic address
of two or more technical contacts. This is the contact point for problems
with the subdomain and for updating information about the subdomain.
Don't list people who hate to get electronic mail. One or more of the
contacts must read their mail often enough to respond quickly, should a
problem arise. For very small organizations, it is permissible to have
only one technical contact. It is appropriate to have at least one contact
corresponding to each of the forwarders within the organization.
It is recommended that a properly maintained generic address is used to
reach all the technical contacts.
For example:
Tech-Name: Jean Smith
Tech-Title: Researcher
Tech-Postal: Dept. of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Tech-Phone: +1 204-555-1512
Tech-Name: Fred Rogers
Tech-Title: Computing Staff
Tech-Postal: Dept of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Tech-Phone: +1 204-555-1513
Tech-Mailbox: tech@AlphaBetaU.CA
Location:
The latitude and longitude of the subdomain. (This can be taken as the
location of the main organizational machine, or the headquarters, or
the contact persons; usually the machine is used.) Give as much
precision as you know; if you can only determine the location to the
nearest minute, or the nearest few minutes, that's OK. Include "city"
only if you are using the location of your city center, for which
information is often available in an atlas, at a library, City Hall, or
a nearby airport. If you are unable to determine this information,
leave it blank. It is used to draw maps.
For example:
52 04 05 N / 97 37 46 W
or
52 04 N / 97 37 W city
Forwarder:
A forwarder is a host which has agreed to accept mail for your
subdomain, and forward it to you by some means. Typically, a forwarder
will be a host which is both on your network and another, and will
forward mail via your common network to you. This should not be
interpreted as permitting the transfer of arbitrary data through any
network: a network's facilities are to be used strictly according to
its regulations.
Having forwarders is not strictly required if you just want to reserve
the name, or use it internally. However, you must have forwarders to
exchange mail with other networks. For each forwarder, include the
electronic address of the person who has authorized you to use their
host. Please contact your network administration if you need help
determining your forwarder information.
Each line contains one mail group definition, whose phrase is the name
of the network the forwarder serves for your organization. Each
forwarder is specified by an address consisting of a phrase giving the
network specific node name of the forwarder, and the electronic address
of the person who has authorized you to use their host. Generic
addresses (like postmaster, root, or system) are not acceptable.
Additional information may be given within comments. You are encouraged
to provide the domain names corresponding to the network node names.
For example:
Forwarder: ARPAnet: uunet.uu.net <kp@uunet.uu.net>;
Forwarder: NetNorth: qucdn <gl@QueensU.CA>;
Forwarder: CDNnet: relay.ubc.ca <jd@ean.ubc.CA>;
Forwarder: UUCP: uunet (uunet.uu.net) <kp@uunet.uu.net>,
abunix (nix.AlphaBetaU.CA) <gru@AlphaBetaU.CA>;
Below is a sample registration form:
Subdomain: AlphaBetaU.CA
Organization: Alpha Beta University
Type: Ph.D. granting university
Description: Alpha Beta University is a degree granting academic
organization widely known for its program in Greek studies.
Admin-Name: John Smith
Admin-Title: Administrative Assistant
Admin-Postal: Dept. of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Admin-Phone: +1 204-555-1511
Admin-Mailbox: admin@AlphaBetaU.CA
Tech-Name: Jean Smith
Tech-Title: Researcher
Tech-Postal: Dept. of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Tech-Phone: +1 204-555-1512
Tech-Name: Fred Rogers
Tech-Title: Computing Staff
Tech-Postal: Dept of Computer Science
1234 Main St.
Hoople, Manitoba
M1B 2C3
Tech-Phone: +1 204-555-1513
Tech-Mailbox: tech@AlphaBetaU.CA
Location: 52 04 05 N / 97 37 46 W
Forwarder: ARPAnet: uunet.uu.net <kp@uunet.uu.net>;
Forwarder: NetNorth: qucdn <gl@QueensU.CA>;
Forwarder: CDNnet: relay.ubc.ca <jd@ean.ubc.CA>;
Forwarder: UUCP: uunet (uunet.uu.net) <kp@uunet.uu.net>,
abunix (nix.AlphaBetaU.CA) <rob@AlphaBetaU.CA>;
Registrations may be submitted to the following organizations:
CDNnet sites and unaffiliated organizations:
CA Domain Registrar
CDNnet Headquarters
309 Computer Sciences Building
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6T 1W5
cdnnet-hq@ean.ubc.ca, cdnnet-hq@ean.ubc.cdn, cdnnet-hq@ubc-ean.uucp
UUCP sites:
CA Registry
Computer Systems Research Institute
Sandford Fleming Building, Room 2002
10 King's College Road
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 1A4
registry@ai.toronto.edu, registry@utai.uucp
NetNorth sites:
Secretary, NetNorth Administration Committee
ADMINSEC@CANADA01