[can.uucp] International organization in .CA?

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (10/29/89)

In the foreseeable future I will likely be in the position to register a
domain for the Canadian branch of a large non-profit organization. To my
knowledge, none of the organization's offices in the rest of the world
are on any computer net (though that may change ;-).

So here's the question: Is it more appropriate to register them as

.orgname.CA

or

.can.orgname.ORG

My authority to act will be soley from the Canadian HQ, but I don't
want to do anything now that will impede the group's ability to easily
expand its communications network later.

For what it's worth: forwarders are not an issue. They just want all
Canadian mail going through a central machine, and don't necessarily
want to advertise their internal net to the world.

Thanks for any comments.
-- 
  Evan Leibovitch, Telly Computing, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
                 evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
If you're smart enough to be a programmer, you're too smart to be a programmer

rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) (10/30/89)

This is in theory a policy decision that must be made at the world-wide
HQ of the organization.  If they don't know or care, and don't want
people to reach non-Canadian sites, then a .CA registration is reasonable.
If not, whether they would fall under .ORG or .COM depends on the type
of organization, and in that case I believe it is a requirement to have
MX's for them on the Internet.  I think a non-CA registration will cause
grief due to people trying to reach a branch office in timbuktu...

rayan