[registrars] Message from the ca-registrars association

["Timothy M. Denton" <tmdenton@magma.ca>]

April 6, 2001

Mr. Michael Palage
Secretary, the Association
	of  ICANN-accredited registrars in the DNSO

michael@palage.com

Dear Michael,

	I am writing to you in my capacity as the representative of the Canadian
registrars in the .ca namespace. In that capacity I sit on the Board of
CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (www.cira.ca), which is
the corporation that manages the .ca namespace. Two hundred thousand .ca
registrations have been made as of now.

	My purposes in writing you are, first, to introduce you to the existence of
the .ca- registrars, and second, to offer our cooperation I matters of
mutual interest.

	The ca-registrars are without formal legal organization at this time.
However, it is expected that, in the course of this year, we will begin to
move beyond an e-mail listserve into some kind of association status under
the Canada Corporations Act. As with the Registrars' Association under the
ICANN umbrella, we have been reluctant to engender expenses.

	An election to the Board of CIRA will be held this summer, and the original
appointed Board of Directors will be replaced with one elected by the
holders of .ca names, which is the electorate in this case.

	As we are in touch frequently on matters of common interest in the ICANN
forum, I am sure it will prove possible to continue cooperation of .ca
registrars and ICANN-accredited registrars on matters of mutual interest.

Yours sincerely,


Timothy Denton


T.M.Denton, BA,BCL
tmdenton.com
1-613-789-5397
37 Heney Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1N 5V6
www.tmdenton.com

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