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I was not at the last CAIP meeting, but as far as I know there has been no endorsement by CAIP to repatriate IP registery. There was some discussion a year on doing this and CANARIE even offered to partly fund the costs of developing the registery. But I believe a consensus arose that it would be far more valuable for Canada to participate more actively in North American registery bodies such as ARIN. We would have a lot more influence on registery issues if we participate in North American forum rather than building our own services. Bill --- On Thu, 22 May 1997 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Michael Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 1997, Marc Hurst wrote: > > > Uh, we have been asking for the past two years. We are hardly new at > > this. In fact the CAIP has endorsed our proposal to repatriate the > > canadian ip registry. > > To the best of my knowledge this is not true. The issue of a Canadian IP > Registry appears to no longer be on CAIP's agenda. For instnace it is not > mentioned at all in the report given April 24th at the CAIP AGM > http://www.caip.ca/agmrepor.htm > > In fact, here is a quote from a Government of Canada report found at > http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_indps/itt/engdoc/3g12.html in the > Executive Summary section: > > The report finds that the economic cost of a Canadian IP registry would > be high. Construction, or set-up costs would exceed $100,000, while the > registry would probably suffer an operating loss, after deduction of > fees to its users, of approximately $400,000 in its first year of > operation. These costs would need to be absorbed by the Canadian ISPs, > or passed on to customers. > > Offsetting benefits which might make such costs tolerable could not be > identified. > > The Government of Canada does not appear to support repatriation of the > IP registry function either. > > > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] > > The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing. > But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms. > -- Randy Bush > > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Bill St. Arnaud CANARIE Inc Director Network Projects 470-410 Laurier Ave W Tel: +1 613 660-3497 Ottawa 199.212.24.5 Canada FAX: +1 613 660-3806 K1P 6H5 [email protected] http://www.canarie.ca/bstarn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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