🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <353F2161.B6C97AA1@storm.ca>, Vivien Milat  <milat@storm.ca> wrote:
>I agree. It is inconsistent, eg you have http://www.space.gc.ca and
>http://www.espace.gc.ca, pointing to the same site. But the RCMP and other
>departments are.
>
>However, what I find annoying about government sites is the GC part. Why
>couldn't
>we do like every other country (and the provinces) and have GOV.ca? It would
>be so
>much more logical. Now of course, this is in a country that has domain names
>that
>locate a server in a 20 km range.

It was the choice of the gc.ca folks to register that (an acronym
for both their name in both english and french,
	"Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada",
instead of gov.ca.

Have you contacted them to recommend that they might want to change
from gc.ca to gov.ca?  After all, it's they who would have to do so.
From the CA Domain Registry's perspective, I see no reason why they
couldn't if they wanted to, just as they could have in the first place.

I'll append a copy of their registration record so that you will know
who to contact to express your opinion directly to them.

>Vivien (who does NOT like CA Domain policies)

Did you contribute your thoughts during the recent public consultation
on the suggested restructuring to ensure that the policies *would*
be what you *would* like?  Notices of that public consultation were
emailed to all the listed contacts in each CA subdomain registration
record, as well as posted to the can.domain newsgroup where your
specific feelings and resulting discussions always welcome.
--
  Ed Hew <edhew@xenitec.on.ca>
  XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener ON, Canada
----
Subdomain:      gc.ca
Date-Received:  1994/04/12
Date-Approved:  1994/04/19
Date-Modified:  1996/11/13
Organization:   Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada
Type:           Federal Government/Gouvernement Federale
Description:    The Government of Canada consists of
                federal government departments, agencies,
                commissions and boards responsible
                for implementing the policy and programs
                as defined by the government in power
                and Parliament.
                The Government Telecommunications and
                Informatics Services organization (GTIS)
                is an organization responsible for providing
                information technology infrastructure for
                the Government of Canada and
                for supplying competitively priced
                telecommunications and informatics services
                for the federal government community.
                Le gouvernement du Canada est compose
                de ministeres, organismes, commissions
                et conseils federaux qui sont
                responsables de la mise en oeuvre des
                politiques et programmes definis par
                le gouvernement au pouvoir et le
                Parlement.
                Services gouvernementaux de
                telecommunications et d'informatique (SGTI)
                est un organisme charge d'assurer
                une infrastructure de technologie de
                l'information au gouvernement du Canada
                et de dispenser a la collectivite
                federale des services de telecommunications et
                d'informatique a des prix competitifs.
Admin-Name:     Bruce Catley
Admin-Title:    Director, Network Architect Program
Admin-Postal:   Government of Canada
                Government Telecommunications and
                Informatics Services
                365 Laurier Avenue West, Room 1706
                Ottawa, Ontario
                K1A 0C8
Admin-Phone:    +1 (819) 956-3240
Admin-Fax:      +1 (819) 956-3427
Admin-Mailbox:  bcatley@gtis.gc.ca
Tech-Name:      Joyce LeBlanc
Tech-Title:     GC.CA DNS Registrar
Tech-Postal:    Government Telecommunications and
                Informatics Services
                11 rue Laurier
                5A2-B1 PDP Phase III
                Hull, QC
                K1A 0S5
Tech-Phone:     +1 (819) 956-4856
Tech-Fax:       +1 (819) 956-3427
Tech-Mailbox:   registry@gc.ca
Location:       45 26 27 N / 75 41 43 W city
Net-Provider:   other
NS1-Hostname:   relay.srv.gc.ca
NS1-Netaddress: 192.197.83.1
NS2-Hostname:   relay.cdnnet.ca
NS3-Hostname:   rusty.srv.gc.ca
NS3-Netaddress: 198.103.97.1
NS4-Hostname:   ns.drenet.dnd.ca