Public Announcement: Operations Update Effective June 10, 2008
May 9, 2008
Operations Update, Effective June 10, 2008
Ottawa, May 9, 2008 - The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) revises its policies, rules, and procedures on a quarterly basis to respond to the demands of Registrants and potential Registrants, to better meet the needs of CIRA Certified Registrars, and to implement operational improvements.
Amendments to legal documents
http://www.cira.ca/registrars-documents/ The following amended legal documents are available at http://www.cira.ca/en/cat_Registrar.html:
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"CIRA Privacy Policy, version 1.4" (See entire document) |
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"Registrar Agreement, version 1.8" (Sections 4.2 (c) (d), 8.4 (m)(n)(o), 11.3) |
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"Registrant Agreement, version 1.8" (Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.16 (d), 7.4 (2) (m) (n) (o), 11.5) |
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"General Registation Rules, version 3.10" (Sections 2.9, 10.4) |
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"Manual Change of Administrative Contact Policy, Rules and Procedures, version 1.7" (Sections 1(g), 1 (h), 20, Schedule “A”, Part B1 and Part B2 of Shedule “A”) |
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"Registration Information Access Rules and Procedures, version 1.2" (Introduction, paragraph 1, paragraph 5, paragraph 6(b)) |
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"CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Rules, version 1.3" (Sections 3.2(d), 4.3, 11.1) |
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"CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, version 1.2" (Section 2.4) |
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"Legal Notice, version 1.3" (Section entitled Acceptable use of the WHOIS) |
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"Registrant Agreement, version 1.8" (Section 10.1(2)) |
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"Registrar Agreement, version 1.8" (Sections 4.2(l), 13.1) |
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CIRA has made this change to allow it to make required changes to its policies to reflect changes in its business, in a timely fashion. Under the current Agreement, non-material and even insignificant changes could not be implemented without a long lead time. CIRA will of course continue to respect the needs of its Registrars and Registrants. To that end, CIRA’s "Policy Development Process (PDP)" will continue to apply.
No release of municipal domain names
At this time, CIRA is not releasing any municipal domain names in accordance with the “Registration of Municipal Names Policy, Rules and Procedures”.
Refer to the document "Registration of Municipal Names Policy, Rules and Procedures" (Version 1.4 - Effective Date: June 13, 2006), located at http://www.cira.ca/registrars-documents/ for more information.
About CIRA
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the not-for-profit, member-driven organization that manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, develops and implements policies that support Canada's Internet community, and represents the dot-ca registry internationally. CIRA processes over 300 million requests per day to connect Internet users with over one million dot-ca Internet addresses.
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