Who's running .ca?

Anthony Ng · Jul 8, 2003

These are the newly elected directors of the dot-ca governing body, CIRA:

http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/FinalEN1.htm

Candidates actually include a 3rd year university student (not elected though).

Steen · Jul 9, 2003

cool, i am in canada, maybe htrey will accept 15 y/o lol.

I dun think i wanna work for htem. I dun wanna work for anybody

Anthony Ng · Jul 9, 2003

Originally posted by devildude8989
I dun think i wanna work for htem. I dun wanna work for anybody

Actually as a CIRA director, you don't work for anybody but the community as a whole. It's more a volunteer work which requires about 10 to 12 days a year (yes, YEAR!)

Whois-Search · Jul 9, 2003

and whats wrong with University Students LOL

Anthony Ng · Jul 10, 2003

Actually nothing wrong, but as a CIRA director, he or she must have, among other things, a) professional experience and education and b) the ABILITY to represent the interests of a particular community of people or organizations who are stakeholders in the Canadian Internet. The latter in particular makes it difficult for a young amateur to the industry to qualify. Having said that, a university student does have some advantage in clearing conflicts of interest as stated in CIRA's fnancial association between directors policy.

By the way, Jason Chan (the univeristy student candidate) was actually competing head to head with the systems administrator from the same school - University of Waterloo! (Both lost.)