If you look through http://www.caip.ca you will find the following: The IP registry for Canada has been run by the University of Toronto for the past few years. The .CA domain name registry for Canada has been run by John Demco of the University of British Columbia. This has been done mostly out of the goodwill of organizations such as CA*Net, UofT, UofBC, and John, who have paid for this service. With increased demand for these services, the UofT will no longer be offering the service. The CAIP will be taking over both registration services and will be responsible for the provisioning of IP address and .CA domain names within Canada. So far it seems reasonable. Then we see this: The pool and committee will also be anonymous and non-public. This is being done in order to obtain the best possible people for the positions, to ensure that the decisions are un-biased, and that the positions can not be used for personal gain. The specific membership of the committee will therefor not be published by the CAIP, nor will any member of the pool or committee ever be allowed to publisize that they were on it. This seems highly unusual and I wonder if any of you know of domain registries (and especially IP registries) in other countries that are runn by anonymous committees and most especially, on which committee members are EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN from ever identifying themselves. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com