CIRA

CIRA Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[edit] Description

CIRA is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, responsible for managing the .ca top-level domain. It is organised as a not-for-profit corporation.

CIRA was incorporated in 1998 with the mandate to set policy for and operate the .ca domain. Since 1988, .ca domain names had been registered on a volunteer basis by the registrar at the University of British Columbia.

In 1997, at the Canadian annual Internet conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Canadian Internet community, with a view to liberalize registration procedures and substantially improve turnaround times, decided to undertake reform of the .ca Registry. The Canadian Domain Names Consultative Committee (CDNCC) was created and it was recommended that a not-for-profit, private sector corporation be incorporated to run the dot-ca registry. This occurred in December 1998, when the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) was incorporated.

CIRA Board Members

• Clyde Beattie
• Lynne Mackan-Roy
• Margaret Osborne
• Bill Reid
• Debi Rosati
• Paul Andersen
• John Demco
• Rick Anderson
• Michael Geist
• Malcom Andrew
• Jim Mercer
• Robert Ford
• Ron Kawchuck

People

• Bernard Turcotte, President and CEO
• Bill Reid, is on the board of directors
• Clyde Beattie, Chairman of the Board of Directors
• Debi Rosati, is on the board of directors
• Gabriel Ahad, Director of communications and marketing
• Jacob Glick, Legal and Policy Counsel
• Jim Mercer, is on the board of directors
• John Demco, is on the board of directors
• Kim von Arx, General Counsel and Director of Policy Development
• Lynne Mackan-Roy, Board Member
• Malcom Andrew, is on the board of directors
• Margaret Osborne, is on the board of directors
• Michael Geist, is on the board of directors
• Norm Ritchie, director of computer operations
• Paul Andersen, is on the board of directors
• Rick Anderson, is on the board of directors
• Robert Ford, is on the board of directors
• Ron Harbottle
• Ron Kawchuck, is on the board of directors
• Adrian Buss, Manager of Computer Operations
• Matthew Pounsett is a Systems Administrator, and handles DNS operations.

[edit] CIRA Member Gallery

Bernhard Turcotte	Bill Reid	Clyde Beattie	DebiRosati
Gabriel Ahad	Jacob Glick	Jim Mercer	John Demco
Kim VonArx	Lynne MackanRoy	Malcolm Andrew	Margaret Osborne
Michael Geist	Norm Ritchie	Paul Andersen	Rick Anderson
Robert Ford	Ron Kawchuck	Matthew Pounsett

Affiliations

• ccNSO
• CENTR