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You can find a lot of information on the sites of Alcor and CI, including answers to most (not all) of your questions.
I have inquired, and found that the biggest practical hurdle for someone living outside the US seems to be securing insurance from a US company, which is more or less a dead-end now as (according to Rudi Hoffman, an accountant who has helped other LWers through cryo arrangements) the US insurance companies have started requiring a US social security number.
I don't believe that signing up with the CAA is a requirement. These associations are non-profit organizations chartered to promote cryonics; they don't suspend people themselves.
As far as I'm aware, the only organizations offering a commercial service of cryogenic suspension are the US-based Alcor and Cryonics Institute, and the smaller KrioRus. You need to be signed up with one of those three.
You can fund your suspension by a variety of financial arrangements, but an insurance paying out in the event of your death is popular for the obvious reasons. (If you have the cash on hand to pay in advance, Alcor and CI will take it.)
There are two classes of costs to keep in mind, one is the suspension, with predictable costs and circumstances; the other is emergency arrangements if something should happen to you that triggers the need for suspension. These are by nature unpredictable, so the idea is to provision for standby and transportation services. A new class of organization seems to be arising specifically to provide such services (cf. Eucrio in Europe).
A third practical difficulty is working around your local legislation and funeral practices. In France for instance this is almost a show-stopper, as the law has become even more restrictive recently as to what can be done with the body of a dead person (interment in an official cemetary or storage of ashes in designated sites are the only two options; at least before you were allowed to keep auntie's ashes on a shelf at home - no longer now).
For all these reasons I am still at present cryocrastinating. What I now suspect I should do is get in touch with Alcor or CI directly, and that's what I'd recommend you do. They will have more experience than anyone else, including Rudi Hoffman.
If it helps you overcome procrastination, I'll volunteer to get in touch with them too, and compare notes with you.
Arbitrary exercises of government power are expected and not opposed because we can't internalize the real opportunity costs of keeping such policies and laws in place and because our monkey brains confuse the decision of legislature with a decision taken by someone high status in a small tribe.
How rational do you think this sort of remark makes you look? (Downvoted.)
It's hard to ever answer this kind of question precisely, but I suspect the case of the Martinots had something to do with the timing of it, triggering new legislation specifically to avoid a recurrence.
The more general force behind it is the pervasive meme that "our lives are not in our own hands", which justifies a number of stances: on abortion, on euthanasia, on suicide and assisted suicide, and on cryonics. The meme is, I suspect, more likely to occur as a tribal belief of people who identify as "conservatives" or "the right", and that's who has been in power here for a while.