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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: can.uucp
Subject: Re: Adhocnet
Message-ID: <89Jul1.074419edt.10369@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 1 Jul 89 11:44:07 GMT
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molnar@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Tom Molnar) writes:

>I am listed as the person responsible for the NetNorth CA gateway (not the
>domain administration, just the gateway).

The person responsible for NetNorth registrations is Roger Watt
(rogerwat@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca).  UUCP is handled by Rayan Zachariassen
(registry@ai.utoronto.ca) (he also maintains the UUCP maps for Canada
as path@ai.utoronto.ca).  John Demco (demco@ean.ubc.ca) manages the
CDNNET side of things and is the official authority over the Ca domain
as far as the Internet is concerned.

>If you've had difficulty in registering something, please follow up with
>one of the reps or with John Demco directly.  A speedy resolution of this
>problem will benefit all of us.

I have been shown the MtRoyal.Ab.Ca application (it came out of the NetNorth
side of things a couple of days ago -- odd coincidence?).

We may all find this incredibly bureaucratic, but we should not underestimate
the difficulties involved.  The policy of "one organization-one domain" has
forced institutions that had no internal connectivity and machines on all 4
networks to sit down and talk, sometimes for the first time ever.  It has
forced the 4 networks to sit down and talk, and sometimes one gets the
impression it was for the first time ever, too.  Things like bitnet to uucp
gatewaying are not necessarily trivial, either.

There are also lots of misconceptions that need to be corrected.  For example,
many applications come in with Forwarder: UUCP: none (not connected).  Well,
not being connected is exactly why you need a forwarder -- a machine on your
network that will relay mail from the alien networks.

Oh well, these things take time...

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4