Xref: utzoo news.admin:6091 comp.mail.misc:2010 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!dfk From: dfk@cwi.nl (Daniel Karrenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail and news in Europe Message-ID: <936@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 26 Jun 89 11:03:05 GMT References: <786@redsox.bsw.com> <928@sering.cwi.nl> Followup-To: news.admin Organization: EUUG Lines: 45 In article wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: >Who administers the top-level domains in Europe? If they are maintained by >EUnet/EUUG, do only EUUG members get to join those domains? In some countries the organisations running EUnet backbone host have indeed registered the Internet toplevel domain with SRI-NIC. They act as clearing houses according to the rules and will register subdomains of anyone who wants them according to the rules. EUUG or EUnet members get no preferential treatment whatsoever. This is more than can be said of some academic networks having registered the toplevel domains in other countries. Also EUnet has been very active in many countries to achieve coordination of email delivery using domain addresses. >Now that several European countries (including France, Denmark, The >Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Finland) are directly connected to the >Internet, will NNTP help bring down the costs of getting news into Europe? :-) :-) :-( :-( :-( Yes of course. Since every site connected to the Internet will set up an NNTP feed from some site in the US. The news will get over here very chaeply and with about 2 months delay because the links are so clogged. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(. One of the two (soon three) transatlantic links providing the abovementioned Internet connectivity is maintained and financed by EUnet in cooperation with UUNET. It's paid out of sharing the cost for bringing news into Europe and by organisations actually paying for mail. This connectivity is not for free! Yes, having a leased line will bring down the cost *as long as everybody pays their share*. If cheating starts in a big way then the money will not be sufficent to keep (or upgrade) the line, the connectivity will go away and everybody looses. This is why there is agreement among the organisations providing Internet access in the abovementioned countries that sites receiving news via this infrastructure should pay their normal EUnet news subscription and use the hierarchical distribution scheme that minimises transmissions on expensive links. Daniel -- Daniel Karrenberg Future Net: CWI, Amsterdam Oldie Net: mcvax!dfk The Netherlands Because It's There Net: DFK@MCVAX