Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!gateway From: hrs1@cbnewsi.att.COM (Herman R Silbiger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400 Subject: Re: admd policies Summary: admd definition Message-ID: <1990Dec30.014356.11120@cbnewsi.att.com> Date: 30 Dec 90 08:09:40 GMT References: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 40 Approved: usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU x-attn: jns X-Previously-To: mhsnews-usenet@ICS.UCI.EDU ReSent-To: mhsnews@ICS.UCI.EDU In article , jh@tut.fi (Juha Heinanen) writes: > > in december 10, 1990 issue of communications week international there > was an article titled 'bt stands alone'. the article gives some light > on who can be an admd and what an admd is supposed to do. > > first it says: "the term admd was originally used to describe an > international telegraph and telephone consultative committee operator > with authority to route domestic and international email. such a > definition does not apply in deregulated telecoms market, such as the > u.k. the u.k draft standard defines an admd as any value-added service > operator that agrees to interconnect its services with others." > Any e-mail provider that offers its services to the public on a non-discriminatory basis can be considered an ADMD. An ADMD has published tariffs and other regulations. A PRMD is a private organization, where only members of the organization can use the service. > what can be learned fron this regarding academic email provision? to > me the message is that we can and, in fact, should establish academic > admds in all those countries where the local law doesn't prohibit it. > in addition, we should be ready to interconnect them with as many > other admds as practical. for example, the basic rule could be that > we are ready to interconnect with anybody else on pier-to-pier basis I thought only shipping companies operated on a pier-to-pier basis 8-) > provided that a flat rate network interconnection can be somehow > arranged, ie. we don't want volume based bills. > -- > -- Juha Heinanen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland If the "academic" email provision is available to anyone who wants to use it, it could be an ADMD. If it is only open to members of the academic community it would be a PRMD. The above is only my unofficial interpretation of the standards. Herman Silbiger hsilbiger@attmail.com