Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sat Jul 20 2002 04:16 am

On (19 Jul 02) Jasen Betts wrote to Malcolm Miles...

Hello Jasen,


 JB>  JB>> Requiring Hosts to be POTS capable is unlikely to be a permanent
 JB>  JB>> solution unless IP nodes can exist without a host.
 MM> Why not? The PSTN system is not going to go away in the future.
 JB> it;s already gone. making rules in this echo won't force the existing
 JB> IP-only or uncontactable zone 1 hosts to install phone lines and
 JB> modems.

No comment on this. :-)

 MM> Requiring a host node to have a phone line that can receive calls
 MM> at ZMH is not an onerous requirement. If all nodes in a net are
 MM> IP-capable then the net can be quite large so fewer hosts in a
 MM> region/zone would be required than today
 JB> yeah, that requires reorganisation and loss of political power and the
 JB> Z1 people take the politics seriously - what else can explain their
 JB> two echomail distribution systems.

Umm... at least four:

backbone.na
backbone.z1b
backbone.pa
fidospine

Insanity, IMNSHO. :(  But, this is not the echo to discuss this
subject and I'm a little different than most in Z1. :)


Frank - in Zone 1

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/flv
http://biseonline.com/r19

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