Subj : Easier solution?
To   : Frank Vest
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Jan 01 2003 07:14 pm

Hi Frank.

31-Dec-02 05:34:26, Frank Vest wrote to Charles Cruden


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 FV> Copied from FTSC_PUBLIC by Frank Vest (1:124/6308.1)
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 FV> On (30 Dec 02) Charles Cruden wrote to All...

 FV> Hello Charles,

 CC>> Comments / criticisms welcome....

 CC>> Why not simply replace the phone number of an IP node with its IP
 CC>> address or FQDN?  After all, a phone number is the "contact
 CC>> address" for a node in Fidonet, same as the IP / FQDN is for an
 CC>> IP node.  For

 FV> I'd really rather not be known as 1:124/6308 /and/ 1:124/8308 :)
 FV> However, that may be the best way to do this.

 FV> FWIW: Many, if not all, of the ideas agrued and passed around here
 FV> have merit. The problem is going to be getting one of them into
 FV> operation /without/ making a dozen new "standards" to follow. To
 FV> do this, IMHO, will require the joint efforts of the *C structure
 FV> and the FTSC.

The FTSC hasn't started working yet, but there are a number of members here
participating.

 -=> Bye <=-

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