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Skriven 2005-05-15 18:52:45 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
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Hello val.

14 May 05 11:15, you wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:

 CS>> Sory for being a pissant but this fellow Igor seems so totally
 CS>> related to his  own regional concerns,
 vk>         you mean soft-cr issue as "regional concern"?
 vk>         i don't think the soft-cr problem discussed here is too
 vk> important. igor wants to make it in a "100% correct" way. it might be
 vk> good for a ftsc member, but life is not a simple thing, for which you
 vk> can give a formal description.

I tend to agree ...

 vk>         personally, i think that making a minor improvements to old
 vk> standards is not so good for ftsc. we have new technologies that are
 vk> rather urgently demanded, imho the most important are: 1) sql bases
 vk> for storing fido messages,

How messages are stored, is up to the software chosen by the sysop - it should 
not make much difference if it is MSG Squish JAM SQL, as long as it 
imports/exports Fido compliant msgs, makes no difference ....

 vk>  2) routing automation,

Also sysop software choice ... , unless you are talking about an internt DNS 
type "model"

 vk>  3) public-key auth
 vk> for session/pkt and digital signature for messages. imho, it's good to
 vk> start making advancements in these directions.

That is interesting, but would require new Packet type ...

 vk>         for 1) i can say that i'm planning to implement it in husky
 vk> after release of 1.9 (so, hpt 2.0 should work with sql bases). for 2)
 vk> i'm planning to make the corresponding module for vtrack (husky
 vk> perl-based netmail tracker) that will allow to use routing maps
 vk> (afaik, we don't have a standard for them now)

 vk>         another problem is ip-only host/region entries in nodelist.

Hmmm ... getting the new MakeNl adoted and in use should fix that, unless I 
miss something ...

 vk> you should remember, 2 years ago i proposed some policy changes to
 vk> make ip-only nodes equal in rights with pstn. but it doesn't seem to
 vk> be ftsc competence.

Not FTSC, but but changing policy is a minefield on it's own ....

Russell

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