On 09/04/15, mark lewis said the following...
 
 ml>  AI> Would it be possible to drop the zones without loosing our address?
 ml> 
 ml> not with the software in use these days... most of it is coded to
 ml> require a zone... then there's the othernets... they're all 4D/5D... too
 ml> much would break to just drop the zones... how would we communicate with
 ml> folks in othernets? it is the zones and domains that keep things
 ml> separated... i'm extremely sure that no othernets would be willing to
 ml> drop their zones and become 2D/3D and end up confused with or wrapped up
 ml> in fidonet...

I was thinking that we could continue using our address with the zone even if
the structure of fidonet changed just for the reasons you point out above
although the zones may have a different meaning, maybe simply the part of the
world were you reside.

I don't know if any change to policy will ever come to pass. It would have to
be passed by the RCs although if a reasonable change or amendment was
presented I'm sure they would consider it, and possibly even put it to a fido
wide vote if they thought it was a worthy and doable change.

The hard part is presenting the RCs with something they can work with.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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