Hi Ward!

Thursday March 30 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 >> If R50 will join to Z6 it will be possible to not worry about critical
 >> weight. :-)

 >> What do you think about this transfer?

 WD> 1) For a very long time, if not forever, piles of routed netmails will
 WD>    disappear in a black hole. To avoid this from happening
 WD>    all R50-nodes will have to be listed in 2 zones ... probably until hell
 WD>    freezes over. The maintenance of that will be ... interesting;
 WD> 2) Technically all nodes in every zone will need to adapt their
 WD>    routing-tables, how simple it may be, by adding a statement to deal
 WD> with 7:*/*. It is unlikely that many will do that.

Ward, you answer to not my question! I ask you about Zone _6_ transfer, not about Z7!
Route to Z6 is still working, and my Z6 node is really test it.

 WD> 3) In the magnitude of 3,500 sysops of R50 will need to besically alter
 WD>    their complete set-up ... many, if not most, will not do that.

For long-time period - of course.

 WD> 4) What about those already using a 7:othernet? No routing possible
 WD> without 5D-addressing.

Z6 have not "othernets".

 WD> Fidonet is supposed to be a technology-driven co-operative network. So far
 WD> I have not seen a technical raison-d'ˆtre to split-off in a separate zone,
 WD> or move to another zone in block. You are most welcome to provide such a
 WD> "technical" reasoning though if you have one.

 WD> And why change/move/introduce something which already works technically?

 WD> It is the dream of just a few for pure personal reasons. Or have you
 WD> failed to notice that R50 is the fastest declining portion of the
 WD> nodelist?

Yes, and it's most reason for separation to own zone - change same
statements of Policy (at first - by local Zone-Policy). I'm not sure that I
have a right to translate this to all now, but in own region we has discuss
it.
These changes need only for our country, so in Z2 they not will usefull.

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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