VD>>> Now it is not known, whether will give Russia separate number
 VD>>> 7 or will have to be a part of a zone 6 (it probably as most
 VD>>> part of Russian territory is in Asia, and into structure R50
 VD>>> consisting not only Russia, but also same the Asian
 VD>>> countries).

 ml>> the problem with using zone 7 in fidonet is that there is/was a zone 7
 ml>> used in an othernet (another FTN style network) and it would cause
 ml>> hardships for folk who were members of fidonet and that othernet (i can't
 ml>> remember the name of it at the moment)... that othernet may be
 ml>> non-existant these days, too... in that case, there would be no
 ml>> hardships...

 VD> So I wrote about use number 6 for R50's Zone.

yes, i just saw that message a few minutes ago... i think that i would find
it more acceptable, at this point in time... now, when/if china gets off
their duffs and actually joins the rest of the world, there may be more
problems to contend with if this moving of R50 to Z6 does take place...
however, i suspect that fidonet won't be on many chinese minds with the
internet as available as it is... fidonet was there when the
tienamen square situation took place, though... in fact, the
first reports of that nasty scenerio came via fidonet to the rest of the
world...

 ml>> in any case, to create another zone would require the concensus
 ml>> of the ZCC and/or IC and all zones would need to accept the Z7
 ml>> segment and process it...

 VD> All ZC already know about it, it had been directed results of
 VD> our referendum. However how much I know, the decision is not
 VD> accepted, probably there are consultations with R50C or still
 VD> someone.

yeah, i don't know, either...

 ml>> additionally, all systems _may_ have to alter their setups to allow
 ml>> for Z7 in their configs... some folk only use certain zones in their
 ml>> setups and have configured their software to ignore anything not in their
 ml>> "allow list"...

 VD> Certainly it not instant process, we wish to provide long
 VD> enough transition period for these needs (not less than 1
 VD> year)!

yeah! no doubt!

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