Hi mark!

Wednesday March 29 2006, mark lewis wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 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...

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

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

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

 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"...

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


Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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