Hi Thom!

21 Сен 04, Thom LaCosta wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>>> But now we discuss only idea of seperation, not real scheme.

 TL>> Glad we corrected Mr.s Felten's mis-apprehensions.

 TL>> With what you're considering, would your Current RC become ZC7?

 VD>> Now - yes, but after appearance our zone will be election.

 TL> Would the election be directly by the sysops, or by the RCs?  How many RCs
 TL> do you anticiapte having in this new zone?

I don't know now, it's dicussable. Minimum 8 RCs, maximum 84 (number of
Federal Areas in Russia).

 TL>> Would some nodes be able to stay in Zone2 instead of Zone7?

 VD>> It's depend from Zone2C position. Policy 4.07 violate this, but may
 VD>> be exceptions... I think - they may to stay (as region or network -
 VD>> depend from these count), because exist "autopilot" stations.
 VD>> But we are planning transitional period of same years (minimum 1
 VD>> year, maximum - infinitive :-) ).

 TL> I guess it would also depend on whether or not the current ZCs from Zones
 TL> 1 through 6 would agree to making the Zone 7 Nodelist part of the nodelist
 TL> they distribute.

Policy 4.07, 7.1:
"The International Coordinator has the primary task of coordinating the
creation of the master nodelist by managing the distribution between the
Zones of the Zone nodelists.  The International Coordinator is responsible
for definition of new zones and for negotiation of agreements for communica-
tion with other networks.  ("Other network" in this context means other
networks with which FidoNet communicates as peer-to-peer, not "network" in
the sense of the FidoNet organizational level.)"

So creation our Zone is function only IC and ZCs must obey his resolution.
He may discuss it in ZCC, but he must to determine.

 TL> Has there been any discussion of moveing the nodes that you think would
 TL> make up zone 7 out of Zone 2 and into one of the other exisiting zones?

Discussion started more 3 month ago in our regional sysops echo R50.SYSOP.
At autumn (IMHO - october) will start referendum.

Vladimir

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