From: buboo@taxus.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
Subject: EBIC - Official announcement
Summary: EBIC-rules and EBIC-Coordinators 92/93
Reply-To: ruben@uib.no
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 12:34:10 GMT

This message contains the European Board of IRC Coordinators rules,
and a list of the various local EBIC members.

\Ruben.

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	If you like in future to establish a link inside the EBIC area,
	please contact the coordinator of the affected toplevel domain.
	This coordinator will discuss the link with affected local server
	admins and inform other EBIC members about new links. Also a good
	idea is to join #EU-Opers and discuss the new link there.

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    #####    RULES FOR ESTABLISHING NEW IRC SERVERS IN EUROPE (v1.0)   #####
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	1.)	Establishing a new server and inner domain linking should be
		a local toplevel domain (country) decision.

		    Guidelines:

		    + New servers should be leafed until their admin(s) 
		      have sufficient experience to handle their server 
		      responsibly. (This avoids routing disasters).

		    + Only a link for ONE server should be given to the new
		      server site, that means the new site shouldn't be able to
		      connect test-servers to other than its own server.
		      (This avoids confusion about linking hierachy).

		    + Be sure that if a toplevel domain hostmask link is given,
		      all hubs of that domain can connect the masked server!
		      (this should avoid disagreement between serveral hub
		      admins in one domain).


	2.)	All other links between toplevel domains (countries) should be
		dicussed between the major link coordinators of each toplevel
		domain (country). These coordinators are called European Board
		of IRC Coordinators (EBIC).

		    Guidelines:

		    + Major link coordinators of each toplevel domain (country)
		      should be published with the server sourcecode in
		      directory ./doc/EU-Admin.

                    + Each toplevel domain (country) participating in the
		      European IRC net must have a coordinator, who is
		      responsible for country-internal connections AND
		      represents the country in contacts with the rest of the
		      world. This person(s) is (are) chosen by their domain,
		      but must be approved by the EBIC.

                    + The EBIC is the only executive in charge of European 
		      interconnections and of connections from Europe to the 
		      rest of the world. They will decide linking issues
		      WITH the affected local admins.

		    + For establishing new links between several toplevel
		      domains the affected EBIC coordinators should be
		      consulted. If further coordination is needed it should
		      be discussed within the EBIC.

		    + Additional note: International links should also take
		      care of the network topology, so even if several national
		      opers agree on a same international link, they might be
		      wrong and use unecessary network ressources. The EBIC
		      should avoid such linking.

		    + Any major linking change should be announced in the
		      european mailing list:
			IRC-Operators Europe <irc-eu@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>


	3.)	A prerequisite for getting a NEW server connection within
		Europe is an understanding of and compliance to the above
		rules.

		    Guideline:

		    + All new admins should get a copy of these rules.


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	These toplevel domains are currently participating EBIC:
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 *.at	*.ch	*.de	*.fi	*.fr	*.it	*.nl	*.no	*.se

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    The following national coordinators have been choosen for 92/93:
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*.at
    1. Tom		Tom Kovar		<tom@itc.univie.ac.at>

*.ch
    1. berndf		Bernd Fleischmann	<berndf@suntrax1.cern.ch>

*.de
    1. YeggMan		Volker Paulsen		<paulsen@informatik.uni-kl.de>
    2. Haegar		Thomas Thissen		<tici@uni-paderborn.de>

*.dk
    1. karthy		Karsten Thygesen	<karthy@iesd.auc.dk>

*.fi
    1. Vesa		Vesa Ruokonen		<Vesa.Ruokonen@lut.fi>
    2. Visti		Hannu Visti		<visti@sauna.cs.hut.fi>

*.fr
    1. Nono		Arnaud Girsch		<ircadmin@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr>(?)

*.it
    1. Allanon		Riccardo Facchetti	<mez002@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it>
    2. mAu		Maurizio Paoluzi	<paoluzi@mercurio.dm.unirm1.it>

*.nl
    1. scorpio		Cor Bosman		<bosman@gene.fwi.uva.nl>
    2. JohnPC		Jan-Pieter Cornet	<cornet@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>

*.no
    1. gnarfer		Ove Ruben R Olsen	<Ruben@uib.no>

*.se
    1. Black		Christer H. Jansson	<st90_cjn@manwe.sunet.se>
    2. Sorg		Owe A Rasmussen		<d1rasmus@dtek.chalmers.se>

(?) - not yet approved

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        Ove Ruben R Olsen a Gnarfer and VI user. EMAIL: ruben@uib.no. 
     Maintaining the EX/VI-archive and a coupple of the Comp.Editors FAQs.
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