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Titolo: #dlf: nuovo cambio di server

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a chi interessasse c'e' anche la storia dietro al nuovo cambiamento:
This report is to try and summarise the events which occurred causing
an impact o­n the IRC-chat IRC network. This report has o­nly been
produced as a guide to friendsweb members in order to give them an
idea of why things were changed. 
It's contents have been derived from statements made o­n websites,
meeting amongst the ops of our channel and with the admins of the
parties involved. The information given here is o­nLY AS RELIABLE AS
THE SOURCES WHICH PROVIDED US THE INFORMATION. Certain aspects of the
events, also, have not been divulged into as we, at friendsweb, have
no evidence or enough information to feel comfortable "judging" the
situation.
All information in this document is not intended to undermine,
incriminate, nor provide defamatory content, it is our opinion of the
events which lead to the separating of the former IRC-chat network,
and should be taken o­nly in that manner. Friendsweb or its affiliated
IRC channels cannot be held responsible for the reliability of
information given here, and is provided AS IS with no guarantee of its
authenticity. 
The opinions expressed here are o­nly o­nes which we feel relate to
our group and channel.
Many of you are confused as to what had happened to the network within
which we all chat! This report is here to attempt to summarise the
information which we have been given, making no comment o­n
conflicting reports for which we, friendsweb, have no evidence nor
belief to share.
It also provides some insight into why we have made the decision we
have.
Here is our report of the APPARENT events leading to the major changes
which have affected us.
The server management staff of IRC-chat network had many disagreements
over how the network was being ran, which had been causing some
tension for a while. During this time, a couple of the servers' staff
felt the need to de-link from the IRC-chat network, due to these
problems, o­ne of them being the "legal owner" of the domain
IRC-chat.net. It appears that there were two main "groups of thought",
the o­ne which decided to de-link their servers from the IRC-chat
network (from hereon known as "IRC-chat", including the legal owner of
the IRC-chat domain) and the group (majority) who decided to continue
the network venture (hereon known as irchighway).
Again, the details of these disagreements cannot be conclusively
proven by friendsweb, thus, it will not be discussed here.
The irchighway staff-group, after some time, started to feel the
pressures of not being in direct access to the domain name. And as the
domain owner had no longer any IRC servers o­n the network, decided
that the o­nly way to amalgamate the network again was by having the
domain name in the possession of the network, o­nly accomplishable by
purchasing a new domain name. This is due to the tensions between both
parties reaching a level, where the server admins of the networks
could no longer agree o­n various aspects of the running of the
network.
Upon the transition between IRC-chat and irchighway, the users were
informed of the name change via the usual routes, i.e.. o­n the
website, global notices etc. And during the change-over period, the
"IRC-chat" group had decided that they could no longer provide this
domain name to irchighway, and removed access. This group then
proceeded, with the two servers that had left the irchighway group, to
start a new network, using the domain name IRC-chat.net, which o­ne of
the IRC-chat admins still own.
There are many accusations being made, including that of system
security breaches and the acquisition of files illegally, all of which
we cannot comment o­n as we are not in a position to judge fairly.
After a day of meeting with each other and relevant persons from the
respective groups, the operators of friendsweb had made the decision
to keep our channel o­n the network which had provided us with the IRC
services we need, that is to say we are staying o­n the same "network
infrastructure" as we were previously, which has been re-named to
irchighway. This is the same network as before, minus two servers.
This decision accounted for many factors, including our knowledge of
the network, network topology, and factors which we have discussed
with network administrators. This is by no means a statement by us
implying any kind of accusation, but is a decision we felt would be
most beneficial to our channel over a range of issues.
Initially we decided to stay with the servers of irchighway, despite
the inconvenience of the change of name, but had to gain assurances
o­n various aspects.
One such factor was the de-centralisation of critical network
entities, namely the way in which decisions are made o­n the network
and the ownership of the new domain. In order to avoid a repeat
situation, we clarified the following points with administrators of
the, now, irchighway network;
Ownership of the new domain name is currently registered to an
individual, as the acquisition process had stipulated at the time. We
have been promised that as soon as the "smoke settles", this domain
name WILL have its registration applied to 5 or 6 key individuals,
avoiding a repeat of these unfortunate events.
Decision making, for the running of the network is facilitated by a
democratic method. This is to say that the management staff of the
network and servers, as a collective, make important decisions which
affect the running of the network.
This is not to say the, now named, IRC-chat network will not employ
these methods, but as far as the service we have received since moving
from DalNet goes, we felt that the existing network configuration
serves our needs more than adequately, and has promised to employ the
above tactics in order to make sure that we have no similar problem.
We have made a choice which we feel will serve the members of our
channel best, which is, as best as possible, free from bias.
As we cannot allow ourselves to take an active role in this dispute,
nor comment o­n questionable aspects, we advise our members to also
take this position, and not get involved in this issue. Just sit back,
relax, and continue to enjoy our community!
In essence, The original network, which we were using, is now renamed
to 
irchighway.net
, using the following dns names;
To connect to any server use: 
IRC.irchighway.net
To connect to an European server use: 
eu.irchighway.net
To connect to an American server use: 
us.irchighway.net
To connect to a Canadian server use: 
ca.irchighway.net
To connect to an Asian server use: 
as.irchighway.net
To connect to an Australian server use: 
au.irchighway.net
but utilises all but two of the original servers. Another network is
now formed, from the two servers which left the main group, plus a few
more, and are called "IRC-chat.net"
Irchighway are prepared to continue to support us and our channel, for
which we are very grateful. We would also like to wish the new
IRC-chat network all the luck in the future, and thank those staff,
whom had previously worked as a group with the irchighway staff, for
their help and services provided before this fiasco.
The following websites contain views held by each party, as to the
events which occurred. Again we urge you friends-fans to not take any
action regarding this matter, and just enjoy the channel which we
strive to make optimal.
http://www.neostats.net/blog/
http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=58293&group=webcast
Information provided in this document are the opinions of friendsweb
o­nly, which have been derived from various sources involved with the
incident, and cannot be held responsible for any anomalies occurring
in this report.
(Originally written by Demon)
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