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From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton)
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Subject: Progress Report for UUCP Project
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Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 21:39:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  9 21:39:18 1984
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This is the progress report for the UUCP Project funded by the Usenix
Association.  This progress report covers the past two months.

Progress on the map portion of the project has been significant.
We have changed the format of the map slightly, to make it more
readable, and easier for the map maintenance people to edit.
The new format looks like this:

	#N	name of site
	#S	system type
	#O	organization
	#C	contact person
	#E	contact person's electronic address
	#T	contact person's telephone number
	#P	organization's address
	#L	longitude and latitude
	#R	remarks
	#W	who edited the entry and when
	#
	sitename	connection(FREQUENCY), connection(FREQUENCY),
		connection(FREQUENCY)

In addition, the portion of the UUCP map that covers Canada, Minnesota,
Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, North Dakota, and South Dakota was posted
to Usenet around the middle of November.  The entire UUCP map will be
posted to Usenet again, the first week of January.  Shortly after that,
we will announce a system of 10 machines around the country, that the
UUCP public may get portions of the UUCP map from at their convenience.
This is still in the testing stage, and the details will not be
made public until after the complete posting of the map in January,
to avoid having these volunteer sites swamped.

Progress on the mail software has been slow - we've lost our supervisor
for that portion of the project and are spending significant amounts
of time discussing issues such as how to deal with ambiguous addresses
like a!b@c.

Work has been progressing on the self contained mailer program.
A back end called uudom which could serve as a back end for
sendmail and handle routing in a subdomain environment has also
been written.  A volunteer has been working on extending it to
make a decision about which host to route to.

Work has proceeded on a document outlining the requirements and procedure
to be a subdomain of UUCP.  This document is still undergoing internal
review before it is posted for comments from the public.

We've received the new RFC from the Arpanet, and the date for applying
to become a top-level domain has been pushed back to January, 1985.
All initial inquiries have been made, and when January rolls around
we are ready to begin the formal process.

Several members of the project are also preparing to give progress
reports on various aspects of the project at the Usenix Conference
in Dallas in January.  Our session is scheduled for Friday,
January 25, 9-10 a.m.

As usual, we welcome all comments and suggestions on the project.

	Karen Summers-Horton
	cbosgd!ksh