Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ksh From: ksh@cbosgd.UUCP (Karen Summers-Horton) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Progress Report for UUCP Project Message-ID: <567@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 21:39:18 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.567 Posted: Sun Dec 9 21:39:18 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:27:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 62 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