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- 015.10.2 Japan - InetClub
- by Kazunori Konishi <konish@kddnews3.kddlabs.co.jp>
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- InetClub is a group of users who belong to a volunteer-based network JUNET(top
- level domain is ".jp"), and pay their own international electronic mails. After
- the domain registration has been completed in the NIC of Japan, the user can
- join the club as one of the three member classes: domain member, plural
- accounts member and a single account member. The former pays more for the
- annual fee, but the usage fee is just for the international transmission cost.
- The gateway of InetClub is kddlab.kddlabs.co.jp located in the R & D
- Laboratories of a communication carrier, KDD. The domestic links are made up of
- a 64kbps leased circuit connected to WIDE internet with a CISCO router, and
- telephone circuits with fast modems employing UUCP protocol or Point-to-Point
- Protocol(PPP).
-
- kddlab polls uunet.uu.net, mcsun.eu.net and uknet.ac.uk with fast modems using
- UUCP protocol. Although the voluminous overseas messages (300MB emails and 80MB
- USENET news) are relayed in a month for about 190 domestic organizations, it is
- not be able to use the leased circuits to observe the regulation in Japan.
- Efforts are being made to solve this problem.
-