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012.30.2 Germany
by Ruediger Volk <rv@meins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Efforts are underway to keep Internet services up and under control of the best
representation of the German Internet user community we can identify. This is
driving an effort to form some formal representation of the community at the
national level. On 6 December Friday, a meeting was held in Munich to
establish a German Internet user's group, which will be called "Deutsche
Interessengemeinschaft Internet" or for short "DIGI". The invitation to this
meeting resulted in a quite overwhelming. More than 100 participants assembled
from academia, large and small companies, and even several large and important
public sector organizations (several branches of the PTT and the mail service,
chambers of commerce, etc - all expecting to become large scale IP users!)
There are three areas of possible activeties of DIGI:
- funding and caring for a German NIC, housing administration of domain DE,
running a delegated registry in close cooperation with RIPE NCC
- helping users (i.e. the administrators of networks connected to the Internet
or just using Internet technology) get information; help exchange of experience
etc.
- help to create and maintain a competetive and fair market of IP services with
proper interconnectivety for all parties
Due to the international scope of Internet Society and IETF DIGI will not need
to care much for the "developers". Nevertheless DIGI is intended and needs to
keep all sectors of the Internet community involved; particular emphasis will
be on the users (i.e. network administrators).
DIGI related information is available by anon. ftp on host
deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (192.35.64.34) under Directory /DIGI . Of
course you will see a lot of German text there; documents of possible interest
are: /DIGI/meetings/ziele.ascii and (less interesting)
/DIGI/meetings/einladung-911206.ascii .
The general DIGI mailing list is digi@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (with
digi-request for the list maintainer); most messages will be German - - but you
can assume readers to understand English. To get in touch with DIGI please
address digi-info@deins...
Parties involved with planning DIGI certainly are used to act cooperatively and
have been involved in the global networking community for a considerable time.
We hope to spread and extend the spirit of cooperation we enjoy at the global
level within our country. Of course we also will care for cooperation with
related activeties in other countries or on international levels.
Universitaet Dortmund, Informatik IRB (DE NIC) in Dortmund, Germany.