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012.30.2 Germany by Ruediger Volk
<rv@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 create
some formal representation of the community at the national
level. On 6 December Friday, a meeting will be held in Munich to
establish a German Internet users' group, which will be called
"Deutsche Interessengemeinschaft Internet" or for short "DIGI".
The invitation to this meeting so far resulted in a quite
overwhelming
response: more than 100 participants 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!) signed up for the meeting.
There are three areas of possible activeties of DIGI:
- helping users (i.e. the administrators of networks connected
to the Internet or just using Internet technology) get
information; help exchange of experience etc.
- funding and caring for a German NIC, housing administration of
domain DE, running a delegated registry in close cooperation
with RIPE NCC
- 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 in German - - but you can assume readers to
understand English. To get in touch with DIGI please address
digi-info@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE .
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.