Request for Information re: Internet Service Providers

Thanks for your submission.  The listing will be condensed.  I will
forward the edited version for your approval.

Susan



On Mon, 19 Jul 1993, Marten Terpstra wrote:

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> 
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Date:     Sat, 17 Jul 1993 14:33:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From:     Susan Estrada <sestrada at nic.cerf.net>
> Sender:   ietf-request at IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
> To:       ietf at CNRI.Reston.VA.US
> cc:       Susan Estrada <sestrada at nic.cerf.net>
> Subject:  Request for Information re: Internet Service Providers
> 
> I am writing a book called Connecting to the Internet: A Buyer's Guide.  I
> will be including a list (DLIST) of dedicated line providers to make it easy
> for the reader to find a connection.  If you have a network and I have not
> already contacted you, I need the information at the end of this message for
> your network. If you would like to add your information, please reply by
> Tuesday, July 20, noon.
> 
> The book is going to be published by O'Reilly and Associates and should be
> available in August.  The list will be made available on the Internet
> courtesy of O'Reilly upon completion.  Details are forthcoming about how to
> get updates of DLIST or add your network information in the future.
> 
> This message should be forwarded to anyone you think should see it.  Thanks
> for your assistance.
> 
> Susan Estrada
> sestrada at cerf.net
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> 
> ------------------------ GARR template ----------------------------------
> 
> Network Name:  GARR
> 
> Service Area:  Italy
> 
> Contact: GARR-NIS (GARR Network Information Service)
> 
> Voice: +39 50 593360
> 
> email: info at nis.garr.it
> 
> FTP more info:  ftp.nis.garr.it:/garr
> 
> 
> Network Description (short paragraph):
> 
> GARR  is  the  acronym  for Harmonisation  Group  for Research  Networks
> created in 1988 operating  under  the Ministry of the University  and of
> Scientific and Technological Research (MURST) in Italy. GARR is also the
> name of the Italian Research Network.
> The aim  of GARR is to establish and operate  a backbone interconnecting
> the  Italian  research   and   academic  networks  and  to   co-ordinate
> connections to international networks.
> GARR  will  continue  to  maintain  connections  to  the  major research
> networks,  including EASInet,  Internet,  BITNET/EARN,  EUnet,  Fidonet,
> HEPnet,  Europa  Net,  EBONE  and  other  networking  initiatives.
> The  backbone of  the network  provides four TDM  channels over  2  Mbps
> lines, carrying IP, DECnet, SNA and X.25 traffic.
> The GARR network  has been constituted  to serve primarily the following
> users of all institution reporting to MURST:
> 
> 1- Universities
> 2- Consortia offering computer services to universities (CILEA,
>    CINECA, etc.)
> 3- Astronomic and Astrophysics Observatories e Vesuviani
> 4- National Research Council (CNR)
> 5- National High Energy Physics Institute (INFN)
> 6- Italian Space Agency (ASI)
> 
> and  other  public  funded research  institutions  like  ENEA  (National
> Council for  Research on  Nuclear and Alternative Energies Sources)  and
> the Consortium Tecnopolis CSATA etc.
> 
> The  network  services  are also accessible by  research  departments of
> private initiatives which have  cooperations and  common  projects  with
> public funded research environment.
> 
> The utilisation of the network is  allowed  for the activities connected
> to  the development  of research  programs,  higher  education,  to  the
> diffusion of scientific information and to the support and management of
> the  research programs.  The  utilisation of  the  GARR  network is  not
> allowed for
> - commercial activities;
> - exchange of information not pertinent to the scientific research or
>   higher education;
> - not permitted access  to the  facilities connected to the network for a
>   usage  that provokes waste  of resources,  infringement to the privacy,
>   etc.
> 
> Daniele Vannozzi                 Phone:     +39 50 593280
> GARR-NIS                         Phone NIS: +39 50 593360
> c/o CNUCE - Istituto del CNR     Fax:       +39 50 904052
> Via Santa Maria 36               Telex:  500371 - CNUCE
> 56100 Pisa - Italy               E-mail: vannozzi at nis.garr.it