CDS - reminder to join the club

[Milan Sterba <]

Dear colleagues, 

As RIPE metting is rapidly approaching  let me once more invite all
network service providers/operators in Europe to fill and send to
cds-editor@localhost short descriptions of their network to be stored
in the RIPE Connectivity Document Store (CDS). This is supposed to be
the new unified way of publishing basic information about european
connectivity and to replace my regular report on connectivity in Eastern
and Central Europe.

The CDS is accessible by WWW (http://www.ripe.net/ripe/cds.html),  ftp,
gopher and the description fact-sheets can also be retrieved by mail.
The CDS is be closely related to the RIPE map repository (there are
hypertext links between the textual descriptions of the network and
their maps (if supplied).

A detailed description of the layout, the procedures as well as an
example of filled  fact sheet (thanks to UNICOM Bulgaria) can be found in 
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/drafts/connectivity-report-plan.txt.

cds-editor@localhost and all users and potential users in the
world are waiting impatiently for your fact-sheets (and maps :-).
It is so simple to have the others know about you a little bit more
and RIPE NCC as the European Internet registry is the best appropriate 
place where people go for information.

Try to have a look at the current CDS by WWW at www.ripe.net or
by gopher at gopher.ripe.net or simply by ftp. Comments and updates
are very willcome.

Best regards

Milan Sterba
Chair of the RIPE European Connectivity WG


P.S. Thanks to Unicom, BELNET, CESNET and EUnet Czechia and Bulgaria for
having submitted their fact-sheets so rapidly :-).


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