Subj : proposed new nodelist                                    [2]
To   : Edward Hevlund
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Fri Aug 16 2002 08:34 pm

Hi Edward.

10-Aug-02 23:07:12, Edward Hevlund wrote to Frank Vest


EH>>> Didn't you just say "one zone and one net"?

FV>> True, but not within Fidonet specs... I think.

EH> Oh. I thought you people were making up new specs.

EH> Thought it was kinda dumbassed to still old fidonet software for
EH> the new specs..

yeah, part of the spec was to provide for a tranalstion tool...

there hasn't been any traffic since the advert went into the fidonews.


before that there were a few proposed formats being discussed
mainly two of them,  one like this:

the line would start much like a regular nodelist line, with the

heirachy, address number, BBS-name, location, sysop name,

then there'd be a sible field with all the "system flags" - flags that
apply to a fido system rather thanto the connection requirements,
(flags like NEC or UUCP flags would be examples of this)
instead of commas "," they'd be separated using semicolons. ";"
that's mean that they could be treated as a lump when reading the line and
the start of the connection information is indicated by the next comma.

following that on the same line would come any number of connections,
a connection consists of three fields, the first filed is type specifier,
to specify the type of the connection,  for example POTS (regular dial-up
modem) or IP (internet), ISDN, the second fields is the address,
for a dialup node it's be the international telephone number, for IP it's
be the IP address or domain name, etc...

private, down, or other uncontactable nodes nodes wouldn't have any connections
listed
eg:

,1701,Some_BBS_Name,Some_Town,Some_Sysop,system_flags

a system with bith IP and dialup might look like this:
(but all on a single line)

,1701,Some_BBS_Name,Some_Town,Some,Sysop,system_flags
IP,IP.or.url.com,CM;MO;LO;IBN;ITN,
POTS,phone-number,33600;V34;V42b;CM;XA

one with dialup only: (but as a single line)

,1701,Some_BBS_Name,Some_Town,Some_Sysop,system_flags,
POTS,phone-umber,33600;V34;V42b;CM;XA

one with IP only: (again it would be a single line in the nodelist)

,1701,Some_BBS_Name,Some_Town,Some_Sysop,system_flags,
IP,IP.or.url.com,CM;MO;LO;IBN;ITN,

someone with multiple dial-up modems cpould list them all against a single
node entry in the nodelist,just by repeating the POTS,phone-numbe,flags
for each modem or possibly listing all the phone numbers with semicolons
if the modems all have the same capabilities.

new types of conection could be added by using a different connection-type
keyword as mailers would be written to ignore connection types they
couldn't handle...

some exalples of connection types.

 POTS  - regular dialup modem
 ISDN  - isdn digital connection
 IP    - intenrnet connection    (maybe it should be divided into
         protocols like TELNET,IREX,FTP,EMAIL,BINKP)
 VIA   - specify some other node to accept the packets.

Mark Lewis has a different proposal that in some ways follows the existing
nodelist more closely and uses multiple lines to list some nodes,
I'll let him explain it as he understands its intracisies better than me.

-=> Bye <=-

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