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From: Andrey Ivanov <ivanov@ok.minsk.by> To: sghuter@psg.com Date: Sat, 29 Oct 94 11:36:16 +0300 (EDT) Dear Steven, Herewith I send the last UNIBEL bulletin. Best regards, Andrey Ivanov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIBEL: University Computer Network of Republic Belarus Status and Perspectives October, 1994 Currently the UNIBEL Network joins the most advanced universities, research institutes, government and public ogranizations dealing with science and education. UNIBEL is a result of joint efforts of these institutions and keeps tight contacts with all organizations and persons interested in developing academic and research networking in Belarus. UNIBEL is supported by Ministry of Education and Science of Republic Belarus. The Laboratory of Computer Telecommunications has been organized by Ministry. UNIBEL is involved in several projects intended to develop and improve networking infrastructure in Belarus, such as "Research and Development Computer Network of the Republic of Belarus", "Networking in Education: Ministry's Computer Network for Administrative Purposes", "Electronic Communications in High and Secondary Schools". UNIBEL Network was registered in RIPE-NCC in December 1993 and IP numbers were assigned. UNIBEL is full national member of RARE, EARN and CEENet and is to be a member of NewOrg (organization that will be a result of merging of EARN and RARE). At present the users of UNIBEL are provided with UUCP protocol services. UNIBEL has an access to Internet through EUnet/Relcom network (Moscow) and UARNET (Lvov, Ukraine) via dial-up lines. Dedicated 9.6 Kbps line Minsk-Warsaw (NASK) is currently establishing. Full Internet services will be available in nearest future. Besides dedicated line to Moscow (FREEnet) has been ordered. In the future a satellite station will be installed with assistance of Poland (NASK). At present Polish NASK and Russian FREEnet render UNIBEL a great deal of technical and consultation assistance. In particulary the coordination of top level domain BY is currently maitained in NASK (primary server) and FREEnet (secondary server). Correspondence to: Andrey Ivanov ivanov@ok.minsk.by Sergei Kritsky kritsky@ok.minsk.by
