Connectivity Providers Database

From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: Steven Huter <sghuter@psg.com> CC: Tran Ba Thai <thai@hanoi.ac.vn>, Vern Weitzel <vern@coombs.anu.edu.au> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 18:06:57 +1100 (EDT) Hi Steven, The data you have is basically correct. We did not succeed in getting packet data (X.29) to our site in Hanoi, because the telecommunications infrastructure is not good enough to support digital lines to the site. (The site is some 12 Km out of Hanoi - lines in the centre of Hanoi are variable, with some very good infrastructure in some places, but most is very bad. Out of Hanoi, good quality lines are harder to come by). The present connection is still UUCP using dial-up and modems at night, or X.25/X.28 during the day. Funding is our number one problem. We had an Australian Government grant for 1994, but we only have a small amount available for transmission this year. To solve the funding problem, we are charging within Vietnam for usage. NGOs working in Vietnam find this OK, but academics have to rely upon their colleagues outside the country, or on subsidies from the Government. We are hoping for more general and generous subsidies soon, particularly for the educational sector. It is probable that we will move to a leased line early this year, and run TCP/IP to Hanoi (to a SUN Sparcstation, which we have in Hanoi). We are hoping for start-up capital from a number of private and/or public sources. The actual network in Vietnam is called VARENet, and has about 70 or so UUCP hosts. It has expanded rapidly, and there is a large unmet demand for Internet services. TCP/IP is used in the Institute of Information Technology (IOIT) building for their LAN, and the SUN has a rudimentary information service (gopher and FTP), which is accessible across this LAN. The plan is that, as the infrastructure improves, TCP/IP will be made available to other sites with IOIT acting as a hub. The SUN has a DAT tape, and could act as a mirror site for interesting hosts on the Internet - even without a leased line connection to Vietnam. The following entry is correct: > >Date of Entry: 30 November 1994 > >Contact Name: Mr TRAN Ba Thai > >Organization Name: Institute for Information Technology > >Street: Nghia Do > >City: Tu Liem - Hanoi > >Postal Code: ---- > >Country: Vietnam > >Voice phone: +84 (4) 3.46907 > >Fax: +84 (4) 3.45217 > >Node name: hanoi > >E-mail: Thai@hanoi.ac.vn and seems to have been taken from the InterNIC entry. Tran Ba Thai is Vietnamese, so his family name is "Tran", but is known formally as "Mr Thai" (this is common Vietnamese practice). I mention this because I think InterNIC send stuff to him as "Mr Tran", which is not correct. The same applies to the administrative contact in the InterNIC database - he is Dr Tran Van Dac, and should be addressed as "Dr Dac", and would be very distantly related to Tran Ba Thai (same family name). (Some points of etiquette here). Please let me know if I can help you further. Cheers, Rob Hurle ---------------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle rob@coombs.anu.edu.au Coombs Computing Unit Tel: (06) 249 4600 Australian National University +61 6 249 4600 Canberra 0200 Fax: (06) 257 1893 Australia +61 6 257 1893 ----------------------------------------------------------