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RARE MHS Project Review Alf HANSEN RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway (Tel.: + 47 75 92982; E-mail: A LF-HA NSEN@ VA X.R UNIT. UNINETT) Keywords: Electronic Mail, X.400, MHS, RARE.
1. Introduction T h e R A R E M H S Project c o n t r a c t was signed in S e p t e m b e r 1987 b y all parties, a n d covers the t w o - y e a r p e r i o d f r o m M a y 87 until A p r i l 89. T h e p r o j e c t is a c o n t i n u a t i o n of the i n f o r m a l c o o r d i n a tion c a r r i e d o u t b y R U N I T a n d R A R E W G 1 since 1984. T h e Project t e a m keeps the R A R E Secretariat a n d C E C i n f o r m e d a b o u t the progress t h r o u g h short m o n t h l y M a n a g e m e n t C o n t r o l reports.
2. Technical Aspects T h e p r o g r e s s r e p o r t is s t r u c t u r e d a c c o r d i n g to the items in the p r o j e c t d e s c r i p t i o n in the Technical A n n e x to the contract.
2.1. Contact Establishment Between National M H S Coordinators T h e c o o r d i n a t i o n is p e r f o r m e d using the distrib u t i o n list R & D - M H S - m a n a g e r s . 2.2. Documentation Maintenance Aft l-Iansen is born in 1949, and is now working as a research scientist in the Computing Centre at the University of Trondheim, RUNIT, Norway. He graduated as "Sivilingenior" from the University of Trondheim, The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), in Electrical Engineering, in 1973, and has worked as Consultant in Computer Communication from 1973 to 1978 when he started at RUNIT. In 1982-1985 he was Section Leader in the Computer Networks Group at RUNIT. Alf Hansen has been chairman of RARE WG1 (on MHS) since 1985, and is also the project leader of the RARE MHS Project. In Norway he is responsible for the UNINETT MHS service, and he is leading the MHS activities in NORDUNET. All Hansen is member of ~ e regional steering board of The Norwegian Computer Association. North-Holland Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 16 (1988/89) 8-12
A m a j o r u p d a t e o f the R & D M H S D o c u m e n t a t i o n has b e e n c o m p l e t e d . T h e c u r r e n t version is p r e s e n t e d as a s e p a r a t e d o c u m e n t . 2.3. Assistance to N e w National Organizations A u s t r i a has j o i n e d the R & D M H S service. Belgium is n o w setting u p the first X.400 node. T h e y are e x p e c t e d to b e o p e r a t i o n a l in a few months. 2.4. Contact with N o n - X . 4 0 0 Service Providers O n e m e m b e r of the p r o j e c t staff was invited to an E A R N m i g r a t i o n m e e t i n g in L o n d o n in M a r c h
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in order to present the views of R A R E W G 1 on E A R N migration strategy. The meeting was useful, and the following items were stressed by the project: must move to " d o m a i n " addressing ( R F C 822) in their current mail service. When this has been carried out, R F C 987 gateways can be introduced between E A R N and R & D M H S Service. Harmonization of addresses between different mail services (EARN, EUnet, etc.) requires national cooperation between the networks. - Some countries will regard E A R N nodes with X.400 not as an E A R N node, but as one among the other X.400 nodes in the country. In the last R A R E WG1 meeting, no conclusion was reached on the internal structure of a possible c o m m o n European E A R N / E U n e t / R & D M H S / NSFnet mail-gateway. The final decision was left to the E A R N / E U n e t / R A R E Working group to decide. Seen from the Project, there is a need for such a gateway, not as the only available gateway, but as a "well-known" gateway that can be used in addition to the existing national gateways. It is important that this gateway is in conformance with the R F C 987 specifications. The X.400 interface on E U R O K O M was expected to be operational 6 months ago. Still E U R O K O M is isolated from the R & D M H S service. To connect E U R O K O M as a node in the R & D M H S service would be an important milestone both for the R & D M H S users and the E U R O K O M users. The interconnection will enable a smooth migration from centralized facilities to distributed message facilities based on international standards for m a n y of the European research programmes.
smooth migration. There are a couple of implementations available. The R F C 987 gateways are also needed in order to maintain communication between the R & D M H S service and the non-X.400 RFC-world. The mapping between R F C 822 addresses and X.400 addresses is performed in these gateways. At first R A R E W G 1 tried to agree on a common " R A R E - m a p p i n g " , but this was not possible. WG1 has now recognized that R F C / X . 4 0 0 address mapping rules can be defined on a national basis, and the address conversion will take place in the national R F C 987 gateways. The countries participating in N O R D U N E T have all agreed on a common N O R D U N E T R F C / X . 4 0 0 address mapping. In order to avoid the use of international network-connections for national traffic, there should be at least one R F C 987 gateway per country, at least in the strong RFC-countries. The address mapping tables in all the gateways have to be distributed between all the gateways in order to achieve consistent mapping of addresses on a global scale. The R A R E M H S Project will perform this coordination. An important factor for the speed of the migration process, is the quality of the user interface in the available X.400 products. E.g. in EAN today, the R F C 822 user interface is quite nice compared to the Standard Attribute Address user interface. Another important factor is the quality of the management functions in the available products. In this case the current operational implementations are considered to be reasonably well equipped (but far from ideal).
2.5. Migration to the Functional Standard of CEN / CENELEC
Summary. Table 1 gives the number of sites and number of countries for the operational R & D M H S service.
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E
A
R
N
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2.5.1. Introduction In general the structure of the R & D M H S service is described in the document " R & D M H S S T R U C T U R E " in the R & D M H S documentation. The migration path will be to move from the " E A N V I " world with Domain Defined Attribute addressing, to the " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " world with Standard Attribute addressing, referring to terms in the above-mentioned document. The R F C 987 gateway is a tool enabling a
2.5.2. Migration Status Report
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In Europe "EAN VI" "X.400/84" Outside Europe "EAN VI" "X.400/84"
Number of sites
Number of countries
152 51
13 4
177 2
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The following is a country-by-country migration status report given by the Project based on information in the Documentation and on the knowledge of the current situation in each country.
DE, Fed. Rep. Germany No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. o f " X.400/84" nodes: R F C 987 gateway available:
At, Austria No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
0 3 yes, their own, based on D F N - S W no unknown
Migrated. The introduction of the R & D MHS serivce as a real alternative in Austria has just started.
AU, Australia No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
1 0 no to OZ unknown
RFC-networks are heavily used. Pilot X.400 implementations are running on several labs. The project will seek to find ways to interconnect the existing X.400 systems into the international service. Today the only X.400 node is used mainly as the entrypoint to the Australian R F C mail service.
CA, Canada No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
170 2 no to CSNET, MAILNET, U U C P , OQ, ARPA, BITNET, Internet 2500'
The X.400 service is well harmonized with the R F C networks with CA as top-level domain. We do not expect a quick migration to Standard Attribute addressing, since communication to the R F C world is of high priority, and it is working fine as it is by using Domain Defined Attributes (not in the C E N / C E N E L E C profile). The national service is organized by the C D N n e t organization.
Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
50 4O between " E A N VI" and " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " and to U U C P , CSNET, E A R N based on D F N - S W no 2600
D F N is handling the migration procedure. Approximately 50% of the M T A s are migrated. D F N is offering a real service to the users.
DK, Denmark No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available:
Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
5 0 no to U U C P , EARN, ARPA, CSNET, M A I L N E T all routed via a local UUCP-gateway unknown
D e n m a r k is a strong RFC-country. They have managed to harmonize their domain addresses with D K as top-level domain, even in EARN. They have a local Gateway project, DANPOST, which will offer real gateway services to the Danish R & D community. They are doing experiments with the French " M A I L W A Y " software (RFC 987) on behalf of N O R D U N E T . As soon as possible, this software will be set into operations in the D A N P O S T project, following the agreed N O R D U N E T address mapping rule.
ES, Spain No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
15 0 no no 500
The IRIS programme is handling the infrastructure for HEPnet, EUNET, E A R N and X.400 in Spain. It will handle the migration process whenever software a n d / o r gateway facilities are available.
FI, Finland CH, Switzerland (including CERN) No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
34 0 no to U U C P , CSNET, E A R N / BITNET, HEP DECnet 2000
The Switch Organization will handle the migration process in due time. A decision must be taken whether C E R N is in country CH or if it is a "special" country: CERN.
No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
6 0 no to U U C P , E A R N / B I T N E T , F U D E C , FI 150
Finland is a strong RFC-country. The F U N E T project is organizing both the X.400 and the RFC-world. The RFC-world is to a certain extent harmonized with FI as top-level domain. Dependent on the Danish N O R D U N E T experiment on
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New equipment has been ordered to set up a national gateway connecting all different protocols, including E U R O K O M . N o concrete plans to migrate to Standard Attribute Addressing.
FR, France No. of " E A N V ] " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
0 (gateways available) 8 sites, approx 60 nodes. yes, M A I L W A Y SW. to F N E T (French U U C P ) 2000
The figures above are very uncertain because of a continuously evolving situation. The basic situation is that France is already migrated because the E A N software was never used. The X.400/84 nodes include various softwares, either developed in the research community (INRIA, CNET) or by the ir~dustry (BULL, DEC, IBM). The X.400 network is fully interconnected with the U U C P based " F N E T " network, which serves a community of approx. 10000 users on 80 sites; the address space is the same for both networks. The M A I L W A Y software developed by I N R I A provides gateways between RFC-822 based services ( U U C P , TCP-IP) and X.400 services either for local communities (LAN gateways) or at the national level. M A I L W A Y and the GIPSI software incorporate gateways between X.400/84 and the E A N / V 1 ; a "well-known entrypoint" to France is provided for the international " E A N V I " community, and direct connection between French X.400/84 sites and EAN-V1 sites can be established.
GB, United Kingdom No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3? unknown m a y be operational to Grey Book (at least) unknown
The figures above are very uncertain due to lack of information from U K . J N T has made a firm Migration-from-GreyBook-to X.400-plan. J N T wants to introduce X.400 step by step by replacing Grey Book nodes without disturbing the user service. X.400 and Grey Book mail are regarded as one singleuser serivce, and they do not feel that it is relevant to distribute information about the X.400 nodes only. This is to a certain extent in conflict with the idea of the R & D M H S service based on X.400, because an R&D M H S user in another country might like to know if the message passes a protocol gateway. Some service quality will then be lost. However, if it is technically possible to hide the existence of their gateway completely from the users, that is fine. U K has developed their own R F C 987 gateway software, but its operational status is unclear. We hope to be able to collect better information soon.
IE, Ireland No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3 0 no no unknown
IS, Iceland No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateways available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
1 0 no no 5
E U N E T is mostly used in Iceland. The E A R N services will disappear, and E A N m u s t be regarded as an experiment. The services will be based on one network. Today E U N E T is well distributed, and will also be used in future. The formal strategy will be to migrate to X.400 when appropriate, following the agreed N O R D U N E T address mapping rule. IT, Italy No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
4 0 no no unknown
The O S I R I D E project is operating the X.400 service in Italy. It must be regarded as an experiment rather than an operational service for the Italian R & D community. DECnet is widely used in Italy, but there are no gateways between X.400 and VMS-mail. The future pilot X.400 service in Italy will probably be based on products from DEC.
KR, Republic of Korea No. of "F.AN V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
6 0 no to the RFC-world 300
N o concrete plans to move to Standard Attribute Addressing. The RFC- and X.400-world is well harmonized with K R as top-level domain. NL, The Netherlands No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " n o d e s : R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
2 0 no no unknown
S U R F N E T is handling all the Netherlands. There are concrete set of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes and probably be used to implement
different mail services in The plans to establish a widespread the M A I L W A Y software will the R F C 987 gateway.
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NO, Norway No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
18 0 no to ARPA/CSNET, EARN/BITNET 1100
The UNINETT project is organizing the X.400 service in Norway. Steps have been taken to harmonize the Norwegian EARN, ARPA, EUNET and UNINETT MHS with top-level domain NO. Awaiting results from the NORDUNET experiment on MAILWAY, UNINETT will hopefully use this software to implement an RFC 987 gateway and thus migrate to Standard Attribute Addressing as soon as possible, following the agreed NORDUNET address mapping rule.
using Domain Defined Attribute- instead of Standard Attribute-addressing. Communication with these countries will still be possible via the RFC 987 gateways. 2.5.3. Interconnections to Pubfic X. 400 Services
This item is also available for COSINE as Task 6.4: Available X.400 services. Information about the status on publicly available X.400 services and their relations to the R&D MHS service, has been collected via the members in RARE WG1. Still some contributions are missing. The preliminary report is presented as a separate document.
PT, Portugal No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3 0 no no unknown
Portugal will follow the migration process whenever the tools are available. The X.400 service is kept operational on an informal basis. SE, Sweden No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
8 0 no to ARPA, CSNET, UUCP 50
In Sweden the organization of the X.400 service is informal. Steps have been taken to establish a formal national organization. The migration to Standard Attribute Addressing will take place following the NORDUNET address mapping rule, after the establishment of the national organization.
Other countries not yet operational in the R & D M H S Service. In RARE-countries, we expect the
joining countries to introduce "X.400/84" directly. They still need an RFC 987 gateway in order to communicate with the RFC-world. Non-RARE-countries with strong bindings to the RFC-world, may prefer to introduce X.400 by
2.6. Contact Establishment with N o n - R A R E X. 400-networks
As seen from the sections above, operational services have been established with Australia, Canada and the Republic of Korea. USA is participating on the distribution-lists maintained by the project. Our goal is to establish (at least experimental) connections to the existing X.400 islands in the R&D communities in USA. The distribution list MHSnews is now divided into two physical lists, one in Northern America (NA) and one in Europe (EU), both pointing at each other. The MHS project is responsible for maintaining the EU-part of this fist. We hope that this cooperative exercise is the start to an increased level of interaction.
3. Administrative Aspects Half yearly meetings between the project group and the RARE Secretariat have been scheduled. The first of these follow-up meetings was held in April 1988, in Amsterdam. The next meeting will be in October 1988.
RARE MHS Project Review Alf HANSEN RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway (Tel.: + 47 75 92982; E-mail: A LF-HA NSEN@ VA X.R UNIT. UNINETT) Keywords: Electronic Mail, X.400, MHS, RARE.
1. Introduction T h e R A R E M H S Project c o n t r a c t was signed in S e p t e m b e r 1987 b y all parties, a n d covers the t w o - y e a r p e r i o d f r o m M a y 87 until A p r i l 89. T h e p r o j e c t is a c o n t i n u a t i o n of the i n f o r m a l c o o r d i n a tion c a r r i e d o u t b y R U N I T a n d R A R E W G 1 since 1984. T h e Project t e a m keeps the R A R E Secretariat a n d C E C i n f o r m e d a b o u t the progress t h r o u g h short m o n t h l y M a n a g e m e n t C o n t r o l reports.
2. Technical Aspects T h e p r o g r e s s r e p o r t is s t r u c t u r e d a c c o r d i n g to the items in the p r o j e c t d e s c r i p t i o n in the Technical A n n e x to the contract.
2.1. Contact Establishment Between National M H S Coordinators T h e c o o r d i n a t i o n is p e r f o r m e d using the distrib u t i o n list R & D - M H S - m a n a g e r s . 2.2. Documentation Maintenance Aft l-Iansen is born in 1949, and is now working as a research scientist in the Computing Centre at the University of Trondheim, RUNIT, Norway. He graduated as "Sivilingenior" from the University of Trondheim, The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), in Electrical Engineering, in 1973, and has worked as Consultant in Computer Communication from 1973 to 1978 when he started at RUNIT. In 1982-1985 he was Section Leader in the Computer Networks Group at RUNIT. Alf Hansen has been chairman of RARE WG1 (on MHS) since 1985, and is also the project leader of the RARE MHS Project. In Norway he is responsible for the UNINETT MHS service, and he is leading the MHS activities in NORDUNET. All Hansen is member of ~ e regional steering board of The Norwegian Computer Association. North-Holland Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 16 (1988/89) 8-12
A m a j o r u p d a t e o f the R & D M H S D o c u m e n t a t i o n has b e e n c o m p l e t e d . T h e c u r r e n t version is p r e s e n t e d as a s e p a r a t e d o c u m e n t . 2.3. Assistance to N e w National Organizations A u s t r i a has j o i n e d the R & D M H S service. Belgium is n o w setting u p the first X.400 node. T h e y are e x p e c t e d to b e o p e r a t i o n a l in a few months. 2.4. Contact with N o n - X . 4 0 0 Service Providers O n e m e m b e r of the p r o j e c t staff was invited to an E A R N m i g r a t i o n m e e t i n g in L o n d o n in M a r c h
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in order to present the views of R A R E W G 1 on E A R N migration strategy. The meeting was useful, and the following items were stressed by the project: must move to " d o m a i n " addressing ( R F C 822) in their current mail service. When this has been carried out, R F C 987 gateways can be introduced between E A R N and R & D M H S Service. Harmonization of addresses between different mail services (EARN, EUnet, etc.) requires national cooperation between the networks. - Some countries will regard E A R N nodes with X.400 not as an E A R N node, but as one among the other X.400 nodes in the country. In the last R A R E WG1 meeting, no conclusion was reached on the internal structure of a possible c o m m o n European E A R N / E U n e t / R & D M H S / NSFnet mail-gateway. The final decision was left to the E A R N / E U n e t / R A R E Working group to decide. Seen from the Project, there is a need for such a gateway, not as the only available gateway, but as a "well-known" gateway that can be used in addition to the existing national gateways. It is important that this gateway is in conformance with the R F C 987 specifications. The X.400 interface on E U R O K O M was expected to be operational 6 months ago. Still E U R O K O M is isolated from the R & D M H S service. To connect E U R O K O M as a node in the R & D M H S service would be an important milestone both for the R & D M H S users and the E U R O K O M users. The interconnection will enable a smooth migration from centralized facilities to distributed message facilities based on international standards for m a n y of the European research programmes.
smooth migration. There are a couple of implementations available. The R F C 987 gateways are also needed in order to maintain communication between the R & D M H S service and the non-X.400 RFC-world. The mapping between R F C 822 addresses and X.400 addresses is performed in these gateways. At first R A R E W G 1 tried to agree on a common " R A R E - m a p p i n g " , but this was not possible. WG1 has now recognized that R F C / X . 4 0 0 address mapping rules can be defined on a national basis, and the address conversion will take place in the national R F C 987 gateways. The countries participating in N O R D U N E T have all agreed on a common N O R D U N E T R F C / X . 4 0 0 address mapping. In order to avoid the use of international network-connections for national traffic, there should be at least one R F C 987 gateway per country, at least in the strong RFC-countries. The address mapping tables in all the gateways have to be distributed between all the gateways in order to achieve consistent mapping of addresses on a global scale. The R A R E M H S Project will perform this coordination. An important factor for the speed of the migration process, is the quality of the user interface in the available X.400 products. E.g. in EAN today, the R F C 822 user interface is quite nice compared to the Standard Attribute Address user interface. Another important factor is the quality of the management functions in the available products. In this case the current operational implementations are considered to be reasonably well equipped (but far from ideal).
2.5. Migration to the Functional Standard of CEN / CENELEC
Summary. Table 1 gives the number of sites and number of countries for the operational R & D M H S service.
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N
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2.5.1. Introduction In general the structure of the R & D M H S service is described in the document " R & D M H S S T R U C T U R E " in the R & D M H S documentation. The migration path will be to move from the " E A N V I " world with Domain Defined Attribute addressing, to the " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " world with Standard Attribute addressing, referring to terms in the above-mentioned document. The R F C 987 gateway is a tool enabling a
2.5.2. Migration Status Report
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Number of sites
Number of countries
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13 4
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The following is a country-by-country migration status report given by the Project based on information in the Documentation and on the knowledge of the current situation in each country.
DE, Fed. Rep. Germany No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. o f " X.400/84" nodes: R F C 987 gateway available:
At, Austria No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
0 3 yes, their own, based on D F N - S W no unknown
Migrated. The introduction of the R & D MHS serivce as a real alternative in Austria has just started.
AU, Australia No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
1 0 no to OZ unknown
RFC-networks are heavily used. Pilot X.400 implementations are running on several labs. The project will seek to find ways to interconnect the existing X.400 systems into the international service. Today the only X.400 node is used mainly as the entrypoint to the Australian R F C mail service.
CA, Canada No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
170 2 no to CSNET, MAILNET, U U C P , OQ, ARPA, BITNET, Internet 2500'
The X.400 service is well harmonized with the R F C networks with CA as top-level domain. We do not expect a quick migration to Standard Attribute addressing, since communication to the R F C world is of high priority, and it is working fine as it is by using Domain Defined Attributes (not in the C E N / C E N E L E C profile). The national service is organized by the C D N n e t organization.
Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
50 4O between " E A N VI" and " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " and to U U C P , CSNET, E A R N based on D F N - S W no 2600
D F N is handling the migration procedure. Approximately 50% of the M T A s are migrated. D F N is offering a real service to the users.
DK, Denmark No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available:
Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
5 0 no to U U C P , EARN, ARPA, CSNET, M A I L N E T all routed via a local UUCP-gateway unknown
D e n m a r k is a strong RFC-country. They have managed to harmonize their domain addresses with D K as top-level domain, even in EARN. They have a local Gateway project, DANPOST, which will offer real gateway services to the Danish R & D community. They are doing experiments with the French " M A I L W A Y " software (RFC 987) on behalf of N O R D U N E T . As soon as possible, this software will be set into operations in the D A N P O S T project, following the agreed N O R D U N E T address mapping rule.
ES, Spain No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
15 0 no no 500
The IRIS programme is handling the infrastructure for HEPnet, EUNET, E A R N and X.400 in Spain. It will handle the migration process whenever software a n d / o r gateway facilities are available.
FI, Finland CH, Switzerland (including CERN) No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
34 0 no to U U C P , CSNET, E A R N / BITNET, HEP DECnet 2000
The Switch Organization will handle the migration process in due time. A decision must be taken whether C E R N is in country CH or if it is a "special" country: CERN.
No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
6 0 no to U U C P , E A R N / B I T N E T , F U D E C , FI 150
Finland is a strong RFC-country. The F U N E T project is organizing both the X.400 and the RFC-world. The RFC-world is to a certain extent harmonized with FI as top-level domain. Dependent on the Danish N O R D U N E T experiment on
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New equipment has been ordered to set up a national gateway connecting all different protocols, including E U R O K O M . N o concrete plans to migrate to Standard Attribute Addressing.
FR, France No. of " E A N V ] " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
0 (gateways available) 8 sites, approx 60 nodes. yes, M A I L W A Y SW. to F N E T (French U U C P ) 2000
The figures above are very uncertain because of a continuously evolving situation. The basic situation is that France is already migrated because the E A N software was never used. The X.400/84 nodes include various softwares, either developed in the research community (INRIA, CNET) or by the ir~dustry (BULL, DEC, IBM). The X.400 network is fully interconnected with the U U C P based " F N E T " network, which serves a community of approx. 10000 users on 80 sites; the address space is the same for both networks. The M A I L W A Y software developed by I N R I A provides gateways between RFC-822 based services ( U U C P , TCP-IP) and X.400 services either for local communities (LAN gateways) or at the national level. M A I L W A Y and the GIPSI software incorporate gateways between X.400/84 and the E A N / V 1 ; a "well-known entrypoint" to France is provided for the international " E A N V I " community, and direct connection between French X.400/84 sites and EAN-V1 sites can be established.
GB, United Kingdom No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3? unknown m a y be operational to Grey Book (at least) unknown
The figures above are very uncertain due to lack of information from U K . J N T has made a firm Migration-from-GreyBook-to X.400-plan. J N T wants to introduce X.400 step by step by replacing Grey Book nodes without disturbing the user service. X.400 and Grey Book mail are regarded as one singleuser serivce, and they do not feel that it is relevant to distribute information about the X.400 nodes only. This is to a certain extent in conflict with the idea of the R & D M H S service based on X.400, because an R&D M H S user in another country might like to know if the message passes a protocol gateway. Some service quality will then be lost. However, if it is technically possible to hide the existence of their gateway completely from the users, that is fine. U K has developed their own R F C 987 gateway software, but its operational status is unclear. We hope to be able to collect better information soon.
IE, Ireland No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3 0 no no unknown
IS, Iceland No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateways available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
1 0 no no 5
E U N E T is mostly used in Iceland. The E A R N services will disappear, and E A N m u s t be regarded as an experiment. The services will be based on one network. Today E U N E T is well distributed, and will also be used in future. The formal strategy will be to migrate to X.400 when appropriate, following the agreed N O R D U N E T address mapping rule. IT, Italy No. of " E A N V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
4 0 no no unknown
The O S I R I D E project is operating the X.400 service in Italy. It must be regarded as an experiment rather than an operational service for the Italian R & D community. DECnet is widely used in Italy, but there are no gateways between X.400 and VMS-mail. The future pilot X.400 service in Italy will probably be based on products from DEC.
KR, Republic of Korea No. of "F.AN V I " nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes: R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
6 0 no to the RFC-world 300
N o concrete plans to move to Standard Attribute Addressing. The RFC- and X.400-world is well harmonized with K R as top-level domain. NL, The Netherlands No. of " E A N VI" nodes: No. of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " n o d e s : R F C 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
2 0 no no unknown
S U R F N E T is handling all the Netherlands. There are concrete set of " X . 4 0 0 / 8 4 " nodes and probably be used to implement
different mail services in The plans to establish a widespread the M A I L W A Y software will the R F C 987 gateway.
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NO, Norway No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
18 0 no to ARPA/CSNET, EARN/BITNET 1100
The UNINETT project is organizing the X.400 service in Norway. Steps have been taken to harmonize the Norwegian EARN, ARPA, EUNET and UNINETT MHS with top-level domain NO. Awaiting results from the NORDUNET experiment on MAILWAY, UNINETT will hopefully use this software to implement an RFC 987 gateway and thus migrate to Standard Attribute Addressing as soon as possible, following the agreed NORDUNET address mapping rule.
using Domain Defined Attribute- instead of Standard Attribute-addressing. Communication with these countries will still be possible via the RFC 987 gateways. 2.5.3. Interconnections to Pubfic X. 400 Services
This item is also available for COSINE as Task 6.4: Available X.400 services. Information about the status on publicly available X.400 services and their relations to the R&D MHS service, has been collected via the members in RARE WG1. Still some contributions are missing. The preliminary report is presented as a separate document.
PT, Portugal No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
3 0 no no unknown
Portugal will follow the migration process whenever the tools are available. The X.400 service is kept operational on an informal basis. SE, Sweden No. of "EAN VI" nodes: No. of "X.400/84" nodes: RFC 987 gateway available: Other gateways available: Approximate no. of users: Migration status:
8 0 no to ARPA, CSNET, UUCP 50
In Sweden the organization of the X.400 service is informal. Steps have been taken to establish a formal national organization. The migration to Standard Attribute Addressing will take place following the NORDUNET address mapping rule, after the establishment of the national organization.
Other countries not yet operational in the R & D M H S Service. In RARE-countries, we expect the
joining countries to introduce "X.400/84" directly. They still need an RFC 987 gateway in order to communicate with the RFC-world. Non-RARE-countries with strong bindings to the RFC-world, may prefer to introduce X.400 by
2.6. Contact Establishment with N o n - R A R E X. 400-networks
As seen from the sections above, operational services have been established with Australia, Canada and the Republic of Korea. USA is participating on the distribution-lists maintained by the project. Our goal is to establish (at least experimental) connections to the existing X.400 islands in the R&D communities in USA. The distribution list MHSnews is now divided into two physical lists, one in Northern America (NA) and one in Europe (EU), both pointing at each other. The MHS project is responsible for maintaining the EU-part of this fist. We hope that this cooperative exercise is the start to an increased level of interaction.
3. Administrative Aspects Half yearly meetings between the project group and the RARE Secretariat have been scheduled. The first of these follow-up meetings was held in April 1988, in Amsterdam. The next meeting will be in October 1988.