pleasant@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mel Pleasant) (09/01/85)
There has been a change in the way map co-ordination is
handled on the network. In the past, when a map entry was sent to
cbosgd!uucpmap, all regional map co-ordinators received a copy of the
message. For about a month now, map entries sent to cbosgd!uucpmap
have come to me. I have been dispersing them to the appropriate
regional co-ordinator after doing some initial validation checks with
the map registry. Because of this change, a problem that existed for
some time came to light in a rather sudden way.
One day, I received a message from one of the regional
co-ordinators. He asked why he continually received entries for
systems outside of his region. This question touched off a series of
messages within the UUCP Map Project Group. When the smoke cleared,
we discovered that a) there was a misunderstanding between the
regional co-ordinator and the Project as to what constitutes the
region b) that before I took on the task of dispersing maps, some
updates for the affected region were ignored and c) after I started
dispersing the maps, some updates for the region found their way into
the bit bucket.
Well, now that we've worked out the bugs it seems like a good
time to ask those sites in the affected region to send in new map
entries. Actually, map entries sent to us after the 22nd of August
have not been lost. All others in the region should immediately send
a new map entry to cbosgd!uucpmap. The region in question includes
the states of Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South
Dakota. The region also includes the state of New York and all of
Canada. However, map entries for New York and Canada have been
handled appropriately. So, if you were wondering why your entry never
made it into the map distribution, well now you know - and so do we.
Let's hope it won't happen again.....
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-Mel Pleasant
uucp: ...{harvard, seismo, ut-sally, sri-iu, ihnp4!packard}!topaz!pleasant
arpa: PLEASANT@RUTGERS