Subject: CRN communication

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1991 23:32:12 EDT

As reported in the People's Daily on 15 Oct. 1991, China's E-mail networks
has begun to work and can be reached through the German networks (DFN).
Anyone knows how to reach China's networks (CRN)/

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1991 12:34:14 CST

> Anyone knows how to reach China's networks (CRN)/

As your request, I re-post this message that originally posted to CCNET-L,
INFONETS in Sept. this year.

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 18:35:00 +1000
From: "Huang, Chih-Hsien" <[email-masked]>
Subject: E-mail access to M'land China

For those concerning connection to mainland CHINA,

As an editor of campus magazine with a special report on network connection
to mainland China, I tried very hard to find out any possibly way for sending
e-mails to there.  I got help from kind netters, from whois database,
knowing that CANET(Chinese Academic Network) users actually have e-mail access
with Internetter.  So I contacted Mr. Qian, the administative contact of
CANET via e-mail and personal letter.  Finally, I got response after Mr. Qian
got my personal letter.  (Now, people in Taiwan can mail letters to mainland
China indirectly, via Hong Kong.)

Mr. Qian gave me some introduction of CANET, and eventually mentioned the
main problem is lack of funds, so people on CANET have to pay fees for
both receiving and sending e-mail abroad.  In this case, after you reading
this message, PLEASE DON'T TRY TO SEND E-MAILS TO MR. QIAN ASKING ABOUT
FURTHER DETAIL, SINCE I CAN NOT MAKE SURE MR. QIAN ALSO HAVE TO PAY FEE
FOR HIS E-MAIL OR NOT.  I am afraid the mail flood will cause another big
problem to him.  Thank you.

Regards,

=== Original message from Mr. Qian ============================================
From:   cn%"[email-masked]" 20-AUG-1991 19:18:57.92
To:     [email-masked]
CC:
Subj:   reply

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 15:06 CHINA TIME +100
From: [email-masked]
Subject: reply
To: [email-masked]

Mr.Huang,Thank you for your letter of Aug.5.Some time ago I received an email
from you,and I'm sorry Ihave been unable to answer it sooner.Thank you for your
paying great attention for CANET project.
Hherewith I'm encluding the briefly introduction of CANET.
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      CANET , co--initated by ICA ( Beijing  Instutute  for  Computer
  Applications ) and the University  Karlsruhe ( Germany ) , began in
  1986. Its purpose is to integrate chinese academic communities with
  the worldwide computer netowrk, and to promote information exchange
  and technical cooperation with the rest of the world . The  initial
  service provided by CANET is the international E-mail delivery.
      The first connection with CSNET was actually set up in Sep.1987.
  The central machine located in ICA , Siemens 7,760/ BS2000 running
  PMDF/BS2000 software,was successfully connected  with the  E-mail
  systems all over the world by means of the relay machinein  Univer-
  sity of Karlsruhe.
      Since then ,  CANET  has  been operational and has provided the
  worldwide E-mail service for some academic communities within China.
      In 1990 Oct. ,  the  top  level  domain ---" CN " for China was
  registered with DDN SRI--NIC by ICA . This is a very important step
  for the development of CANET.
      CANET is a store and forward electronic mail network .
      Recently,the central machine in CANET is a Micro VAXII--cluster
  system under VMS 4.7 running PMDF 3.1/VMS,which acts as an interna-
  tional gateway linking the main domain server located at Uni. Karl-
  sruhe by x.25 through the CHINAPAC (Chinese Packed Switching Network).
      For remote sites, CANET is accessible for any academic communi-
  ty of China through the CHINAPAC ( national x.25 PDN )  or the dial
  up telephone links, at 1200 bps and 2400 bps or 4800 bps (depending
  on the cost factor ). End--user's PC  or workstations can access to
  local node machine by terminal emulation . CANET  adopts  RFC--822
  formats.
     CHINAPAC , the first national PDN in China , was operational in
  the end of 1989 , it is authorized  by the goverment and run by the
  Ministry  of Posts and Telecommications of China.This network is
  based on x.25 . At persent , it is still on the first stage and has
  3 node-machines ( Package Switching Node ) and 8 package multiplexers
  which are  located  at 11 major cities in China. It has international
  link through the satellites.
     All amchines of CANET implement  Internet  DNS ( domain naming
  system ) syntax.
     The top level domain --- " CN " for China has been  operational
  since Jan.1991 . Currently, the international mail delivery usually
  takes half a day . At present , 16 sites have been connected within
  CANET. It is true , many institutions and universities have estab-
  lished their private local network in the compus, most of them are
  interested in joning CANET.But, there are the financial boundaries--
  ---lack of the funds. If the funding is available, CANET will be
  growing rapidly.
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  Frankly speaking,the CANET has not been a part of the Internet yet,
because it does't implement the TCP/IP protocol suite to link with the
Internet via the leased line directly.that is why CANET is unable to do
FTP and R-Login recently.Also,this is the reason that CANET's user has
to pay the international communication fees not only for sending mail
but also for receiving mail.
  I hope these will be of some help to you.
Best wishes!
Qian,tian-bai

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