Subject: Taiwan Domain Name

From: "JYMMI C. TSENG" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1991 03:07:00 CST

Dear Tom,

        You ask about the network situation in Taiwan;

There are about 12 BITNET nodes in Taiwan, with the root node
TWNMOE10 (Ministry of Education) connecting to JPNSUT00.
The BITNET line appears to be a direct leased line and
it's load is heavy, so the Ministry of Education is getting
a direct link to the U.S. Internet this September or October.

The major universities have already been preparing for this
hookup with a national academic network based on the
Internet protocols, we call this network TANET
(Taiwan Academic NETwork).

The registered domain name for Taiwan is tw.
The Taiwan ministry of Education is responsible for administration
of subdomains under the edu.tw. category.
Our University (National Central University)
is assigned the domainname ncu.edu.tw.

For starters, you might try the address [email-masked],
but I 'm afraid as of this writting, the physical link
for the Internet link to U.S. is not yet active. Maybe
the Ministry of Education TWNMOE10 mailer is smart enough
to recognize where you are attempting to send to, maybe it is not.

Hope this helps!

Jymmi C. Tseng
NCU/IM

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From: "Huang, Chih-Hsien" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1991 18:50:00 +1000

> A friend asks me what is the domain name of Taiwan for the email address.
> Does anyone know about this?
>
> I thought that Taiwan has been on BITNET for while no?  Are they getting
> Internet as well now?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> - Tom Chen-Ming Lee
> - [email-masked]

Dear Lee,

Yes, Taiwan has been on BITNET since June, 1987.  In fact, now there are 19
BITNET nodes in Taiwan.  Here is a listing:

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Ref# Conn  Nodeid   Site name
---- ----  ------   ---------
2529 89/05 TWNAS886 Academic Sinica Computing Center VAX8530
2530 88/10 TWNCTUCS National Chiao-Tung University Computer Science and
                    Information Engineering Computer Center
2531 88/09 TWNCTU01 National Chiao-Tung University Computer Center VAX1
2532 91/02 TWNCTU02 National Chiao-Tung University Computer center VAX2
2533 90/03 TWNCU865 National Central University - Computer Center
2534 91/02 TWNFCUC1 FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY - INFORMATION CENTER
2535 90/03 TWNIAMS  Academia Sinica - Institute of Atomic and Molecular
                    Sciences
2536 90/07 TWNIII1  Institute for Information Industry --Computer Center
2537 89/03 TWNITRI1 Industrial Technology Research Institute
2538 91/02 TWNMOCTL TELECOMMUNICATION LABORATORY -- COMPUTER CENTER
2539 87/06 TWNMOE10 Ministry of Education Taiwan
2540 88/08 TWNMOE20 Ministry of Education Taiwan
2541 89/01 TWNNTIT  National Taiwan Institute of Technology Compter Center
2542 87/09 TWNSCU10 Soochow University
2543 89/11 TWNSRRC1 Synchrotron Radication Research Center
2544 90/11 TWNTKU10 TAMKANG UNIVERSITY--INFORMATION CENTER
2545 89/07 TWNTTIT  Tatung Institute of Technology
2546 89/01 TWNTUCC1 National Taiwan University Computer Center VAX2
2547 89/01 TWNTUCC2 National Taiwan University Computer Center CYBER 825
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Also, Taiwan will be on Internet soon and top-domain "TW" has been registered
for Taiwan.  From whois database:

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Taiwan (TW-DOM)

   Domain Name: TW

   Administrative Contact:
      Chen, Wen-Sung  (WSC1)  [email-masked]
      886-2-737-7011
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Liu, Han-Chai  (HL65)  [email-masked]
      +886 2 737 7011

   Record last updated on 31-Jul-89.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU          128.103.1.1
   LILAC.Berkeley.EDU           128.32.136.12

   For information concerning this domain, please consult
   the Administrative Contact listed above.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hope this may help you.

Greetings,

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