Folks, Please excuse this very public rant. I wish NZNOG had a Slash-like website for us to go to town on.
From the document:
Condition 8: The Advanced Network is not to be used to support transit traffic between commercial networks. Condition 10: All organisations connecting to the New Zealand Advanced Network will maintain a link to the commodity Internet. I conclude that the Advanced Network isn't going to do a damn thing to alleviate the situation that NZ Universities are currently faced with in regards to the Internet. There are educational institutions in New Zealand with enrollments of over 10,000 that still think in terms of multiples of E1 when connecting to the rest of the world. Talk about a dirt road on the information superhighway! As a grad student at Vic (yes, and now a network operator) I've been incredibly frustrated while doing research for my degree. (This led me to my present activities) Try downloading a paper from the ACM, Emerald Insight, JSTOR, ProQuest, Lexis/Nexis while on a university network here in NZ. It can be a very trying experience. Use a non-approved source at Victoria and pay $0.15/MB for your trouble, if the paper downloads at all. What hurts even more is the fact that I came to Wellington expecting to enjoy a city-wide fibre network, which I'd been reading about for years, only to find that almost none of the Victoria student housing facilities have high-speed access, and those that do have 2mbps pipes to the Internet shared among a few hundred students. Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe the situation. Anyone with insight on this, please, tell me how NZ is going to drag itself up, and how in the world NZ is going to continue to "export" education when every Asian, European, and North American who comes for a semester or grad degree tells all their friends upon return that NZ is the end of the earth as far as the Internet is concerned. JB -----Original Message----- From: Lin Nah [mailto:lin(a)darkmere.gen.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 4:35 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] nznog research group for NGI? Looks like the NGI proposal will shut out private or commercial users unless they comply with the Network use policy. All points to setting up a nznog related research group in order to be able to play in it. Unfortunately nothing states the fee required to be a Partner. Anyway they are looking for feedback by 1 Oct "Private Sector shut out of Advanced Network" http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/35095BD5DF6B4AABCC256F160019E13 4 http://www.morst.govt.nz/?CHANNEL=IT+INFRASTRUCTURE&PAGE=IT+Infrastructu re all a big yawn? lin _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog