December 4, 1986 Dear Hostmaster, This cover letter is to provide some background concerning the application by our institution to establish and administer the .FI domain for Finland. Tampere University of Technology has been actively involved with networking in Finland both in local and wide area levels. For four years we have been providing network services and consultation to a variety of scientific and other interested communities. Currently we are a major node in SFNET, the Finnish part of the UUCP network with X.25 and phone links to most of the academic UUCP sites in Finland. Starting January 1st, 1987 our role in the UUCP network will extend as we will, according to the resolution of the SFNET steering committee, become the Finnish UUCP backbone with direct X.25 connections to the other European UUCP backbones. In addition to our UUCP connections, we also serve as a gateway between SFNET and FUDEC, the Finnish University and Research Network which covers all DECNet sites in Finnish universities. Also, we are a site in EARN, the European extension of BITNET. Finally, we participate actively in an experimental X.400 network sponsored by RARE, an association of European national research networks. Locally we operate an Ethernet with more than ten TCP/IP machines and about the same number of DECNet machines some of which also run TCP/IP. In very near future we are going to connect our local internet to similar internets in other Finnish universities (and also to some internets in Sweden) using public X.25 service and Ethernet bridges on leased lines. Our previous experience, good connections to other sites/networks, and our governmental nature place us in an excellent position to organize and maintain the .FI domain for Finland. We have establish working relationships with two U.S. Internet sites which will facilitate our maintaining .FI domain information accessible to Internet connected sites. Should you wish to inquire further about Tampere University of Technology and its activities, please feel free to contact us directly. We have also listed a couple of references in the DOD Internet community and a letter from the chairman of the Finnish University and Research Network (FUNET) project. Respectfully, Seppo Loimio Director of Administration Tampere Univ. of Technology Finland Tampere University of Technology contact: Juha Heinanen Tampere University of Technology Computer Systems Laboratory P.O. Box 527 SF-33101 Tampere Finland +358 31 162111 jh%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov References: Dave Farber University of Delaware Department of Electrical Engineering Newark, DE 19716 farber@huey.udel.edu Larry Landweber Univ. of Wisconsin Computer Science Department 1210 W. Dayton Madison, WI 53706 landweber@rsch.wisc.edu December 4, 1986 Dear Hostmaster, The Finnish University and Research Network project (FUNET) has been founded by the government of Finland to coordinate national research oriented networking efforts, to establish liaison with similar organizations in other countries, and to participate as a national body in international networking projects. Tampere University of Technology as an active member of FUNET has a wide experience in building and operating various computer networks. FUNET thus fully supports its Internet domain application and believes that the university has all the qualifications needed to successfully administer the domain. Sincerely, Matti Ihamuotila Chairman of FUNET Finnish State Computer Center University Support Division P.O. Box 40 SF-02101 Espoo Finland ihamuoti%finfun.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu December 4, 1986 Dear Hostmaster, The following is an application to register the top level domain for Finland (FI) as allowed by RFC920, section "Top Level Domain Requirements", subsection "Countries". Initially this domain and its subdomains will be used only for mail, but may eventually participate in other Internet services. The FI domain will be the top level domain for all hosts within Finland. There will be an immediate imposition of a set of second level domain names probably similar to those used in the United Kingdom. Please establish NIC "whois" database entries for the Administrator and Technical liasons listed below. 1) The name of the top level domain to join. (root domain) 2) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization of the administrative head of the organization... Administrator Organization Tampere University of Technology Name Seppo Loimio Title Administrative Director Mail Address Tampere University of Technology P.O. Box 527 SF-33101 Tampere Finland Phone Number +358 31 162111 Net Mailbox fi-domain-admin%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov NIC-Ident SL45 3) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization of the domain technical contact... Technical Contact Organization Tampere University of Technology Name Juha Heinanen Title Associate Professor Mail Address Tampere University of Technology P.O. Box 527 SF-33101 Tampere Finland Phone Number +358 31 162111 Net Mailbox fi-technical-contact%tut.uucp@seismo.css.gov NIC-Ident JH141 4) The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization of the zone technical contact... Technical Contact (same as the Domain Technical Contact above) 5) The name of the domain. This is the name that will be used in tables and lists associating the domain and the domain server addresses. The top level domain FI. (FI is the two letter (alpha-2) country code for Finland as specified by ISO standard 3166) 6) A description of the servers that provide the domain service for translating name to address for hosts in this domain, and the date they will be operational. Our servers will be existing nameservers supplied with the additional information necessary to serve the FI domain. They are already operational and will have the necessary zone information January 1, 1987. The first two servers will be UNIX machines running the BIND nameserver (named). The NIC may also be a server if they wish. 7) A description of the server machines, including: SEISMO.CSS.GOV: Sun 3/160 Sun 3.0 unix 192.12.141.25 on CSS-ETHER AOS.BRL.MIL: VAX-11/780 and UNIX, 128.20.1.2 on BRLNET 192.5.22.82 on BRLNET2 192.5.25.82 on BRLNET5 (note: AOS.BRL.MIL is already a root domain server) 8) Planned mapping of names of any other network hosts, other than the server machines, into the new domain's naming space. None. 9) Delegation for networks in your domain for inclusion in the IN-ADDR.ZONE files, and the fully qualified domain names for the IN-ADDR server sites for each network. None. 10) An estimate of the number of hosts that will be in the domain. (a) initially = 100 (b) one year = 150 (c) two years = 300 (d) five years = 1000 11) A date when you expect the fully qualified domain name to become the official host name in HOSTS.TXT. Not applicable.