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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 1995 10:06:40 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Bertus Pretorius <bertus@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        jhay@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DES, crypt and eBones (fwd) (SITE outside USA)
Message-ID:  <199506220806.KAA04423@dolphin.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199506220707.JAA06214@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Jun 22, 95 09:07:19 am

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Many things deleted....
> > 
> > Give me a site stable enough that could be used and I we can talk it
> > up in -core.  But from past record we are not doing to good here.  We
> > have had 3 folks from outside the USA start down this road, and we are
> > hoping that that Mark can stay with it for the long haul, but without
> > a site as devoted to FreeBSD as freefall by corporate dollar I don't see
> > us moving the bits any place.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> > Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD
> > 
> 
> 
On this point, sorry for the lateness - I was on leave and even though jhay
(John Hay) is good at development, he is a bit slow on giving me important 
messages - and I missed this one :) (He gave me a 'klap' for this).

We, at the CSIR - the bunch that takes care of skeleton (Mark's crypt and eBones
site) should qualify for the above needed place.  In fact we are volutering to
do the job.  First I need to give some background to motivate our commitment
to such a site.

We are part of the Councel for Scientific Industrial Research of South Africa.
The CSIR was founded more than 50 years ago with some 3000 people employed.  The
CSIR do basic research and development with our group looking after networking,
information delivery, security and encryption.  Our group's development environment
is FreeBSD and the secure routers and firewalls developed is running on top of
FreeBSD.  This is a long term commitment and should stay like that while the 
FreeBSD culture stays the same.  On the security and encryption side - we are
in the use and design of security and encryption systems and algorithms for the 
past 12 to 15 years and this provides us a competetive edge in parts of our
bussiness.  I hope this emphasises our commitment to such a site - in fact an
expansion of skeleton as it is now.  On the operational side; jhay is looking
after our main development machine and volunteered to look after the new skeleton
as well.  We will then be responsible for the uptime and backups of the machine
and most likely mirror the last two releases and may be current of FreeBSD.

That is sort of the framework and would like some inputs and other requirements.

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