Second draft for xx.gnupg.org

[Lorenzo Cappelletti]

Hi everybody,

I'd like to finish up the stuff about xxx.gnupg.org.  Below, you'll find
the draft I'm going to send to all mirror admins, fixed with the
suggestions you all gave me in the previous thread.

The only question which still remains open is: what are the avarage
bandwidth for a mirror nowadays?  Dale, could you provide me with such
information?  This value will take place of yyy, below.

Werner, do you have time to setup the DNS, just in case?  Could you
please privately mail me an encrypted list of sysadmins' emails?  Thanks



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Subject: New xx.gnupg.org mirroring scheme


Dear System Administrator,

you have received this message because you are currently mirroring part
or all of GnuPG.org site.

With the aim at serving our users better, we at GnuPG.org are
considering to implement a DNS scheme for our HTTP and FTP services
which will make it easier for users to remember mirror domain
addresses.

The scheme is such as that implemented by many other no-profit
organizations, like Debian, XEmacs, etc., in that it makes use of the
two letters of ISO 1766 standard.  This way, an HTTP mirror for country
xx would get the URL:

                            www.xx.gnupg.org

Other available services that can be mirrored are: FTP and rsync.


In order to avoid misuse or abuse of the gnupg.org second level domain,
xx.gnupg.org and the domains under it will be managed by our system
administrator at GnuPG.org.


Because we are aware of the fact that providing free mirroring doesn't
come at no cost, we will continue to advertise your original domain
address at http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html, beside new
xx.gnupg.org URLs.


When two or more mirrors are serving the same country, the server which
ranks at the top of the list, biult up with the formula provided below,
will get the xx.gnupg.org domain.

                        score = BW/yyy + UF/7

where:

   BW  is the bandwidth in MB/s
   UF  is the update frequency (days per week) the mirror updates its
       contents from GnuPG.org.  A daily mirror holds a UF egual to 7

Because of that, you are kindly requested to reply to this e-mail and
provide us with such information.

When two mirrors hold the same score, the one whose reply came first
gets the precedence.


At last, when there is no mirror serving a country, the xx.gnupg.org
domain will not resolve to any IP address and that xx.gnupg.org domain 
will remain vacant.


In the hope that this new scheme will help both of us in providing a
better service for GnuPG enthusiasts, I kindly thank you.

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