Subject: N-1-4-013.30
Israel
Hank Nussbacher
<HANK@vm.tau.ac.il>

Our government has altered the ILAN operating license to
allow organizations that are involved with culture, education and
R&D to connect to the network.  Organizations that fall into these
categories receive government subsidies to connect in the form of
lowered connections costs.  Various companies are planning on
supplying commercial internet services for dial-up users (subject to
the above limitations) and are in the process of receiving
governmental operating licenses.  Strictly commercial use of the
network will still not be allowed.

ILAN has become a founding member of ISOC along with other
country networks such as Australia and Nordunet.  Israel hopes
that other country networks will see the importance of a financially
strong ISOC and will likewise join in as founding members.

After reading in the network about Moscow's disconnection from
EARN due to increased line costs, ILAN has decided to donate a set
of data compressors for use on a 9.6 kbps line that can effectively run
up to four 9.6 kbps virtual lines.  This will allow various networking
organizations in the Moscow area to share a single 9.6 kbps line to
Denmark and run IP and EARN traffic over the same line, each
at 9.6 kbps.