012.55 HUNGARY by Laszlo Csaba By the end of 1991, the limitations on technology transfer and the concern of politicians about the access of sensitive information by east Europeans eased to a great extent. As a result, the Hungarian TCP/IP networks are gradually gaining access to the world, and by this way becoming Internet networks. The application of Hungary for Internet domain name in 1990 and receiving "HU" made for us possible to introduce domain style addressing and open international e-mail service via a mailer gateway named ELLA.HU. The messages at that time were sent to Internet via a geteway of EUnet. Since then Hungarian networks have got then IP network addresses, (four "B" and six "C" type) and now international IP traffic is passing through three 9.6 kbps leased lines. We hope that by the middle of this year two 64.kbps lines will be available mainly for TCP/IP traffic supporting our access to various networks, like EARN/BITNET, HEPnet, EUnet and Internet. The representatives of HUGARNET - which is the association and the name of the Hungarian Academic and Research Network - are taking part in the work of RIPE, getting more and more knowledgable and taking leading roles in European IP initiatives.