From: Jonathan Grobe (grobe@worf.netins.net)
Date: Tue Sep 02 1997 - 22:35:32 CDT
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Simon Lyall wrote:
> A "cooperating subnet" is a set of news-exchanging hosts
> which is sufficiently well-coordinated (typically via a cen-
> tral administration of some sort) that stronger assumptions
> can be made about hosts in the set than about news hosts in
> general. This is typically used to relax restrictions which
> are otherwise required for worst-case interoperability; mem-
> bers of a cooperating subnet MAY interchange articles that
> do not conform to this Draft's specifications, provided all
> members have agreed to this and provided the articles are
> not permitted to leak out of the subnet. The word "subnet"
> is used to emphasize that a cooperating subnet is typically
> not an isolated universe; care must be taken that traffic
> leaving the subnet complies with the restrictions of the
> larger net, not just those of the cooperating subnet.
Could you give some examples of these which currently exist?