JArchibald at aol.com wrote:

> All--
> ...

> --> dated 10/9/99 10:14:14 PM EDT, Serg at VisualNewt.com -->
> << So when is the O'Reilly Squeak book coming out? >>
>
> I would like to know that too. Maybe we should send an E-mail to Frank
> Willison. It would be nice to see a Willison interview of Alan Kay. Anyone
> got an E-mail address for Frank Willison? I would be more than happy to
> compose E-mail to Willison (and hereby solicit comments to present to him).
>

I don't know about O'Reilly book but I have a contract by SIGS / Cambridge
University Press approved about Squeak and more than a few chapters are already
written. Anybody coming to OOPSLA will have a chance to see at least some of the
manuscript and I will be negotiating with them putting at least some chapters to
the web. Unfortunately I am on the move all the time and this mail is reaching
you somewhere in SE Asia or Australia so I can't keep you up to date about the
book but it is happening.
....

> I noticed on the Squeak list that you're involved with domain hosting.
> This question may show quite a bit of front, but i'm trying to
> establish my own domain (in Australia), and while the DNS system is
> well documented, it's less clear who allocates people IP addresses.
>
> Would the group, who provide the ISDN connection (Telstra in my case),
> allocate a static IP for me?
>

ISPs (in your case Telstra) allocate IPs. Try
http://www.telstra.net/telstraIP.html

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Yours sincerely, Simon Wardrop >>
>
> That's an interesting question. Anyone got an answer? If the 'group' is not
> Telstra, who would it be--GaTech, UIUC, Disney, Dan Ingalls (owner of
> Squeak.org)?
>

If you are operating your on DNS then name authorities such as Network Solutions
or equivalent in your country will directly assign IPs to your DNSs. Otherwise as
I mentioned above, your ISP is the source of your IP.

Cheers

Tansel