There is a need to assess the priorities for the future calls of the
Telematics for Research Sector of the EU TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Research and
Technology Development Programme (URL:
http://www.echo.lu/telematics/telehome.html)
The technical evolution is moving very rapidly and the increasing
commercialisation of the Internet technologies adds additional complexity to
the setting of priorities for this sector. The main objective is still to
promote the development, deployment and utilisation of telematics services and
applications for European researchers in order to increase the possibility for
collaboration and the overall cost-effectiveness of research. However, it
needs to be ensured that EU support is adding value to existing and planned
initiatives in this domain, whether funded from national public or commercial
sources. Therefore a consultation should allow for an open framework for ideas
and suggestions from all actors within the Telematics for Research sector of
the programme.
We would like to invite you to participate in this and ask you to recommend
priorities for future calls for proposals in order to ensure that the
available remaining EU funding in this sector can be used in the best possible
way with a view to meeting the overall objectives of the initiative.
The objective of this exercise is to obtain input for the future evolution of
Telematics for Research and correlate this with the existing workplan for the
sector, with a view to assigning priorities across the different work sectors.
It is not expected that the existing workplan needs to be modified. The main
objective will rather be to identify specific RTD topics, within the context
of the existing workplan, which have emerged since the previous call and which
would be complimentary to the activities of the projects which have already
been launched. A small report will be produced which will act as a guide for
future proposers and which will also be used as background information for the
evaluators used in the evaluation of proposals. The assignment of priorities
must be achieved with active participation and consultation of the Telematics
for Research sector actors, including user representatives.
The report should contain recommendations for priorities relating to the
existing tasks within the workplan and identification of new areas of work
within the overall scope of the workplan, which should be addressed in the
future calls. This should be done while taking into account the current
situation,including both EU and non-EU funded activities, and in close
consultation with the research community.
At URL: http://www.scimitar.terena.nl/ you will find further information about
the Telematics for Research initiative and this exercise.
Dear all,
I have bad news this month: Unfortunately I won't be able to publish
the hostcount overview for February before March 15th, 1996.
During the hostcount my machine crashed and the result file looks like
this:
DNS Hostcount - Mirjam Kuehne, RIPE NCC
START at Thu Feb 29 17:33:02 MET 1996
Counting : fo gb ge gr is li lt lu lv ma md mk mt nl ro se si su tn ua va yu
Domain Subdomains Counted Dupl Real
======================================
(END)
Unfortunately I don't have enough time to investigate and produce the
output by hand, because I have to leave town soon.
I could save all files and stored them at the usual place:
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount/
(The files RIPE-Hostcount and the graphs are not updated.)
I can also present the overview of the hosts under TLDs that were
counted locally (Another good reason to produce the counts locally:
You are not dependent on our machines ;-)
Domain Subdomains Counted Dupl Real
===========================================
at 1513 67775 3198 64577
be 1462 35240 1211 34029
ch 1638 87199 2288 84911
cz 442 23760 398 23362
de 7537 507007 20199 486808
dk 922 53614 1078 52536
es 1378 62412 929 61483
fr 2757 159523 3878 155645
hu 420 16399 127 16272
hr 55 1278 14 1264
ie 378 14376 230 14146
it 3145 93531 6142 87389
no 2420 100860 3466 97394
pl 904 30017 2260 27757
pt 448 13772 396 13376
ru 544 15473 1233 14240
sk 143 3642 146 3496
sm 6 237 114 123
uk 11658 527333 44223 483110
That looks like DE made it this time just before the UK ;-) but we
can't be sure, because we can't compare the numbers with the other
zones yet.
We have a new zone: SAN MARINO (SM)
I would again like to thank all people who help me to create the
hostcount every month by counting hosts locally:
at Gerhard Winkler <winkler(a)cc.univie.ac.at>
be Herman Moons <Herman.Moons(a)CS.kuleuven.ac.be>
ch Christoph Graf <graf(a)chx400.switch.ch>
cy Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr>
cz Jiri Orsag <Jiri.Orsag(a)eunet.cz>
de Peter Koch <pk(a)TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
dk Robert Martin-Legene <robert(a)dknet.dk>
es Jose Sanchez-Seco <jose.sanchez(a)rediris.es>
fi Petri Ojala <ojala(a)eunet.fi>
fr Annie Renard <Annie.Renard(a)inria.fr>
gr Panagiotis Tzounakis <pj(a)ics.forth.gr>
hr Ivan Maric <Ivan.Maric(a)stribor.srce.hr>
hu Gabor Kiss <kissg(a)sztaki.hu>
ie Mike Norris <mnorris(a)dalkey.hea.ie>
il Sason Levi <sason(a)NetVision.net.il>
it Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it>
no Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes(a)runit.sintef.no>
pl Irek Neska <irek(a)nask.pl>
pt Graca Carvalho <fccn(a)dns.pt>
ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov <adbr(a)argo.net.kiae.su>
sk Ivan Lescak <Ivan.Lescak(a)Slovakia.EU.net>
Lubos Elias <Lubos.Elias(a)uakom.sk>
sm Antonio_Blasco Bonito <bonito(a)nis.garr.it>
tr Yener Yigit <yener(a)knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr>
uk Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson(a)nosc.ja.net>
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Mirjam Kuehne
RIPE NCC
